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Keith Lynch lives three miles down the road from President Bush's ranch in Crawford, Texas, and, like many of his neighbors, he comes from a family that has worked cattle on this land for more than a century. His great-grandfather Will Simpson came to McLennan County in 1857, forty years before Crawford was incorporated as a town, and the hand-tooled saddle he rode on during sixteen cattle drives up the Chisholm Trail to Kansas sits in Lynch's living room beside a reliquary of Simpson's keepsakes (a pair of reading glasses, a wide-brimmed Western hat, a threadbare illustrated King James Bible). Lynch, who used to rope calves at local rodeos for prize money, is sun-weathered, soft-bellied, and partial to a white straw cowboy hat that he removes for Sunday-morning worship. At seventy, he still raises cattle on his family's ranch, nearly a thousand acres of blackland prairie that is Simpson's hard-won, if modest, legacy.
The prairie here, west of Waco, is flat and monotonous. Temperatures routinely break a hundred degrees in the summertime, and drought and grass fires are common. Wealthy Texans like to have their retreats elsewhere: in the wide-open, rugged grandeur of West Texas, near the Chinati Mountains; on South Texas's lush coastal plain, where Dick Cheney once famously went quail hunting; or in the bucolic Hill Country outside Austin, where Lyndon Johnson was born and grew up, and where, on visits home from Washington, he pioneered the role of Rancher-in-Chief. Until Bush's arrival, Crawford was not a desirable place to have a weekend home, or a town that most Texans could have located on a map. Cheap land and remoteness seem to have been its selling points. And, for the son of a President eager to reinvent himself as an outsider, there was no better place to manufacture a new persona. The plainspoken Dubya—who cleared brush, drove a pickup, and, by implication, was rooted in rural America and red-state values—deflected attention from a patrician life story that had been shaped as much by boarding school and the Ivy League as by his early years in Midland. Crawford gave him home-town credentials. In the summer of 1999, Bush, who was governor of Texas at the time—and a Republican front-runner for President—bought fifteen hundred and eighty-three acres of riverfront property for an estimated $1.2 million.
Not long afterward, real-estate speculators and Republican high rollers began asking Lynch how much he wanted for his land. Only two other properties separated him from Bush, and neither of them was as expansive or as scenic as Lynch's. Strangers from Dallas and Houston who had pored over surveys of the area at the county courthouse ("land buzzards," a neighbor called them) pulled into his driveway unannounced, offering as much as five thousand dollars an acre, more than twice what Lynch figured its market value was. "They wanted to be near Bush and they wouldn't take no for an answer," Lynch said. "You'd better not open your mouth or you'd have sold your land." Though he and his wife of fifty-two years, Billy Lu, stood to become millionaires, he refused to entertain any offers. Lynch's intransigence was mistaken for driving a hard bargain. "One guy told me to name my price and said, ' There isn't nothing in this world that's not for sale, nothing in this world.' "
From the start of Bush's first term, tourists with hand-drawn maps inched along Prairie Chapel Road in search of the Western White House. The single-story limestone ranch house is set back about a mile from the road, beyond a hill and a stand of hackberry trees, and is impossible to make out from the road. ("See that cedar post?" Jerry Walters, a Baptist preacher who had worked as a rural letter carrier on Prairie Chapel Road, asked me, the first time I went in search of the house, as I craned for a better view from his car. "See over the post, over yonder? How there's something shiny? In the trees, down low?") Sightseers stopped to snap photographs anyway. After the attacks of September 11, 2001, when Bush's approval rating rose to ninety per cent, Winnebagos chugged past Lynch's ranch, and people stopped to rubberneck at the checkpoint that the Secret Service had erected near the entrance to the President's property. When Bush stayed in Crawford, heads of state came to visit, and F-16 fighter jets and helicopters, which spooked Lynch's livestock, roared overhead. Once, the motorcade of a Middle Eastern dignitary had to make an unexpected stop when it came upon Lynch and his two border collies moving cattle across the road from one pasture to another. "On the weekends, it was bumper to bumper," Lynch told me. "You couldn't hardly get down the road."
But, as Bush's popularity waned, fewer people came to Crawford. By July, when I visited Lynch, he had spotted only a few groups of sightseers on Prairie Chapel Road all year. No one had made an offer on his ranch since Bush's first term. A tractor lurched by as we talked, but Prairie Chapel Road was deserted. Several of his goats, which had taken refuge under a shade tree, blinked dully in the heat. "Things have been dwindling away for a while," he told me. "Everybody's upset at the price of gas and the war dragging on. A lot of people around here don't think we ought to be over in Iraq, me being one of them." Like a number of farmers and ranchers I met, Lynch was a dyed-in-the-wool Democrat whose hardscrabble upbringing had been steeped in New Deal populism. He had always voted a straight ticket, he told me, and had never cast a ballot for Bush. "There's a lot of Democrats I know that turned Republican just because Bush was from Texas," he said. "I can't say for sure, but I think most of them would vote Democrat if they had to vote tomorrow."
Lynch supported Hillary Clinton in the primary, and had since warmed to Barack Obama. Not all of his Democratic friends were comfortable voting for a black man, he told me, but they were eager to put the Bush years behind them. "It's just like I was telling someone the other day," Lynch said. "You've got to drive a long ways to find a Republican now."
Downtown Crawford, as locals refer to Main Street, is about eight miles from the ranch. It does not amount to much—a two-block-long business district, with several gift shops, a bank, two gas stations, a café, a granary, a video store, a custom-sign shop, and the Great Shapes beauty parlor. A blinking red stoplight on Main Street is the town's only traffic signal. East of the railroad tracks are the sagging frame houses and hard-packed dirt yards that belong to Crawford's few, mostly elderly, black residents. (The town is eighty-eight per cent white.) Rusted grain silos and a water tower make up the town's meagre skyline. Neighboring Coryell County is home to a training range for Fort Hood, the largest armored Army post in the nation, and what sounds like thunder is often the shudder of ordnance exploding across the plains.
The storefronts along Main Street, a sunburned, treeless stretch of State Highway 317 that runs along the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway line, were mostly vacant when I came to Crawford this spring. Of the seven gift shops that once hawked "Mission Accomplished" coffee mugs and "This Is Bush Country" refrigerator magnets and "Lovya Dubya" bumper stickers, three had gone broke. Only two, the Red Bull and the Crawford General Store, still kept regular hours. The Red Bull's manager, a sturdy woman named Jamie Burgess, sat on a bench outside the store. "They're closed, but we're open!" she shouted down the street one afternoon as I peered in a rival store's window.
Bush's approval rating had stalled at just under thirty per cent, and in Crawford it was no longer impolitic to criticize the President; over a game of dominoes at the Masonic Lodge, I heard a John McCain supporter named Booger DeChaume argue that it was Bush, with his ties to big oil companies, who was to blame for the rising price of gasoline. "What happened when Jimmy Carter was President?" DeChaume asked the group of farmers and ranchers who sat around the battered card table. "The price of peanuts went up!" Across the street, at the Crawford General Store, the clerk behind the counter, Carla Drake, told me that she had voted for the first time in 2000, for Bush. The second time was in March, when she had cast her ballot in the Democratic primary for Barack Obama. "I'm tired of hearing that this is his home town, because it ain't," she said, referring to Bush.
I saw that the lights were on one afternoon at Di-An-Tiques & Things, and, when I stopped in, the owner, Diane Binnion, told me that I was her first customer of the day. She had moved her souvenirs—which included a Bush nesting doll and a talking Bill Clinton action figure that said, "I did not have sexual relations with that woman"—to the back of her store, and had tried to fill in the shelves with bric-a-brac. She planned to close the store after Bush left office. "I used to sell a lot of these," she said, gesturing toward a display of "Bush Country" coffee mugs, when I asked what her most popular item had been. "Now, this was not a good seller," she said, walking over to a pile of tan T-shirts emblazoned with the words "Operation Iraqi Freedom." "You see how many I got? I'm going to have to run a special."
In Crawford, people speak unselfconsciously about their Saviour and about their lives as being blessed. On my first visit to the Coffee Station, one family joined hands to say grace before their meal, and a boy at the table next to mine asked his father, "Was Jesus alive when Noah's ark was built?" The town has seven hundred and five residents, and there are seven churches in the area, three of them Baptist. (Bush has apparently gone to church in Crawford three times in eight years, once at the Methodist church and twice at Canaan Baptist.) Revivals on the high-school football field were discontinued in the nineteen-eighties, but a local ordinance still forbids the sale of alcohol. Gambling is sufficiently frowned upon that even penny-ante rounds of dominoes are not played at the Masonic Lodge. Crawford has two full-time police officers, and the most pressing issue for them, Chief Eddie McCoy told me, was loose livestock in the road. Across the street from McCoy's office, I spotted a granite marker commemorating the Crawford Pirates' 2004 high-school division championship in football. Engraved on the back was the coach's maxim, "Nobody big. Nobody small. Everybody the same."
During the 2000 campaign and his first term, Bush used to make regular, if highly choreographed, trips into town. Crawford was a backdrop ready-made for Karl Rove stagecraft. The President shook hands at the Coffee Station; signed legislation, flanked by hay bales; and chopped cedar in the height of summer as a White House photographer captured the look of steely resolve under his sweat-stained cowboy hat. The White House press corps broadcast standup TV reports in front of a pasture, dotted with bales of hay, that was not outside the ranch but in town, next to the high-school running track.
Residents gave effusive interviews and threw their own inaugural ball at the community center. "Everyone hoped he would breathe some life back into this little town," a rancher, Clark Weber, told me. During Bush's first term, a group calling itself Keep Crawford Beautiful organized fireworks displays and an annual homecoming festival; volunteers decorated downtown at Christmastime and put planters on Main Street. "We thought, We need to do something—the whole world is going to be looking at us," Shirley Westerfield, a charter member, told me. A two-story mural of Crawford, depicting an American flag as it unfurled above the words "Home of President George W. Bush and First Lady Laura Bush," was painted on canvas and hung on an old brick wall on the side of the Masonic Lodge. (This spring, the Masons asked that the painting be taken down.) When an upstart local newspaper, the Lone Star Iconoclast, published an editorial endorsing John Kerry, in 2004, many people in town cancelled their subscriptions and voted for Bush a second time.
Enthusiasm began to ebb in August of 2005, when Cindy Sheehan camped outside the President's ranch to protest the war in Iraq. Bush refused to meet with her during the twenty-six-day vigil, which drew thousands of people to Prairie Chapel Road and media attention from around the world. Residents told me that they had been pushed to the limit by the antiwar activists who descended on their town, blocking roadways and pulling Crawford into the national debate over the war. "A lot of people started wishing to hell that Bush never would have showed up," one rancher told me. At the end of August, as the protests continued, Hurricane Katrina made landfall. Bush was in Crawford at the time. Two days after New Orleans's levees were breached, he returned to Washington, by way of California. "Things never quite went back to the way they were," Westerfield said.
Tourism picked up this year when Jenna Bush married Henry Hager at the ranch on May 10th. The Coffee Station was packed that day with out-of-towners hoping to catch a glimpse of the First Family, and the Red Bull did a brisk trade in Jenna-and-Henry-themed coasters, mousepads, and Christmas ornaments. The bride wore Oscar de la Renta and danced with the President to "You Are So Beautiful" while guests ate fried oysters and lump-crab parfait. But no one from Crawford was invited, and by sundown Main Street was empty. At Crawford High School's graduation, which I attended several weeks later, there was no mention of the President, who had delivered the commencement address eight years earlier. When Kevin Noack, the superintendent, spoke to the audience about how this fall would mark "the end of an era for Crawford," he was referring to the retirement of Mary Keltner, the school's longtime custodian.
Nearly everyone I met offered to show me where the ranch was—no one seemed to think that an outsider could find it. One of my guides was Clark Weber, a jovial, ruddy-cheeked McCain supporter who took a detour on the way which brought us through one of his own pastures. "We're going to check cattle, so you can see what a real rancher does," he told me before making the obligatory pass by Bush's property. The president of the chamber of commerce, an upbeat woman named Marilyn Judy, also took me by the ranch. "You can't see anything out here," she said with a good-natured laugh as we neared the Secret Service checkpoint. "In the classroom, I just show it to my kids on Google Earth."
Judy teaches special-education students at Crawford High School, and is the Sunday-school superintendent at First Baptist Church, where she was the pianist for years. ("I've done everything in church but preach," she told me.) She also was on call twenty-four hours a day as a volunteer for the local E.M.S. "This past week, we had a guy gored by a bull," she said. "We've even had a seventy-six-year-old gentleman who lost two fingers calf-roping. We get the occasional car wreck, or kids who jump off a cliff into Tonk Creek and break a leg, but mostly we respond to calls from our older population." After a spate of snake bites two summers ago, she started carrying a garden hoe in her ambulance. "Stuff like that doesn't bother me," she said. "I was raised around cattle—and castrating and dehorning—so killing a snake really is no biggie." As we talked, she pulled out her scrapbook of Bush memorabilia, which included a photograph of her seated beside Vladimir Putin's wife and Laura Bush in the school gymnasium during a 2001 visit by Putin, who was then the President of Russia. When Judy reached the end of the album, she closed it and sighed. "I feel like Crawford put its best foot forward and rose to the occasion as well as a little town could, and now it's over," she said. "It's been a fun ride."
Another afternoon, I stopped in to see a rancher named Larry Mattlage, who lives about four miles from the President. We talked in his pickup as we made our way along Prairie Chapel Road. Mattlage had come of age in Crawford in the nineteen-fifties. His family had grown their own food and made their own clothes, and he had lived without running water until he was eight years old. He had played football and picked cotton and gone swimming in Tonk Creek—and he was nostalgic, he told me, for the isolation that the town had enjoyed back then. His family had lived in Crawford since the eighteen-eighties, so he had watched with bemusement as Bush cast himself as both a rancher and a native son. "No one who has any sense cuts cedar in the summer," Mattlage told me. "Only winter-cut cedar can be used for fence posts. Besides, it's hot, hard work. It was always kind of a joke to us who knew the country that he was out clearing brush in the middle of August." The President's ranch had not always been a cattle ranch; under a previous owner, it had once been a hog farm. "You could smell it for miles," Mattlage said with a grin, spitting tobacco into an empty Shiner beer bottle.
Mattlage drove past the President's property and on toward his church, St. John's Lutheran, which he wanted me to see. "Everyone is ready for ol' George to leave us alone and let Crawford go back to the way it was," he said. "Most people around here want to get this whole thing over with, kind of like a bad marriage."
Ahead of us, Mattlage spotted a pickup in the opposite lane. He cracked open his window and waved. "What you say, Michael Bohne?" he said, coming to a stop in the middle of the road.
The farmer rolled down his window. "I think I'm going to quit for the day," he said, killing his engine. The two men sat in silence.
"It's been hot, ain't it?" Mattlage offered.
"Yeah," Bohne said, staring out at the prairie. "Wasn't so bad today."
"You get a good rain like I got?"
"No," Bohne said. "What'd you get—two inches?"
Mattlage nodded. "Two inches."
"You must be doing something right over there. Every time it rains, you get two inches."
"Just lucky," Mattlage said.
We continued on until we reached a white clapboard church that sat on top of a windswept rise. "Before this was grazing land, the prairie grass used to grow so tall that it touched your stirrups," Mattlage said. He showed me where his grandparents were buried, behind a wrought-iron fence in the church's plain but well-tended cemetery, and he removed his hat as we stood by their markers. Before we turned to go, he walked over to a granite monument that listed the names of local men who had died in past wars. "Out here, you walk past these names every Sunday," he told me. "So you never forget." Squinting in the summer glare, he studied the list before him. "See, there's Charles Jageler," Mattlage said. "Killed in action. He and I went to church together. And here's another one I grew up with, Tommie Lee Symank. Killed in action. Just twenty-seven years old."
Mattlage pointed to the word "Iraq," etched beneath the roster of Vietnam's dead. There were no casualties listed yet, only polished granite where names could be inscribed in the future. "I guess that's his legacy right there," Mattlage said, putting on his hat. "That's what ol' George has left us."
The President's summer sojourn in Crawford this year lasted less than two weeks, a departure from other years, when he stayed for almost a month. Bush's primary home, once he leaves office, will be in Dallas, a hundred and twenty miles away. His Presidential library will be there, at Southern Methodist University, not at Baylor University, in nearby Waco, as locals had initially hoped. (Waco, a city eager to rebrand itself after the 1993 Branch Davidian standoff, had posted a sign in its visitors' center that boasted, "How do you spell Waco? Well, it starts with a Dubya." It was later taken down.)
In July, at a closed-door Republican fund-raiser in Houston, Bush was caught in a video, taken by a guest, talking about the economic downturn. "Wall Street got drunk . . . and now it's got a hangover," Bush said. "We've got a housing issue," he went on, and then added, in a tone of mock gravity, "Not in Houston, evidently not in Dallas, because Laura's over there trying to buy a house today."
The crowd erupted in laughter. "What about Crawford?" someone shouted.
"I like Crawford," Bush said. Then, with the helplessness of a husband who, having put his wife through a hardship assignment, now has to make it up to her, he went on, "Unfortunately, after eight years of asking her to sacrifice, I'm now no longer the decision-maker." The laughter grew louder as he continued, "She'll be deciding—thanks for the suggestion. I suggest you don't yell it out when she's here."
During the President's stay in Crawford this August, only a dozen or so reporters were stationed in town; most of the national press corps was on the campaign trail. Even the Peace House—a run-down bungalow east of the railroad tracks that had served as base for peace activists since 2003—was deserted, its shutters drawn behind a sign that said "No Preemptive Armageddon." "Joe said this morning when I walked into the coffee shop, 'It sure is quiet in town,' " Clark Weber told me, referring to one of his neighbors. "There was nobody on the streets. Everybody's pickup was in front of the right house. Nobody had run off with nobody's wife. Joe and I sat there and looked at one another and drank coffee, and we couldn't even think of anything to talk about."
The first game of the high-school football season fell two days after Bush returned to Washington. Obama had given his acceptance speech the night before at the Democratic National Convention, and, earlier that day, McCain had announced that Sarah Palin would be his running mate. But the talk in the stands that night was about the merits of the Pirates' defensive strategy, and whether Franklin Industrial Minerals, the rock quarry that is the town's largest private employer, was going to shift to a four-day workweek because of the rising cost of fuel. The stadium was crowded, and under the electric lights the air was warm and humid. "Two bits, four bits, six bits, a dollar!" Crawford's cheerleaders cried between cartwheels. "All for the Pirates, stand up and holler!" Little girls in miniature cheerleader uniforms studied them from the sidelines. Boys chased one another under the bleachers. Behind me, a chorus of directives was shouted at the players by their fathers. ("Come on, now!" "Rough him up!" "Get him!" "Pick it up, boys!") When one of the Pirates suffered an injury and lay on the ground grimacing, his teammates knelt on one knee until he stood up and limped off the field to a roar of applause. Crawford trounced the Jarrell Cougars, 20–3, and at the end of the game everyone rose to their feet to sing the school song. Afterward, the players repaired to First Baptist Church for Kool-Aid and Frito pie.
By the time I left town, the sky was moonless and dark. A freight train cast the only bright light for miles as it hurtled across the prairie. On Main Street, a "Bush Country" banner that had decorated one of the grain silos was missing. The wind had knocked it down a while ago, and no one had bothered to hang it up again. ♦


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There are a lot of arguments for why tactical rifles, incorrectly labeled "assault weapons" in the media, should be banned. Most of the arguments against "assault weapons" are the same arguments used against firearms of any kind.
Many of these arguments have propagated through the media for decades, and even though judicial courts have addressed some of them, they keep marching on. By continuing to bring up the same trite points, they show that in the battle of reasoning, they are unarmed [pardon the 2nd pun, I couldn't resist]. They are probably also hoping that you haven't read the counter points in this discussion.
1] Anti-gun proponents claim that because the 2nd Amendment contains a clause that includes "a well regulated militia" as it reads
A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed
that households are not entitled to guns. This is an argument made by people who haven't done a shred of research. To be able to form a militia, a necessary condition would be to have ready access to guns. The alternative suggestion that the anti-gun proponents are making is that you would have to go up to your oppressive government and request a license to form a militia so that you can obtain firearms to fight against them. Yeah, I see that one working out well. C'mon, use your head. This right to personal firearms was only slightly unclear for about 5 years after ratification of the Constitution until the individual right (and as it reads, perhaps a requirement) to arm was retained and strengthened by the Second Militia Act of 1792.
Interpretation of the law varied from state to state and city to city and lower courts generally dealt with any cases related to the Second Amendment as they came up. Many cities including Washington D.C. and Chicago passed various ordinances banning handguns and other firearms they didn't like and the laws remained on the books for decades. It was only until recently that higher courts got involved and started making significant rulings.
In regards to an interstate firearms transportation case, in 2001, United States v. Emerson, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit held that the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution guarantees individuals the right to bear arms. Then in 2008, in District of Columbia v. Heller, the Supreme Court of the United States held that the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution protects an individual's right to possess a firearm for traditionally lawful purposes, such as self-defense within the home and within federal enclaves. It struck down the D.C. law and determined that handguns are "arms" for the purposes of the Second Amendment. Cities, such as Chicago, still felt that these ruling did not apply to them because the courts only mentioned states and federal enclaves and not local ordinances. This was ultimately decided by the Supreme Court in 2010, with the landmark ruling in McDonald v. Chicago, which held that the "Second Amendment was incorporated under the Fourteenth Amendment thus protecting those rights from infringement by local governments."
It should be noted that within four days, Chicago implemented a de facto ban on handguns by adopting the Responsible Gun Owners Ordinance, a number of draconian restrictions on owning firearms. These restrictions included requiring owners to have certified classroom and range training, but banning ranges in the city limits, banning gun stores inside city limits, not allowing a gun owner to step into their garage with their firearm, only allowing one working firearm in the home at any given moment, and owners had to visit multiple locations to register the gun yearly along with licensing fees.
Part of this ordinance was overturned with Ezell v. Chicago. The city had argued that applicants could obtain their training at gun ranges outside the city. The court opinion noted that Chicago could not infringe Second Amendment rights on the grounds that they could be exercised elsewhere, any more than it could infringe the right to freedom of speech on the grounds that citizens could speak elsewhere [page 20].
Some of the other ordinances are currently being challenged in court, and may take years to resolve.
2] "The "Second Amendment" was written 220 years ago when 3.9 million people lived in America and the most powerful guns available were single-shot flint-lock muskets."
The First Amendment was written 220 years ago when the word "press" meant having an iron machine the size of a Chevy Suburban with movable type that rolled out copies of paper. It didn't say anything about radio, TV or the internet, so should we assume that freedom of speech doesn't apply to those? The Constitution has been ruled to be a "living document" that applies reasonable standards to modern life. I'd also like to add that those "most powerful guns available" were also the same guns that the military had at the time. The real purpose of "assault" rifles is so the citizens have comparable weapons to the military's.
3] "Guns make it much, much easier for people to kill people."
Well, I would hope so, given that that is the point of what a "gun" is for. I don't know about you, but when I buy a car, I want it to be able to drive. Obviously, it is supposed to be used in a responsible and law abiding manner but there will always be law breakers and people can misuse anything. They can drive a car into crowd, or stab people with knives. Or do both.
4] "Nothing will stop people from going crazy, therefore, we should rid ourselves of these devices that crazy people will get a hold of"
So because .003%* of citizens may misuse a device in a given year, you feel that everyone should have their rights taken away? Shouldn't that then apply to cars since some small percentage misuse them and kill people? How many law abiding citizens have guns out there and are using them responsibly?
5] "Anyone who thinks a few assault weapons will allow citizens to resist tyranny and overthrow our government hasn't seen the weaponry our military has developed in the past 200 years. Your little "militia" is going to hold off the U.S. Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marines? Keep dreaming."
There are 1.4 million active service members in the US military. There are 115 million households in the US. If we assume that at least one adult from each household is an able-bodied person capable of firing a weapon, then there are 82 militia civilians per military servicemen. The Marines may be good, but they aren't that good. Clearly, having decent rifles and munitions to fight this force would be required. Bringing a musket to a machine gun fight wouldn't exactly be a fair fight. Sure, if the Army pulled out the tanks and nuclear weapons they could level the country, but would that kind of a takeover be what they want? No. They would have to fight with infantrymen occupying cities and controlling the people and means of production. After ten years in the War Against Terror, how is it that those little 'ole uneducated, poor, cave dwellers in Afghanistan are still giving the great military might of the USA such a hard time? Because they aren't throwing rocks.
6] "The only thing having MORE guns in schools, malls, theaters, and other public places would do is increase the number of gun-related deaths."
This is debatable. Furthermore, millions of guns are already out there. Passing laws against law abiding citizens certainly isn't the solution since criminals by definition don't obey laws. Schools have been "Gun Free Zones" since 1990, so why didn't that stop Adam Lanza?
7] "Banning assault weapons would not completely eliminate mass shootings, but they might help."
Kind of like how banning cars might help prevent vehicular homicide, right? But let's look at the data shall we? Last year, only 323 people died by a rifle. That's out of 8,583 firearm murders. And an "assault" rifle is a subset of the rifle category. The simple fact of the matter is that "assault" rifles are rarely used to commit murder. More people are killed with blunt objects (496), knives (1,694), and bare hands (728) every year. And if these weapons are banned, will it really have much of an impact on the bottom line? Let's take a look: In 2003, assault rifles had been banned for almost 10 years. How many deaths by rifle that year? 392. These trends hold in nearly the same ratio no matter what year one is looking at.
So the next time someone starts arguing with you about why guns should be outlawed, remind them that it's called the Bill of Rights, not the bill of suggestions.
*8,000 firearm murders / 311 million citizens (Lower bound ratio assuming that there is only one murder per murderer, whereas usually there is more than one murder per murderer).


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One Family, One Day, Geocaching in Six Countries
A family of four took the idea of the 'road trip' and turned a traditional drive into a fast-paced geocaching adventure. Delta68 is the husband and wife team of Mark and Donna. The couple was vacationing in Europe this September with their two teenage children Steven and Beth.
The family was all packed and set to return home to the United Kingdom when Mark made a realization. Their trip home from the Netherlands to England could yield caches in five, maybe even six, countries if they included Luxembourg. But the cache in Luxembourg was more than a hundred miles out of the way.
Mark admits that he had to do a little convincing. After some negotiating, the family launched on their treasure hunt at 7 a.m. They began logging caches in country after country. Their first cache in in the Netherlands was GC233ZX Echt-Susteren en zijn kernen (Roosteren). The family then navigated to caches in Germany and drove out of the way of their departure city in France. They turned south into Luxembourg and Belgium.
They stopped for lunch in Belgium—now more than two hundred miles from Calais, France and their way back to England.
Mark says, "I checked TomTom to see how long it would take to get to Calais … 5 Hours!! I asked Steven and Beth how I was going to break it to Donna. 'Mum! We're five hours from Calias!' shouted Steven. That's solved that dilemma. :-)"
The family then drove 205 miles to log a cache in France. The long-haul set the stage to find geocaches in six countries. They just needed to return to their home in England.
Delta68 and their two children traveled back to England before the day ended. One final cache in the U.K. sealed the geocaching achievement. They family logged caches in six countries in less than 24 hours.
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Mark says the total distance traveled added up to 617 miles. He sums up the family's geocaching feat as, "Certainly a memorable day."
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This vegan Tango footwear is made without any animal ingredients or byproducts. Very comfortable soles. Provides superior comfort that lets you dance for long hours. Get your pair before it is gone!
In general, Madame Pivot women's tango shoes fit is slightly more generous than Tangolera women's tango shoes.
Please note, this is an approximate size conversion guide. Conversions may vary from brand to brand. For further information or advice, contact customer care.
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TrueType (.ttf) and TrueType-flavored OpenType (.ttf) work best in Microsoft® Office. Typically, PostScript-flavored OpenType (.otf) contain additional features and glyphs that apps like Excel®, Word®, and PowerPoint® can not access. Also, PowerPoint® only allows TrueType fonts to be embedded into a saved presentation.
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In the publishing trade, a blurb is a testimonial to the book that is printed on the dust jacket. It is meant as an advertisement for the book. The origin of blurb is one of the more humorous etymologies.
Blurb was coined by the American humorist Gelett Burgess in 1907. According to his publisher, B.W. Huebsch, Burgess's book, Are You a Bromide?, had been published and was selling well. At the annual trade association dinner that year the publisher distributed some five hundred copies of the book with a special jacket, as was the custom. It was also:
the common practise to print the picture of a damsel—languishing, heroic, or coquettish—anyhow, a damsel on the jacket of every novel.
Burgess provided a drawing of a particularly buxom and pulchritudinous blonde for the jacket and labeled her Miss Blinda Blurb. The name stuck, eventually including not only drawings of buxom women but also any excessive testimonial to the book.
From Burgess's Burgess Unabridged, 1914:
Blurb 1. A flamboyant advertisement; an inspired testimonial. 2. Fulsome praise; a sound like a publisher...On the "jacket" of the "latest" fiction, we find the blurb; abounding in agile adjectives and adverbs, attesting that this book is the "sensation of the year."
(Sources: Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd Edition; Mencken, The American Language, Supplement I)
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Re: New FREE VIP Tournaments
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Appeared in 30 games ... Averaged 2.4 points per game ... Recorded one double-double on the season ... Made two baskets, dished out two assists and made a steal at Loyola Marymount (Nov. 19) ... Came down with six rebounds and finished with five points against Utah at Battle 4 Atlantis (Nov. 24) ... Hit two baskets on road at Vermont (Dec. 1) ... Scored a career-high 19 points and grabbed a career-best 10 points for a double-double on 6-of-8 shooting in only 19 minutes against Seattle (Dec. 4) ... Tabbed Ivy Rookie of the Week Dec. 5 ... Came down with six rebounds at Boston University (Dec. 10) ... Made both baskets and was 3-of-3 from the foul line for seven points in 10 minutes against George Washington (Jan. 14) ... Made all four foul shots, finishing with six points at Brown (Jan. 28) ... Scored five points and collected four boards against Brown (Feb. 17).
Son of Jacqueline and Nathaniel ... Earned varsity letters in basketball, cross country and track & field at De La Salle … Captained basketball and cross country squads … Earned first-team All-Metro honors … Tabbed all-conference three times … Named to all-state first team … Two-time Star Tribune Player of the Week … Named to St. Paul Pioneer Press all-city team … Other interests include chess, fishing and swimming.
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The whole album is a rarity, lately! I give 2DV high probability for a return to the set, so I'm leaving it off here..
Going Without
Silent House
Ocean Blue
We Once Held Hands
Life's What's Killing Me
The whole album is a rarity, lately! I give 2DV high probability for a return to the set, so I'm leaving it off here..
This one is too hard... I want to hear ALL of these live!!! How do I choose... ??
"... the nighttime falls around our bed, in peace we sleep entwined, and your love flows through me, though an ocean soothes my head, I burn for you..."
Just voted for "Ocean Blue," which has a pretty good lead in this poll at the moment.....
I don't "go through channels." I dig my own....
Had to go with Going Without. As rarities go, this is the one I'd love to hear the most.
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Script Plugin for DrRacket
Laurent Orseau <laurent dot orseauREMOVEME at gmail dot com>
1 Introduction
The Script Plugin is now superseded by Quickscript.
The Script Plugin's purpose is to make it easy to extend DrRacket with small Racket scripts that can be used in the definition (or interaction) window, or to graphically interact with the user.
Creating a new script is as easy as a click on a menu item. Each script is automatically added as an item to the Scripts menu, without needing to restart DrRacket. A keyboard shortcut can be assigned to a script (via the menu item). By default, a script takes as input the currently selected text, and outputs the replacement text. There is also direct access to some elements of DrRacket GUI for advanced scripting, like DrRacket's frame and the definition or interaction editor.
2 Some demonstration videos
Tab indent plugin: Word alignment
Abstract variable plugin: Turn an expression into a definition
3 Installation
A warning about "item-callback" may appear, you can safely ignore it.
(If the documentation does not build up correctly, run raco pkg setup --doc-index.)
You need to restart DrRacket. Now you should have a new item Scripts in the menu bar.
4 Sample scripts
Auto-completion (see "complete-word.rkt") based on some predefined snippets (particularly useful for forms like parameterize).
Search and replace in the selected text, possibly using regular expressions; some templates are also predefined (see "regexp-replace.rkt").
Dynamic abbrevation and word completion (see "dabbrev.rkt"): In the editor, removes the right-hand-side part of the current word at the cursor position if any, and completes the left-hand-side word at the cursor position with the next possible rhs word occuring in the text. The cursor position is not modified, therefore by calling this procedure repeatedly, it is possible to cycle among all the corresponding words.
Provided-by (see "provided-by.rkt"): place the cursor on a word, click on the Provided by menu item and a list of the packages defining the corresponding form shows up.
Enter submodule (see "enter-submod.rkt"): Place the cursor at the prompt in the interaction window, then click on one of the items in the Enter submodule menu and press Enter; the corresponding submodule is now evaluated and entered.
Bookmarks (see "bookmarks.rkt"): Easily navigate your files based on section comment headers (modify it to your liking!).
On-screen signature of the function at the cursor (see "def-signatures.rkt", somewhat obsoleted by the blue boxes, but can show information about forms that are not in scope).
Commit/update files from repositories (see "git.rkt").
Automatic reformatting and custom indentation (see "indent-table.rkt"), particularly useful for mid-line alignment.
ASCII frames and styling (upper-case, ASCII art, etc.) for comment titles, sections, etc. (see "sections.rkt").
Automatic comments, e.g. with today's date, user name, licenses, etc. (see "author-date.rkt").
Color chooser: Opens the color chooser and writes a string constructing an RGB color with make-color (see "color-chooser.rkt").
Open the directory of the current file in the editor (see "open-dir.rkt".)
Open a terminal in the directory of the current file in DrRacket (see "open-terminal.rkt".)
Easily open a core Racket file in DrRacket (see "open-collects.rkt").
Turn DrRacket into a very rich text editor with slideshow (see "test-slideshow.rkt").
Add your own menus and scripts to DrRacket (see "test-menu.rkt").
You can easily modify all these scripts through Scripts/Manage scripts/Open script and Open script properties.
You made a cool script that you'd like to share? Why not sending me a pull request on github, or if you don't know how that works just send me your files by email and I'll probably include them!
5 Make your own script: First simple example
Click on the Scripts/Manage scripts/New script... menu item, and enter Reverse for the script name. This creates and opens the files reverse.rkt and reverse.rktd in the script directory. Also, a new item automatically appears in the Scripts menu.
(define (item-callback str) (list->string (reverse (string->list str))))
Then go to a new tab, type some text, select it, and click on Scripts/Reverse, and voilà!
6 Description
The plugin adds a Scripts menu to the main window. This menu has several items, followed by the (initially empty) list of active scripts.
a .rkt file, the script itself (filled with a default script template),
a .rktd file, the metadata of the script with the default values.
The script menu is rebuilt each time the user activates it, so that changes are taken into account as soon as possible.
6.1 The .rkt file
This is the script file. It must provide the item-callback function, as in the sample code. It is meant to be executable by itself, as a normal module, to ease the testing process.
The path to the current file of the definition window, or #f if there is no such file (i.e., unsaved editor).Example:
(define (item-callback str #:file f) (string-append "(in " (if f (path->string f) "no-file") ": " str))
See also: file-name-from-path, filename-extension, path->string, split-path.
#:definitions : text%
The text% editor of the current definition window.
Example: "insert-lambda.rkt"
See text% for more details.
#:interactions : text%
The text% editor of the current interaction window. Similar to #:definitions.
#:editor : text%
The text% current editor, either the definition or the interaction editor. Similar to #:definitions.
#:frame : drracket:unit:frame<%>
DrRacket's frame. For advanced scripting.Example:
The name of the function can also be changed, but this requires to change it also in the functions entry of the .rktd file (see below), and the function must be provided.
6.2 The .rktd file
This is the metadata file. It contains an association list dictionary that defines the configuration of the script.
Note: This file being a data file, it should almost never contain quotes. The quotes in the following definitions must thus not appear in the file.
Most entries (label, shortcut, shortcut-prefix, help-string) are the same as for the menu-item% constructor. In particular, a keyboard shortcut can be assigned to an item.
Additionally, if the label is 'separator, then a separator is added in the menu.
If an entry does not appear in the dictionary, it takes its default value.
functions : (or/c symbol? (listof (list/c symbol? string?))) = item-callback
If a symbol, it is the name of the function to call (which must be provided), and it must follow item-callback's signature (with potential extensions).
If a list, each symbol is the name of a function, and each string is a label for that function. In this case, a sub-menu holding all these functions is created, and the label option is used as the parent menu name.
Note that a sub-menu can be shared among scripts.
Example:The following .rktd file creates a sub-menu named My Functions (with the letter F for keyboard access), containing 3 items, one for each function and its associated letter-accessor.
((label . "My &Functions") (functions . ((my-function1 "My Function #&1") (my-function2 "My Function #&2") (my-function3 "My Function #&3") )) (output-to . message-box) (active . #f) )And the associated .rkt example file:
#lang racket/base (provide my-function1) (define (my-function1 str) "1") (provide my-function2) (define (my-function2 str) "2") (provide my-function3) (define (my-function3 str) "3")
Note: The label can also be 'separator.
output-to : (one-of/c 'selection 'new-tab 'message-box #f) = 'selection
If 'selection, the output of the item-callback function replaces the selection in the current tab, or insert at the cursor if there is no selection. If 'new-tab, a new tab is created and the output of the function is written to it. If 'message-box, the output is displayed in a message-box. If #f, no output is generated.
If not persistent, each time a script is invoked, it is done so in a fresh namespace (so that less memory is used, at the expense of a slight time overhead). In particular, all variables are reset to their initial state.
On the contrary, if a script is persistent, a fresh namespace is created only the first time it is invoked, and the same namespace is re-used for the subsequent invocations.Consider the following script:
#lang racket/base (define count 0) (define (item-callback str) (set! count (+ 1 count)) (number->string count))
If the script is persistent, the counter increases at each invocation of the script via the menu, whereas it always displays 1 if the script is not persistent.
Note: Persistent scripts can be "unloaded" by clicking on the Scripts/Manage scripts/Unload persistent scripts menu item. In the previous example, this will reset the counter.
If set to #f, no menu item is generated for this dictionary.
Finally, one .rktd file can contain several such dictionaries (one after the other), which allows for multiple sub-menus and menu items and in a single script. This would have roughly the same effect as splitting such a script into several scripts, each one with its own .rktd file and its single dictionary.
If any change is made to a .rktd file, the Scripts menu will probably need to be reloaded: Click on Scripts/Manage scripts/Reload scripts menu.
7 Scripts directory
The default location of the user's scripts is in a sub-folder of (find-system-path 'pref-dir). The directory of the user's scripts can be changed through DrRacket's preferences (in Edit/Preferences/Scripts). Important: The user's script directory must have write-access for the user (which should be the case for the default settings).
The Import bundled script item is useful to either restore a bundled script to its initial contents if you have made changes, or import new scripts after an update of the plugin.
Note: Bundled scripts are automatically copied from the plugin directory to the user script directory on installation. To force the recopy of all bundled scripts, just delete the user script directory (itself, not only its contents) and restart DrRacket.
8 Updating the Script Plugin package
To update the Script Plugin once already installed, either do so through the File/Package Manager menu in DrRacket, or run raco pkg update script-plugin.
The user's scripts will not be modified in the process. There may be new bundled scripts or new versions of some bundled scripts in the new package; they won't be (re)installed by default in the user's space. To (re)install them, import them with the Import bundled script menu item. To import all bundled scripts at once, delete or rename the user script directory and restart DrRacket; the directory will be recreated with all bundled scripts (then move your own scripts from the renamed folder to this new one if you had moved them).
Some scripts are persistent (like the "def-signatures" one) and require to click on the Unload persistent scripts menu item for the changes to take effect.
9 License
MIT License
Copyright (c) 2012 by Laurent Orseau <email@example.com>.
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.


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AUVIA(4) NetBSD Kernel Interfaces Manual AUVIA(4) NAME auvia -- VIA VT82C686A/VT8233/VT8235/VT8237 integrated AC'97 audio device driver SYNOPSIS auvia* at pci? dev ? function ? audio* at audiobus? DESCRIPTION The auvia device driver supports the integrated AC'97 audio controller of the VIA Technologies VT82C686A/VT8233/VT8235/VT8237 Southbridge chip found on some motherboards. SEE ALSO ac97(4), audio(4), pci(4) HISTORY The auvia driver was originally written by Tyler C. Sarna for NetBSD 1.5. NetBSD 9.0 June 22, 2005 NetBSD 9.0
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2018 Atlanta Region SCCA Autocross Points 10
SCCA - Atlanta Region - Solo
Registration closed November 10, 2018 11:59 PM on November 10, 2018 11:59 PM EST Registration ends November 10, 2018 11:59 PM on November 10, 2018 11:59 PM EST Registration opens January 1, 2018 12:00 AM on January 1, 2018 12:00 AM EST Registration runs from January 1, 2018 12:00 AM to November 10, 2018 11:59 PM
Points 10 - Sunday, November 10th at Atlanta Motor Speedway!
Until further notice, we will be running on a three-heat format. Each class will be placed into Heat A, B, or C. Attempts will be made to keep the same classes running together throughout the season, but some classes may need to shift to help balance the numbers in the three heats. Which heat runs at what point during the day will rotate throughout the season, so that everyone will have equal time running first, working first, and resting first. Please pay attention to the Heat assignments that are posted at Registration.
The Rookie Class is a new program for drivers (preferably with less than a year of experience) looking to develop their skills against other drivers in an indexed class, but without jumping into the deep end of Pro. Our Novice Orientation program offers one of the finest novice programs in the country! If you are participating in autocross for the first time or have very little experience, it is mandatory that you Sign-Up for the Novice Class. Our novice class is limited to 20 participants each event. You will receive information on how to prepare for your first autocross experience after registering and given extra guidance and runs at the event. Payment for those participating in the Novice Orientation class will be collected within 2 days of signing up. Questions? Check out our forum on http://forum.atlantascca.com for more info on our Novice Orientation Program. The Solo 101 thread gives you very pertinent information.
7:30 Gates open
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8:15 Tech opens
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9:45 Driver's Meeting
9:50 Heat A Worker Check-in
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The run / work / rest order is as follows:
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- Junior Karts will always run in the first heat, all karting runs completed prior to any car runs.
- Novice will always run a Rest-Run-Work schedule. Novices are encouraged to seek ride-alongs during their Rest session to help familiarize themselves with the course.
- Pro will always run a Work-Rest-Run schedule. Pro drivers are encouraged to assist with Novices during their Rest session, which coincides with the Novice Run session. Willing Pro drivers should check in with the Novice chief to notify him of their availability.
- There will be no dedicated lunch break. Please plan accordingly and eat during your rest session, or bring snacks that accommodate your schedule as needed.
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The 160 players who will compete at Japan 2012 were confirmed this Thursday. To see the full squad list of each team, click on the respective link in the right-hand column.
Players from every continent, many with vast international experience, will begin competing for this year's FIFA Club World Cup crown when proceedings get underway in Japan on 6 December. But which of the seven competing sides will be top of the podium after the final in Yokohama ten days later?
With a diverse squad containing players of nine different nationalities, London club Chelsea will be the most cosmopolitan side in Japan. Among their numbers will be veteran England stars John Terry, Ashley Cole and Frank Lampard, Czech goalkeeper Petr Cech as well as Spain's world and two-time European champion Fernando Torres.
Recently appointed coach Rafa Benitez, who led Inter Milan to triumph in this competition in 2010, will be hoping to blend the latter's experience with the youthful promise of players like Belgium's Eden Hazard, Brazil's Oscar and possibly even his teenage compatriot Lucas Piazon, who finds himself among the professionals on this major global stage only a year after gracing the FIFA U-17 World Cup in Mexico.
With an English name but representing the finest traditions of Brazilian football, Corinthianswillhave the only two players at Japan 2012 to have already won this tournament (having actually played): left-back Fabio Santos and midfielder Danilo.
Both were champions with Sao Paulo in 2005, when their final opponents were a Liverpool side coached by none other than Benitez. In quite a homogenous-looking squad, holding midfielder Paulinho, who is establishing himself for Brazil, deserves singling out, as does veteran Peruvian striker Paolo Guerrero, not least for his extensive experience.
Back in Japan for a second consecutive tilt at the title, Mexico's Monterrey have a tried and tested nucleus of players, many of them local. Among that number are such key members as up-and-coming defender Severo Meza, who impressed against Neymar in a June 2012 international friendly with Brazil and has been a fixture with El Tri in their FIFA World Cup™ qualifying campaign, and forward Aldo De Nigris.
In addition to their Mexican stars, the CONCACAF champions have no shortage of South American talent in their ranks, including the experienced Argentinians Cesar Delgado and Neri Cardozo, Ecuador's Walter Ayovi and prolific Chilean Humberto Suazo.
For their part, Egypt's Al Ahly will be taking part in this tournament for the fourth time, their most recent appearance having been in 2008. The Cairo giants have in their ranks some of the most revered players in Egyptian football, including Mohamed Aboutrika and Gedo, who was outstanding in the latter stages of this year's CAF Champions League. Representing Oceania, Auckland City FC can boast the most-capped New Zealander of all time in the form of their captain Ivan Vicelich.
Asian champions Ulsan Hyundai, can call on several members of the Korea Republic national team, including Lee Keunho, Kim Shinwook and Kwak Taehwi, while Japan's representative Sanfrecce Hiroshima, the last to qualify after winning the recently concluded 2012 J-league, have in their ranks national-team goalkeeper Shusaku Nishikawa and a young team buoyed by this season's success.


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The Latest Food Manufacturing and Safety Strategies Shaping the Future of the Industry
10 Dec, 2012, 09:00 GMT
LONDON, December 10, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --
The 3rd Annual European Food Manufacturing & Safety Summit programme has been researched to present exclusive insights into the improvements of productivity, achieving continuous improvement and maximising food safety and quality whilst reducing costs.
"Challenging, invigorating, motivating and rewarding"
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"Bringing specialists and experts together in the right mix"
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"Great networking opportunity across many businesses facing serious challenges"
Stephen McIlrath, Production & Product Supply Director, Stock Spirits
Meet with over 150 senior food and beverage professionals from across Europe on 11th-12th February 2013 at the Grand Hotel Huis ter Duin Noordwijk, The Netherlands.
Programme highlights include -
-Achieving lean management success throughout food manufacturing operations
Nick Turvey, Quality, Environment, Health and Safety Director, The Coca-Cola Company
-Creating a food safety culture - Food safety equals behavior?
Frank Yiannas, Vice President, Food Safety, Walmart
-Using enterprise level lean thinking to track and improve productivity across multiple locations
Damian Triffitt, Group Lean Controller, United Biscuits
-Enhancing sustainability into business strategies, operations and culture
Annette Hansen, Director of Sustainability, DuPont Nutrition & Health
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This leading European Food Manufacturing & Safety Summit features leading professionals from multinationals as well as small companies allowing for a wide variety of networking opportunities and pre-arranged one-to-one meetings.
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Hey, Sorry for neglecting my blog. As you guys read in my last post I have a close family member in the hospital. Things are getting a little better, but he's still not discharged. I want to thank all of you for the best wishes. It means a lot to know that you just don't comment at my wardrobe pictures. You guys are the best. Now on another note. I've been sick for the past three days. I have everything you can think of. Fever, headache, earache, sore throat, cough. I really feel like SH*T. I leave you now with what I wore about a week ago. Thanks again! XOXO
Wearing: Lux skirt & tights, Express T-shirt, Boutique boots.
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i'm glad things are getting better! and i hope that YOU are feeling better as well :) you are more gorgeous than ever!ReplyDelete
Oh, what a lovely outfit! I adore your skirt! ;)ReplyDelete
xoxo: Janet
- AnonymousDecember 17, 2008 at 3:39 PM
really cute skirtReplyDelete
I love this outfit!!!!ReplyDelete
fantastic skirt!!!ReplyDelete
I'm glad things are a lil better with your fam...now for you..i do hope you feel better soon mama! and i must say you are killin those red lips and that skirt! i love it♥ReplyDelete
Glad he's doing better, love! You look great for a sicky...I look... sick. Haha.ReplyDelete
Hey, I'm so glad to hear things are getting better! Hang in there girl. :)ReplyDelete
I gave you an award on my blog too!!
I hope you're okay -- I adore your skirt!ReplyDelete
aww feel better, and yeah hoping the best for your loved one... stay strong =)ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 18, 2008 at 2:27 PM
COOL ! I love it :DReplyDelete
You are such a pretty dresser! :) I love your skirt!ReplyDelete
This look is awesome! I love the different tones of grey paired with that lipstick! It's amazing!ReplyDelete
Soooo glad things are getting better :D You look great as always! I really LOVE your skirt thee most!ReplyDelete
How can your skirt be so adorable? I love it!ReplyDelete
love the skirt, theres a pink one like it in topshop at the minute, i look like a lmapshade in it though! hahaReplyDelete
hope you get better for christmas!
FEROCIOUS boots!!!ReplyDelete
Great idea pairing them with the flirty skirt. I adore... :)
very nice skirt !!! you look very sweety in this outfit !ReplyDelete
I reallly hope your family member gets better soooooon! I send my best wishes and thoughts!! Stay strong :)ReplyDelete
and beautiful outfit, love the skirt!
Eventhough you feel sick...you look lovely!! I like the skirt and the shoes are to die for!ReplyDelete
oh girl, I am sorry, I hope things get way better! lets hope for a xmas miracle! I ´ll have my fingers crossed for you and your family.ReplyDelete
on the other hand, you look gorgeous :)
im glad ur back!ReplyDelete
u look lovely and im glad that he's doing good!
love this outfit, especially the skirt. glad to hear he's doing better :) hope you get better soon as well!ReplyDelete
I love your outfit! specially the skirt is beautiful, and your make up...oohhhh;DReplyDelete
I LOVE your shoes!!!!!!ReplyDelete
the skirt reminds me of miu miu. very chic! glad that he's getting better. everything will be fine, alright?ReplyDelete
feel well.
happy holidays!
The prismatic effect in the second image is crazy beautiful!ReplyDelete
That skirt!
Those boots!
You look fantastic as always.
i like your style, you're pretty:)ReplyDelete
you look gorgeousReplyDelete
lovely outfit
nice to know you are better now
Lov ur style (add on my blogroll)ReplyDelete
This (gorgeous) skirt looks pretty much like one I saw on Asos website !! Great outfit !ReplyDelete
I love this outfit!!!oh an the boots...ReplyDelete
xoxo M.
Ohhh, I love you(r blog!)ReplyDelete
love this outfit!ReplyDelete
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These workshops focus on the Multistate Bar Exam, featuring diagnostic testing and question-review lectures for all six subjects tested on the MBE: constitutional law, contracts, criminal law/procedure, evidence, real property, and torts. These introductory lectures help build the foundation of students' MBE knowledge with practice questions and explanatory answers. Students are then given the opportunity to apply those skills to a full, 200-question, multiple-choice practice examination.
Students may choose from the workshops offered by Kaplan/PMBR and BarBri. Attendance at all selected workshop sessions is mandatory, including full participation in the Multistate Diagnostic Exam. Only students who complete the mandatory requirements will receive the John Marshall discount for the Kaplan/PMBR or BarBri programs.
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Recipe: Miso-Marinated Cod With Grilled Pineapple Relish
I'm forever on the prowl for ways to make fish enticing for my family. This simple method does the trick. Red miso (soybean paste) and pineapple juice combine to make a flavorful, quick marinade. Meanwhile, fresh pineapple slices and scallions go on the grill. It all takes about 30 minutes from start to finish.
You'll want to move fast; if you let the fish marinate too long, its texture will deteriorate. Also, the fish cooks very quickly on the grill, so be attentive.
Red miso is available in the refrigerated case of most Asian markets and many organic foods markets. It brings a deep umami flavor: sweet, salty and sour.
Miso-Marinated Cod With Grilled Pineapple Relish
4 servings
2 tablespoons red miso (see headnote)
2 tablespoons pineapple juice
1-pound piece skinless cod fillet, cut into 4-ounce portions
1 pound peeled, cored pineapple, cut crosswise into generous 1/4-inch-thick rounds
4 or 5 scallions, trimmed
1 to 2 tablespoons vegetable oil
2 tablespoons apple cider vinegar, or more as needed
1 teaspoon toasted sesame oil, or more as needed
Freshly ground black pepper
Kosher salt (optional)
Prepare the grill for direct heat. If using a gas grill, preheat to medium-high (450 degrees). If using a charcoal grill, light the charcoal or wood briquettes; when the briquettes are ready, distribute them on one side of the cooking area. For a very hot fire, you should be able to hold your hand about 6 inches above the coals for 3 or 4 seconds. Have ready a spray water bottle for taming any flames. Lightly coat the grill rack with oil and place it on the grill.
Whisk together the miso and pineapple juice in a small bowl until smooth. Place the cod fillets on a large plate or piece of aluminum foil. Brush the marinade all over the fillets, coating them completely. Let the fish rest for 15 minutes.
Meanwhile, lightly brush the pineapple slices and scallions with the vegetable oil. Transfer them to the grill. Close the lid and cook, turning once or twice, until the scallions have good grill marks on two sides - 3 to 5 minutes, depending on the thickness of the scallions. The pineapple should cook a little longer, 7 to 8 minutes, until it softens and good grill marks appear. Transfer the pineapple slices to a plate; when they are just cool enough to handle, cut them into 1/4-inch dice. Use kitchen scissors to cut the scallions into 1/4-inch pieces.
Combine the pineapple, scallions, the 2 tablespoons of vinegar and the teaspoon of toasted sesame oil in a bowl. Season lightly with pepper. Wait a few minutes, then taste and add vinegar, toasted sesame oil or salt, if using. Cover to keep warm.
Brush any excess marinade off of the cod fillets and transfer them to the grill. (Discard all of the marinade.) Close the lid and cook for 3 to 4 minutes, until the fish is nicely browned. Use a thin spatula to loosen the fillets and turn them over. Cook for 1 minute (thin fillets) or 2 to 4 minutes (thicker fillets).
Divide the fillets among individual plates. Spoon the pineapple-scallion relish on top of or alongside the fish. Serve right away.
Nutrition Per serving: 180 calories, 21 g protein, 16 g carbohydrates, 4 g fat, 0 g saturated fat, 50 mg cholesterol, 130 mg sodium, 2 g dietary fiber, 11 g sugar


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South Sudan Peace Talks: U.S. Again Calls For Kiir To Release Machar Allies
South Sudan President Kiir; U.S. Wants Him to release Machar's political associates
[Africa News]The following statement was released today in Washington, D.C., by Jen Psaki, the top spokesperson at the U.S. Department of State.
Secretary Kerry spoke yesterday with South Sudanese President Kiir to discuss ways to advance the talks taking place in Ethiopia between the parties to the conflict in South Sudan.
He also – Secretary Kerry also reiterated his support for the democratically elected Government of South Sudan. He urged President Kiir to use the talks to find a peaceful, democratic way forward and reiterated the need for senior SPLM members currently detained by the Government of Sudan to be present for political discussions to be meaningful and productive.
He asked President Kiir to make good on his commitment to release all political detainees immediately.
The two also discussed the urgent need for both sides to immediately halt fighting on the ground and protect civilians even as talks continue. The Secretary reiterated that the United States will deny support and work to apply international pressure to any elements that use force to seize power from the Government of South Sudan.
As you know, Special Envoy – the President's Special Envoy Booth is in Ethiopia, has been for the last couple days in support of the talks between the parties which are ongoing. He's pressing them to reach a ceasefire and ensure humanitarian access. We still believe, of course, and continue to reiterate the fact that we believe these negotiations need to be serious, both sides need to listen to the region and the international community.
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CALGARY, ALBERTA--(Marketwired - July 16, 2013) - The Alberta Energy Regulator (AER) officially opened its Fort McMurray Regional Office today following the Government of Alberta's proclamation of the Responsible Energy Development Act.
"Albertans take seriously that development of our abundant energy resources must be done responsibly," said Energy Minister Ken Hughes. "Nowhere is this more evident than in the dedicated work of our important field staff."
The organization is tasked with ensuring that Alberta's oil, oil sands, natural gas, and coal are developed safely, efficiently, and in an environmentally responsible manner.
"The AER will truly be a full life-cycle regulator for energy resource development in Alberta - from application and construction to abandonment and reclamation, and everything in between," said Executive Vice President of Corporate Services Division Rick Brown.
The AER also launched a 24-hour toll free emergency response line and its new website, www.aer.ca. The toll-free phone line, 1-800-222-6514, is to be used for all energy and environmental emergencies and complaints which had previously been directed to individual field centres throughout the province and is staffed 24 hours a day. General inquiries or regulatory questions should be directed to the AER's Customer Contact Centre at 1-855-297-8311 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
The new website, www.aer.ca, provides detailed information on AER requirements and initiatives. The website is smartphone compatible and includes links to social media feeds operated by the AER for information updates. The AER also launched a systems and tools portal which includes user guides and links to all AER systems, including the Data Digital Submission system, map viewers, and query tools.
The Alberta Energy Regulator ensures the safe, efficient, orderly, and environmentally responsible development of hydrocarbon resources over their entire life cycle. This includes allocating and conserving water resources, managing public lands, and protecting the environment while providing economic benefits for all Albertans.
The Fort McMurray Regional Office opened its doors as the Alberta Energy Regulator today as the new regulator launches across the province. The Alberta Energy Regulator will be taking on additional regulatory duties over the coming year to ensure public safety, environmental protection, and conservation of Alberta's hydrocarbon resources. The Alberta Energy Regulator was established to provide full life-cycle energy regulation for oil, oil sands, natural gas, and coal development in Alberta. More information is available at www.aer.ca.
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