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Meditation means different things to different people, and there are many ways to do it. This topic focuses on a kind of meditation called mindful meditation. This practice may help you relax and relieve stress.
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Anspaugh DJ, et al. (2011). Coping with and managing stress. In Wellness: Concepts and Applications, 8th ed., pp. 307–340. New York: McGraw-Hill.
Freeman L (2009). Meditation. In L Freeman, ed., Mosby's Complementary and Alternative Medicine: A Research-Based Approach, 3rd ed., pp. 158–188. St. Louis: Mosby Elsevier.
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A blog to compile what I have learned (and what I am learning) about Mandriva (and GNU/Linux in general) since 2009, when I migrated. Current distros I'm using: OpenMandriva Lx 4, Mageia 7, PCLinuxOS, MX 19, PicarOS, Elive 3, and AntiX 13.
sábado, 5 de febrero de 2011
Don't give Linux to your mother
Of course, many readers might be expecting (if not demanding!) an explanation for my position. Well, let me spare you all the boring reasoning; instead of that, I am going to give you an illustration in the form of an anecdote which I believe will suffice.
My fifty-something mother, who had never used a computer until three years ago, took a course on Windows and MS Office and, as she grew confident with her new skills, she bought herself a nice computer. However, despite all the time and money invested on her courses, she could not advance in her computer usage because she would constantly get the familiar error screens that Windows gives to those who trust Microsoft, not to mention the common virus infections that made the machine act funny. It goes without saying that the episodes would normally end with her justified frustration ("I did not cover any of this in the course!") and our visit to her house to fix the problem...time and again.
Then my brother got truly fed up and installed Pardus Linux (Anthropoides Virgo, I think) onto her hard disk in 2010. The reaction was instantaneous: after a minor resistance on her part, the calls concerning computer problems dropped to almost zero. One of her last calls was to tell me that she was proud because she had been able to burn an MP3 CD using K3b. I felt really happy for her because she had terrible problems trying to do the same in Nero.
But here comes the most remarkable thing: since viruses were no longer a problem, she got an ASDL connection to the Internet last January 10. Everything went off quite nicely until two weeks ago. We got a phone call: something had happened to the modem and she could not log in. It turned out that it was an ISP problem, so they sent a technician to solve the situation and...the guy had never seen Pardus Linux! He was extremely surprised because a woman her age was using Linux, an OS that is supposed to be horribly hard to use.
My mother told me that the technician spent some extra time trying to configure the modem, but he succeeded and went away proud because he could...(wasn't Linux impossible to use?)
When I saw the computer, the guy had messed up with Plasma and deleted some applications from the lower panel, too; he also threw the desktop icons to the garbage bin and resized the screen size. To sum up, "no puppet kept its head", as written in the Quixote.
Returning the computer to its normal state was a matter of 15 minutes and my mother said "It's because Linux is easy". Well, she is right. In fact, Pardus 2011 is even more user-friendly. So is SimplyMepis. And Mandriva 2010.2 is easy too, according to this article.
Therefore, do not give Linux to your mother or father. They might end up loving it, learning what they never could and, worst of all, putting an unsuspecting technician accustomed to Windows to shame.
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It's great that your mother is finding Linux so easy. Also, I'm surprised that the ADSL technician actually agreed to solve the connection issue in Pardus; usually they throw their hands up and say "We only support Microsoft Windows" and walk away. Finally, with regard to messing up Plasma, wouldn't it have been better if the widgets and stuff were locked so that couldn't happen? Anyway, it's always good to see stuff like this.ResponderEliminar
a Linux Mint user since 2009 May 1
- Anónimo6 de febrero de 2011, 2:12
I have a solution.ResponderEliminar
On Linux system I always create a guest user named Tech officer. Nice little account that resets itself when logged out. Prevents tech stuffing up the normal user interface.
I am sorry to say most techs on Linux get into trouble.
The We only support Microsoft. Answer come back with you laptop. Of course that costs them time and they normally try Linux to save explaining to boss why the double trip.
Lot of ISP use Linux internally so explaining why you could not use a Linux machine can get you into big trouble and block you from possiblity of promotion.
My mother-in-law, living in another country, has been using Linux for about 5 years. We went visiting here and as a test I brought with me an old IBM PC with a decent Intel P4 CPU, and installed was BLAG 5000.ResponderEliminar
Everything went smooth, except that she forgot how to correctly shutdown the computer and hence for some months made a hard shutdown. Then it was time for a Internet connection, and about that there's a funny story.
The guy from the IPS company came. The Gnome interface made him very insecure and he didn't know what to do. Before I the opportunity to talk to him by phone he made a very weird attempt to configure the network. He saw an icon on the desktop, "Windows 2000", which was a shortcut to a virtual machine run through Qemu with acceleration, and by instinct he saw salvation. He started the virtual machine and from there he tried to configure the network! I did help him, but my mother-in-law told me that the guy before departure offered her to install a pirated XP. She denied the offer with a response that "Linux is better".
For the last three years she's been running Arch with KDE4. OK, I'm the reason it's Arch nowadays, not that she has become particularly good at computing. Still, no problems that hasn't been possible to remotely solve.
Where do these guys from IPS companies come from? Sometimes I get the impression they got the job on merits of being able to play WoW 24/7.
You are allways an interesting writer... continue if possible it is good to read about " Linux " with a particular prospettive... Linux it is How -To and other considerations too!!!ResponderEliminar
I like so much " how to write " continue .... !!!!
@ PV,ResponderEliminar
The widgets were locked. The technician discovered how to unlock them...I am still wondering why he did all that if the problem had to do with the login, which is accessed with a browser. By the way, Mint is great, isn't it? ;-)
@ anónimo,
Good suggestion,thanks! Although the guy should have already told his peers that something is lurking in my mother's house. Hahaha, my mother must be a legend by now!
@ Kim Tjik,
Your anecdote is very good, thanks for sharing!
When I stop chickening away from text-based installs, I'll give Arch a try. About your question, yes, the Only-Windows-supported answer shows their incompetence. Of course, employers have their share of shame, too.
@ yunanideniz,
Thank you for reading and, above all, for the invitation you sent to your blog. I enjoy your writing although sometimes I get stuck with the Italian, but it's good reading and a great language practice!
- Anónimo6 de febrero de 2011, 11:34
That was a nice story. If mummy can do it we all can do it, is the bottom line. I've never used Mandriva and wonder what reason there can be to switch from OpenSuse to Mandriva? I've installed Mandriva but never used it. I always go back to the usual suspects: Fedora, Ubuntu and Opensuse. Perhaps there is somebody who could convince me to use Mandriva because it looks quite nice.ResponderEliminar
@ anónimo,ResponderEliminar
Thanks. Actually, I have read many times that "Linux is not ready for Mom and Dad" that I wanted to share this story because the assumption is simply a fallacy.
About using Mandriva... well, if you feel satisfied with your distro, I see no point in changing. However, I do acknowledge the fact that Mandriva has gotten a lot simpler today than it was when I began using it (Mandriva 2009.1). Its control center is a great tool, too.
- Anónimo6 de febrero de 2011, 13:12
The way I see it, if daddy can do it, then we all can do it. I also have a computer illiterate brother. And both my uncles can hardly switch on the PC let alone confidently use it.ResponderEliminar
That solution of creating a guest account for the technicians is BRILLIANT!ResponderEliminar
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Well, after being a Democrat for over 35 years, I left because of the lefts stand on illegal aliens. But you notice that isn't mentioned in this article. They rarely mention illegal immigration as being a reason for Democratic flight. Maybe I'm the only one who left because of it. Maybe not!!
Capitol Hill's Dysfunction Long in the Making
How did it get this bad on Capitol Hill?
Why does Congress barely function today?
The legislative branch of the world's most powerful nation is now widely scorned as it lurches from one near-catastrophe to the next, even on supposedly routine matters such as setting an annual budget and keeping government offices open.
Congress is accustomed to fierce debate, of course. But veteran lawmakers and scholars use words such as "unprecedented" to describe the current level of dysfunction and paralysis. The latest Gallup poll found a record-high lack of faith in Congress.
There's no single culprit, it seems. Rather, long-accumulating trends have reached a critical mass, in the way a light snowfall can trigger an avalanche because so many earlier snows have piled atop each other.
At the core of this gridlock is a steadily growing partisanship. Couple that with a rising distaste for compromise by avid voters. Unswerving conservatives and liberals dominate the two parties' nominating processes, electing lawmakers who pledge never to stray from their ideologies.
Instead of a two-party system, American government has become a battle between warring tribes, says Mickey Edwards, a former Republican congressman from Oklahoma who has taught at several universities. When House and Senate leaders set out their goals and strategies, he said in an interview, "it comes down to the party first," with the public's welfare lagging behind.
The parties have driven all but a few centrists from their ranks. House districts are ever more sharply liberal or conservative because both parties collude in gerrymandering to protect incumbents and because mobile Americans like to live among like-minded people.
For many Republicans, the biggest threat to re-election is from their party's right flank. For Democrats, the danger is being insufficiently liberal.
"The problem in a nutshell is that most members are more worried about their primary election than the general election," said former Rep. Tom Davis, R-Va., now a campaign strategist. "They ask themselves, 'Why should I go out and be the next Bob Bennett or Mike Castle?' So they become very averse to compromise."
Bennett, a three-term Utah senator, and Castle, a former Delaware congressman, were veteran GOP lawmakers who unexpectedly lost Senate nominations last year to tea party activists who had denounced them for occasionally working with Democrats.
Some Washington insiders thought the downgrade of the nation's credit-worthiness, which followed last summer's bitter battle over the government's borrowing limit, might shock congressional leaders into ending their brinksmanship. But just days ago, a relatively minor disagreement over disaster aid money brought new threats of a government shutdown. Also, many lawmakers are deeply pessimistic that a special bipartisan committee can develop a viable plan this fall for sharply reducing the deficit.
Interviews with current and former lawmakers, congressional scholars and others point to several events that have tangled up Congress that lawmakers barely can keep the government's lights on, let alone tackle big problems such as illegal immigration and soaring health costs. They include:
—political realignment. Years ago, Southern conservative Democrats often worked with GOP lawmakers, and "Rockefeller Republicans" joined forces with moderate and liberal Democrats. Now, except for black enclaves, the South is overwhelmingly Republican. Liberal Republicans hardly exist, and even "moderate" Republicans face intense criticism from tea partyers and others.
—The 1994 Republican revolution. The GOP ended four decades of House minority status when Newt Gingrich of Georgia led an insurgency that would change Congress' way of doing business.
"He greatly increased the party-versus-party polarization," Edwards said. Republicans saw their mission as "less to be a lawmaker than to be a champion of the Republican cause, constantly at war, defeating Democrats."
When Democrats regained the majority for four years starting in 2007, they did not bring back the days of letting the minority party offer alternative bills. In fact, the House minority now plays a vastly diminished role, and both parties spend huge energies trying to gain or hold the majority.
—Cultural shifts. Unlike two and three decades ago, most lawmakers now keep their families back home, and many spend as little time in Washington as possible. They rarely socialize or talk politics across party lines, further discouraging compromise.
The media world has been reshaped by a decline in traditional, straight-news outlets and the rise of opinionated blogs, cable TV shows and talk radio. Republicans "live in mortal fear of Rush Limbaugh outing anyone" for being insufficiently conservative, said Rep. David Price, D-N.C., a former Duke University political science professor.
Rep. Jim Cooper, D-Tenn., in one of several essays on Congress' decline, writes that "Fox and MSNBC ... certainly inflamed partisanship." Social media, he says, has "popularized nonfact-based reality."
Changes occurred in the Senate too. The powerful filibuster tool was used sparingly throughout most of the 20th century. But both parties now routinely employ it, enabling the minority to block almost any bill if its members stick together.
—Money's role in polarization. New laws and tactics have steered millions of campaign dollars to interest groups on the far left and far right, and they spend it to defeat candidates they oppose.
"The voters bear some blame," said Davis, the congressman-turned-strategist, noting recent elections in which the greatest energies were on the edges, not the middle.
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If you're sick, does that mean you don't have enough faith in God?
According to some Christians, we shouldn't ever be sick. If we ever are sick, it represents a failure on our part.
We haven't had enough faith, they may say, for if we had perfect faith, God would heal us.
Some would see going to the doctor as a sign of bad or weak faith.
It would be nice if we could be healed, instantly, of any sickness or infirmity.
It would also be a great evangelization tool, if people saw Christians never got sick.
But the fact is that God allows sickness in our lives.
In fact, I've been sick for the last week with a bad cold, but I'm feeling better.
At least I'm feeling enough better to make this video, and I thought I'd to one about sickness.
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Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories was the first Grand Theft Auto game released for the PlayStation Portable. Set in Liberty City in 1998, it is a prequel to the events of Grand Theft Auto Advance and Grand Theft Auto III. The game was later ported for the PlayStation 2.
There are several stories in Liberty City. This one changes everything. Once a trusted wise guy in the Leone Family, Toni Cipriani was forced into hiding after killing a made man. Now he's back and it's time for things to be put right.
The streets of Liberty City are in turmoil. Warring mafiosi vie for control as the town begins to self-destruct under waves of political corruption, organized crime, drug trafficking and union strikes. No one can be trusted as Toni tries to clean up the mess of the city's chaotic underworld. Deranged hit men, morally depraved tycoons, cynical politicians and his own mother stand in his way as Toni tries to bring the city under Leone control.
Forced to fight for his life in an odyssey that will shake Liberty City to its foundations, Toni must use any means necessary to secure his place in the leadership of the Leone family in a town up for grabs.
Liberty City in 1998
At this earlier time in the GTA lineage, Liberty City is slightly different. For example, Luigi Goterelli's Sex Club Seven is named Paulie's Revue Bar, and is instead owned by Joseph Daniel O'Toole, a pervert working for the Sindacco Family (from Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas), although the player sees how it later becomes Sex Club Seven. There is also a Little Italy section of town that does not exist in the Liberty City from GTA III, although its fate is explained in this game. Even the tallest tower in Liberty City in 1998 is only half of its height is compared to GTA III. The way to get from island to island has also been tweaked. A ferry now runs from Portland Island to Staunton Island, and the tunnel that connects the islands in GTA III has not yet been completed - only the section of the tunnel that runs from north Shoreside Vale to south Shoreside Vale is open. The Callahan Bridge (the bridge that was blown up in Grand Theft Auto III) has also not been fully constructed yet. Only after the mission "Driving Mr. Leone", which occurs at around 19% completion, you can actually traverse the bridge as its construction progresses. In addition, motorbikes were previously permitted in the city. The official Liberty City Stories websites reveal that motorbikes were no longer in GTA III due to a public ordinance that banned them that was supported by the Maibatsu Corporation (which marketed the oversized Maibatsu Monstrosity in GTA III) in order to promote the use of automobiles in the city.
Grand Theft Auto series
1961 – London 1961
1984 – Vice City Stories
1997 – Grand Theft Auto
1998 – Liberty City Stories
1999 – Grand Theft Auto 2 (Possible)
2000 – Advance
2008 – Grand Theft Auto IV
2013 – Grand Theft Auto 2 (Possible)
2013–present – Grand Theft Auto Online
See Liberty City.
See Vehicles in GTA Liberty City Stories.
See Weapons in GTA Liberty City Stories.
See Characters in GTA Liberty City Stories.
See Safehouses in GTA Liberty City Stories.
Major Gangs
Minor Gangs
On the PSP, character movement is controlled using the analog stick and the D-pad being used to cycle through the available weapons. The Select button changes the camera mode. To target an enemy, the player holds the R Button and can then cycle through targets using left and right on the D-pad. While in a car, the L and R Buttons can be used for drive-by shootings. While in the midst of a mission, all enemies (that is, those directly relating to the mission) are indicated on the radar by red dots. In the game's menu, the player can choose to reverse the functions of the analog stick and D-Pad.
The PlayStation 2 version of Liberty City Stories combines various gameplay mechanics from the PS2 versions of Grand Theft Auto III, Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, and Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. Camera control is similar to that of San Andreas, while on-foot movement and gunplay are closer to III or Vice City. However, third-person free-aiming is available in Liberty City Stories, which is used in San Andreas.
The PSP version of Liberty City Stories has a multiplayer mode, for up to 6 players through wifi ad-hoc mode (same area). The game features 7 modes of wireless multiplayer gaming, in which various pedestrian and character models from the single player mode are available as player avatars. Rockstar removed these modes from the PS2 port of GTA Liberty City Stories.
The first is Liberty City Survivor, a tie-in to the radio advertisement found in GTA III of a fictional reality television show of the same name. In Liberty City Survivor, players fight for themselves in a deathmatch. The first player to reach a certain number of kills, or with the highest score when the timer runs out is the winner. Players can also play in teams, or "gangs". Ultimately players will be able to choose from over 60 different characters, and play on all three islands, depending on progress through the single player storyline, but from the get go, it is limited to Portland with a generous nine characters to choose from.
The second mode of play is Protection Racket, in which players attack an opposing player's gang base in order to destroy four limos while the other gang tries to protect its limos. When time runs out, or a gang destroys the other gang's limos, a new round begins with the gang roles reversed.
In Get Stretch, players try to steal the other gang's gang cars from their base and take it to their base. The game ends when a gang reaches the score limit or time runs out.
In The Hit List, players have to kill the Marked player as quickly as possible. Survive as long as possible when you are the Mark. In the first round, one player will be chosen randomly as the Mark, all other players must try to kill the Marked player as quickly as possible. Once a Marked player has been killed, a different player will be randomly chosen to be the Mark. Making a successful kill on a Marked player will award you with extra time that is added to your survival time at the end of the game. Once all players have been Marked and killed, the player with the longest survival time wins. The Marked player's vehicle will take damage over time.
In Street Rage players must drive through the checkpoints to get to the finish line first. Players are allowed to change vehicles and shoot other players to win the race. Players will be automatically re-spawned in a vehicle on the track after a short period of time if they do not have a vehicle or if they have been killed. The player that finishes the race first wins. The Sticky Tires powerup improves vehicle handling for limited time, while Instant Repair is just that, an instant repair for your vehicle.
The Wedding List is a free-for-all game where players must collect cars scattered throughout the city and deliver them to shipping crates. Only players in the vehicles to be collected will know the destinations of the shipping crates. Cash is awarded based on the condition of the cars when they are delivered. Once all the cars have been collected and delivered, the player with the most cash wins this game mode.
In Tanks for the Memories players have to be the first to the tank and try to survive the target Tank Time. Other players must try to destroy the tank before the Tank Time is reached. If this happens, the player who caused the most damage to the tank will occupy a new tank and, as before, it must be destroyed as quickly as possible. This continues until a player reaches the Tank Time; this player is declared the winner.
Liberty City Stories features ten radio stations, which comprise a mix of both licensed music and tracks created specifically for the game. The ten radio stations are as follows:
- Lips 106
- Head Radio
- Rise FM
- The Liberty Jam
- Flashback FM
- Radio Del Mundo
- Double Clef FM
Custom Soundtracks
A special feature (only in the PSP version of the game) is the ability to listen to custom soundtracks. Previously, only Grand Theft Auto games on the Xbox and PC were able to implement custom soundtracks. When Liberty City Stories was released, the custom soundtracks option was featured in the "Audio" section of the menu (by pressing Start in gameplay) but did not have any use. Many people posted on various internet forums asking how to use the feature. At one time, it was thought that these custom soundtrack abilities had to be unlocked, but this would have been very unusual since previous games didn't do this.
A few days after release of the game, Rockstar placed the application called "Rockstar Custom Tracks v1.0" on the official site under the "Downloads" section. This then gave people the chance to use the custom soundtracks feature. The application appears to be based on Exact Audio Copy.
In the application, songs from a CD are ripped, compressed, and converted to files that can be read by the game. Because Rockstar Custom Tracks (RCT) only allow the ripping of songs that are from a store-bought CD, burning your downloaded songs onto a CD won't work. The only way to bypass this restriction is to use iTunes to put your music on a CD, as RCT recognizes iTunes-burned CD's as store-bought CDs. This was met with much criticism among the fan community. However, fans have found a way to compress and convert MP3 files that are not burned onto CD's. RCT can also look up and use the names from the FreeDB server if there are no names for the song(s). There must be at least one save file in order for RCT to work. It is thought that this will be used for other games Rockstar will release on the PSP from the name. More details can be found in the PDF in the file downloaded from the official site.
Tips & Tricks
See Cheats in GTA Liberty City Stories.
External links
Official sites
- http://www.ammunation.net – Ammu-Nation, the ingame munitions store chain.
- http://www.lips106fm.com – Lips 106, one of the ingame radio stations.
- http://www.electronzoneradio.com - Electron Zone Radio, a segment on Liberty City Free Radio.
- http://www.crowfest98.com - Crowfest '98, Crow's music festival on its way to Liberty City.
- http://www.pauliesrevue.net – Paulie's Revue Bar, a strip club in the Red Light District.
- http://www.citizensunitednegatingtechnology.org (also .com) – Citizens United Negating Technology (CUNT), an organization revealing the evils of the Internet
- http://www.bathtubginstill.com - Old Horsey Bathtub Gin Still.
- http://www.pastmaster-game.com/ - PastMaster, an educational game.
- http://www.itsvivisection.com/ - Vivisection, a boardgame/chemistry set.
- GTAPSP.com
- GTAPortable.com
- GTALCS.net (The GTA Place)
- GTALibertyCityStories.net (GTANet)
- GTAForums.com (GTAF)


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69 RV Sites, 15 Tent Sites, 69 Full Hookup, 69 30 Amps, 69 50 Amps, 24 Pull Thru, 65 Extended Stay
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Bathhouse / Restrooms, Hot Showers, Laundry, LP Gas by Meter, LP Gas by Weight, WiFi
Fishing, Swimming, Swimming Pool
All Ages, Pets Welcome
Max RV Length 65 ft, Max RV Width 20 ft
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2015 Rates are per site
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Daily Rates: $120.00
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Great campground with excellent service
March 10, 2015
We only stayed overnight here. It's convenient on and off the highway. The staff are very friendly and helpful in checking us in. The sites are spacious pull-throughs. The pool was relaxing, and the laundry room was clean. There was wi-fi and cable TV and both are excellent. There's some road noise, but that's to be expected given its location, but it's not that bothersome. We'll stay here longer next time we're in the area.
We stayed here in a Class A Motorhome.
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Horrible! Not worth the very high rates!
April 9, 2013
This park is now called the Bastrop KOA. This is a review of the new owners - Jerry and staff. This place just goes to show that poor customer service can ruin a great campground. A woman who calls herself 'The Enforcer' comes by daily to inspect. A forgotten water bottle left on the table for a few hours, wet shoes (from canoeing) set neatly near our door to dry in the sun, and a small tote tucked under the RV are all violations that she will rudely reprimand you in front of everyone for. Her husband is equally as condescending. He works the front office and has no desire to welcome you, tell you about the area, or answer any questions. Just pay and leave. Period. Too bad because this campground is really nice. It's on the river, has a park, a fishing dock, a pool and kiddie water splash area (which aren't usable because they aren't being taken care of during our visit in April), and large shower/ restroom facilities (again which isn't truly clean, only surface-y clean). I am so sad I have already paid the outrageous campground costs for a longer than normal stay for us. I wish we could leave to another place, but we'll lose our money.
We stayed here in a Class A Motorhome.
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Good Place for the Night
June 26, 2011
We have stayed in this park a few times while passing through Texas. Clean and well maintained.
We stayed here in a Class A Motorhome.
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Great place to Fish
July 14, 2010
This is a great place to relax at for some catfish or Bass fishing. There is golfing nearby also if that is your thing. Also there are some really great trails to discover all around this area so go do that then cool off in the pool or clean bathhouse.
We stayed here in a Class B Motorhome.
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Shorthanded APD down 150 officers
Retirement changes, morale spur downturn
Police officers are packing up and quitting the Albuquerque Police Department, leaving the force shorthanded.
APD is commissioned to have 1,100 sworn officers. Right now, according to APD, they're down to about 950, with only 835 of them working the streets.
"The public should be extremely concerned about that," APOA President Stephanie Lopez said.
It's a bad situation that's only getting worse because lots of officers leaving, and not nearly enough are coming in to replenish the ranks.
"It's a challenge right now across the state to hire good, qualified police officers," APD Chief Ray Schultz said.
Schultz attributes the police officer exodus to recent changes in PERA, the Public Employee Retirement Association, especially when it comes to the more than 100 APD officers who have been re-hired after they retired. The cost of living adjustment (COLA) increases for those officers vanished on July 1, and they have to contribute more to the public employee retirement fund.
"So it'll actually cost those employees money that they'll never recover, and as a result of that, we've seen a number of officers make the decision to go ahead and go back into retirement," Schultz says. "All in total, about 25 people have left as a result of these changes."
This comes on top of the 150 officers the department is already short right now. But union president Lopez says it's not just PERA pushing people out.
"It's not about the money," she says. "It's about the morale, the issues with the department, with the administration."
Lopez said officers feel the mayor and other top brass don't support officers the way they should, especially in contract negotiations.
"That makes it difficult to really, really enjoy this job," she said.
The city takes issue with that claim.
"Oh, it's morale. Well, what do you mean by that? Can you give me specifics?" said Chief Administrative Officer Rob Perry. "What would be in the contract that would change morale?"
The chief even showed up at that interview, showing us recent retirement letter of officers, all of whom he says left the department happy. He said0 APD continues to buy new cars, equipment and technology for its officers, plus pay is competitive.
"So maybe I think they need to look internal, into themselves a little bit," Schultz said.
Regardless of the reason officers are leaving, it means fewer cops available for emergencies. Schultz said residents will start seeing staffing changes soon, starting with fewer officers in the public schools.
"Some of the middle schools, we'll have to pull them out and move them in other places within organization," he said.
But APD has launched an aggressive recruiting campaign, including running commercials, hoping to capture new cadets to re-populate its dwindling ranks. Target 7 learned its most recent cadet class has 10 people.


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Volvo thinks it's the only vehicle sound enough to transport buried treasure from the Caribbean to your home. We would've guessed armored car, private jet or pirate ship, but you know, whatever.
Indulge the automaker by digging around for the gold doubloons and car key they hid for a campaign collabo with Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End.
If you're too jaded to do that, indulge us by playing Bill's game instead.
That's what we did. Why hunting down a stylistic inconsistency won out over doubloons, though, is anybody's guess.
Solving puzzles posited by cryptic voices just seemed like too much of a commitment. There are other things that demand our time.
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – With a week left to try to reach a compromise, the House on Friday approved a plan to offer $2,000 subsidies to low-income Floridians as an alternative to expanding Medicaid under the federal Affordable Care Act.
The 71-45 vote was largely a foregone conclusion and came as the Senate prepares Monday to take up a far-different proposal to expand health coverage. It remains unclear whether the House and Senate will be able to agree on a compromise before the May 3 end of the legislative session.
"Our door is open,'' Senate President Don Gaetz, R-Niceville, said after the House vote. "Our minds are open."
The House bill (HB 7169) would reject tens of billions of dollars in federal Medicaid money and create a new state program, dubbed the "Florida Health Choices Plus" program. It would offer $2,000 subsidies to low-income working parents and some people with disabilities and take what backers say is a "free market" approach to making coverage available.
"Free market economics work,'' said Rep. John Wood, R-Winter Haven. "What we're trying to do in Florida is revolutionary."
But Democrats said the bill would not work, as the $2,000 subsidies --- along with required $300 contributions from enrollees --- would not be enough to pay for coverage. Rep. Jim Waldman, D-Coconut Creek, called the House proposal "fiscally irresponsible" and made a public plea to Gov. Rick Scott, who has supported the Senate approach.
"Take that pen of yours and if this bill comes before you, veto it,'' Waldman said.
The vote was along almost-straight party lines, with only Reps. Mike Fasano, R-New Port Richey, and John Tobia, R-Melbourne Beach, crossing over to vote against the bill. No Democrats supported it.
House and Senate Republicans have made clear they will not expand Medicaid eligibility as was originally contemplated in the Affordable Care Act, better known as Obamacare. But while they say they want to find another way to expand health coverage for low-income people, they remain far apart.
Perhaps the biggest difference is that the Senate wants to tap into federal money that otherwise would be available for the Medicaid expansion and use it to offer private health insurance. House Republicans have flatly refused to accept the Medicaid money and turned back a proposed amendment Thursday that would have gone along with the Senate plan.
Under the House proposal, the subsidies would be available to people whose household incomes are at or below 100 percent of the federal poverty level, or $19,530 for a family of three. People whose incomes are higher could seek subsidized coverage through a federal health-insurance exchange, a separate program that the state would not run.
The House bill would lead to low-income people getting coverage through a long-planned online health marketplace, the Florida Health Choices program. Republican leaders say the enrollees could use the subsidies to choose among various coverage options in the marketplace.
Bill sponsor Travis Cummings, R-Orange Park, said the plan would improve the state's safety net, while also "shifting the dialogue to quality health care, improved access and long-term innovative solutions."
Democrats, however, said the measure is a missed opportunity to draw down more than $50 billion in federal Medicaid money during the next decade and use it to provide coverage to roughly 1 million people.
"This (House) bill is wrapped in a beautiful box,'' said Rep. Mia Jones, D-Jacksonville. "The paper is beautiful. The bow is beautiful. But when you open that box up, the box is empty."
Rep. Victor Torres, D-Orlando, pointed to a large number of Hispanics who lack health insurance and said many go to hospital emergency rooms for care.
"This plan does not do anything for those working class Hispanics or other people in the state of Florida," Torres said.
Those comments drew a quick reply from Rep. Jose Oliva, R-Miami Lakes, who said the House plan would be preferable to expanding Medicaid, which he described as providing "second-class care."
"I'm a Hispanic, too, and I can't imagine why you would say this does nothing for Hispanics," Oliva said


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Water SA vol.37 n.1 Pretoria Jan. 2011
Variation of stream power with seepage in sand-bed channels
Gopu SreenivasuluI; Bimlesh KumarII,*; Achanta Ramakrishna RaoIII
IDepartment of Civil Engineering, RGM College of Engineering and Technology, Nandyal 518501, Andhra Pradesh
IIDepartment of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati-781039, India
IIIDepartment of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore- 560012, India
Downward seepage (suction) increases the mobility of the channel. In this study, experimental investigations were carried out to analyse the suction effect on stream power along the downstream side of the flume. It was observed that stream power has a major influence on the stability and mobility of the bed particles, due to suction. Stream power is found to be greater at the upstream side and lower at the downstream side. This reduces the increment in the mobility of the sand particles due to suction at the downstream side. Thus, there is more erosion at the upstream side than the downstream side. It was also found that the amount of deposition of sand particles at the downstream side, because of the high stream power at the upstream side, is greater than the amount of erosion of sand particles from the downstream side.
Keywords: friction slope, seepage, sediment transport, stream power, suction
A study of the effect of seepage flows on the detachment of particles from the bed and on further movement of the bed load is of great interest, since this problem is related to the solution of important practical engineering problems. For instance, groundwater movement plays an exceptionally important role when constructing hydraulic structures, particularly dams; these concepts are important when solving problems of the stability of dams and channel slopes. Seepage through boundaries is common due to porosity of the granular material as well as due to level differences between groundwater and surface water in the channel. The presence of seepage from a channel (termed suction), or into it (termed injection), leads to a change in bed deformation conditions and consequently in the hydrodynamic channel characteristics (Dobroklonskii et al., 1976). Due to injection the channel receives more water, whereas due to suction its discharge is reduced. The issues relating to whether seepage reduces or enhances sand-bed stability are still matters of considerable debate (Lu et al., 2008). However, Willets and Drossos (1975), Maclean (1991), Rao and Sitaram (1999) and Rao and Sreenivasulu (2009) suggest that suction increases bed material transport, whereas injection reduces sediment transport and increases particle stability, or does not aid in initiating their movement. Oldenziel and Brink (1974) and Maclean (1991) found experimentally that the streamwise velocity decreases in the upper portion and increases near the bed due to downward seepage or suction. Ali et al. (2003) and Cheng and Chiew (1999) studied the effect of downward seepage on the velocity profile and found that there is an increase in the near-bed velocities due to downward seepage. However, as suction increases the bed material transport, it is felt that there is a need to assess the spatial behaviour of the downward seepage along the length of the channel, as this would be more beneficial for field engineers. Whether that position is defined in topologic, geometric or flow-regulated terms, the most striking element of fluvial change occurs in the downstream direction (Knighton, 1987; 1999).
Stream power has a significant influence on many form and process attributes of the fluvial system (Fonstad, 2003). Bagnold (1963; 1966) expressed the basic relations between work, energy expenditure of a stream and quantity of sediment transported by the stream, in terms of stream power, as the supply energy for the sediment's motion in a water stream. Phillips (1989) found that the stream power provides a physically-based measure of sediment transport capacity. Lawler (1995) found this quantity useful in describing particle entrainment. Magilligan (1992) and Lecce (1997) found that spatial patterns of stream power influenced the processes and extents of fluvial erosion, transport, and sediment deposition. Abernethy and Rutherford (1998) used stream power indices to describe patterns of bank instability. Baker and Costa (1987) and Wohl (2000) used stream power as a measure of channel mobility thresholds.
Stream power has a relationship with the transport of sediments in fluvial bed channels (Martin and Church, 2000; Petit et al., 2005; Lima, 2007). The spatial patterns of stream power may be used to assess the spatial distribution of stream energy during suction.
Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to determine or assess spatial variation of stream power when downward seepage is taking placed in the sand-bed channel.
One approach to studying the problem of alluvial channel stability is by means of a set of laboratory experiments. In order to quantify the seepage effect on stream power and downward variation of stream power, experiments were conducted in a rectangular smooth-walled sand bed tilting flume. The dimensions of the flume were: 25 m length, 1.8 m width and 1 m depth. A schematic view of the tilting flume is shown in Fig. 1. The seepage length of 20 m was facilitated from the downstream end towards the upstream end. The upstream tank was 3 m long, 3.8 m wide and 3.7 m deep and served to straighten the flow prior to its introduction into the flume. The downstream collection tank was 3.4 m long, 2 m wide and 1.63 m deep. In a re-circulatory mode, the downstream tank served as storage as well as a measuring tank for the water flowing through the flume. A uniform sand bed (0.3 m) of particle size 0.56 mm was laid on a perforated sheet at an elevated level from the channel bottom and covered with a fine wire mesh (to prevent the sand falling through) to facilitate the seepage flow through the sand bed. The gradation coefficient was 1.08, therefore the sand can be assumed to have been composed of fairly uniform material. The space between the perforated sheet and the channel bottom acted as a pressure chamber to allow seepage flow through the sand bed, either in a downward or an upward direction, by creating a pressure difference which was either lower or higher, respectively, than the channel flow. A valve located at the downstream end of the chamber was used to apply the controlled amounts of seepage as suction. After applying seepage to the channel bed, the downstream discharge was measured volumetrically with the help of an interval timer; the difference in the discharge (upstream discharge and downstream discharge) is the seepage discharge. A magnetic flow meter was also installed to cross-check the seepage discharge. Experimental ranges of the measurements taken are given in Table 1.
Initially, the sand bed was made level for all of the experiments with a required bed slope, S o. Two different bed slopes (0 and 0.00133) were used. Then inflow discharge, Q, is allowed. This run was continued for several hours (4 to 8 h) so that the channel geometry and the longitudinal slope adjusted to the point where there is no visible sediment movement in the channel. After reaching this stable condition, seepage flow, q (suction), was slowly allowed. Before and after the application of seepage, the water surface slope was obtained by using a Pitot tube and micro-manometer. The Pitot tube was attached to a trolley; by moving the trolley, the static pressure was measured at different locations by connecting the static pressure slot to the capacitance micro-manometer (Rao, 2005), with an accuracy of ±0.015 mm of water head. Measurements were taken at regular intervals along the channel by using a digital micro-manometer, in order to determine the water surface slope, Sw . Flow depths along the central line of the channel were measured at regular intervals using a point gauge and the average depth y was obtained. The amount of Q was measured volumetrically and q (seepage flow) was measured with calibrated magnetic flow meter. The amount of seepage flow was varied from 20% to 80% of the total inflow discharge. Thus, the basic variables, S o, Q, q, Sw and y, were obtained in every experimental run. A tailgate at the downstream end of the channel was used to adjust and maintain the flow depth. Pressure tapings were provided at some sections inside the sand bed to measure the seepage gradients and verify the uniformity of seepage flow.
Results and discussion
A stable relationship between sediment transport and flow can, at best, only be expected in a situation where the mechanisms controlling sediment transport are dependent only on the rate of flow of water in the channel and on seepage occurring through the channel. Thus, it is felt that the 'stream power concept' is more appropriate for describing seepage-induced incipient motion in an alluvial channel. Stream power is the energy available to transport sediment (Velikanov, 1954; Bagnold, 1966). Given basic knowledge of a stream cross section, it is possible to compute the stream power per unit boundary area for a range of flows. In functional form, stream power of the channel per unit width and unit length of the channel can be expressed as follows (Petit et al., 2005):
γ = unit weight of water
Q = discharge in the channel
hf is the energy loss over a given reach of the channel
B is the channel width
L is the channel length
τb is calculated as γRbSf, where Rb is the hydraulic radius of the bed and Sf is the friction slope. The stream power can be expressed in dimensionless form by dividing τbu with (γs γ)ν, where γs the specific weight of sediments and ν is the kinematic viscosity of the water and is expressed as:
The gradually varied flow equation (Chow, 1959), with energy/momentum correction factor as unity, is used in computing the Sf as follows:
F = Froude number = u/.
Thus by knowing Sf, the bed shear stress, τb is computed by the following relation:
Rb value can be computed by using Vanoni and Brooks (1957) wall correction formula. Pitot tube has been used for measurement of velocity using a digital micro manometer. As So is fixed in an experiment, stream power is greatly influenced by the parameters Sw and y. Thus it is interesting to analyse the behaviour of these 2 parameters when uniform suction is taking place in the channel. Figure 2 shows the water surface slope variation over the channel length for different suction rates.
As shown in Fig. 2, when the suction takes place and its quantity gets increased, it is found that the water surface slopes criss-cross the no-seepage water surface slopes. At the upstream end, water surface slopes get reduced because of erosion taking place at that section. and vice versa for the behaviour at the downstream end. The erosion and deposition behaviour should also affect the flow depth, shown in Fig. 3. The effect of bed suction on the velocity distribution was studied numerically by Prinos (1995). Prinos (1995) studied the effects of bed suction on the structure of turbulent open channel flow by solving the Reynolds averaged Navier-strokes equations. Prinos (1995) found that the suction significantly affects the mean flow characteristics. The near-bed velocities are increased with increasing suction rate, as well as the bed shear stress. The excess bed shear stress resulting from suction is calculated as the order of 3 to 8 times the excess bed shear stress, when compared to the no-seepage value. The turbulence levels are greatly reduced with increasing suction rate. This will result in lower flow depth when suction is taking place in the channel, as shown in Fig. 3. Experimental observations in the form of Eq. (3) along the length of the channel are plotted in Figs. 4a and 4b.
It can be seen from Fig. 4 that, in general, stream power varies nonlinearly downstream due to suction, and stream power always decreases towards the downstream side of the channel. This may be due to loss of kinetic energy while travelling through the downstream side; also, stream power has to spend some of its energy in erosion or deposition of the sediment particles. As shown in Fig. 4, stream power is greater at the upstream side when compared to the downstream side; erosion will take place at the upstream side. Eroded particles resulting from the higher stream power at the upstream side have to be deposited somewhere; this happens at the downstream side of the channel because of lower stream power. Here, it can be supposed that the channel is in 2 distinct regimes, erosion zone and deposition zone; however these zones will depend upon prevailing hydrodynamic parameters. The eroded material from the upstream side is deposited at the downstream side and the channel takes longer to clear this sediment because of the reduction in stream power at the downstream end. At the same time the sediment inflow process is continuous from upstream to downstream and hence the bed level rises continuously. Bed levels rise progressively towards the downstream end leading to aggradation, shown in Fig. 5.
Figure 5 shows that erosion and deposition of sand particles takes place at the upstream and downstream ends, respectively.
Given the results presented, frequent failure of reservoirs can be explained. As shown in Figs. 4 and 5, deposition in the downstream side reduces the channel capacity.
The presence of downward seepage or suction alters the sediment transport characteristics of sand-bed channels; hence, seepage effects should be considered in channel design. Suction decreases the flow depth of the channel. Analyses of experimental observations show that, in the presence of suction, stream power varies non-linearly in the channel. It has been found that stream power decreases in a downstream direction due to suction, which indicates that higher stream power prevails on the upstream end. The upstream side of the channel gets eroded due to higher stream power. At the downstream side of the channel, stream power is lower, thus deposition takes place. It can be concluded that deposition taking place at the downstream side will reduce the carrying capacity of the channel.
The authors gratefully acknowledge the financial support that was received from the Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India (SERC-DST: SR/S3/MERC/005/2010) to carry out the research work presented in this paper.
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To All Confessing Anglicans in North America: Greetings in this happiest of seasons, when we celebrate the resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ and grow in the knowledge of what it means to live as people who have been "raised up with Christ." (Colossians 3:1-4)
We have just completed a rich week of blessing and encouragement at GAFCON's Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans' Leadership Conference at St Mark's Church in Battersea, London. We joined 200+ delegates from over thirty nations as we listened to God's word, worshipped, prayed, studied, and talked. It was deeply encouraging and challenging to share with people who serve Christ faithfully with great sacrifice in the face of revisionist opposition or outright persecution from the unbelieving world. We thank the Lord Jesus for his faithfulness and for the Gospel by which people are being saved and his Church is growing.
While in London, we had the opportunity to talk at length together about the continuing turbulence from the separation of the Anglican Mission in America from its founding church, the Anglican Church of Rwanda. The House of Bishops of Rwanda has recently declared the establishment of a Missionary District in North America (PEARUSA) as its only continuing work on this continent and has offered a deadline of August 31 for clergy and churches to determine their future jurisdiction. There are three options available: remain with Rwanda through PEARUSA, transfer to another Anglican jurisdiction through letters dimissory, or follow the Anglican Mission into its new venture. Provision and procedure for each of these options is available or is being developed as rapidly as possible. (These materials will be available through the www.pearusa.org website as they are developed.)
At the same time, there has been a great deal of confusion recently around the issue of the resigned bishops of the AMiA, their relationship with Rwanda, and their possible relationship with ACNA. We write this communiqué together primarily to address that confusion.
1. Archbishop Rwaje and the House of Bishops of Rwanda have established April 29 as the deadline for the resigned AMiA bishops to declare their intention for future jurisdiction. Having declared their intention, he is willing to work with those bishops seeking letters dimissory to another jurisdiction in the weeks and months ahead. (April 29 is simply a deadline for declaring intention and direction.)
2. The Anglican Mission is seeking canonical residency in the Church of the Congo, and those bishops and clergy that have applied for letters dimissory to the Congo are being processed according to standard Anglican procedure.
3. Several AMiA bishops have approached the ACNA, through diocesan bishops or directly with Archbishop Duncan, concerning transfer into ACNA. Archbishop Duncan has established a clear path for this process:
• Following normal transfer process, any bishop seeking transfer must initiate the request with Archbishop Rwaje. He will respond individually to each bishop appropriate to his situation.
• An AMiA bishop received into ACNA will be received in the following manner:
o Graciously and willingly, as the Lord has received all of us, and with the understanding and expectation that God's love constantly transforms and renews us into the image of Christ
o Into a diocese or diocese in formation, that is, through proper ecclesiastical interaction between Rwanda and the diocesan bishop
o As an assisting bishop, which does not automatically seat one in the ACNA College of Bishops
o Able to give episcopal care to former AMiA churches and clergy that follow them into that diocese, under the blessing of the diocesan bishop
o Prepared to engage a process of full reconciliation with all parties wounded through the actions of recent months
In these matters, we are united in heart, soul, mind, and action.
This has been a painful and difficult time for many. Nevertheless, we are confident that the Lord, in his sovereignty, is building his church, and that the gates of Hell will not prevail against it. We are confident that this will ultimately redound to the Glory of God, in this life and the next. We rejoice at the growing closeness and partnership within the GAFCON provinces and particularly between our respective provinces. We rejoice at our growing joint missionary effort through PEARUSA. We can honestly say that we pray for our brothers and sisters in the AMiA, asking God's grace to be fully poured out on them and the Gospel to be proclaimed faithfully through them. We pray for further reconciliation and friendship, as the Lord gives grace.
Finally, brothers and sisters, be strong in the Lord and the strength of his might. Continue to serve the Lord in faith and humility. Pray for us, as we pray for you.
In the love and truth of Christ,
Archbishop Robert Duncan
Archbishop Onesphore Rwaje


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A buxom, aspiring female Santa Claus in a quilted down jacket swaggers out of room C-1 in the Civic Center where I'm next in line for my "Rent-A-Santa" interview.
"Ho ho ho," she says over her shoulder, giving me an unnerving sidelong glance, a sort of knowing sneer tinged with holiday spirit. She's warring with me for the job of Santa Claus.
"Ho ho ho yourself," I answer, wondering what I, at age six, would have made of a big-breasted female Santa.
"Are you Santa Claus?" I might have asked.
"I'm Ms. Santa Claus. Mr. Santa Claus is home making dinner."
My own children will be away this Christmas visiting relatives. I want to be Santa because I know how much I'll be missing them. I want to be Santa so I can give love and gifts to other children. If I can't personally give these things to my own children, I can at least try to give them to other people's children. The truth is, I'm the loneliest man in town and I want to be Santa Claus so I can distract myself, so I won't feel so much pain.
I haven't practiced my "ho-ho-hos," but plan to wing it. "Ho ho ho" from the diaphragm, "Ho ho ho" from the heart.
I wanna be Santa.
My qualifications? I'm Jewish. I'm a teacher, Fulbright scholar, Guggenheim fellow and the author of 14 books. I have a beard. But mostly, for 53 years I have wanted to participate not as an envious Christmas outsider, but as a wholehearted insider. What better way than to become the plump, white-bearded, old man himself?
My shortcomings? I'm tall and skinny. I am a neurotic ectomorph. I have a lean, hungry look about me, sad hazel eyes and a slightly hooked nose.
But I do have a white beard of my own, though tinged with wiry black hairs. I like children. That is, most children. Not all. The little boy down the street who applied red enamel paint to my friend's Boston terrier puppy will be lucky to get a lump of coal this Christmas.
The door to room C-1 at the Civic Center opens and the Santa Claus personnel officer invites me inside. We shake hands. She introduces me to her assistant. The two interviewers sit at one end of a mahogany conference table and I sit at the other.
"What wonderful weather we're having," volunteers the female interviewer.
"Not at all like Christmas. This is going to be my first Christmas in five years without snow," I stammer, violating my promise to myself not to ramble.
"Robert, to start off would you give us a sample of your 'Ho ho ho'?"
I take a deep breath and summon up all the jolliness I can muster. "Ho ho ho!" I roar.
They nod approvingly and make notes on their lined yellow pads. I'm feeling more at ease.
"What are the names of Santa's reindeer?"
"Comet. Dancer. Prancer. Blitzen. Rudolph . . . Hmmm." An un-Santa-like expletive follows.
I get only four out of eight correct. I'm failing. What the hell am I doing here? I don't even know the names of eight stinking reindeer.
Again, they make notes on their lined yellow pads. This reminds me of visits to my therapist. I begin to sweat. I want the job and they know I want the job and I'm not going to get it and they know they're not going to give it to me. The humiliation of it all. I passed my orals for an MA degree, I taught at Cornell University, but I can't get hired as Santa Claus.
"There's Dancer, Prancer, Comet, Vixen, Cupid, Donder, Blitzen," the woman says. "Rudolph doesn't really count. He's a latecomer."
Next question. "What would you say if you had a kid sitting in your lap and he pulled off your beard?" asks the assistant Santa Claus personnel officer.
"Well, I'd try to control myself. I'd say something like, 'See, I have a real beard, but it's white and black because I'm young. And I wear an all white beard over my own beard so I'll look older than I really am. People expect Santa Claus to have an all-white beard. But now you know the truth. I'm younger than people think.'" What a ridiculous answer.
To my surprise, the two nod approvingly. Again, they make notes on their pads.
"Why do you want to be Santa Claus?" the assistant asks.
They're wondering if I'm a child molester or a drug addict. They obviously don't want a Santa Claus who's going to arrive at some holiday office party too ripped to climb out of the sleigh. But I'm just a straight, conventional citizen. A writer. A professor. Solid and stuffy.
I tell them about my children and how much I miss them.
"What will you say if children ask how come they didn't get what they wanted last Christmas?"
"I'd say that Santa Claus loves them and that he gives children what he thinks they need most. That he has many children to give things to—children in all parts of the world—and that some years he runs out of presents before he's finished. But that he tries to make up for it the next year."
"OK, but remember Santa Claus never makes promises," says the male Santa Claus recruiter, hiding behind his hand. "Also you may be asked to appear in some unusual ways."
Like a Rent-A-Santa-Stripper who must drag along a bag of toys while somehow jumping naked out of a cake?
To my relief, he explains, "Last year, our Santa Claus was met at the end of a deserted mountain road with a horse-drawn wagon filled with hay. You want to be prepared for anything."
"And Santa Claus does not use drugs and he does not accept drinks," the female personnel officer warns. "No liquor. No drugs."
"What if Santa is invited to stay for dinner?" I ask, hoping at some point along the way the old guy will be asked to sit down with some generous family to feast in style.
"Santa Claus does not accept dinner invitations."
Right. I should have known. He doesn't accept anything. But how in God's name is Santa going to fatten himself up if you won't feed him?
Feeling depressed, I cross my thin arms and look down at my skinny legs.
The interview ends with them asking me to make up a story. My imagination fails me. I can think of nothing to say. I've written a novel, poems, short stories, magazine articles, and I sit at the mahogany conference table with nothing to say. I bomb. I need a drink.
"OK, well, thank you, Robert. Don't call us. We'll call you Thursday or Friday of next week."
Both Thursday and Friday pass with no call from Santa's personnel officers.
So this would-be St. Nick sweats it out over the weekend. On Monday, he can stand it no longer. Can he subject himself to further mortification? He must know whether or not he's made it. He does what they asked him not to do.
"Robert Sward?" says the voice at the other end of the line. "You're Santa Claus!"
Hired as a Rent-A-Santa Claus, I immediately begin wondering if there hasn't been some mistake. Me? Santa Claus? Surely there must be a hundred aspiring Santa's out there better qualified than I. Oversized professional actors with droll little mouths and noses like cherries. Accomplished, 300-pound right jolly old elves. Reindeer ranchers whose round bellies shook when they laughed like bowlfuls of jelly.
The truth is, I'm scared. Having gotten the job, I don't know if I'm up to it. Think of the responsibility. Sinterklaas, Saint Nicholas, Father Christmas—Santa Claus is a supernatural being who brings happiness and knows the names, addresses and dreams of every child on earth. Who knows the good ones from the bad and who loves both equally. Who has unconditional love for everyone, even noisy, runny-nosed, sneezy children who whine and cry and pull his beard.
Yes, this Santa Claus worries about being too thin and believes there is nothing more obscene than the sight of some undernourished Father Christmas moving about with obvious pillows inside his oversized red polyester suit. Better no Santa at all than an unconvincing, self-conscious, tacky Santa with skinny legs.
My girlfriend—delighted, by the way, to be dating Santa Claus—tells me that, if everything goes well, I will not merely put on the cheap suit and fake white beard and "play" Santa, but I will become Santa, just as good method actors and actresses become the parts they play. She promises to help me with the logistics of costume and makeup. Maybe there's something kind of sexy about Santa after all.
Still, I ask myself, what would my parents think? A nice Jewish boy, bar mitzvahed, educated, the works—what's he doing, our son, the crazy teacher, age 53, in a red suit trimmed with rabbit fur promising Barbie and Ken and GI Joe to gentiles? Flying through the air like a peddler in a magic sleigh, a bundle of toys he had flung on his back, and he's giving them away, Gertrude. He's giving them away!
And worse, what if, even after boning up on their names, I confuse or forget some of my reindeer? Cutie, Blitzen, Bagel and Vixen. Donder, Dasher, Schwartzkopf and Prancer. It's like some New York law firm.
I buy a copy of Clement C. Moore's The Night Before Christmas, a facsimile of the original 1848 edition, and write down reindeer names in my Day Timer appointment book for reference and study. I go to the downtown library and read everything I can on Christmas.
I begin to notice that when I talk to myself, I address myself as Santa.
I try not to let it bother me.
Santa's friend tells him he'll make a great Santa. They say that Santa's "Ho ho ho" is just bravado. That that's not the real Santa Claus. That Santa is a private, loving, soft-spoken actually fairly sexy guy, who doesn't go to parties very much—only at New Year's—and that, when he does, doesn't stay very long because he's always working on his next novel.
With that encouragement, Santa goes to the Rent-A office to pick up his new suit and beard and his instructions. He also has to sign a contract. Of course there is a set of rules, some already made clear, to learn:
1. No alcohol, drugs, no smoking. Santa Claus does not smoke cigarettes, because his uniform is flammable and he wants to set a good example for children and not go up in flames or die an agonizing death from cancer.
2. Santa Claus does not accept cookies or cake to put into his big red velour bag "for the reindeer."
3. Santa is not a surrealist. He tells stories about sharing. He tells stories that have an appropriate moral message. Santa, in short, follows tradition. More Charles Dickens than Richard Brautigan.
4. Santa arrives at his gigs on time and already in uniform. He does not need to first go to the bathroom to "change" where he may be seen by children.
Santa spends a sleepless night and, at dawn, takes a shower and trims his beard.
Two hours before he is due at the community center, Santa does some yoga exercises: the sun salutation, the pose of the holly wreath. Then he meditates. Next, Santa lays out his clothes and begins to dress. He imagines himself a toreador preparing for what Hemingway calls "the moment of truth."
Santa puts on his blue fleece-lined sweat pants and shirt, to which his girlfriend pins four pillows—front, back, both sides. Then he pulls on his red velour pants and socks. He borrows a pair of Girlfriend Claus' red socks (one size fits all) to pull on over his own. He pulls on his high rubber boots with the white fur. She sews jingle bells onto his boots.
When he is at last ready, Girlfriend Claus begins to weep. She has helped create Santa, a fantasy from her childhood, and has done so in the privacy of her own home. Here he is, as real as any Santa she has known. Only this is her own Santa, seated on her sofa. He is as moved as Girlfriend Claus. He feels himself to be transformed.
"I am the happiest man in the world," Santa says, seated in GFC's car on his way to the local community center. Suddenly he hears children screaming and yelling, "Santa! Look, there's Santa Claus." A mother stops in the middle of the street, risking her own life and the life of her child to gasp, "It's Santa! Mickey, there's Santa!"
Traffic-stopping Santa waves and waves and shouts over and over, "Merry Christmas! Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good night."
Impulsively, he improvises. "Happy Hanukkah, too!"


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Haven't seen any scans yet. . .
Neat German Soldier there though... He looks as though he'll fit in decently with the latest DAK figures 21st made. Could mix/match for some variety easily.
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Will Hillary Clinton Abolish the Prison State Her Husband Created? Don't Count on It.
From Truth Out / By Robert Saleem Holbrook
As the front-runner for the democratic presidential nomination, Hillary Clinton has been saying all the right things and making all the right moves. At an April 28 Columbia University forum on Criminal Justice, Hillary Clinton gave a passionate speech calling for the reform of the criminal justice system, intoning that, "We don't want to create another incarceration generation," in reference to the present generation of youth impacted by mass incarceration.
Clinton called for the reform of mandatory minimums and ending the marginalization of formerly incarcerated citizens. It was a very "politically correct" speech; Clinton hit all the talking points on mass incarceration. The question is: Can Hillary Clinton be trusted to dismantle the prison state her husband built? Don't count on it; and, if history is our guide, we can expect more of the same under Clinton if she is elected president.
Former President Bill Clinton is best remembered for presiding over one of the longest periods of economic prosperity in US history. However, the gem in Clinton's presidential legacy is an unprecedented era of prison expansion and the mass incarceration of the nation's citizens, with the overwhelming majority of those incarcerated under Clinton being Black and Brown. (more…)


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Subtotal, Disaster Payments in Cumberland County, Illinois totaled $1.9 million from 1995-2019‡.
Counties in Cumberland County, Illinois Receiving Subtotal, Disaster Payments payments, 1995-2019‡
Source: Environmental Working Group. Compiled from USDA data.
‡ Data for 2019 is incomplete and only includes Market Facilitation Program payments made between January 1, 2019 and October 31, 2019.