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I met these fellas at one of the rodeo weekends at Angola Prison in Saint Francisville, Louisiana. In addition to the rodeo, the prisoners are able to sell the stuff they make throughout the year. It's kind of like a big macho craft fair.

There's a trust system in place. The most trusted inmates can interact and mingle with the visitors. The next level down can interact, but must do so through these fences. Most prisoners don't get to attend at all.

Cameras were not allowed at the event, but cell phones were, so I took the best sly photos I could.

Here's what I know about them:

- Co (on the right) makes jewerly from thin steel. Most of it features cartoon characters.

- He's convicted of armed robbery and is in Angola for 10 years.

- Derek is almost 40 years old and looks no more than 30. I wouldn't expect prison to have an anti-aging effect...

- He has been at Angola for 20 years, since he was 18.

- He was convicted of murder and is serving a life term.

- He used to live in Paducah, Kentucky.

That's it.

Olympe16 posted a photo:

Até o botão da asinha tem poá ,amo esses botões de poázinho....

Ovo frito de feltro...

super fofo!!!

È só por no natal,e guardar depois....rsrsrsrs...

Essa é uma encomenda pronta....
E vai com os gorrinhos de brinde....

Aleksander Markin posted a photo:

song by U2

Chinese Restaurant

Five people, one bike. This scene was captured in southern province of Huila in Angola.

Something pretty special.
The first photo I'm posting without titling it first, but I can't wait a month until I can afford my new computer before posting this.
Actually the special thing is that in this area of southwestern Rwanda this huge epiphytic fern is growing lithophytically on a vertical cliff wall (the photo is angled slightly from below).

This fern is probably native to most of highland tropical subsaharan Africa, south as far as Dondo in Mozambique, north as far as Sudan, west as far as Guinea, but excluding the low-lying Congo basin. In Rwanda these plants even grow in the capital city of Kigali, distantly high up on the old trees that line the old colonial roads. It is generally a high-level epiphyte in dry forest, at altitudes from about 350m up.
I have gone through all the observational/collection records at the GBIF, including under its synonyms P. angolense & P. velutina, and this is actually the only record I know of proving a Rwandan distribution of this species. The countries it is known to be native to are listed as tags to the right of the photograph. I used the GBIF, but also the origins of the original types used to describe it and its synonyms (Kew, Aluka), and also the observational records in Kew's Flora Zambesiaca.
In these countries a distribution is to be expected, but I can not attest at this time: Ghana, Togo, Benin, and Equatorial Guinea.

Here's the site that helped me to ID this: www.platycerium.co.za/p__elephantotis.htm

It was high time I uploaded some capoeira shots! Usually I don't take my camera along to the traininings because I prefer to play, but this time I found some time to take pictures - and here is one of them. More to follow soon. This is Luna, a Brazilian girl who came all the way from Paris just to play with us. Here she is playing the atabaque after a nice game in the roda. Nice to meet you, Luna, thanks for coming! Obrigado por ter vindo!

Taken during the capoeira angola workshop with Mestre Poloca organized by Capoeira Angola Warszawa (Warsaw, Poland) in November 2009.

Lake James is our most popular lake. Pokagon State Park offers beachfront lodging at Lake James.

Great small town charm

A view from the toll road with a peak of Steuben County's 101 lakes, Angola, Indiana.

Glorious Monument Circle welcomes tourists and residents to Steuben County. Pictured is Historic downtown Angola, Indiana. Come visit!

2-Movie Theatres & Mitchell's fine clothing...a small taste of Angola's charm

A cheerful young Angolan refugee takes a break from classes in Zambia.
UNHCR / L. Taylor / April 2000

UNHCR uses food to boost class attendance in camps for Angolans

LUSAKA, Zambia, November 19 (UNHCR) – The UN refugee agency, with technical support from the World Food Programme (WFP), has embarked on a school feeding programme to increase classroom attendance and reduce malnutrition at two settlements for Angolan refugees in Zambia.

The programme was launched earlier this month in Meheba and Mayukwayukwa in north-western and western Zambia. The two settlements have a combined refugee population of about 25,000. Most buy or grow their own food, while WFP continues to assist some 3,000 of the most vulnerable.

The number of people still receiving food rations was cut from 15,000 last year to the current 3,000 in a bid to promote self-sufficiency among the refugees, many of whom have been living in the settlements for some four decades.

But UNHCR subsequently noticed a drop in school attendance as families weaned off the assistance sent their children out to help grow or search for food, rather than attend classes. Figures for 2008 showed total enrolment at 45-65 percent, depending on the time of year, and a drop-out rate of 10-25 percent.

There are currently some 3,500 children of school age in Mayukwayukwa and 5,500 in Meheba. But UNHCR figures show that only about 6,000 are regularly attending school. The aim is to ensure that all 9,000-10,000 children attend classes.

Under the programme, UNHCR has supplied stoves and kitchen equipment to 14 primary schools in Meheba and eight in Mayukwayukwa and will regularly deliver enough ingredients to provide one meal of porridge a day to 6,000 children. The programme is due to last six months but UNHCR hopes to find funding to extend this.

"We want to make sure all refugee children have access to education at all times and the provision of food will promote attendance at schools in the two settlements. This school feeding programme will also assist in improving the overall nutritional status of refugee children," explained Kristine Hambrouck, UNHCR's senior programme officer in Zambia.

"We have a lot of children coming forward," she said, while adding that drop-out rates were normally higher at this time of year, when the rainy season starts and there is little farming.

WFP has provided technical support, including the food procurement. It also facilitated the training of cooks from among the refugee community.

By Kelvin Shimo in Lusaka, Zambia

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