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Gabriel Selen - CASTING - 08/05/2015
Very nice, would love to see more of him!Reply to this post
I agree also, and he is gorgeous in a manly way, and one can have a "virtual" crush on him easily. He has great upper-limb (leg and arm) muscles. Very sexy. I would be remiss if I did not add that I cannot become sexually aroused to look at his dick and it is ONLY BECAUSE all the hair has been reduced to STUBBLE. If he had only left his pubic hair intact, or if I could photoshop it back in (impossible), then for me he would certainly become one of the sexiest and most lovable WH models in a while.Reply to this post
Great! Love a strong and handsome man. No complaints . . . except would greatly prefer natural pubic hair, either all of it or just shortened in length if necessary. If fact, his penis is so fine that it deserves to have the natural texture and color of the hair that grows around it!Reply to this post
Wonderful young man, thanks for adding the last pose, I hope it becomes standard.Reply to this post
Viktor and Tono - Screen Test - FULL CONTACT - 09/05/2015
An almost perfect scene with two of my top 5 favorite models: Tono and Milos. The pairing of little Tono with handsome, beefy Viktor is perfection but the scene needed an after sex hard-on shower- nobody does hard-on showers like Tono!Reply to this post
My comments on the model stand. He's great. The photos were great too. The video was terrible. Not once is there a full body shot. Seeing ALL of him shirtless and barefoot in his jean shorts, looking like Huckleberry Finn, would have been nice. The closest shot stops at the ankles. When his feet were in the air showing his sweet hole, his feet are cut off. When he is kneeling, his lower legs are cut off. I don't get it.Reply to this post
F'n cute! Sexy, lean athletic body and nice smile. A real keeper. Look forward to more.Reply to this post
Love his naturally hairy body, even his beautiful armpits. Seems a little shy, but would love to see more of him!Reply to this post
Mirek Polny - CASTING - 03/05/2015
You had me at photo #3 -- and then Andrej dropped his pants. What an absolutely great looking young man. I tried to make a list of my favorite shots but that ended up being a recap of the entire shoot. You simply must do something about that unemployed thing.... Can't wait for his erotic session and I've got my fingers crossed (or I will when I stop typing) for the pleasure of seeing a whole lot more of Mr Lamos. Oh, and hats off to the butt-loving photographer. I'm exhausted.Reply to this post
Wow he is so hot and his partner is so patient but it was worth it.I hope we can see much more of Nils.Reply to this post
Nils Edberg - MASSAGE - 15/02/2015
Another handsome, sexy, clean-cut model- I feel blessed. But tell him to get rid of that silly pubic thing.Reply to this post
Awesome! Next step .. Petr, Romi and Rado with their Dad! ;)Reply to this post
Petr, Romi and Rado - Brothers Shoot RAW - FULL CONTACT - 29/04/2015
Marek Polny - CASTING - 07/05/2015
Sexy young man and great hole!Reply to this post
Stefan is a beautiful clean cut guy. Solid body, nice abs, perfect butt and hole. His routine looks like a HOT ASS. That's ok. really nice hole which he seems to favor. Looks like someone got too close to his dick with a knife. That's ok too. Look forward to seeing Stefan getting broken in. Maybe a wank party.Reply to this post
Stefan Salvator - EROTIC SOLO - 07/05/2015
Borek and Luky - Screen Test RAW - FULL CONTACT - 10/05/2014
That raging hard-on shower must be one of the three all-times best!Reply to this post
Handsome, sexy and clean-cut- an unbeatable trinity.Reply to this post
Milen Petrof - EROTIC SOLO - 04/05/2015
Tom and Gabo RAW - FULL CONTACT - 06/05/2015
Great scene with Tom and Gabo, love the sexy positions, the intensity, and the hand over mouth action! Thanks! RobReply to this post
I certainly agree with sebastiane: just plain gorgeous. And thanks for bringing back the photographer who appears to enjoy butts as much as I do -- I'm a big fan of the standing butt shot; it shows off the curve of the cheeks so well. And this set has them in spades. Favorite pics: 91 and 109. Great model -- great set.Reply to this post
Gorgeous model.Reply to this post
Sexy guy. Handsome (no really this time) and what piece of equipment! Nice catch. I love it when the whole body is in the frame, like on the couch with his legs in the air. (Or like John Blunt on the massage table). Love to see the occasional (slightly sustained) full body image standing too - and the in the shower! Not be to a total fetishist, but I miss seeing wet feet.Reply to this post


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Is Jay Z Bailing Out on TIDAL?
The internet is buzzing with rumors that Jay Z is looking to step down from his executive post at TIDAL, his fledging streaming music service.
The internet is buzzing with rumors that Jay Z is looking to step down from his executive post at TIDAL, his fledging streaming music service.
Birdman is trying to get paid big time. Even though fans were delighted to have another Lil Wayne album -- especially for free on TIDAL -- the Cash Money Records head honcho wasn't too happy with the move and is taking action in response to the release.
If you think about taking that day off from the 9-to-5, these ladies and gents are sure to make you feel guilty with the work they put in. Check out 10 Singers & Rappers Who Never Stop Working.
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Understanding the iGeneration and the Way They Learn
Larry D. Rosen
Palgrave Macmillan, $17, 256 pp.
When the iconic Stage Manager in a recent off-Broadway production of Our Town made his entrance carrying a cell phone, a murmur rippled through the audience. Wilder's play has long been associated with slow time and small-town values. What would the playwright have made of this high-tech intrusion?
The question provides an interesting vantage point for assessing Larry Rosen's new book, Rewired: Understanding the iGeneration and the Way They Learn. A professor of psychology at California State University, Rosen has put together a book that is part ethnography (detailing the lives of "digital natives" born during the 1990s) and part manifesto (predicting how Web-related technologies will revolutionize the classrooms of the twenty-first century). Rewired is nothing if not topical. According to a report from the Pew Research Center, half of American teenagers send fifty or more text messages a day, and one-third send over a hundred; many sleep with their cell phones at their sides. Rosen says this translates into as much as twenty hours a day of media consumption, with teens toggling among multiple IMs (instant messages), Facebook posts, and, yes, the occasional homework assignment.
Rosen's take on this state of affairs can be summed up simply: If you can't beat 'em, join 'em. Teachers may bemoan the ubiquitous cell phone and students'...
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With a little help from qahtan (tip for walnut oil) and liam (tip for folding), I made wallnutbread this sundaymorning. Two versions: slowrise (from 3-4 days ago, 50% wheat from mill, whole groats wheatflour (?), 50% plain white flour) and an experiment: last night before midnight I mixed about half pain d'ancienne, mixed in the wallnuts and let it rise overnight.
The results: perfect for the pain d'ancienne. A bit sticky bread for the overnight version (btw with 100% wheatflour, no mix), much lighter taste. It was gone in one lunch anyway. The purple around the walnuts did not show up, maybe since I cracked he wallnuts on the evening before. Maybe it was my illusion that the walnuts don't spread so nice in the bread, I am sure I had that problem once before.
On the normal pain d'ancienne the scoring did not work out completely (but still good enough). The structure and taste is very good, almost 'criminal' as one tester put it. Next time I will not shape right away, but wait for half a hour (when out of the fridge). Then shape and score, so that it looks more like a boule.
Last but not least: ciabatta. A lot of work, but definitely worth the effort. This is pushing my oven to the limit (I used to stone). I am ready for a larger group of guests now... BTW the piece of cloth is a quilt 'in development' by Mrs. Jw.
Off topic: what else can you do but bake on rainy day like this...Cheers, Jw.
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I had been reading and leering on "The Fresh loaf" and "wildyeast" blogs for months. So..after gathering up my nerve I made my first "sour dough breads for the first time yesterday.(two days bread making). I used Susan's wildyeast recipe of "Norwich sourdough" and her other "over night ciabata". Both are busted! The Norwich sourdough was so hard and didn't rise at all. The ciabta has no air pocket to talk about. I think that the 100% hydration sourdough starter may not be working on the Norwich bread???. The ciabata is edible but nothing to crow about.
I am starting a new sourdough starter today using "Floyd" method. Wish me luck.
There must be some trick to this mystery which I can't crack it yet. But, if I can make the Pad Thai and curry with "both of my hands tie behind my back,(just kidding but you know what I mean), there must be "the magic time" when this thing finally work. Darn. I was so...excited now I am down in the dump. Mantana
I love soft pretzels - who doesn't? I just never seem to get them outside of fair settings.
And then the other week, Alton Brown did a show on homemade pretzels - it was a sign! So I went to the food network's site and I grabbed the recipe. (http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/alton-brown/homemade-soft-pretzels-recipe/index.html)
The Ingredients:
1 1/2 cups warm (110 to 115 degrees F) water
1 tablespoon sugar2 teaspoons kosher salt1 package active dry yeast22 ounces all-purpose flour, approximately 4 1/2 cups2 ounces unsalted butter, meltedVegetable oil, for pan10 cups water2/3 cup baking soda1 large egg yolk beaten with 1 tablespoon waterPretzel salt (note, I simply used Kosher salt)
ALTON: Combine the water, sugar and kosher salt in the bowl of a stand mixer and sprinkle the yeast on top. Allow to sit for 5 minutes or until the mixture begins to foam.
So Alton's all into proofing the yeast - and I must say that I only do this because the instructions say so. At some point I'll stop since I'm really only convinced this is a leftover from poor production methods of old - but look, it bubbles:
ALTON: Add the flour and butter and, using the dough hook attachment, mix on low speed until well combined. Change to medium speed and knead until the dough is smooth and pulls away from the side of the bowl, approximately 4 to 5 minutes.
Now it's all about letting the KitchenAid do the work. I add the melted butter and the flour. You may notice Alton's recipe does specify flour by weight. I actually do have a scale where I can zero out my mixing bowl with ingredients, so I'm able to pour 22 ounces of flour exactly. From here, I let the mixer do it's thing for 5 minutes until the dough is nice and ready:
ALTON: Remove the dough from the bowl, clean the bowl and then oil it well with vegetable oil. Return the dough to the bowl, cover with plastic wrap and sit in a warm place for approximately 50 to 55 minutes or until the dough has doubled in size.
Rising time. Recipe calls for an hour, but this is fast-acting - in 30 minutes, I'm more than doubled:
ALTON: Preheat the oven to 450 degrees F. Line 2 half-sheet pans with parchment paper and lightly brush with the vegetable oil. Set aside.
Bring the 10 cups of water and the baking soda to a rolling boil in an 8-quart saucepan or roasting pan.
In the meantime, turn the dough out onto a slightly oiled work surface and divide into 8 equal pieces. Roll out each piece of dough into a 24-inch rope. Make a U-shape with the rope, holding the ends of the rope, cross them over each other and press onto the bottom of the U in order to form the shape of a pretzel. Place onto the parchment-lined half sheet pan.
Place the pretzels into the boiling water, 1 by 1, for 30 seconds. Remove them from the water using a large flat spatula. Return to the half sheet pan, brush the top of each pretzel with the beaten egg yolk and water mixture and sprinkle with the pretzel salt. Bake until dark golden brown in color, approximately 12 to 14 minutes. Transfer to a cooling rack for at least 5 minutes before serving.
I tear my into 8 pieces and lightly oil my counter so I can roll these into ropes and form them into pretzel shapes. I'll admit that it's not as supple as I'm expecting it to be, but that's okay. While I do this, I have water boiling on the stove and the oven preheating:
Hint from me to you - do put in the baking soda before the water is boiling - if you think you see white crusty stuff on the sides of the pot, you do. I added the baking soda while the water was boiling and got a mini-science experiment. Luckily no spillover, but I laughed. I basically boiled each pretzel for 30 seconds and scooped it out with a wire scoop (this gives the pretzel texture):
At this point, I give the pretzels an egg wash and bake them for 13 minutes. Look what I get:
If you're wondering - but is it a chewy, doughy piece of pretzel goodness? Well - take a look at this crumb:
Yes, this is good stuff - I will be making this again!
Hello everybody and missing you all !
Phyl Divine named me on his group on Facebook "artisan bread bakers".He named me "Pharaoh of flat Bread ".
I really was very happy but wondering all the time , why ?? May be phyl knows that Egyptians can not eat without the presence of the flat bread on their meals tables .
So I decided to present something about our daily bread in Egypt , may be to try to prove to myself that I really deserve this great title !!!!
O.k I bought this pan shown in the picture, it is better than my oven cause flat breads really need a very high temp. and it is usually baked in special ovens " with three flames".
The pictures will show you this incredible invention for flat breads , let's go ....
First the bread before being baked,,,ah forgot to tell you that I used 100% wild yeast.
Also about the dough , i made two doughs one contained 50% bread flour +50% whole wheat flour, and that is the traditional ingredients for our egyptian bread.
The other dough "which i invented" contained bread flour +whole wheat flour+grounded oats"i grinded it at home"+barley flour and of course wild yeast and tepid water .
let's go ....
"as seen on T.V" HAHAHAHA!
The harvest !!
sandwiches for me and my husband, i filled it with pastrami and romi cheese.
I wish i had at this time some of our wonderfull home made falafel or foul"beans".
Falafel , I am missing it!!
And here I am....Do I really deserve to be the "pharoah of flat bread"?????
Last week I was out of flour and was able to combine a trip for work to a nearby windmill: http://www.molendevlijt.nl . This mill has better openinghours then the mill I normally go to, and I tested the flour with a simple slow rising bread (next time I will add more simple flour, not just the wheat type). A great mill, I will be back there. I will need a bit more time to look around at the mill. It will take a while before I find the right/best combination of wheat for our weekly bread.
I also made some zopf. Finally, sometimes there are (near) perfect ones as well. We had a to say thank-you to a few friends and neighbours, I always like to give them a zopf. The best shape is from broad to narrow, or thick to small. This is four strands only, I think challah is 6-strand and keeps the size the same. For this zopf I used 1 kilo (2.2 pound) of simplest kitchen flour. Recipe on request.
Last but not least: pretzels. I was a lunchwish from my 'boss at home'. It reminded her of her youth in Austria, where she grew up. Can one get a bigger compliment? These three kinds of bread can hardly be consumed at the same time, the tasts are too different. These pretzels are best with cheese and e.g. ham. The zopf is great with marmalade and chocolate. Bak ze! Cheers, Jw.
Howard's been baking his way through many of Suas' recipes at a furious pace. His posts have been equally inspiring and enlightening. With Howard way ahead of the curve, the last few weeks I've found myself sifting through the debris and studying the dough scraps left in his wake. Wanting a simple, clean and filling every day loaf, I had my first crack at the whole wheat sourdough (dough scrap #1).
I branched a stiff white starter off my rye starter on Saturday morning. By Sunday morning, the stiff white levain was good to go. The whole wheat flour I'm using has a very high content of bran, so I'm paying close attention when mixing the dough. As opposed to Howard, who did a shorter mix followed by a series of folds, I went with Suas' directions, and did an improved mix. Due to the many bran particles in the dough, it's difficult to get a perfect windowpane, but after a total of 8 - 10 mins. in the mixer, and a few folds in the bowl using a dough scraper, the dough was remarkably strong when I tugged at it. With the improved mix, there are usually no folds during bulk fermentation, so the dough was allowed to ferment for two hours uninterrupted.
Just yesterday I received my first ever brotforms, and I was a bit nervous that the dough would stick during final proof. A liberal dusting prevented that... thank heavens. Instead, a nicely risen boule bumped down on the peel, and off into the oven it went.
As you can see, the crumb is a bit darker than Howard's (probably due to the coarse WW flour in my mix?), and the above crumb is also more uniform. I'm guessing that Howard's initial autolyse (increased extensibility) and his shorter mixing time are both contributing to a more irregular crumb structure in his version of the bread. Additionally, I shaped the dough into a quite tight boule, which also usually suggests a more uniform crumb. The desired loaf characteristics should dictate the choices made during the baking process.
This is a solid everyday bread that can be used to virtually everything. It's got a deliciously moist crumb, and a splendid aroma. Top it with cheese, meats, fish, jam or nothing - it's a terrific bread either way!
This is from a recipe in Peter Reinhart's Bread Bakers Apprentice and I didn't make any changes to the recipe, being the first try at it.
Well, ok, one or two very minor changes: he asks for fresh rosemary, I only had dried which I soaked for an hour while the dough was warming up. He says to mix in roasted garlic - didn't have any. I guess next time I'll have to make that ahead of time along with the extra mash.
Anyway… here's the final product, first try (slashed a bit too deep) and the loaves are still cooling so I haven't cut or tasted yet but boy-oh-boy, does the house ever smell wonnnnnnderful!!
hi ...i'm here because... i'm just in the beginning
this is my first loaf
i try it from the lesson one
is it nice ...???
befor i try to bake the rosca de reyes
see that ...it;s full of dates... yammy
hello again
this is my second bread
the recipe from lesson two
see that
i found it better and more delicious than the first one
and you what your advice to me ???????
this is my daily bread
and that is for to day i made it by my own sourdough
i'm very happy
because the sourdough finally become good
it was so difficult
i do it
hello again
here is my favorite daily bread by my starter >>>>>>>
There has been a marked increase in the amount of spam (particularly with "adult" themes) that is posted here in the last week or so. Dstroy and I and the other members who can moderate content delete these posts as quickly as possible, but sometimes that is not before they get sent out in the site digest emails or they show up in syndication. My apologies if you've been on the receiving end of some of those: not what I want to find in my Inbox before I've had my first cup of coffee either. Know that we try to kill them and close the accounts that posted them as quickly as possible.
Using the "flag as offensive" link at the bottom of such posts would help me. I think if 2 community members do that, the offending posts will get unreleased and will disappear for the rest of the site visitors.
I could make it more difficult for spammers to sign up, but of course that would make it more difficult for new folks who legitimately want to participate in the baking discussions to sign up. So I'm hesitant to make it too tough.
This is in response to Trailrunner's questions on a mixing discussion over at Hansjoakim's blog here on a fantastic-looking crumb he has on his Hazelnut bread.
Lately I seem to get best results with a combo of warm shorter bulk ferment with frequent early folding and long cold final proof. No mixer, no kneading with flour, no repeated French-folding. (warning, this could change as soon as I read of a better method, so please take with a grain of sea salt!):
Here are results of a less slack dough (65% hydration pain au levain 10% whole wheat), not huge holes like you'd get with a very wet dough, but large enough and evenly distributed, and very flavorful crumb, chewy but not gummy:
I still need to try SteveB's double-mixing technique he describes here. If anyone sees any error in my ways with how I've been doing this, I'm all ears! I'm sure I'll revise this after I read Advanced Bread and Pastry, due in soon.


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Decadent Chocolate Chip Cheesecake Bars
Total Time
Prep 15 mins
Cook 30 mins
This recipe came from a cookbook that uses cake mixes as an ingredient to save time.
Ingredients Nutrition
Cookie layers
- 1 white cake mix
- 2 egg
- 1⁄3 cup vegetable oil
- 1⁄4 cup chocolate chips
Cream cheese layer
- 4 ounces cream cheese
- 1⁄2 cup sugar
- 1 egg
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- With a spoon, mix cake mix, flour, eggs and oil together. Stir in chocolate chips. Press half of dough into a greased 8 x 8 inch pan.
- In a separate bowl, mix cream cheese, sugar and egg together until smooth. Spread cream cheese mixture over bottom layer. Crumble remaining cookie dough evenly over top. Bake 24 - 28 minutes or until light golden brown. Cool, then cut into bars. Store in refrigerator.


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Smashed skull, snapped ribs, and a cloying smell of carrion. Leave the body for the hyenas to devour—no body, no case.
But Kalahari game rangers stumble on the human corpse mid-meal. The murder wasn't perfect after all. Enter Detective David "Kubu" Bengu of the Botswana Criminal Investigation Department, an investigator whose personality and physique match his moniker, the Setswana word for hippopotamus—which is a seemingly docile beast, but one of the deadliest, and most persistent, on the continent.
Beneath a mountain of lies and superstitions, Kubu uncovers a chain of crimes leading to the most powerful figures in the country—cold-bloodedly efficient and frighteningly influential enemies who can make anyone who gets in their way disappear.
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This impressive debut from Stanley, the South African writing team of Michael Sears and Stanley Trollip, introduces overweight assistant superintendent David Bengu of the Botswana Police Department, whose nickname is, fittingly, Kubu (Setswanan for hippopotamus). In investigating the case of a partially consumed human body found in a remote area of a game reserve, Kubu keeps running across tangential links to Botswana Cattle and Mining, the country's largest company. As more people connected to the case turn up dead, Kubu realizes that multiple murder may be just the byproduct of a much more heinous crime. The intricate plotting, a grisly sense of realism and numerous topical motifs (the plight of the Kalahari Bushmen, diamond smuggling, poaching, the homogenization of African culture, etc.) make this a compulsively readable novel. Despite a shared setting with Alexander McCall Smith's No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series, this fast-paced forensic thriller will resonate more with fans of Patricia Cornwell's Kay Scarpetta. (Apr.)Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Readers and listeners will welcome the arrival of Assistant Superintendent David "Kubu" Bengu of the Botswana Criminal Investigation Department into the mystery/thriller genre. Writing under the pseudonym of Michael Stanley, authors Michael Sears and Stanley Trollip offer a glimpse into the world of sub-Saharan Africa and the various types of people-e.g., businessmen, poachers, police, expatriates-who call it home. The narration by 11-time AudieA Award finalist Simon Prebble is outstanding; his accents are spot on. Highly recommended. [Audio clip available through
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A skeleton is found in the Kalahari Desert in modern-day Africa. It is unclothed, one of its arms is missing, and its teeth have been knocked out, making identification difficult. It falls to Det. David Bengu (aka Kubu) of the Botswana police to figure out what happened; in the meantime, more deaths follow. This well-plotted debut introduces a new mystery series and will enthrall readers, who should be aware that the author's detailing of the cultural and social background of the Botswana people shares equal footing with the solving of the murders. Stanley is the writing duo of South Africans Michael Sears and Stanley Trollip, who have shared adventures in the Kalahari. For readers who enjoy crime novels with African settings, such as those by Richard Kunzmann and Deon Meyer.
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- 9780061252419
- Publisher:
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Publication date:
- 03/31/2009
- Series:
- Detective Kubu Series, #1
- Pages:
- 512
- Sales rank:
- 512,491
- Product dimensions:
- 5.31(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.82(d)
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A Carrion Death
Introducing Detective Kubu
Chapter One
The hyena moved off when the men shouted. It stood about fifty yards away, watching them with its head low between powerful shoulders, wary, not fearful, waiting for its chance to retake the field. The men stood in silence, staring at what the hyena had been eating.
Yellowed bones pierced through areas of sinew and desiccated skin. The head, separated from the spine, lay about a yard away. Remnants of skin on the upper face stretched in a death mask over the skull and pulled at the scalp. The lower part of the face had been torn away, and the back of the skull was smashed by jaws hungry for the brains. The eye sockets were empty, save for dried blood; one of the vultures had already had a turn. Snapped ribs lay scattered, but the backbone and pelvis were intact. One leg remained attached; the other was gone. The lower half of one arm was missing; the other, freshly crunched by the hyena, lay a short distance away. There was a cloying smell of carrion, unpleasant but not unbearable. The scavengers had removed most of the flesh, and the desert sun had desiccated the rest. The flies, less cautious than the hyena, had startled to a buzzing swarm but now resettled, fat green jewels on the dirty bones.
"It's definitely a man," said Andries unnecessarily.
Bongani was staring at the bodiless head.
"It's not one of our people," Andries continued. "Would've heard that somebody was missing. It'll be one of those bloody poachers that have been causing trouble up north. Damned cheek, coming this close to the camp." Andries gave the impression that the man had got his justdeserts, given this lack of proper respect for the authorities.
Bongani looked at the area around the corpse. Thorn acacias, trees typical of Kalahari stream verges, were scattered along the edges of the dry river. Vultures brooded in the branches, waiting for another chance at the remaining scraps should the men and the hyena withdraw. The riverbanks consisted of mud baked to hardness by the sun. From there scattered tufts of grass spread away from the bank, becoming less frequent as they battled the encroaching sand. Beyond that the desert had won, and the first slope of loose sand ran up to the Kalahari dunes, which stretched endlessly into the haze.
The two men stood under one of the trees, its canopy cutting off the heat, its roots sucking moisture from the subterranean water. The body sprawled on the edge of a mess of twigs, leaves, and branches that had fallen to the ground over the years. Behind it lay the sand bed of the long-vanished river, patterned with tracks of animals, some old with the edges of the imprints crumbling, and some as recent as those of the disturbed hyena.
Bongani spoke for the first time since they had spotted the vultures circling. "Do you have problems with white poachers here?"
Andries just looked at him.
"Look at the head. There's still some hair left on the scalp."
Andries knelt next to the skull and examined it more closely. Although the hair was fouled with blood, one could tell it was straight and perhaps two inches long. This was a disturbing development. These days game reserves survived on tourists rather than conservation imperatives, and bad publicity would be unwelcome.
"You wouldn't expect to find a poacher down here anyway. You just said so," Bongani pointed out. "And why on his own in a dangerous area? They don't operate like that."
Andries was reluctant to give up his simple diagnosis. "Some of them aren't in gangs, you know. Just hungry people trying to get some food." But he knew it would never wash with that straight hair. "But not the white ones," he admitted. "It'll be some damn fool tourist. Has a few too many beers in the heat and decides to take off into the dunes to show how macho he is in his four-by-four that he's never had off-road before. Then he gets stuck." The retributive justice of this new idea made him feel a little better.
Bongani focused farther up and down the river. The wind, animals, and the hard stream verge could explain the lack of footprints, but a vehicle track would last for years in these conditions. It was one of the many reasons why visitors had to stay on the roads.
"Where's the vehicle?" he asked.
"He'll have got stuck in the dunes and tried to walk out," Andries replied.
Bongani turned back to the body. The lengthening afternoon sun highlighted the dunes and concentrated his attention. "Wouldn't he follow his vehicle tracks back to the road?" he asked.
"No, man, he'd realize that this stream would join the Naledi farther down—nearer the camp—and take the short cut. You'd be three miles at least from the road up there," said Andries, waving vaguely upstream, "and you'd be climbing up and down through the dunes all the way."
Bongani grimaced and turned to stare at Andries. "So let's see. Your tourist has too much to drink and sets off into the dunes, probably in an unsuitable vehicle—by himself, since no one reports him missing. He gets stuck and then has enough knowledge of the local geography to realize that following the watercourse will be the easy way back to camp. However, he doesn't realize how much dangerous game he may encounter in the river. And, by the way, he's working on his suntan at the same time, because he sets off naked."
Andries looked down. "What makes you think he was naked?" he asked, ignoring the rest.
"Well, do you see any cloth scraps? The animals wouldn't eat them, certainly not with bone and bits of sinew still left. And what about shoes? Animals won't eat those either." Bongani continued to watch the changing light on the sand dunes while Andries silently digested this new challenge.A Carrion Death
Introducing Detective Kubu. Copyright © by Michael Stanley. Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers, Inc. All rights reserved. Available now wherever books are sold.
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Michael Stanley is the writing team of Michael Sears and Stanley Trollip. Sears was born in Johannesburg, grew up in Cape Town and Nairobi, and teaches at the University of the Witwatersrand. Trollip was also born in Johannesburg and has been on the faculty of the universities of Illinois, Minnesota, and North Dakota, and at Capella University. He divides his time between Knysna, South Africa, and Minneapolis, Minnesota.
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A CARRION DEATH is a big story, filled with interesting characters, more than a few mysteries, and immersion for the reader into the country and culture of Botswana. It also gives us Assistant Superintendent David Bengu, known to all as Kubu, hippopotamus. Kubu is one of the best characters in fiction. He loves his wife, his country and its culture, wine, his job, his dog, and opera. He is a 21st century man, dealing with 21st century crimes that are the result of motives as old as mankind. The story opens with the discovery of the partially eaten body of a white man by Kalahari game wardens. The condition of the body suggests that it has not only been attacked by animals acting according to their nature but also by humans acting against their's. Missing teeth and severed limbs are the work of those who want to prevent this man from being identified. As the story progresses so does the body count. People are missing and questions arise about identities. What was thought to be a murder might not be and what was determined to be an accident in nature was probably not. And at the end of it all is a villain motivated by at least four of the seven deadly sins: pride, anger, greed, and jealousy. Michael Stanley (Michael Sears and Stanley Trollip) have written a saga. It is a mystery and a cultural education. The characters are people we want to meet again.
Near a waterhole in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve, Botswana, game rangers Andries and Bongani find the partial human remains as the best cleaners of a crime scene, hyenas were not quite finished devouring the corpse. The rangers collected enough evidence to make the case that a homicide not a tragic accident occurred. --- Botswana Criminal Investigation Department Assistant Superintendent David 'Kubu' Bengu leads the investigation. As Kubu follows clues partially concealed by local superstition and more so by powerful killers with high level contacts intent on hiding the crime and much more, he mimics the 'hippopotamus' that he is nicknamed for as he calmly but resolutely makes inquiries. With Mozart and other classical greats to entertain him as he drives the dusty roads, Kubu risks his life from those who will kill anyone including a persistent detective¿s loved ones to keep the truth from surfacing. --- The police procedural story line is superb with a strong obstinate hero however the tale belongs to the insightful look at Botswana, a landlocked South African presidential representative democratic republic. The action-packed story line brings to life the people and cultures of a country struggling to avoid the problems besetting many of their neighbors to include tribal rivalries, government corruption, and avaricious poachers and smugglers ripping off the natural resources. The author team Michael Stanley provides the excellent debut of a police detective and readers will clamor for more investigations by this lover of the Magic Flute. --- Harriet Klausner
Highly recommend this unique, entertaining, and well-crafted look into African life. Unforgettable characters.
Michael Stanley is actually two authors. It must be a wonderful experience--wonderfully difficult, wonderfully rewarding--to work so closely with someone as on a work of fiction. A Carrion Death is the first of their attempts and they succeed, if not unequivocably. The mysteries are set in Botswana, and I am infinitely grateful that listening to Lisette Lecat read Alexander McCall Smith's The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency series has allowed the unusual city names to roll off my tongue like a native. Molepolole, Mochudi, Gabarone seem familiar to me now, but I'm glad they included the map in the front of the book. I adore mystery series where the deaths are not gruesome and the investigators are civilized. A little bit of moral ambiguity, a few philosophical dilemmas, a human fraility or two, and voila! I am entranced. But I did feel a formula at work here. I look forward to the second in the series to see if the authors managed to set themselves free.
I enjoyed the locale and the characters. Very entertaining.
I bought this book because I like books about Africa and also like the Ladies Detective series set in Africa. This, in comparison, wasn't quite as interesting as to the characters involved. It was still interesting though and I would recommend it to anyone who likes the Alexander McCall Smith detective series.


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Eleanor,Great to hear! Thanks for sharing!I have some interest in the A7r, but I guess I want to see where Sony goes in with both A-mount and EF-mount. Also I am in a money saving mode after buying my P45+. It is very interesting to see what other users find.Best regardsErik
Today I printed a 22X32 inch test print of shrubbery with lovely leaves that has wonderful texture tones veins etc. . The Otus, shot at f2.8 on the A7r is stunning...I cannot do anywhere near this with a smaller sensor. I'm in the quality range that my Phase/Hassy medium format gives me. This just amazes me. Eleanor
but I doubt if anyone shopping for an A7 and especially the a7r ever compared them to the olympus.It's hard to deny the thought of full frame, but for me it was hard to deny the results I saw.
Well, one did. Mainly because of your persuasive arguments in its favour and MR's A7r/ Leica review. But the bottom line, as I posted elsewhere was this: your priorities were "autofocus, tracking, stabilisation, colour, in-camera corrections and extensibility" whereas mine were " B&W, tonality, stills only, prefers manual focus and has a host of top-grade legacy glass (that he's not willing to discard) ". In the end it also came down to the fact that I wasn't buying any overpriced Sony lenses to go with it, whereas with the Olympus it would have been impossible not to buy 'that' zoom and the 75/1.8 as a minimum. I like the OM, like the Olympus DNA, liked the quality feel to the whole camera (hated the menu system) but neither needed nor wanted the advantages the OM offered. Two comments though; the results you saw were mainly, if I'm not mistaken, based on jpeg output. Sony jpeg's, by all accounts, are
'not the best'. And the construction of the A7 is not to the standard of the A7r - it's only partly magnesium.But yes, I guess that in the end, m43 v FF counted - for my usage.
Personally I don't understand the camera companies, except Canon and Nikon.
There are no equivalents for 21/1.4, 24/1.4, 35/1.4 or 50/0.95 or 85/1.4 lenses.


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Here is the latest in our year-long look at one cool comic (whether it be a self-contained work, an ongoing comic or a run on a long-running title that featured multiple creative teams on it over the years) a day (in no particular order whatsoever)! Here's the archive of the comics posted so far!
Today we take a look at the great Suicide Squad story where Waller has to send the team after one of their own in "Final Round," by John Ostrander, Luke McDonnell and Kark Kesel!
In Suicide Squad #21, Amanda Waller managed to outmaneuver two political figures, Derek Tolliver and Senator Joseph Cray, who were blackmailing Waller and the Suicide Squad. However, Rick Flag did not know this, so he thought that Tolliver and Cray were still a threat. So he went to Tolliver's office and assassinated him.
In #22, Waller is in a very awkward position of having to send the rest of the Squad against their AWOL leader to protect the Senator who wanted to blackmail them!
Deadshot, by the way, was just coming back from the trauma of his mini-series, where he re-lived his terrible family past.
Here's a great bit where the "good" members of the team and the "bad" members split up…
Well handled by Ostrander and his artists.
And, of course, here's the most famous scene of the issue…
Now for what happens NEXT (including some of the best Squad dialogue ever), you should go find yourself this issue in the back issue bins (or online). It's easy to find and should be cheap enough (I just checked eBay and there are a number of copies for roughly 5 bucks, shipping included).
If the Squad were more famous, that Deadshot scene would have been on the Top 75 Most Memorable Moments in DC History for sure!
I was lucky enough to read this scene and this era of Suicide Squad as it came out, from my college bookstore of all places. What an amazing comic.
Re-reading the complete series at the moment and Ostrander's writing is amazing. It's funny, interesting, exciting, and all the characters are treated with respect, even if they end up dead at the end. I like Secret Six as much as anyone, but it's predecessor is so far above it. I'll probably check out some of his other work afterwards since I do have his Spectre run, but never have read it.
I also love that in the letters page, the books getting the most love from DC at the time were Suicide Squad, JLI, Doom Patrol, Animal Man, and Sandman; all books still regarded as the best from that era.
This…THIS and the whole following issue are the reasons why Floyd Lawton is neck and neck with Slade Wilson as my fav DC "bada$$es"….
Luke McDonnell is such an underrated artist; though here he has Karl Kesel inks, so it looks even better than normal. Love Flag's facial expression after Deadshot kills the senator. And Ostrander is brilliant as his run in SS always was.
I read these as they were being published by Zinco in Spain, too bad some things got lost in translation ( ie: Waller's nickname The Wall didn't survive the trip, it doesn't really make much sense to call her "La Muralla" without knowing english) but hey, at least it enabled a lot of spanish speakers to follow this series, up to Flag's mission against the Jihad at least.
I so agree that McDonald and Kessel made this book rock. McDonald always gets dogged for his art, but I always found it solid.
So awesome. Any DC comics fan not making an effort to read this entire series is a fool. The issues are cheap.
DC needs to reprint these in their entirety.
@stealthwise: They are, starting in February.
Really, they are going to reprint Suicide Squad? I'll have to look for that since I read of all the SS love here.
Although haven't they announced that they were reprinting that before? Wasn't there going to be a Showcase volume of it?
God I loved this series! There is a reason it keeps turning up in this here column.
I love when I loan my back issues to comic fans who have never read it before, and the looks on their faces after they get through the first handful of issues… it's the look you used to see when people read their first issue of Claremont X-Men, only without the same level of fan recognition.
One of the greatest series of all-time, I say!
Grimjack, Suicide Squad and the Martian Manhunter were three reasons I started a John Ostrander box in my collection. I wish that DC would reprint Suicide Squad and Martian Manhunter in their Deluxe HC format.
I'm a huge fan of the Suicide Squad and Deadshot in particular. This was one of those issues where you really knew that you weren't dealing with heroes or villains-turning-into-heroes. Some of these guys were just BAD.
Despite how much I thought of this issue, I think that Deadshot had three greater moments during the series. One was when he jumped out of a plane over Russia, one was the final issue with Count Vertigo and the last was when he wore his costume even though there was a bullet hole in the forehead.
Yeah, people could hunt for back issues to find out what happens or they could just look for the Day 71 write-up you did in the Year of Cool Comic Book Moments last year. Between these two entries you've scanned and spoon-fed us just about the whole issue.
Jeez, Brian. You should just go the whole nine and scan the entire series and put that online so there won't be anymore complaining about a collected edition.
I'm joking. I love the Sqad and this column, but it would be great to have the whole run collected online so I could just direct people to a website and say, "There! That's why I won't shut up about the Suicide Squad!"
I love this series and Deadshot became one of my favorite DC characters because of it. Lawton seems completely amoral but you just can't resist rooting for him.
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Yesterday, I got stuck in a perl script. Let me simplify it, suppose there is a string (say ABCDEABCDEABCDEPABCDEABCDEPABCDEABCD), first I've to break it at every position where "E" comes, and secondly, break it specifically where the user wants to be at. But, the condition is, program should not cut at those sites where E is followed by P. For example there are 6 Es in this sequence, so one should get 7 fragments, but as 2 Es are followed by P one will get 5 only fragments in the output.
I need help regarding the second case. Suppose user doesn't wants to cut this sequence at, say 5th and 10th positions of E in the sequence, then what should be the corresponding script to let program skip these two sites only? My script for first case is:
my $otext = 'ABCDEABCDEABCDEPABCDEABCDEPABCDEABCD';
$otext=~ s/([E])/$1=/g; #Main cut rule.
$otext=~ s/=P/P/g;
@output = split( /\=/, $otext);
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Early spring morning in Helsinki, Finland
March 2011
March 2011
Me encanta los matices creados en esta foto.
I love your photos !! you do a great job and finnish landscapes are wonderful you're very lucky to live there
Wonderful colours
So beautiful!
One of the few Finnish words i know: hyvä! (if i'm right)
One of the few Finnish words i know: hyvä! (if i'm right)
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ÂIf you have a personal injury, get help. There are no attorney fees. Instead, they take a percentage of the settlement.
You need not lose your home; if you cannot afford the property tax, are 62 or older, and earn less than $24,000 a year ($31,800 next year), contact the California State Controller's Office for an application for deferred tax. This help is 50 years old. Don't wait until it is too late.
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ÂAgency rules change, so always check with the agency, not others. Position yourself now for anything you would want in an emergency.
For our critics, unless they have a crystal ball, a crisis can happen to them also. Remember 1929, 1980, 1987, 2000, 9/11, Katrina, Silicon Valley, Enron, divorce, fire and natural disasters? Hard working people lost everything. Read the Book of Job.
Hopefully, you will stay gainfully employed and never face a housing problem. Even so, nothing is lost by planning ahead and acquiring advance information.


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Sky Player, Sky's online TV service launches on Windows 7 creating a new and innovative way for people in the UK to watch live and on demand TV from Sky on a PC. The service is simple and easy to use and gives Windows 7 users access to the wide range of high-quality live and on demand pay TV currently on Sky Player, which includes the latest blockbuster movies, live action sports, must see entertainment, programming dedicated to kids, music, the arts and thought provoking documentaries.
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Skip to comments.National poll shows support for more money for public transit
Posted on 03/30/2010 11:07:32 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
A majority of Americans supports increased spending on public transit and a slim majority is willing to pay higher taxes for it, according to a poll released today.
Some 51 percent expressed support for a "small" tax increase to pay for better public transit, while 46 percent were opposed.
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Just turn in your keys, Lee You don't need to be free
here is an idea. Let the people who ride the bus pay for the bus. All of it, 100% of the actual cost.
article says it is the result of a "national sample of 800 people"....no doubt all of them standing in the rain at bus stops in front of the Welfare Office.
800 is a small sample, doesn't sound like a scientific poll
I am guessing they mainly polled people who live in big cities like Boston, NYC, San Francisco, etc.
"and a slim majority is willing to pay higher taxes for it"....
Sure!....As long as it's cost effective, right? We are talking about fricking government you idiots!!!!
The only person here at FR that would have been positive on a poll like this is Willie Green.
Those who drive private cars already pay the state for the privilege (licensing, tags, mandatory insurance, and gas taxes).
Let "public transportation" be funded from the consumers who use it.
I've asked in the past, if every passenger's ride is going to be heavily subsidized by taxpayers, just make the systems free.
I'm told that too many people would ride then. Which shows that full ridership/reduced private transit is not the goal.
It's Pennsylvannia...libtard Rendell country....says enough for me....
Public transit is one of the few "public" ventures I agree with. More people ride the bus, the fewer driving. Less traffic. I also am glad it helps some of those who would otherwise not be able to get jobs on the other side of town. (Disclosure: I live in Los Angeles and for the past six months, I've been riding the bus. Car got too expensive.)
I didn't say it shouldn't exist. I just think the users should pay for it.
my 40K sized university town here in TN recently got a bus service. we got it through stimulus funds. the justification? College kids were having to walk a MILE to retail stores... The poor who don't have cars need it (never mind that there is already a free ferry service for the poor and elderly). Of course, the grant only covered the buses. We the local taxpayers get to pay for the upkeep, employees, etc... so now we have these bright green shiny buses driving around.....empty. Haven't yet seen a passenger on them.
They drives routes here all day whether anyone needs them or not. I remember the city council rejected a private alternative a while back to use smaller buses and a flex routing system where based on the riders residences they could actually change routes on the fly.
And you think the bus that your transit district (MTA?) paid $300-400K for and gets around 4 mpg and whose driver earns more than is collected in the farebox each day is less expensive?
To you, maybe. Not to the residents of LA, who are stuck with a 1% sales tax on every purchase just to subsidize your bus ride.
If only users paid for it, it would be a pair of donkeys. those big unions want big bucks to build things!
"article says it is the result of a national sample of 800 people....no doubt all of them standing in the rain at bus stops in front of the Welfare Office."
Thanks, I was ready to say BS re this study. Then, you did this great job above.
In spite of all the green publicity about how great it is to ride on a dirty bus, driven by someone who hates their job and their riders, we see very few people riding our local buses. The buses are out making their rounds faithfully about 10-12 hours per day with few if any riders.
Our "free" trolley which ran from the outlets to down town and to other sites around downtown was discontinued because few people used it.
We, our grand kids, grand nephews/nieces and adult visitors liked the trolley and so did visitors. It was clean and the drivers acted like they enjoyed the job. The trolley was dced shortly after the meltdown hit.
Those who drive private cars already pay the state/city/county for the privilege (licensing, tags, mandatory insurance, and gas taxes).
Let public transportation be funded from the consumers who use it.
There are some bus drivers who like their jobs. Would you believe that some bus drivers are drawing six-figure salaries?
They don't particularly like their passengers or the service they are providing, but it's an "easy" gig blowing through the route to get to the "break" points.
In Houston, the city refuses internal and extenal ad revenues (something commonly seen on public transportation in other cities).
The revenue is available to fund public transportation, the city refuses it. But it's driven by the same mindset that required all businesses to put their trash bins behind fences to "beautify" the city.
PS the city raised fares 25%
By "National poll" they meant they asked a baseball team in DC.
Polls usually tend to show that people want less spending and lower taxes in general but poll them on a specific type of spending such as busses, education, etc and they generally say that they want increased spending for that one thing.
I am all for anything that keeps the city folk in the city and out of the countryside. Public transit does that quite well.
"here is an idea. Let the people who ride the bus pay for the bus. All of it, 100% of the actual cost."
but you use the highway and police departments, hypocrite!
"and a slim majority is willing to pay higher taxes for it...."
somewhere out there some dem has legally changed his name to "slim majority" and is making a freaking fortune at the polls.
Figured, what did they do figure how far it was for the students to the Starbucks, it is not that far to downtown is it?
starbucks is down by the interstate. to the center of town from the school is about half a mile. there's a couple of indy coffee shops in walking distance. one of these days i'm going to get on, count how many riders in an hour then write to the paper about it.
I've explained why I think it's beneficial overall. If you don't agree, c'est la vie. I pay taxes for schools even though I have no children. Even Freepers sometimes cannot homeschool.
I think public transit is good provided it largely pays for itself and it isn't used to increase the strength of unions which cause the cost of implementing transit systems to be prohibitive. When I traveled to Edinburgh I enjoyed the mass transit. I hopped a bus to go to the train station and took a train to South Queensferry every day and back again. It was painless and about $5 bucks a day for the buses and maybe $50 total for the week traveling via the train. Much less than I'd have paid for gas had I gotten a rental. I do think a well designed efficient transit system is a boon for a city and nearly all the costs can be recouped directly or indirectly.
I just don't want mass transit to become the only way I am allowed to get around or be tied permanently to the outrageous demands of leftist unions. Also the key element for me is simple and I apply the same to public schools. If they work and are cost effectively and aren't used to eliminate my opinions or my personal liberty then I'm happy to have them. However I don't want a transit system that works like La Public schools. If all the Teachers were like you I'd have to reconsider that thought.
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