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Comfort buys palm nuts from the farmers in her community; processes them in her house to produce the oil and sells it at wholesale prices to her customers. Palm oil is a local vegetable oil produced from palm fruit which has been cooked, pounded, sieved and boiled for hours. The reddish substance (the oil) is skimmed off and reboiled to expel its water content. Comfort desires to use the loan to expand her business by buying palm fruit in bulk to be able to supply to more customers. She also trades in "kenkey," one the favorite local dishes, to supplement her income.
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Some state parks may be closed while others could be opened up to limited oil and gas extraction over the next few years as part of a plan to financially shore up Colorado's parks system.
Mineral leasing may be the most controversial option being considered, but state parks spokeswoman Deb Frazier points out it is just one option being weighed.
"This is, in no way, a pathway we're set on pursuing," she said. "It remains a discussion point only as we examine methods to maintain a thriving parks system in challenging times."
Leading the list of possible park closures is Bonny Lake State Park, north of Burlington near the Kansas border. Services have been gradually cut back at Bonny over the past few years because it's been gradually drained to meet water demands in Kansas during drought years.
The five-year plan includes Sweitzer Lake, Harvey Gap and Paonia as other possibly endangered parks. Shutting down those three, as well as Bonny, could save $200,000 annually.
Shuttering Bonny would sting Burlington, a community of 3,500, said city administrator Bob Churchwell. When Bonny was in its heyday, it would attract plenty of anglers and boaters who would get their supplies in Burlington, Churchwell said.
"We do still get that clientele, so I can say there will be damage to the community," Churchwell said. "But realistically, I would much rather have that piece affected than the state taking away grant dollars because of a tight budget down the road."
Other options the state will need to explore include cost-sharing arrangements with other state and federal agencies, streamlining operations and looking for financial help from private groups.
Officials already have cut back in several areas, including personnel and services, as a way to grapple with a shrinking budget.
In the 2009 fiscal year, state parks got $6.7 million in general funds, which dropped to $2.6 million in fiscal 2011. There may be no funding for state parks next year, according to the financial plan.
That is why a more comprehensive plan to deal with the long-term viability of the parks system is needed, officials said.
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"In the very limited areas where State Parks does own mineral rights and there may be interest in extraction, State Parks should consider the potential for new revenues through leases," said the report.
Colorado State Parks owns about 50,000 acres of the 225,000 total acres under management in the parks system. State Parks owns the mineral rights in only a small percentage of those 50,000 acres, Frazier said.
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This month, consumer confidence hit its lowest point since March
2009, according to the Conference Board. And that has led many
pundits to speculate that the holiday shopping season will be a
weak one, with fearful consumers tightening their wallets and
businesses struggling to meet profit and sales goals.
This tale of the tapped-out US consumer isn't a new one. Ever
since the Great Recession and market crash of 2008, many have been
saying that the American consumer is too awash in debt to do their
part in spurring the economy forward.
But the numbers tell a different story. While the US consumer
has certainly been hurting to a degree, retail and food service
sales data shows that they've actually been remarkably resilient
over the past couple years -- even while paying down their debt.
Sales increased again by an impressive 1.1% in September, according
to the newest Commerce Department data, and are now 19% higher than
their recessionary low, and 4.5% higher than their pre-recessionary
Why the discrepancy between how people are saying they feel, and
what they are doing with their money? I think it probably has a lot
to do with the emotional scars of the deep 2007-2009 recession and
accompanying stock market crash. Memories like those don't fade
quickly, so it is not surprising that Americans have remained
pessimistic even as the economy has stabilized and the stock market
has moved higher over the past two-and-a-half years. The fact that
unemployment has remained troublingly high even after the recession
ended no doubt has also contributed to the gloomy outlook.
But this combination of low sentiment and better than expected
performance of many companies that sell consumer goods may be
making for some very intriguing value investment opportunities
among consumer stocks. Value investors have to have the fortitude
to invest in stocks when expectations and sentiment are low, be it
for individual companies, sectors, or the market as a whole. Right
now, my Guru Strategies -- each of which is based on the approach
of a different investing great -- are finding a number of bargains
amid the fear-filled consumer sector. Here are some of the consumer
stocks that they are particularly high on.
Deckers Outdoor Corporation (
This Georgia-based firm makes footwear and accessories, including
the popular UGG and Teva brands. It has a market cap of $4.1
Deckers gets strong interest from my Peter Lynch-inspired model.
The Lynch strategy considers it a "fast-grower" -- Lynch's favorite
type of investment -- thanks to its impressive 40.5% long-term
earnings per share growth rate. (I use an average of the three-,
four-, and five-year EPS figures to determine a long-term rate.)
Lynch famously used the P/E/Growth ratio to find bargain-priced
stocks, and when we divide Deckers' 29.2 price/earnings ratio by
that long-term growth rate, we get a P/E/G of 0.72. This model
considers anything below 1.0 to be acceptable, so that's a good
Lynch also liked conservatively financed firms, and the model I
base on his writings targets companies with debt/equity ratios less
than 80%. Deckers' D/E is zero, another good sign.
Skechers USA (
This trendy California-based retailer specializes in casual
footwear, and also sells some other clothing and apparel. It sells
its products through its own retail stores, and through department
stores, specialty stores, and the Internet. It also has a network
of global distributors that sell its products in over 120 countries
and territories.
My Benjamin Graham-inspired model is high on Skechers. Graham,
known as the "Father of Value Investing", was a very conservative
investor, and this approach looks for companies with good liquidity
(current ratio of at least 2.0) and strong balance sheets
(long-term debt should not exceed net current assets). Skechers has
a 3.7 current ratio, and about $600 million in net current assets
vs. $79 million in long-term debt. It also trades for just 7.8
times three-year average earnings, and just 0.74 times book
Hansen Natural Corporation (
I wrote about this California-based firm, which makes a variety of
natural sodas and other drinks, back in May because my Warren
Buffett-inspired model was high on it. Since then, its shares have
jumped over 30% while the broader market has been in the red -- and
my Buffett model is still high on it. A few reasons: The firm's
earnings per share have dipped in just one year of the past decade;
it has no long-term debt; and it has averaged a 27% return on
equity over the past decade, a sign of the "durable competitive
advantage" Buffett is known to cherish.
LKQ Corporation (
This Chicago-based auto part firm offers a variety of original,
aftermarket, and used parts and systems. It has over 430 locations
in the U.S., Canada, and the U.K.
LKQ ($4.4 billion market cap) gets strong interest from my James
O'Shaughnessy-based growth stock model. It looks for firms that
have upped earnings per share in each year of the past five-year
period, which LKQ has done. The model also looks for a key
combination of variables: a high relative strength, which is a sign
the market is embracing the stock, and a low price/sales ratio,
which is a sign it hasn't gotten too pricey. LKQ has a strong
12-month relative strength of 88, and its P/S ratio of 1.46 comes
in just below this model's 1.5 upper limit.
LKQ also gets strong interest from my Lynch-based strategy. A
couple reasons: Its 29.5% long-term growth rate and 22.6 P/E make
for a solid P/E/G ratio of 0.77, and its debt/equity ratio is a
reasonable 40%.
iRobot Corporation (
Founded by M.I.T. roboticists back in 1990, this
Massachusetts-based firm makes the Roomba robotic vacuum, as well
as other robots that can perform household chores like floor
washing, pool cleaning, and gutter cleaning. It also makes robots
used by the military for such tasks as surveillance and
iRobot ($939 million market cap) gets strong interest from one
of my best-performing models, the strategy I base on the writings
of Motley Fool co-creators Tom and David Gardner. This model likes
iRobot's strong recent earnings and sales growth (85% and 28%,
respectively, in the most recent quarter vs. the year-ago quarter);
its lack of any long-term debt; and its combination of hot
(relative strength of 95) but reasonably priced (0.51 P/E/G)
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I recently had my second daughter and to our surprise she came early at 33 weeks 4 days. All the test came back good and she didn't need oxygen but 12 hours. She is currently on gavage feeding and they are trying to get her to take my milk from a bottle. This is not going good and is frustrating me. Does anyone have suggestions on how to get my daughter to "nipple" or stay on the breast longer than 5-10 minutes? She would have been 35 weeks this week but is not interested in feeding. I would like her to come home but this is her only/last hurdle.
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Hang in there!!! Feeding will come!! If she is taking the breast for 5 to 10 minutes, that is awesome!!!
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I think she sounds like she is doing great. My 35 weeker struggled with feeding that long at first. mine would just tire out and fall asleep, no interest at all. the nurses had me remove his blankets, make him a little uncomfortable so he would stay awake longer. but she is doing really well and it will pick up quickly. she will be home before you know it! good luck
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WELCOME & Congratulations! My baby took forever to learn to eat (or so it seemed). The nurses kept telling me the "eating fairy" would just "show up" one night. It's a challenge. How is her Red Blood Cell count? I agree about not being bundled & held away from warm body.
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I totally agree - 5 to 10 min on the breast if fantastic! It already sounds like she is on the right track. I finally asked that DS NG be pulled so he had to take all feeds orally. He would, just sometimes not on the schedule that the nurses wanted.
Congratualtions on your LO and welcome to this great group!
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First congrats on your baby.
Second My son was born at 36 weeks and we had a horrible time getting him to take a bottle. He had a horrilbe time latching on also so I had to use a sheild and he wouldn't stay awake more than 10-15 mins, I pumpped mainly. I was so frustrated eating was the only thing keeping him in the NICU after the first week. My biggest suggestion is see/ask to see the speech therapist she was the biggest help. She taught us how to feed him and how to watch for signs of choking and when he needed to burp. He soon went from having to be tube feed every other feeding one day to taking his bottle all day the next. There is a lot of pressure of the 30 min mark, one of her suggestions was to let him rest a few minutes if he started to get tired and then try again. Also she taught us all about the suck/swallow/breath.
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Thanks for all your comments. To answer one question her red blood cell count is good. She actually began to take over half a bottle during three feedings last night, so we are very optimistic. I have a military background and understand the structure they are forcing on the babies but it would be good to let mother nature kick in. Once again, thanks for your comments.
My twins had an occupational therapist provided by the NICU to come help out in "teaching" them how to nipple.
26y mom:10 & 7yr DDs,6yr DS & twin DDs 1lb 14oz & 4lbs 3oz born 3/20/09 (30wks EDD 5/29/09), DS 7/20/11 @ 36 wks
Congratulations! It sounds like she is doing great! That's about how my 32 weeker was doing at 35 weeks. We went home at 37 weeks and she was taking the breast for about 15 minutes and we were supplementing with bottles. By term she was 100% breastfeeding and we haven't looked back since. Hang in there. It is indeed the longest waiting period for them to figure out how to feed.
Mommy of Katie, born 12/4/09 32 weeks 1 day, 4# 9oz due to PPROM. 31 day stay in NICU.
Hard to believe and hear, but it sounds like she is doing awesome!!!! You will be amazed what a couple of days will do - just hang in there - she will get it.
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but at a catch.. i am on a budget.
plz give me recommendations which will not break the bank.
I use a 19 inch HDTV as a computer monitor, and PS3 display. The computer is plugged into the VGA, and the PS3 is in the HDMI port. I got it for under $200 last year at circuit city. It's pretty good, nowhere near as good as the 32 inch toshiba HDTV I have though
Well, you are going to need an HDTV and the right cables. Assuming that you have a PS3 or a late release 360, you need an HDMI cable. These go for about 6-10$ shipped on ebay, and about 25-50$ in a store. Since its digital, the monster cables deliver the EXACT same picture as the off-brand from Hong Kong. Alternately you can do component which is slightly lower quality but you can get a combination PS3/360/Wii cable for about $20 at gamestop.
As for TVs, definatly go off brand. I have had an Astar, Olevia and Visio and the picture/sound quality easily rivals the big brands that cost 50% more. The key here is patience. There are deals to be had, but you have to catch them, and you have to take a risk and be willing to buy things with no return policy online. I got my 37'' Astar for 599$ a year ago and my dad got a 47'' 1080p for 1000$ last November. Don't settle for anything less than 32'' even if it means having to save up money for a few months, and if you go >42'' be sure to get 1080p, even though very few games support it.
You have Samsung LCD TV FullHD at a nice price. I think this tv's are the best option on quality and price.
I got a 42'' Samsung Plasma 1080P for $999.99 a year ago. Got it from Best Buy on Black Friday. Great deal and unreal picture.
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My buddy, Dennis Karlinsky in RTC, told me last week about a "blog posting queue" that the Exchange team uses to support their very popular, You Had Me At EHLO (man, I just love that name!). So, earlier this week, I took a quick look at it, which is simply a document library on an internal WSS v2 team site, and suggested to Kurt, Jeff, Jon, et al. to do the same. Well, they loved it. And just as I was about to take the simple step of saving the doclib into a template and creating an instance of it for us to use, PJ suggested that we should instead use our dogfood Beta 1 site to setup the SharePoint Team Blog Posting Queue. The idea is that we would keep it simple for now, but as more Program Manager Leads and Senior Program Managers start contributing to the team blog, we can turn on features like workflow and e-mail alerts to make the request/assignment/submission/review/posting/notification process much more efficient.
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Skip to comments.Sex robots the future of sex tourism: Academics
Posted on 04/19/2012 2:43:32 PM PDT by Nachum
Sex workers in Amsterdam will have a hard time finding work if two New Zealand academics' vision of the future comes true.
"In 2050, Amsterdam's red light district will all be about android prostitutes who are clean of sexual transmitted infections, not smuggled in from Eastern Europe and forced into slavery, the city council will have direct control over android sex workers controlling prices, hours of operations and sexual services," write futurologist Ian Yeoman and sexologist Michelle Mars.
The duo's paper, Robots, Men And Sex Tourism, published in the journal Futures, centres on an imaginary future sex club in Amsterdam called Yub-Yum.
It posits that sex tourists will dish out big cash for all-inclusive robot sex romps.
This will be a big win for Amsterdam, they say, as the city will keep drawing huge swaths of randy tourists willing to empty their pockets, but avoid all the downsides, like drugs, violence and underage exploitation.
The sex-bots will even be made from bacteria resistant fibre, the Victoria University of Wellington academics predict.
(Excerpt) Read more at edmontonsun.com ...
'Sy Borg'
Sigh Borg?
give me de chromium cob..........
"You have just destroyed one model XQJ-37 Nuclear Powered Pan- Sexual Roto-Plooker "
Once there's robots for that that kind of tourism is dead, why travel to Amsterdam for a sex robot when you can just order one from Amazon for home delivery, free with Prime membership.
We need an expert opinion.
A minute too late.
Raised on a farm were you, Joe?
4 nozzles? Is that what's called a gang bang?
I'll pass.
The secret service will be pleased with this info. If Obama had a robot, it would look like Z20543.
It's an interesting topic to think about - I'm wholly against the sex trade but would robots be acceptable to me? Would it still lead to people basing their lives around a biological function (gays, sex addicts, adulterers, etc) or would it just be an advanced form of masturbation?
Would it become popular for wives to buy their husbands a sex robot for their anniversary? Or vice-versa? Would they advance the societal slide into degeneration or serve as a stopgap making sex just like a pill to take allowing society to move away from its sexual obsessions?
The movie "AI" had sexbots, in fact one of the main characters was such a unit.
Nah...just a believer in using "off the shelf" technology :-)
Cherry 2000
At our age, not really..........
The topic of sex-androids has gotten a lot of, er, play in SF over the years.
Does anyone remember "Westworld?"
Or Darryl Hannah, who played Priss, "a standard pleasure model" in Blade Runner?
Pamela Gidley played the girl robot.
Sex Robots or "Gynoids" will only be mainstream once they can be programmed to do housekeeping shores around the house.
Then a wife will never have to claim "I have a headache" or "I don't want to do dishes" the robot maid who is also a sex robot will take care of it all for her.
Of course then the wife will demand that she has a "Male Sexbot" to service her and perform the chores around the house that the man was supposed to do like cleaning the gutters or mowing the lawn. This will lead to having two robots in the house.
So then you will have a husband and wife essentially cheating in the open on each other using robots... Of course what happens when the two robots have fulfilled the roles of the humans that they were meant to replace? Why keep the humans around, both the robots can have sex with each other over wi-fi (as it can be "virtualized") and will not need humans at all to take care of the house.
So the humans will then get kicked out of the house and you will have two horny robots banging each other over wi-fi billions of times a day while they are doing all the housekeeping....
Progress indeed....
We will have made ourselves obsolete...
[ Once theres robots for that that kind of tourism is dead, why travel to Amsterdam for a sex robot when you can just order one from Amazon for home delivery, free with Prime membership. ]
One has to wonder if sex robots in the middle east will have to be covered in a burqua?
Also since sheep don't wear burquas why would a sex bot have to?
Also, if you send you sex robot down to the local bazaar for a gallon of milk and a loaf of bread and it gets raped does a play back of it's computer memory equal the same weight in court as having six witnesses to a rape or does it count the same as a biological women which would mean you couldn't sue the robo rapists for property damage...
Would a sex robot in the middle east have more value as property than women because women in the middle east are as valued as dirt and the sex robot would be more expensive?
I am half curious to "ask an imam" about this....
51% Androids who dream of electric sheep
22% Give me reality or give me death
26% ABO - Any Battery Orgasm - as long as I can pretend it is real.
[ It's an interesting topic to think about - I'm wholly against the sex trade but would robots be acceptable to me? Would it still lead to people basing their lives around a biological function (gays, sex addicts, adulterers, etc) or would it just be an advanced form of masturbation? ]
All I know is that China had better get cracking on this because there is going to be a lot of young men without women in that country and they will need women folk, be they biological or android. If they don't the Chinese are going to become a powder keg in the next 20 to 40 years as their men get desperate.
"One has to wonder if sex robots in the middle east will have to be covered in a burqua?"
They have detachable heads if you get bored with your old unit.
Got Chunky Milk?
I want the model disguised as a gun cleaning and shooting device for my man cave.
"The topic of sex-androids has gotten a lot of, er, play in SF over the years."
Westworld, Futureworld, Blade Runner, Serenity.
"Would it become popular for wives to buy their husbands a sex robot for their anniversary?"
Would wives buy robots that looked like them for their husbands and just let them have a go at the robot when they had a "headache"? Would in-the-closet homosexuals get caught using their wive's robots? Would it be legal for pedophiles to get robots that looked like little kids?
This would open the door to a lot of weirdness, that is for sure, which is saying a lot, considering how weird the world is already!
If I can get one that looks like Melanie... sign me up!
Who was the sex android in "Serenity"?
"Honey, I'll be right back with you by the time you hit the hardware aisle!"
I'm pretty sure Westworld featured this theme too, years before Cherry 2000.
Actually, the sex-robot thing goes way, way back, as far as Metropolis. Even further in books.
As you might guess, the subtitle is deliberately ironic.
Amsterdam, Baby!
Don't forget, FR has an expert from the "other side" as well... /g
Remember "Mr. Universe" the hacker/media/blogger guy they got info from?
Capt. Reynolds used his equipment to broadcast the "Miranda" info at the end.
The assassin had already killed Mr. U when they got back, but his sexbot talked to Mal.
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Right before the trip I also picked up the Rayovac Sportsman Extreme to test the two lanterns. The Rayovac is awesome. It is easily a third the size of the Coleman and brighter than the Coleman. It takes 3 D batteries and will run for 72 hours on high. The construction is very sturdy.
Backcountry - if you are going to stock this lantern you should also add the much better Rayovac.
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That's right, the state's faux Bavarian Village has got it going on. And I'm not even talking about its most obvious attributes: America's drunkest Oktoberfest, the town's semi-naughty mascot -- Woody Goomsba -- or the bitchin' putt-putt course just outside the city center.
Photo by Leslie Kelly Who doesn't love drinking a frosty beer outdoors on a frosty day? You can in Leavenworth.
No, this tourist magnet has got some culinary treasures SEA can only admire from afar. Or, up close, judging by the number of Seattle accents I heard in das beer garten last weekend.
I'm not just sending mad love to the 509 because I spent some of the happiest years of my dysfunctional childhood in L'town. (You can't swing a pair of lederhosen without hitting somebody I'm related to. Hell, my third cousin twice removed is mayor!) For me, Leavenworth's charm begins and ends with sausage.
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This time of year, I'm like a moth in search of a flame, a heat-seeker who truly appreciates a wood-fueled fire and there's no better place to warm up while sipping a cold beer in the cold than in Leavenworth. There are not just one, but two year-round outdoor beer gartens where you can toast your tootsies while snowflakes drift down.
I've long been partial to Munchen Haus, which serves a stellar lineup from Bavarian Meats, but last weekend, I fell hard for the new kid on the block. The Sausage Garten by Cured has a sweeping view of the mountains and makes a unbeatable place to people watch. Plus, they make their own sausages. I devoured a currywurst while sipping a Black Lager, sitting by a fire. The only thing missing the otherwise incessant om-pah-pah music. Maybe that's a plus.
2. Ice cream on every corner.
Photo by Leslie Kelly Baby, it's cold outside. So, let's eat some ice cream.
After you're all warmed up after munching sausages by the fire, it's time to go get some dessert, right?
Leavenworth has enough sweet treats to send anyone into sugar shock. It's especially clear in the summer when nearly every person walking down the street is licking an ice cream cone.
Ice cream shops are to Leavenworth what Starbucks are to Seattle: They're everywhere!
I love the gelato (or as the Web site explains to bumpkins who've been living in caves... "Italian ice cream") at Viadolce. But my favorite place for a double scoop is Das Sweet Shoppe because it's stuffed with retro goodies, too. Why is it so damn hard to find a candy necklace these days?
And before you leave town, you've got to grab a shake from Heidleburger, the little Mom and Pop blast from the past not far from the mouth of Tumwater Canyon.
3. Natural beauty.
Photo by Leslie Kelly Awesome view near O'Grady's Pantry. Best observed from a spot by the crackling fire.
All joking aside about a town's earnest efforts to create a mock village in Bavaria, Leavenworth does kick ass when it comes to outdoor scenery. Just drive out of town five minutes on Icicle Road for a killer view of the Enchantments and then stop for a bite at O'Grady's Pantry at the Sleeping Lady Resort.
You'll probably find cross country skier types thawing out by the roaring fire, which is often tended by the regulars who spend lazy mornings sipping coffee and gossiping with other regulars.
What keeps me coming back, though, is the simple, well-prepared fare like a breakfast burrito that you can eat while looking out at the frosty peaks. It's almost like you're out enjoying nature but without breaking a sweat.
4. The Gingerbread Factory.
Photo by Jessie Oleson, aka CakeSpy. Always a pleasure to punch in at this Factory.
There are plenty of places that promise the Christmas spirit 365 days a year, but few deliver like this sweet spot one block off Front Street.
Walk into this converted house and experience a full-on olfactory assault of the most agreeable kind. Mmmm, ginger and sugar and flour and butter. Oh my.
If you're lucky, you might even get to watch one of the bakers decorating an adorable gingerbread house. All together now: Awww!
5. Try-before-you-buy retailing.
OK, this isn't unique to Leavenworth. You can snack your way across any Costco anywhere. But this town is unusual because there's a high concentration of places that will gladly give you a sample in a four-block area.
Don't miss The Cheesemonger's, bites of the housemade charcuterie at Cured and then end up at the wine tasting room across from Gustav's.
My biggest lament when driving west toward home? That it's impossible to satisfy my craving for a great wiener schnitzel in this slice of Bavaria. Or a decent piece of Black Forest Cake for that matter. So, the search continues.


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Natchez Little Theatre hopes this year to expose viewers to a side of its annual Spring Pilgrimage production they've never seen before.
"Southern Exposure," NLT's traditional Pilgrimage season play, will open for the 52nd time Saturday, but this year it has been reimagined and is under the fresh hand of a new director, Bo Allen, who is making his NLT directorial debut.
This is the first time since 2002 that neither NLT Artistic Direct nor Layne Taylor or Technical Director Don Vesterse has directed the show. Prior to that, Lynn Mann had directed it for a number of years.
"Bo has been an active volunteer with the theater for numerous years, and has assistant directed with us before," Taylor said. "We felt it was time for him to get into directing — we are training the new directors to carry us into the future, and with 81 years of history behind us, we want to make sure there are another 81 years."
"Southern Exposure" tells the story of Penelope Mayweather, a formerly beautiful Natchez belle trying to save her home, Mayweather Hall, from financial ruin. She takes on a boarder — John Salguod — only to have to hide his identity because he was the author who wrote a best-selling book that was banned in Natchez because locals considered it libelous. The situation is further complicated when her young cousin Carol comes to spend the night.
With a fresh set of directorial eyes looking at the script, Allen has reenvisioned the show in a way that he hopes will give audiences already familiar with the long-running show a new perspective on it. Allen's changes include completely recreating the set, changing how characters interact with the setting and — though he didn't change a word of the script — giving a new take on the characters themselves, often taking cues from the dialogue.
"Instead of just saying the words, the actors use the words as part of the characters, the scene," Allen said. "For example, in the past, the character of Penelope has been played as very demure and proper, but I directed it to where she gets a little drunk, a little tipsy, and it adds a lot of color."
Likewise, the character of John has been reinterpreted as a 1950s hipster.
"Previously, John was always played as a sweet guy," Allen said. "I wanted to make him a little more sinister in the beginning, and then become a guy who falls in love and changes a little, and really becomes a man with a purpose."
Though it's his first time at the helm, it's not Allen's first time in the show. Last season, he played the character of Avery Randall, a role he will reprise this year as actor-director. When Allen is on stage, he said he takes notes from Vesterse, who serves as assistant director for the production.
"When I was doing the show last year, I had all these visions of what it could be, but at the time I was an actor, and as an actor I respected the director's decisions," Allen said. "When it came to it, all those visions played out very well."
Because "Southern Exposure" runs four nights a week, it has two casts. One cast performs on Tuesdays and Thursdays; the other cast performs on Saturdays and Sundays.
"Some of the actors are in both casts, but are in different roles," Allen said. "The two Penelopes are extremely different, and I love that because I don't want it to be the exact show — if the audience comes to both sows, it will be the same show, but it will be different."
Actor Dwight Williams plays the character of John in both casts, and he said Allen's approach to the show is very hands-on.
"We have incorporated some slapstick into the character, trying to make him not so stiff — after all, this is a comedy," Williams said. "Hopefully making it new will help bring in local people — as well as tourists — who haven't been (to "Southern Exposure") in a while."
Taylor said ticket pre-sales and reservations for the show's 21 performances are ahead of where they were this time last year.
"We have a lot of folks who do come back to see "Southern Exposure' year after year," Taylor said.
"It is the perfect play for this town, for this period because it is light, family friendly entertainment with some good tongue-in-cheek adult references that aren't offensive."
The fact that he has taken the lead of NLT's best-known and most-seen show hasn't been lost on Allen.
"I feel it is a privilege and an honor that the theater has entrusted this show to me," he said.
Performances of "Southern Exposure" will be at 7:30 p.m. every Saturday, Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday, beginning Saturday and running through April 9.
Tickets are $15, and can be purchased online at www.natchezlittletheatre.org or by calling 601-442-2233.
A special benefit and preview performance with proceeds benefitting the Natchez Lions Club will be at 7 p.m. Friday. Tickets for the benefit performance will be $10.
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Twenty-two debutantes made their debuts at the 67th annual Beaux Arts Ball on Nov. 24 at Oklahoma City Golf & Country Club.
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Debutantes and their parents were: Abigail Ann Akin, Leslie and Kevin Akin; Katherine Ross Brown, Randy Brown and Susan Ross; Caroline Love Cameron, Laura Love and William Cameron; Bobbe Cooke Chaffin, Terre and John Chaffin; Madeline Coffey, Dixie and Kevin Coffey; Alley Elizabeth Cottrell, Amy and David Cottrell; Cameron Jones Collins, Anne and William Collins; Caroline Rachel Cox, Kathryn and Rusty Cox; Emily Ann Cox, Melinda and Paul Cox; Kendall Carrington Hall, Julie and Kirk Hall; Rosemary Elaine Joseph, Kim and Mike Joseph; Alexa Jane Lienhard, LeAnn and Paul Lienhard; Madison Rose Lucas, Debbie and Scott Lucas; Molly Rose Marso, Sally Buxton and Rod Marso; Jeanette Robison McCune, Barbara McCune and John Robert McCune; Rachel Claire Portman, Ruth Ann and Tom Portman; Sara Frances Roush, Roberta and Greg Roush; Delaney Elyse Robinson, Diana and Michael Robinson; Trinian Lark O'Neil, Lark T. Baxter and Michael O'Neil; Bailey Shannon Self, Tiffany and Shannon Self; Mary Katherine Tyler, Paul and Ann Tyler and Kacie Jane Webb, Jane and Mike Webb.
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A decade in Darfur: Call me Actcaritas
Seldom has a joint programme between aid agencies made such a personal impression on an employee, but the partnership of ACT Alliance and Caritas—Protestants and Catholics helping Darfur--struck a cord with an aid worker in the region. Here, he describes why he likes his nickname. My real first name is Abakar. But everyone calls me "Actcaritas." I like it. When I go to the camps for displaced people, they all call me "Actcaritas." My real name is lost. I am logistics fleet assistant. I buy diesel in the market and take it to the camps. We use it to run the water systems, so the people have water. We used to need 30 drums of fuel for all the camps. Now that the programme has built solar-powered water stations, we use less fuel. ACT/Caritas has supported NCA [Norwegian Church Aid] for a long time in Darfur. There were always very strong here. [...]
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By Laura Sheahen "When we first came here, we were getting water from the valley, seven kilometers away." Muhammad is a long-time resident of a camp in Darfur for people who fled violence. He remembers what it was like nearly a decade ago, when thousands of desperate people first arrived. "Farmers were settled closer to the valley, so we couldn't live where the water was. But when we went to get water, they helped us." Ten years later, hundreds of thousands of people remain in Darfur's camps. They'd like to go back to their villages, but until they can, Caritas-funded programmes are making sure they can live in dignity. 2013 marks 10 years of keeping vulnerable Darfuris alive and making their lives better. Water is one example of the progress that's been made. Muhammad's camp is on dry, dusty land—some thorn trees, scrub brush, and baobabs grow there, but not much else. [...]
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Haiti faces the futureBishop Pierre Dumas, president of Caritas Haiti, says education, care for the environment and the protection of people's socio-economic rights are essential to helping Haiti move forward and flourish following its devastating earthquake.
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Tide turns in Kreghané, ChadIn August 2011, when it stopped raining during the days of cultivation of the land, not all grain was sown. The amount of grain that grew during the following weeks was a lot less than during a normal year. Cornfields have also been plagued by the locusts just before harvest time.
The women's committee of Hadj al-Dérib in ChadIt is only natural that the women work together in the field in Hadj al-Dérib. All 120 women of the village are members of a committee, which takes care of the cultivation of various crops as well as the granary and the mill. Each committee has a president, a vice-president and a secretary.
New challenges for the people of Lake ChadBalama was a village once located on the shores of Lake Chad, in the east of the county. Since the 1960s, the lake has been greatly reduced. A changing climate and uncontrolled use of water for irrigated agricultures combined with population pressure, has led to the receding of the lake to 10 percent of its original surface.
Gaba's fields: drought relief in ChadThis year Gaba is fully engaged with the emergency assistance project of Caritas Switzerland and UNAD (Caritas Chad) that helps people from several regions of Chad who are severely affected by the drought. Help is mainly provided in form of food and new seeds.
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South Sudan became the world's newest nation on 9 July 2011. Twelve months later, we celebrate the achievements of the people and churches of South Sudan and of Caritas South Sudan and its Caritas partners in working towards peace and development. The challenge has been huge. South Sudan has started life as one of the world's poorest countries. A third of children do not see their fifth birthday, half the population lives in extreme poverty, only a third of people are literate. Millions of people were forced from their homes and now have started to return. They must build their nation from scratch. The road has not been an easy one. Conflict in the Nuba Mountains and Abyei has spiralled into serious humanitarian emergencies. Clashes between Sudan and South Sudan or with rebel fighters have taken lives and wreaked havoc on infrastructure like water systems, as well as education. Caritas has worked in partnership [...]


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I swim on average two hours a day four days a week during the school year, and this is my favorite practice suit. I wear size 26-28 for most suits, and I got a 26. It felt a teensy bit small the first few times, especially in the shoulders, but fits perfectly now after wearing it every practice for four months. Only downer is it fades quickly. The lining went from royal blue to faded purple in around two months. It's faded especially around the underside of my chest area and on my stomach, but it doesn't show anything. I love this suit, and I wear it for more than just practices, and all in all it's held up pretty well. I get tons of compliments, and I'm known among other teams as the "crazy suit girl". Well worth the money.
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If you ever find yourself inside Louisiana's Angola prison, Burl Cain will make sure you find Jesus—or regret ever crossing his path.
After more than a year of trying to get into Angola, I too turned to a lawsuit. In March 2010, the ACLU agreed to represent me on a First Amendment claim arguing that to keep government information from a reporter merely on the basis of what he's written is an infringement on press freedom. My attorneys asked for a listing of visitors the prison had welcomed in the previous year (not counting the everyday tourists). Without hesitation, Angola provided a 14-page list that included Miss Louisiana, the comedian Russell Brand, the Dixie Dazzle Dolls (a children's beauty pageant group), various groups of high school and college students, judges, representatives from gospel groups and film teams, scouts looking for film locations, criminal justice students, a former member of the Colombo crime family, a French attorney. Members of the media included a journalist from Switzerland; "Neal Moore, citizen journalist, who was canoeing the Mississippi River"; and a producer getting ready to film a "future movie/documentary on finding happiness." My attorneys dispatched one more letter to Cain urging him to grant me a visit. There was no response. But a month later, as the ACLU prepared to file suit in federal court, Fontenot wrote to them, inviting me down for a tour.
In his memoir, Wilbert Rideau writes about how tightly Cain controls his messaging—a practice that had grim consequences for the Angolite, once known for its investigative reporting. At a time when even outside journalists encountered increasing barriers to access at prisons nationwide—it's almost impossible now to interview an inmate, or even a staffer, at many state and federal prisons—the Angolite staffers found their calls monitored and their stories censored. "The only information coming out of Angola," Rideau says, "was what Burl Cain wanted the public to know."
When I asked Fontenot about this, she shook her head and told me that after he started winning journalism prizes and drawing attention from outside Angola, Rideau withdrew from prison life, spending all his time holed up in the Angolite offices. His celebrity, she thought, had gone to his head.
Or perhaps Rideau got on the wrong side of Cain by refusing to embrace the dominant story of the warden as Angola's savior, a narrative neatly summed up by prison chaplain Robert Toney in congressional testimony in 2005: Angola "was once the most violent prison in America. Today, we are known as the safest prison in America. This change began with a warden that believed that change could occur."
In fact, there is considerable evidence that the turnaround at Angola began two decades before Cain became warden, in the 1970s, when a prisoner lawsuit forced the facility into federal oversight and a series of reforms began. According to Burk Foster, a professor of criminal justice at Saginaw Valley State University in Michigan and the leading historian of Angola, by the mid-1980s Angola was already the most secure prison in the South. Prison violence is down dramatically across the country; the prison murder rate has fallen more than 90 percent (PDF) nationwide in the last three decades.
Yet the legend of Cain persists—and not just because Cain and his team (the formidable Cathy Fontenot included) are so skilled at PR. Cain does a job that no one else much wants to do, dealing with a group of people that no one else much wants to think about. Rather than face that reality, most of us prefer to believe in a miracle.
Aside from the high-level escort, my tour of Angola had covered pretty much what the tourists see, except for the closing lunch—Fontenot took me to the Ranch House, a sort of clubhouse where the wardens and other officials get together in a convivial atmosphere for chow prepared by inmate cooks. (It's traditional for Ranch House cooks to go on and work at the governor's mansion, but Gov. Bobby Jindal had spurned that tradition.) The house is built low, with a long porch and white board fence; we sat down to barbecue chicken, red beans and rice, and sweet potato pie, all of it quite good.
After lunch, I accompanied Fontenot to her office in the administration building. When we'd scheduled the tour, she'd promised me an interview with Cain provided he was at Angola when I visited, which she expected him to be. But when I asked, "Where's the warden?" she said matter-of-factly, "Oh, he's in Atlanta today."
On the way back over the line to the free world, I asked Fontenot whether the warden might consider talking to me on the phone. She suggested I follow up once I got home, and I did, thanking her for the tour and the fine luncheon. After several weeks and multiple inquiries—including a few questions submitted via email, at her request—I got this reply:
The warden respectfully declines to participate in this article. As he says often, its all of us at Angola that have caused the positive changes. Thanks again James. It really was a pleasure to meet you in person. Stay warm during these cold days of winter.
Much peace to you,
When I interviewed John Thompson, the exonerated death-row inmate, about his time in Angola, he mentioned what he believes is one of the public's biggest misconceptions about prisons. Most people look at the fence around the perimeter and think its purpose is to keep prisoners from escaping. But the barrier "isn't there to keep prisoners in," Thompson said. "It's to keep the rest of you out."
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LA CONCHITA - Mike Bell doesn't want to see any more crosses go up in this tiny seaside hamlet beneath a towering bluff of unstable dirt.
Four now stand atop the giant mound of earth that came crashing down a year ago, killing 10 people, destroying 13 homes and damaging 23 others.
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Defiant and resolute, Bell and other residents said they intend to stay put as they prepare to file lawsuits claiming Ventura County should be held accountable. The litigation could help clarify the hazy line between public responsibility and government accountability that has left La Conchita uncertain.
"The county feels as long as they don't burden the rest of the taxpayers, they figure they are clean," said Bell, 58, chairman of the La Conchita Community Organization. "The county should protect all of its citizens."
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