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On Tuesday, Missouri Governor Jay Nixon called for an end to using such incentives when companies simply move from one state to the other. In a statement, Governor Brownback says he has engaged in active discussion with Nixon about the issue for more than a year. He says talks also have included Missouri legislators. However, a moratorium may be a hard sell to some Kansas lawmakers. Paul Davis Names Jill Docking As Running Mate By Stephen Koranda • Oct 23, 2013 Democratic lawmaker Paul Davis has named Wichita businesswoman Jill Docking as his running mate in his bid for governor. In 1996, Docking ran unsuccessfully against current Gov. Brownback for a U.S. Senate seat. At a rally in Topeka Tuesday, Docking said her decision to run for lieutenant governor has nothing to do with past political races. She says reckless tax policies and cuts to public education are threatening Kansas' future. 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A Descant for Gossips
By Thea Astley
University of Queensland PressCopyright © 1960 Thea Astley
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Almost as long as Vinny Lalor could remember she had been on the fringe of things. Family and school both found her their least important member. They circled giddily without needing her. She was afraid, as she clung to the spinning edges of her world, that one day she would be flung unwanted and violently into space. Even the new season did not burst over her in a green flurry. Buds flocked along the adolescent trees, but she came, after her fourteenth winter, unmoved by the spring into the first week of the last term.
There was over everything, town and people, a dusty aridity, a breathlessness of rising temperatures and dry winds. Stolidly across the railway tracks the two pubs faced each other, roaring every evening until eleven with butterfactory hands come to cool off and to play snooker and pool in the rooms behind the bars. Spring came over the town with the poker and the beer and the starting-price betting all going on as usual, and as usual the bleary eye of the law turned in upon itself or lacklustrely courting the youngest of the maids in the farside pub. The clear sunlight in the daytime and at night the inspidity of starlight bathed both houses and shops with an equal uninterest, a flatness that pointed to no emotion behind the facades but made everything appear strangely two-dimensional.
Cruciform, the two main streets had as their pivotal point the school, both primary and secondary sections, and martyred along the town's four limbs were a score of shops and business premises and three times as many houses. There were other roads leading out to the mountain district around Cootharabah and there was the road that curled in across the Mary Valley, but over all the deathly stillness and quiet of that first yawn of near summer shimmered amongst the scrub box and the tallow trees. Spring paraphrased itself with shoots from sap rising in the hoop-pine forests to the west and the piccabeen palms and sand cypresses to the east; but here, centred in hills, valleyed below Bundarra, hammer-hitting the hard blue sky, there were only the new pastures, the sprawling paddocks of Rhodes and paspalum, green-squared between township and forest. What there was of spring in the lack-lyricism of the summer opening was known in seascaped detail to the black swans and cranes fifteen miles away over the wateracres of Cooroibah, but not to Gungee, and not to Vinny Lalor now moving through the motionless morning to her personal crucifixion at the town's heart.
An eight-thirty sun cut the shadows back into the hot grass. A butcher bird drew a swift and lovely arc from the crest of a red cedar into the roadside scrub. And there was nothing ahead of the girl dawdling towards the town but dust, sunlight, crimped trees, the downhill bush road and the uphill town one. She held her schoolbag in front of her, banging it one-two, one-two, with her knees as she walked, watching the wide dark blue strip at the bottom of her letdown tunic flap forward with each jerk. She hated it. And she hated the way her panama sagged and bubbled where the rain had caught it last winter. A universal spleen engaged her whole being with bitterness translated into kicks at stones, nudgings at schoolbag, and a scowl into the vibrant sun. Only one thing prevented her turning about and setting off home again with a plea of illness, and that was the fact that in her case was her special holiday essay, in planning and completing which she had felt an inexplicable delight. For days she had longed to hand it in to Mr. Moller, calculating grandly on his recognition of her genius, and subsequently her prestige (if not popularity) amongst her schoolfellows. For always, from the day when she had first attended school right up to her senior classes, she had been outside the group, position undesired but inevitable.
It seems that in the mob there is frequently the one shunned or suspect or unlovely in some very simple and irremediable way. And in this case it was Vinny. She was not a pretty child or even a particularly clever one. She was thin, pale, and red-headed. Her eyes were a peculiarly light grey and like her mouth they were nearly always unsmiling. But then she had little reason to smile. Glancing back beyond the safe family barricade of compulsory kindness, and discounting it, for she realised now its worth and its worthlessness, she saw in the uneventful years herself, when the skipping season was at its height, left endlessly turning the rope, while awaiting, wordless and patient, the briefest of turns. During the hopscotch and marbles seasons she was never able to find a sparring partner unless one of the spottier, plumper girls were temporarily out of favour. Only then did she find a nebulous kind of companionship, so tenuous she was always fearful of its ending, and barely enjoyed what she snatched. But too soon even this simulacrum vanished before the summer rounders with their unpleasant occasion for team selection which drove her unpopularity, her unlovableness home, as at every team choosing she was left wretchedly until last and then added grudgingly – a concession to numerical needs – as if her presence would bring bad luck to her side. 'I'll have Vinny,' was said, tight smile embarrassed. ('See, you others, I'm saddled with Vinny, but don't you dare think it's because I want her, see.')
Vinny kicked her case viciously, remembering past humiliations still close enough to hurt. She selected a jagged rock from the road edge and hurled it on to the footbridge from where it splashed into the narrow creek that half-circled the town. 'Warburton,' she said under her breath, and then, frightened of saying it because she had seen her mother beat the daylights out of Royce for using the word and because she had once suffered similarly, she quietly spelt 'B-I-T-C-H'. After that she felt much better and stayed hanging over the weathered hand-rail until the last circles on the water had melted into the creek margins.
She took the long way round deliberately, left under the railway bridge, then alongside the tracks past the Exchange Hotel, paint-peeling and tawdry. Of a part with it perhaps in its shabbiness, she sighed and hitched her bag into the other hand. Corner neat with chemist and drapery store flamboyant in summer silk led her on past newsagent and milkbar, sick under morning slops-suds-down-swept to gutter, wet patch ending raggedly before the grocer's territory of kerb took her dustily past the next paper-cluttered ramp. A dented utility angled in carelessly across the grass in the side street and backed towards the entrance of the bakery where Sid Ewers, butcher and beefy in stripes of blue and white, lounged in companionship big-muscled across the door, and sucked the last tobacco rags from his cigarette.
'Le boucher est gentil. Il nous donne de la viande,' Vinny said sourly under her breath, practising her second-best subject and her hatred together. She patted the side of her bag more to encourage herself as she turned in the school gate, and as every day, so today, first in a new term, she closed her personality into its narrow little room where year after friendless year it learnt to perfect the art of self-containment.
Between the technical block and the school proper was the scuffed grass rectangle where the senior pupils lunched and fooled from twelve-thirty till one-thirty or did last-minute 'crams' on the subject for the next period. Cicada-loud with voices, the stridulations of burly boys crashing their cases, it presented to Vinny and to the teetering fringes of giggling girls an equal enticement. But she walked away from the square with an almost cynical world-weariness, up the steps and along the open verandas splashed sun-hot between the spare forms to the girls' cloak room. Peg with name on sticky paper curling back from an area of dried gum marked the place for her hat, but the case had to be humped to the classroom and placed under desk or chair if there were room, or foot-obstructing in the passageway. Vinny dumped it for the moment on the bench that lined the wall below the hat pegs and, going to the bubbler in the corner, splashed water over her hot face and hands. While she was drying herself on a skimpy handkerchief, the bell sounded from the rear veranda, rung jocularly by Mr. Findlay as was his custom on the first day back, expressing cheerful irony for the discipline of the next fifteen weeks. Tirring-tring-tring, tirring-tring-tring, repeated with intervals, made into a tiny programme work with the dutiful smilings of the staff as applause, inciting encores of tirrings. Vinny stuffed her handkerchief down the front of her tunic, grabbed her bag, and raced back along the veranda and down the steps to the assembly ground guarded by flag, full mast, pennoned over coleus pots worked by the primary school and senior garden beds with not a thing to show except a few dusty geraniums.
Although she hurried, the lines were nearly assembled and straightening out when, breathless, she panted on to the tail end. Pearl Warburton whispered to her neighbour and moved away from Vinny as she stood beside her. Vinny pretended unawareness. She had pretended it for years; and with a sense of inner comfort she searched among the faces of the staff to discover the one face that was as kindly to her as it was to everybody, that smiled and was angry dispassionately: Mrs. Striebel, her head bent to conceal her laughter, stood behind Mr. Findlay and to his right, sharing a first-day joke with Mr. Moller.
The headmaster slipped into his diurnal role with the ease of one putting on a dressing- gown. (It fitted him as comfortably, too.) The greetings, the hopes for a pleasant holiday now over, the returning refreshed, the aspirations for a term well spent as the result of stimulating change – all the clichés dear to the educational process were there. Findlay knew, and the staff knew, that though the aphorisms achieved little, they were expected; they capped the moment – these references to God, the empire, duty, the home, children's obligations to parents. What amazed the staff was the enthusiasm that Findlay could bring to the banality, the shining from an inner source that radiated his face as he smiled down on his three hundred charges. Faces fresh or freckled or acne stippled all looked up at him in his transfiguration on the western veranda.
'Like the Sermon on the Mount,' Mr. Millington, the woodwork master, whispered.
Peroration ended, the bell was rung again, this time by the senior perfect, and to the vulgar crashing of a march from Miss Jarman, robust at piano and insolent in her treatment of the major keys, the whole school turned right or left according to position and marched raggedly to their rooms. Moller hitched his grey sports trousers up on his thick belly and strolled out to meet the senior class for English.
In their end room they faced him with grinning anticipation, awaiting the customary sapid remark that usually ushered in a lesson. It did not come. Confronted by the twenty polite faces, the wall maps, the 'suitable' watercolour prints selected by the school committee, he felt an overpowering boredom. Through the southern windows the scrubby stringybarks crowded down on the Imbil road. Not a house was in view. He gave the order and the class seated itself nosily, crashing back school-case lids in order to burrow through to their poetry texts.
'Silence,' Moller said, as he thumbed through his own book.
The September heat was warming the corrugated-iron roof above them in waves, corrugated also, it seemed. He wiped his forehead, his hands, and refolded his handkerchief with the streaked side inward. The class gaped expectantly. What was up? Where was the old Herc ready to have a bit of a joke? Rhonda Welch whispered to Pearl Warburton two desks away and was promptly reprimanded. Vinny watched him with an anticipatory expression only because of her essay. Moller saw the eager look on her face and wondered idly what caused it. He stifled a yawn.
'Open your books at the section on Brennan – 'O desolate eves'. And keep those holiday tasks closed! Howard will collect them at the end of the period.' He nodded shortly at a slim, handsome boy at the end of the front row. Howard turned and winked hugely at the class behind him, but Moller ignored the gesture and tapped impatiently on the table with his pen. Directly in front of him a gangling lad with untidy black hair was painstakingly turning the pages of his text one by one. Moller watched with exaggerated interest and class became very still as they looked on.
'Peters,' he said. 'Peters, must you?'
Peters stared back, lovably dense.
'Must I what, sir?'
'Expend such tender care on each page. Turn them, Peters, at least five at a time. The poem is on page sixty-three.'
The class laughed, relaxed, and settled back more comfortably. Moller nerved himself for the plunge into lyric poetry with a group of adolescents whose tastes were already fairly well formed by film and comic. He pushed his full lower lip out and then bunched it in over the upper; his hands were trembling slightly when they rested on the edge of the table, and he felt a sharp craving for a cigarette. Another yawn was rising in his throat. He waited until all heads were lowered to the books open before them, but he was not deceived by the external appearance of attention, for he knew quite well that although the eyes might be following the words printed on the paper, not one fraction of inner attention or interest would be being given by any of the pupils in the room except one or two. Distracted by a movement from Pearl Warburton again, he saw that she was scribbling a note on a tiny piece of paper. He smiled. He could not be bothered interfering – she was one of the pupils he liked the least. He could still remember a verbal skirmish they had had a year before when the arrogance of her attitude had prompted him to ask her her age. 'Old enough, sir,' she had said.
He commenced reading.
His voice had a peculiar resonance not really suited to poetry reading, but what it lacked by conventional standards was atoned for in the emotion he experienced in his reading and which in some miraculous way he managed to transmit, to the few children who really enjoyed his lessons and benefited by them. Intelligent phrasing and emphasis and a personal underlining of the poet's intentions all conjoined to achieve for the listener a wonderful congruity of reason and feeling. But in poems like this – little personal pain-spots – Moller knew that he transferred the writer's reactions to his own being and suffered in the translation. Even as he read to the deaf room, incredibly the longing swept into the quiet rivers of his blood for the old places and the time-lost evenings of twenty years before, sharp with friends' voices. What creatures budded out of this sudden pain laid bare, reason receding until he was only pain and once more forced to explore this unimportant love or that, familiar fray on still-remembered carpets, harsh tongues tasting his foibles. His present was pain with the past. It was all one thing – the wasting of café conversations in the student days and the weekly visits of squeezed-out talk with Lilian now. There was the group waving violently on the church steps – she had insisted on a formal wedding – and here were the empty rooms at night top-heavy with silence.
He paused after reading the last line and looked up at the class.
Warburton must have successfully delivered her note because he could see Betty Klee scribbling what he assumed was a reply. Howard had drawn an overdeveloped female profile in the margin of his book. Peters, right under his nose, had more juvenile tastes and had inked in every 'o' in the poem. He sighed, quite audibly, and the class took this as the signal to drop the pretence of concentration. They rustled with relief.
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Large U.S. stocks fell more dramatically last week than in any other week this year, as weakness in China, middling U.S. economic data, a drop in commodity prices and a terrorist attack in Boston spooked investors.
A week after the Dow flirted with 15,000, the index retreated. It ended the week down 317.55 points, or 2.1%, at 14,547.51. That marks the index's worst week since June 1, 2012. The S&P 500 fell 33.6 points, or 2.1%, to 1,555.25. The Nasdaq fell 88.89 points, or 2.7%, to 3,206.06.
There were few safe U.S. assets for investors to reach for—gold futures fell $105, or 7%, to $1,395 per ounce. Silver tumbled 13%. And 10-year Treasuries were basically flat, yielding about 1.71% at the end of the week.
The trouble started on Monday, after China reported that first-quarter growth in gross domestic product (GDP) decelerated to 7.7% from 7.9%; investors had expected the country to grow its GDP at a rate faster than 8%. That data, along with spotty U.S. economic reports, sapped confidence in a market that has been running on easy money and optimism.
"Put those factors together and you start to worry we're getting a replay of that movie we've seen the last couple years, 'The Summer Swoon,'" said Mark Luschini, chief investment strategist at Janney.
Luschini doesn't see a bear market coming, but he does see the bull taking a break. Earnings season simply hasn't confirmed the market's recent rise. Last week, some major companies released earnings reports that landed with a thud. IBM IBM -0.7238485683172122% International Business Machines Corp. U.S.: NYSE USD154.98 -1.13 -0.7238485683172122% /Date(1474664493149-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 2511996 AFTER HOURS USD154.72 -0.26 -0.16776358239772873% Volume (Delayed 15m) : 190157 P/E Ratio 12.537820564679233 Market Cap 148136698128.108 Dividend Yield 3.6133694670280034% Rev. per Employee 212467 More quote details and news » (ticker: IBM) fell 8.3% on Friday after reporting earnings below analysts' expectations for the first time since 2005. Bank of America BAC -0.5128205128205128% Bank of America Corp. U.S.: NYSE USD15.52 -0.08 -0.5128205128205128% /Date(1474664419958-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 50626018 AFTER HOURS USD15.53 0.01 0.06443298969072164% Volume (Delayed 15m) : 978406 P/E Ratio 13.385079775765416 Market Cap 158378497640.137 Dividend Yield 1.9329896907216495% Rev. per Employee 431596 More quote details and news » (BAC) stock dropped 4.7% on Wednesday as revenue fell at nearly all of its units.
"The market lift wasn't on the back of good earnings, it was on multiple expansion," Luschini said. "And now if we aren't getting follow-through on earnings, what's left to support the expanded P/E multiples?"
Luschini added: "I do think we're in the midst of a growth scare."
The slowdown may have actually begun last month. Since March 15, the S&P 500 has closed lower on more than half of all trading days, notes Michael O'Rourke, the chief market strategist at Jones Trading. "Concerns are rising that the sequester and the payroll-tax increase are starting to exert some influence."
It's not clear, however, that the market's slump this week is indicative of a sustained shift in sentiment. After Monday—the day China released its results and terrorists killed three people at the Boston Marathon—indexes traded flat for the rest of the week. The S&P 500 has held above 1538, a key technical support level, after briefly dipping below.
Earnings season continues next week, and the reports may be more accurate bellwethers for global growth. Caterpillar CAT -1.2694610778443114% Caterpillar Inc. U.S.: NYSE USD82.44 -1.06 -1.2694610778443114% /Date(1474664409574-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 3013027 AFTER HOURS USD82.47 0.03 0.036390101892285295% Volume (Delayed 15m) : 18506 P/E Ratio 44.32258064516129 Market Cap 48164006555.7398 Dividend Yield 3.7360504609412906% Rev. per Employee 395412 More quote details and news » (CAT) is set to release earnings on Monday. Apple AAPL -1.666375850636887% Apple Inc. U.S.: Nasdaq USD112.71 -1.91 -1.666375850636887% /Date(1474664400168-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 52080945 AFTER HOURS USD112.23 -0.48 -0.42587170614852277% Volume (Delayed 15m) : 400206 P/E Ratio 13.167056074766355 Market Cap 607331391067.71 Dividend Yield 2.0228906042054833% Rev. per Employee 1990500 More quote details and news » (AAPL), arguably less of a bellwether, will release its report on Tuesday. Durable goods orders are set to be released on Wednesday and first-quarter GDP numbers come out on Friday.
Luschini doesn't think investors need to go into a defensive crouch, although they may want to maintain a significant cash position. They should stay away from defensive stocks, like consumer staples, health care, and utilities, which have been bid up considerably. "They have very little valuation support," he says. Instead, it's worth taking a risk on cyclical industries such as materials and industrial and some technology stocks, which have lagged and could make a run in the second half of the year as economic data improve.
"They should be the beneficiaries of better global growth in the second half and [more] business spending," Luschini says, "if we see some sturdiness in the economy, which I do think is going to happen."
COMMODITIES LED THE MARKET lower last week, and companies dependent on commodity prices were punished in the selloff. Energy stocks in the S&P 500 fell 4.1% on the week, but not all suffered equally. Integrated oil companies, for instance, fell 2% to 3%, while several oil-service companies plunged more than 7%. Shares of service and equipment companies tend to fall harder when oil prices drop because investors worry that energy producers will call off projects and put the service companies out of work. Integrated companies, meanwhile, have a diverse array of businesses that can cushion the blow of lower commodity prices.
When stocks fall in tandem, regardless of fundamentals, opportunities often arise. "The crude weakness has led to widespread—and, in our view, indiscriminate—selling of oil-service stocks," wrote Sterne Agee analyst Stephen Gengaro in a note last week. "Interestingly, with over 75% of the U.S. rig count currently oil-targeted, we can at least understand the weakness in U.S. land-focused service companies as activity could be impacted if oil-price weakness persists. On the other hand, the rapid sell-off in deepwater names where activity levels are significantly more durable seems overblown."
Brian Lazorishak, co-manager of the Chase Mid-Cap Growth fund, says deepwater service and equipment companies tend to operate on longer-term contracts, and those contracts are unlikely to be canceled when the price of oil falls. "A couple of dollars' fluctuation in crude doesn't really change that," he says.
Lazorishak's fund has a stake in Oceaneering International OII -1.6399843811011323% Oceaneering International Inc. U.S.: NYSE USD25.19 -0.42 -1.6399843811011323% /Date(1474664418838-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 1429936 AFTER HOURS USD25.19 % Volume (Delayed 15m) : 983 P/E Ratio 17.13605442176871 Market Cap 2470131390.87067 Dividend Yield 4.287415641127431% Rev. per Employee 245415 More quote details and news » (OII), a Texas company with a $6 billion market value that makes equipment for underwater drilling. In particular, Oceaneering dominates the market for remotely operated vehicles, underwater robotic vehicles that are operated by people on the surface. The vehicles perform inspections of drilling and pipeline machinery that are often too deep for a human diver to reasonably inspect.
Since the Deepwater Horizon explosion in April 2010, demand for ROVs to complete safety inspections has jumped, as have Oceaneering's earnings. The company's earnings have grown at a cumulative rate of 16% in the past three years, but analysts expect them to grow more than 20% this year and next.
Oceaneering's shares fell about 7% last week along with other energy names. The stock now trades at about 18 times forward earnings; that's a premium to other oil-and-gas equipment companies, but it's justified by the company's faster growth rate. Oceaneering has regularly traded at more than 20 times future earnings estimates in the past year.
There are few indications that demand is slipping for deep-sea equipment. Oceaneering's subsea-equipment backlog grew by 78% in 2012. And rigs are proliferating in the Gulf: Schlumberger SLB -1.4154005973250228% Schlumberger Ltd. U.S.: NYSE USD75.92 -1.09 -1.4154005973250228% /Date(1474664409349-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 6782120 AFTER HOURS USD75.97 0.05 0.06585879873551106% Volume (Delayed 15m) : 65284 P/E Ratio N/A Market Cap 105581483635.204 Dividend Yield 2.6343519494204424% Rev. per Employee 314737 More quote details and news » (SLB) announced on Friday that the number of deepwater rigs in the Gulf grew by more than 30% year-over-year in the first quarter. Earnings growth for Oceaneering is "the most visible and durable" among its peers, Gengaro says. Companies pay about $10,000 per day to use a remote vehicle, and those costs don't tend to be the first ones they cut when oil prices fall.
Oil would have to drop to $70 for Oceaneering's outlook to change, argues Lazorishak. Crude futures fell to $88.01 on Friday.
BANKS HAD A VERY UNSEXY week as they released their first-quarter earnings results. "Morgan Stanley Slowly Approaching Its Goal of Becoming Boring," read the headline of a story on the website Dealbreaker last week.
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Tylertown, Mississippi 13.63 miles NE
Kentwood, Louisiana 13.89 miles W
Magnolia, Mississippi 17.01 miles NW
Mount Hermon, Louisiana (map) | (985) 877-4256
Sites: 200 | Latest Rate: $38.00 | 8 Reviews
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Jun 2012 - $38.00
We had a blast. This was our first trip with the 4-wheeler. The trails were great. The bands were very good and played Friday and Saturday nights. After the bands were finished, everyone honored quiet time. We did not hear another 4-wheeler until 8 am. It was a very family oriented environment. A lot for kids to participate in for the "redneck o-limp-hicks." The staff was very friendly and helpful. We would definitely recommend and return. - Rhonda C.
Jan 2012 - $40.00
Went here for the weekend to ride my ATV. It is a great place to camp and ride your ATV. The trails are a nice feature and you really get to ride your ATV while camping in a quiet place. There were not many people here when we camped. There are a few permanent residents in the park; however, there is tons of room. The owners are very nice and its a great place for star gazing or just relaxing. I would not go here if not for the trails for ATV riding. Its far off the beaten path, but nice. - pizota1313
Feb 2011 - $40.00
This is a fun campground with very friendly owners. The 4-wheeler trails are great and the mud pit is great fun. We have always had a good time at this campground. - crweigel
Franklinton, Louisiana (map) | (985) 839-5707
Sites: 81 | Latest Rate: $24.00 | 26 Reviews
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Feb 2016 - $24.00
This was our first time here. The park is very clean. We stayed in the Upland section. Very spacious sites, gravel pads but they were level. Great walking trails, a little tough to ride bicycles due to the hilly terrain. We would definitely stay here again. - KDplus2
Jan 2016 - $10.00
This is a nice clean park. The state park is 1700 acres and has 2 campgrounds, a water park, canoes, rafts, horses and 6 miles of walking trails. All areas are kept clean. The price is a Winter rate with a discount. If a person is from Arkansas or Delaware and have the America the beautiful card there is a 50% discount. All personnel of the park are very friendly. Great value. - goldwing2
Jan 2016 - $23.00
There are two different camping sites in this park. The first is the Upperland where we have stayed both times. The sites have full hook-ups (water, electric, sewage) as well as a picnic bench, fire grill and fire pit. From the Upperland you can get on some well marked trails that go around the park. Some of these trails can be used by horses. Coming into the park there was a sign that said you can rent horses. We didn't do this but it may be of interest to some.
Also, the Upperland is in walking distance to the meeting room, group camp, and a nicely kept frisbee golf course.
The main difference in the Lowerland is that the sites are older and only have water and electric (no sewage). However most of the sites are on with a lake or slow moving bayous which are quite picturesque. But bring your bug spray. Stagnant water breeds mosquitoes.
Lowerland is more scenic, Upperland more modern.
There are rolling hills and you really don't feel like you're in Louisiana when you're there. Staff is super nice. Excellent selection of games to borrow at the front desk.
We definitely will go again. - GearDown
Mccomb, Mississippi (map) | (601) 684-9568
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May 2014 - $17.00
This was a nice place but I dropped the rank because the showers on the end we stayed at had broken panels out of the door. The river was very nice. Just bring bug spray. The skeeters were huge. - Jesse Rodgers
Apr 2013 - $14.00
We hesitated to stop here when the latest review was several years old, but we thought we'd take a chance when we needed an overnight stop. The rate we paid was with the senior pass so I hesitate to complain. $14 for water and electric is not bad. It is clear this campground has gone downhill since the 2007 reviews though. The sites are dirt and all run together. There are not many that can accommodate our 40' size. There were overflowing garbage cans at each site. I will say that the young man working was very pleasant and helpful and seemed distressed that he couldn't get all the garbage picked up while attending to his other duties as well. He was all alone. If we were smaller, I think we'd probably use this park again in transit. Due to our size, I doubt we will. - Gypsy Turtles
Jul 2007 - $12.00
A real melting pot of a campground. Everything from tent campers to 40' fivers. From shirtless, tattooed guys to well dressed couples walking their dogs. If you do not mesh well with all types, this may not be your place. Lots and lots of beer drinking. If you want to let it all hang out and have a great time tubing this is your place. If you want a nice serene, quiet weekend with the kids as we do, try Percy Quinn State Park right down the road. Some turns in the C.G. are a little tight. We caught a rainy weekend. The gravel roads held up nice and standing water did not seem to be a problem. We did have a good time but we seem to get along with all types. - Cajun_A-Bear
Loranger, Louisiana (map) | (985) 878-6868
Sites: 225 | Latest Rate: $19.00 | 22 Reviews
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This is a horse ranch w/amenities. Pull thru level, hard packed site. FHU w/50A. Very peaceful, country setting. GPS took us right to it.
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We would stay again and ride the horses again. We were in a motor home. - D Curf
Mar 2015 - $44.00
Other than being a bit overpriced and not having the correct size sewer hookups on some sites, this place is very nice. Very gracious hostess that will lead you to your site. They have karaoke and horse back riding. We were in motorhome and had no problem getting in an out. Very peaceful and quiet at night. We really enjoyed our stay and will be back for sure. - BryanK.
Apr 2014 - $47.00
Upon arrival you will check in at the sparsely supplied camp store. The staff is very friendly and helpful in getting your RV to its spot. Most of the sites are grass or dirt, and unlevel. There are plenty of activities throughout the day, including horseback riding, swimming, fishing, and arts and crafts. The bath houses and pools are clean.
Dust is an issue here as there are no paved roads. The staff did water the road down one afternoon, which helped some.
It is somewhat expensive considering what other campgrounds offer for less money. However, my 4 year old granddaughter had a great time. - DSLACamper
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Coming in on a Saturday night we didn't have reservations because Mississippi requires you to book Friday and Saturday night. Worked out well as we got a senior discount and no reservation fee! Park is very pretty and the lake is beautiful. Bathrooms are air conditioned which seems to be rare in state parks. Showers were decent and had hot water. One of the toilets was left running all night and I never saw a camp host. My site was a little hard to back into as the roads were narrow. - Ocotillo
May 2016 - $20.00
I grew up camping here. only 8 miles from home. It is a great local attraction. - Mitch Dorr
Feb 2016 - $24.00
We've stayed here several times in years past. It's been a while since we were here last but we love this park. The park is nestled in the woods and the lake is beautiful. There currently is no fishing in the lake because it was just restocked after being drawn down for repairs on the dam. However, boating is still allowed. Fishing is supposed to resume in 2017. There is also a golf course on the property.
The staff is very friendly and there is a "camp store" in the campground that has the essentials for camping. I suggest taking a walk on the South end of the lake around the dam area. Very nice scenery. There are also cabins and group cabins for rent. There is a great seafood restaurant about 10 minutes North of the campground entrance called Mr. Whiskers. Very good food, friendly staff and good prices. Check it out.
We had 3 campers in our group and enjoyed the weekend. We cooked out, sat out by a roaring campfire, walked the property, and had a great time. - mike9767
Folsom, Louisiana (map) | (985) 796-3654
Sites: 65 | Latest Rate: $30.00 | 6 Reviews
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It is off the beaten path, and very quiet. They lost our reservation, but luckily there was not a crowd expected. Some of the long-term residents were odd individuals that made you feel creepy, but if we stayed on our side of the campgrounds they stayed on their side. It is not an RV park, meaning the sites are not clearly established, we were allowed to par nearly anywhere we wanted and at any angles that would allow our traveling party to create a space for us to gather. The few interactions with the staff were friendly. The town of Folsum and Covington nearby were friendly small towns to occupy your time in. We really enjoyed our trip to the area. - Cap
Jun 2009 - $25.00
Overall the campground was nice. Quite a ways off of the beaten path though. You have to go down 2 miles of gravel road to get there. There are some long term tenants which gives the park a less than pristine appearance but they are in an area to themselves. The sites are grass with no paving or stone, but the soil is very sandy so there is no problem with standing water. My brother and his wife and child were going with us to the Global Wildlife Center and were charged $18.00 to enter the campground. Their website states a $6.00 charge per person per day, but I didn't expect to be charged for coming to pick me up. Had a live band on Fri night, I caught the last of it but I thought it was pretty good - arfrancois
Apr 2009 - $38.00
It is a campground but the staff was really nice, the pool was clean, it was a genuinely fun time. The bath houses were not up to standard but it is a campground and is appreciated that it did have showers. More specifically, the showers were functional and clean when we got there but after a packed weekend they did not look safe to use. Probably more of the guests fault than staff. The river was cool. The facilities were fun. The band was good. Spent Easter weekend and had a good time. If you are bringing a $500K motorhome expecting a five star resort, you will be unhappy. If you are planning on going camping in a family enviroment with a nice staff and nice people, then you may want to give this place a try. Really good people in this area. Don't quote me on the price, I don't remember exactly how much. - fatback


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The Dancers' Den
THE DANCERS' DEN IS BACK with a new monthly dance in Oakland!!!
We have the privilege of having The Dancers' Den in the beautiful ballroom at the Oakland Asian Cultural Center. Jean and Bromley will be teaching 2 fun classes followed by a social dance with the live band Campbell's Jazz Soup playing some great tunes for us. Check them out at www.campbellsjazz.com. Please join us for our once a month dance!
2016 Dates:
Friday, September 16, 2016
Friday, October 21, 2016
Friday, November 18, 2016
Friday, December 9, 2016
7 – 8 pm: Intermediate Lesson with Jean and Bromley
8 – 9 pm: Beginner Lesson with Jean and Bromley
9 – 11:30 pm: Social Dance
@Oakland Asian Cultural Center
388 9th St #290
Oakland, California 94607
All tickets will be sold at the door. Cash only please.
$15 for Social Dance Only
$20 for One Class + Social Dance
$25 to take both Intermediate and Beginner Classes + Social Dance
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Beta Sextantis
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|Observation data
Epoch J2000.0 Equinox J2000.0
|Right ascension
|10h 30m 17.480s
|−0° 38′ 13.29″
|Apparent magnitude (V)
|5.0 to 5.1
|345 ± 42 ly
(106 ± 13 pc)
|Spectral type
|Other designations
|Data sources:
|Hipparcos Catalogue,
GCVS (v. 4.2, 2004)
Beta Sextantis (β Sex, β Sextantis) is a variable star in the constellation Sextans. Beta Sextantis is a blue-white B-type main sequence dwarf. It is approximately 345 light years from Earth. It is classified as an Alpha2 Canum Venaticorum variable and its brightness varies from magnitude +5.00 to +5.10. The period of this variability is unclear but may be around 15.4 days.
Photometric variability of some early-type stars, G. Mathys, J. Manfroid, and P. Renson, Astronomy and Astrophysics Supplement Series, 63 (1986), pp. 403–416. Abstract on ADSABS
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Marshmallow ballerinas Oh goodness - now, we've all seen cake pops, and we all know about what fun they can be for a party... so how about this for a theme, the ballerina party, complete with little marshmallow ballerinas!! We…
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Mark Trotter is a Research Lecturer in Precision Agriculture within the School of Science and Technology at the University of New England (UNE). Mark is a leading member of the UNE Precision Agriculture Research Group and CRC for Spatial Information. Mark's research interests focus on spatio-temporal variability in agricultural systems and the development of sensors and management techniques that enable producers to increase production and efficiency in the face of variation found in animals, plants and landscapes.
Mark has extensive experience in the application of autonomous spatial livestock monitoring systems having developed the UNEtracker GPS device. Mark has undertaken research in a number of fields including spatial monitoring of livestock in relation to landscape utilisation, behavioural modelling, shelter utilisation and disease detection. He also has experience in the development and application of remote and proximal biomass sensing devices with specific experience in the application of Active Optical Sensors to monitor pastures and grasslands.
Mark was recently awarded an Australian Government Department of Agriculture Fisheries and Forestry Science and Innovation Award for his work in spatial livestock monitoring. Mark is driven by the need to see research reach the end user and regularly works with producers to deliver industry relevant tools.
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- CRC for Spatial Information
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Barnes P., Wilson B.R., Trotter M.G., Lamb D.W., Reid, N. and Koen. T., The patterns of grazed pasture associated with scattered trees across an Australian temperate landscape: an investigation of pasture quantity and quality, The Rangeland Journal 33:121-130, 2011.
Taylor D.B., Schneider D.A., Brown W.Y., Price I.R., Trotter M.G., Lamb D.W. and Hinch, G.N., GPS observation of shelter utilization by merino ewes, Animal Production Science 51:724-737, 2011.
Lamb D.W., Schneider D.A., Trotter M.G., Schaefer M.T. and Yule I.J., Extended-altitude, aerial mapping of crop NDVI using an active optical sensor: A case study using a RaptorTM sensor over Wheat, Computers and Electronics in Agriculture 77: 69-73, 2011.
Trotter M.G., Lamb D.W., Donald G.E. and Schneider D.A., Evaluating an active optical sensor for quantifying and mapping green herbage mass and growth in a perennial grass pasture, Crop and Pasture Science 61, 389-398, 2010.
Trotter M.G., Lamb D.W., Hinch G.N. and Guppy C.N., Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) livestock tracking: system development and data interpretation, Animal Production Science 50, 616–623, 2010.


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'Most of those who have spoken here before me have commended the lawgiver who added this oration to our other funeral customs; it seemed to them a worthy thing that such an honour should be given at their burial to the dead who have fallen on the field of battle. But I should have preferred that, when men's deeds have been brave, they should be honoured in deed only, and with such an honour as this public funeral, which you are now witnessing. Then the reputation of many would not have been imperilled on the eloquence or want of eloquence of one, and their virtues believed or not as he spoke well or ill. For it is difficult to say neither too little nor too much; and even moderation is apt not to give the impression of truthfulness. The friend of the dead who knows the facts is likely to think that the words of the speaker fall short of his knowledge and of his wishes; another who is not so well informed, when he hears of anything which surpasses his own powers, will be envious and will suspect exaggeration. Mankind are tolerant of the praises of others so long as each hearer thinks that he can do as well or nearly as well himself, but, when the speaker rises above him, jealousy is aroused and he begins to be incredulous. However, since our ancestors have set the seal of their approval upon the practice, I must obey, and to the utmost of my power shall endeavour to satisfy the wishes and beliefs of all who hear me
(2.36) I will speak first of our ancestors, for it is right and seemly that now, when we are lamenting the dead, a tribute should be paid to their memory. There has never been a time when they did not inhabit this land, which by their valour they have handed down from generation to generation, and we have received from them a free state. But if they were worthy of praise, still more were our fathers, who added to their inheritance, and after many a struggle transmitted to us their sons this great empire. And we ourselves assembled here to-day, who are still most of us in the vigour of life, have carried the work of improvement further, and have richly endowed our city with all things, so that she is sufficient for herself both in peace and war. Of the military exploits by which our various possessions were acquired, or of the energy with which we or our fathers drove back the tide of war, Hellenic or Barbarian, I will not speak; for the tale would be long and is familiar to you. But before I praise the dead, I should like to point out by what principles of action we rose to power, and under what institutions and through what manner of life our empire became great. For I conceive that such thoughts are not unsuited to the occasion, and that this numerous assembly of citizens and strangers may profitably listen to them
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FRAME vs BYRNES MILL
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#41 Jun 22, 2010
Frame is a worthless hollow FAKE that can't earn his own credibility.
Saint Louis, MO
#42 Jun 23, 2010
I received something in the mail yesterday from Representative Frame. It was a pre-written letter to the Governor, asking him to sign Rep. Frames bill which restricts Byrnes Mills ability to annex any property in the future. I signed and mailed it immediately! Michael Frame knows what the people who elected him want and he's working hard to deliver it.
Saint Louis, MO
#43 Jun 23, 2010
I saw Frame's ad in the Big River Current and Jefferson County Leader showing how residents can go on-line and electronically sign this letter to the Governor.
In case you missed it, the website address is:
Rep. Frame appears to be working very hard to bring an end to the corruption, greed and abuse by the city leaders of Byrnes Mill.
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#44 Jun 23, 2010
Hasn't anyone told Frame the annexation is overwith? He needs to get a new story line.
#45 Jun 23, 2010
Ive seen the fancy mailings and the newspaper adds too. It says they are paid for by the Citizens to re-elect Frame. Its obvious this is the horse hes going to ride. I guess he has calculated the risk of writing off Byrnes Mill in exchange for the Byrnes Mill bashers vote. What a shallow and bias representative he is. It appears his votes are more important than improving community relationships.
I hope the Byrnes Mill voters remember this in November.
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#46 Jun 23, 2010
We need someone like Brian Haskins. He not only cares about his community he tries to improve it with his ownhard work. I'd vote for him.
Saint Louis, MO
#47 Jun 24, 2010
This annexation attempt may be over, but unless Rep. Frame gets Governor Nixon to his bill, Byrnes Mill will try it again in a couple years. Enough is enough and we've all had enough of Byrnes Mill! Keep working Rep. Frame - this community supports you!
Saint Louis, MO
#48 Jun 24, 2010
Hey Brian, get off the computer and get back to work. We've had enough of you too.
Saint Louis, MO
#49 Jun 24, 2010
Now, Byrnes Mill wants to improve community relations? Maybe they should have thought about community relations before they attempted this money grab, I mean, annexation.
#50 Jun 24, 2010
Actions have repercussions, my friend. Byrnes Mill city leaders need to learn this. You had your turn and failed. Now, it's our turn. I think Governor Nixon is going to sign Frame's bill.
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#51 Jun 24, 2010
This aint me!
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#52 Jun 25, 2010
So if state law is followed, you should expect repercussions only in Frames land. The city of Arnold also followed the law and has attempted 2 annexations of vacant land. One passed and one failed. For some reason their State Rep., Tim Meadows, didnt feel it necessary to put discriminatory restrictions on their city. Thats probably because Tim earned his credentials through hard work and didnt have to fall back on whipping boy tactics to get notiriety. Pevely is also following the law and is in discussions concerning annexation. I dont see their Rep. crying foul.
Do you realize we lost over 40,000 jobs in the area during the 4 years Frame has been in office? Is this what you would expect from a Union Rep. that he is? Im sure hell get right if we re-elect him for another 2 years. People need to look at his lack accomplishments and not be distracted with his Byrnes Mill diversion tactics.
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#53 Jun 25, 2010
Yeah, go to his site and dig in to these so called sponsored legislations. Click on the bill and check the calendar. Youll see none of his bills ever get on the calendar. Go through the years and youll see the same type of bill year after year. Especially the property tax limit for 62 and older and the vehicle sales tax exemption. How about HB 206 in 2007. This bill requires any passenger rail service to establish a suitable stopping location in the City of Pacific even if it is not economical for the rail service. Of course it never made it to the house floor it was only to gain votes from the Pacific area for his 2008 re-election. Read his bills and youll see there is no substance to them. Get educated on what this man has not accomplished. He is all smoke and mirrors. Since were posting web sites, heres one for his opposition this fall. http://www.paulcurtman.com/Site/Welcome.html
An educated voter is the best voter.
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#54 Jun 26, 2010
I also think Brian Hasins could make a good state rep some day. Keep him in mind.
Saint Louis, MO
#55 Jun 26, 2010
I guarantee the trailer will help the pd write more tickets on the highways not the byways.The city is desperate for funds hope the sign is placed on lower byrnesmill rd
Saint Louis, MO
#56 Jun 26, 2010
hello??? you said 2 annexations of vacant land quite different from land that has businesses on it ?????
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#57 Jun 27, 2010
By vacant I meant it had no residents living on the annexed property. Very similar to Byrnes Mills last exercise and exactly what Frame is trying to address. Arnolds Rep is probably more concerned with real issues than revenge.
Saint Louis, MO
#58 Jun 27, 2010
You want our State Representative to be more like Rep. Tim Meadows from Arnold? Is this the same Tim Meadows who was arrested for drunk driving last year? No thanks Larry, weve seen enough bad politicians to know when we have someone good. I dont think well be taking any recommendations from YOU! Were sticking with Rep. Frame.
Saint Louis, MO
#59 Jun 27, 2010
well then its obvious you dont think before you comment probably that way in person too will check into what you meant by VACANT are you THAT uneducated? vacant means nothing is there NOTHING do you consider the proposed annexation area in house springs VACANT? so no similarities there duh
#60 Jun 28, 2010
Your boy's not that perfect himself
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So what we're just here north of Fort Bragg and you know, a beach usually is flat, right? So but somebody had told us if there's a beach that has all these beautiful sand dunes. Now I thought lets go check that out. Sand dunes make beautiful pictures. Its kind of, the, it's middle of day though, and the light is, is not really cooperating so much, because it's, the sand dunes work really well when you have indirect light kind of coming at an angle. So I had some trouble right away trying to get the shot that I wanted, and I thought, okay, what can I do to these sand dunes to make them, you know, personalize them a little bit to make them more interesting.
So I put the camera in a tripod. And I said I'll just put myself into the frame. This is normally where I'd have my kids running around or my wife. But, in this case, I, I was the model. And, I, this camera, I can set it to do intervals, so that, I can, it'll fire on its own basically. I just set how much time for how long. other cameras, you can use self timer. I also have a remote wireless trip that I could trigger the shutter release, but the interval timer worked fine in this case. So I just set it for about 15 frames going every three seconds, and I started off by just running up the the sand dune.
I did run. I got a little out of breath. And just tried to play with adding some action, some motion to the sand dune. Then I started waving this red scarf I have again try to get some motion, some color into the shot. These are really, these are hard shots to get. they're really hit and miss. And I'm not sure I got anything that I really like. I've worked it really hard. I tried lots of different different angles, different dunes. Can't say that I didn't have a good time, but I, I'm not sure I got a really good shot till the very end and at the very end I thought, well maybe I should just relax a little bit and play with the whole idea of being in Endicino and this kind of you know this meditative climate that everybody seems to be so relaxed and happy in.
so I, just perched myself on top of a, a dune, and, wrapped myself in a, in the red scarf, (SOUND) and just, you know, threw up the peace sign. I think that's the (SOUND) It really, okay, you never know what you're going to get. (SOUND) I gave myself the kind of a ticket to do what I want, and play with it, and explore my creativity. that's okay. I mean, it's alright to do that. In fact, you really don't want to be judgmental when you come to a place like this.
You want to be open, and okay, at times I was getting a little frustrated. It is frustrating. When you look at the your display and you say, that's not what I'm trying to get. So I was getting a little bit uptight, I, I realize that. but ultimately, I know I've done this enough times. That that's just part of the process. That goes along with the creative process. There's going to be times when you're just going to say, I don't have it. I'm never going to have it. I, I give up. That's when you really just need to keep pushing, and keep shooting.
And in, in cases like that, when I'm really frustrated trying to get the shot, like when I was trying to do the, waving the scarf. in between those shots, I was also just taking snapshots, and shots of the, of the dunes, just regular shots. And, ultimately, I think I'm going to be able to get some nice shots out of those (SOUND) Now, there are sometimes, I wouldn't mind throwing my macro on, the macro-lens, it's 105 mm. But there's no way with that wind and that sand that I'm going to change lenses on this digital SLR unless I'm going to the camera store tomorrow to have my sensor cleaned.
And now, the day is going along pretty quick and we, we really don't have that much time left. And I really would like to stay and shoot some more pictures at the dunes but there's this really neat sea cave that I've heard about. And I want to get over there and, and, and try shooting there and, and see what I can get there. So let's, let's go over to the sea cave and see what we can get.
In this course, photographer Mikkel Aaland travels to Mendocino, a classic seaside small town in Northern California, making stops in Mendocino's Anderson Valley and redwood forests along the way. The course details the gear and shooting strategies involved in capturing the personality of a small town and, just as important, its natural setting and the people who live there. Throughout the course, Mikkel emphasizes the importance of putting your own creative stamp on your travel photos through the use of simple props, friends, or family members.
- Shooting along the way, from farm stands to redwoods
- Engaging with—and photographing—the locals
- Going beyond the postcard shot to personalize your photos
- Stopping at a bed and breakfast
- Shooting dunes, waves, and beaches
- Reviewing the photos from the road trip