Aces High Bulletin Board
General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: beet1e on November 29, 2002, 09:24:23 AM
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Drove into Marlow today... couldn't find anywhere to park. Every last space in the car parks taken, and had to drive to the edge of town to park. :( And Tomato said the words I dread: "Christmas shopping!" Oh no, not again. We've only just recovered from the last bout.
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use the internet, cripes...
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And Tomato said the words I dread: "Christmas shopping!"
I thought you were going to say " Anti, anti gun thread"
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Wlfgang! LOL - I can't use the Internet to get to Marlow. :p
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Yes I KNOW it's a game, and I KNOW it's your $14.95/month. But games have rules. How would you like it if someone moved your golf ball on the fairway, or moved your chess pieces around while you were taking a bathroom break?
How does any of this relate to AH? Does someone move your plane/gv/pt around when you aren't looking? I would be mad too...... luckily this hasn't happened to me yet.
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:) hey I feel your pain.
I live in a ski resort town and the ski area opened yesterday.
so here come the long lines, tourons and high prices...
so I shop via the Internet for Christmas.
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yes, Xmas shopping can be rough... hopefully you won't be strongarmed too.
lazs
"Alan Travis, home affairs editor
Friday February 23, 2001
The Guardian
England and Wales have one of the worst crime records in the industrialised world - even worse than America - according to the findings of an official survey published yesterday which compares the experience of victims across 17 countries.
The study, coordinated by the Dutch ministry of justice, shows England and Wales at the top of the world league with Australia as the countries where you are most likely to become a victim of crime. These countries face an annual rate of 58 crimes for every 100 inhabitants.
The findings, based on interviews with 35,000 people about their experience of crime across the 17 countries, were carried out last year. They are a blow to Labour's record and underline the challenge facing Tony Blair when he marks the launch of Labour's 10-year anti-crime plan next Monday by becoming the first serving prime minister to visit a prison.
The 2000 International Crime Victimisation survey shows that the falls in crime recorded since the mid-1990s in England and Wales are part of a general pattern of falling crime across the industrialised world but, unlike America, crime levels in England and Wales are still higher than they were at the end of the 1980s. When the survey was last carried out in 1996, England and Wales also topped the league table with 61 offences per 100 inhabitants.
The survey does show, however, that Britain has the best services when it comes to looking after the victims of crime, but it also shows we have a tougher approach to punishing criminals. Asked what should be done with a burglar convicted of stealing a colour television for a second time, more than 50% in England and Wales said he or she should be sent to prison for two years. Only 7% in Spain and 12% in France thought he or she should be jailed at all.
People were asked whether they had been victims of a range of 11 different offences in the previous 12 months, including violent and sexual assault, car crime, burglary and consumer fraud.
The survey also shows that Scotland, with 43 offences per 100 inhabitants, ranks joint fifth alongside America in the international crime league behind England, Australia, the Netherlands and Sweden. Northern Ireland has the second best crime record of the countries surveyed, with 24 offences per 100 inhabitants - the same rate as Switzerland and only just above Japan where the biggest crime problem is bicycle thefts. The detailed findings of the ICVS survey showthat England and Wales are top of the international league for car thefts with 2.6% of all car owners suffering the loss of their vehicle in the previous 12 months. In other sorts of car crime, England was second only to Poland.
Australia and then England and Wales had the highest burglary rates and rates for violent crimes such as robbery, assault and sexual assault "
the result of the backward thinking of the home office is the brutalizing of its helpless citizens... helpless to defend themselves against the strong and the vicious... a trajic example of "form over substance"... "let them eat cake" The lawless run england... In America... 3,000,000 such crimes are prevented by firearms... citizens have freedom and dignity one good thing about englands crime rate.... they have, obviously by necessity, learned to care for the traumatized, humiliated and injured victims...guess that's something....
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How does any of this relate to AH?
It doesn't - hence use of the O'Club. :D
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lo lazs
hey! did you get to kill your own turkey ????
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I do all my hunting at Safeway these days wolfie..
lazs
"Alan Travis, home affairs editor
Friday February 23, 2001
The Guardian
England and Wales have one of the worst crime records in the industrialised world - even worse than America - according to the findings of an official survey published yesterday which compares the experience of victims across 17 countries.
The study, coordinated by the Dutch ministry of justice, shows England and Wales at the top of the world league with Australia as the countries where you are most likely to become a victim of crime. These countries face an annual rate of 58 crimes for every 100 inhabitants.
The findings, based on interviews with 35,000 people about their experience of crime across the 17 countries, were carried out last year. They are a blow to Labour's record and underline the challenge facing Tony Blair when he marks the launch of Labour's 10-year anti-crime plan next Monday by becoming the first serving prime minister to visit a prison.
The 2000 International Crime Victimisation survey shows that the falls in crime recorded since the mid-1990s in England and Wales are part of a general pattern of falling crime across the industrialised world but, unlike America, crime levels in England and Wales are still higher than they were at the end of the 1980s. When the survey was last carried out in 1996, England and Wales also topped the league table with 61 offences per 100 inhabitants.
The survey does show, however, that Britain has the best services when it comes to looking after the victims of crime, but it also shows we have a tougher approach to punishing criminals. Asked what should be done with a burglar convicted of stealing a colour television for a second time, more than 50% in England and Wales said he or she should be sent to prison for two years. Only 7% in Spain and 12% in France thought he or she should be jailed at all.
People were asked whether they had been victims of a range of 11 different offences in the previous 12 months, including violent and sexual assault, car crime, burglary and consumer fraud.
The survey also shows that Scotland, with 43 offences per 100 inhabitants, ranks joint fifth alongside America in the international crime league behind England, Australia, the Netherlands and Sweden. Northern Ireland has the second best crime record of the countries surveyed, with 24 offences per 100 inhabitants - the same rate as Switzerland and only just above Japan where the biggest crime problem is bicycle thefts. The detailed findings of the ICVS survey showthat England and Wales are top of the international league for car thefts with 2.6% of all car owners suffering the loss of their vehicle in the previous 12 months. In other sorts of car crime, England was second only to Poland.
Australia and then England and Wales had the highest burglary rates and rates for violent crimes such as robbery, assault and sexual assault "
the result of the backward thinking of the home office is the brutalizing of its helpless citizens... helpless to defend themselves against the strong and the vicious... a trajic example of "form over substance"... "let them eat cake" The lawless run england... In America... 3,000,000 such crimes are prevented by firearms... citizens have freedom and dignity one good thing about englands crime rate.... they have, obviously by necessity, learned to care for the traumatized, humiliated and injured victims...guess that's something
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yeah.. we do too but I was hoping our friends from across the 'pond' might get a lil' riled up over gun talk...
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It doesn't - hence use of the O'Club
So your signature is only used in the O'club?
What was the $14.95 a month refering to?
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he has the right to make a fool out of himself with his sig.
lazs
"Alan Travis, home affairs editor
Friday February 23, 2001
The Guardian
England and Wales have one of the worst crime records in the industrialised world - even worse than America - according to the findings of an official survey published yesterday which compares the experience of victims across 17 countries.
The study, coordinated by the Dutch ministry of justice, shows England and Wales at the top of the world league with Australia as the countries where you are most likely to become a victim of crime. These countries face an annual rate of 58 crimes for every 100 inhabitants.
The findings, based on interviews with 35,000 people about their experience of crime across the 17 countries, were carried out last year. They are a blow to Labour's record and underline the challenge facing Tony Blair when he marks the launch of Labour's 10-year anti-crime plan next Monday by becoming the first serving prime minister to visit a prison.
The 2000 International Crime Victimisation survey shows that the falls in crime recorded since the mid-1990s in England and Wales are part of a general pattern of falling crime across the industrialised world but, unlike America, crime levels in England and Wales are still higher than they were at the end of the 1980s. When the survey was last carried out in 1996, England and Wales also topped the league table with 61 offences per 100 inhabitants.
The survey does show, however, that Britain has the best services when it comes to looking after the victims of crime, but it also shows we have a tougher approach to punishing criminals. Asked what should be done with a burglar convicted of stealing a colour television for a second time, more than 50% in England and Wales said he or she should be sent to prison for two years. Only 7% in Spain and 12% in France thought he or she should be jailed at all.
People were asked whether they had been victims of a range of 11 different offences in the previous 12 months, including violent and sexual assault, car crime, burglary and consumer fraud.
The survey also shows that Scotland, with 43 offences per 100 inhabitants, ranks joint fifth alongside America in the international crime league behind England, Australia, the Netherlands and Sweden. Northern Ireland has the second best crime record of the countries surveyed, with 24 offences per 100 inhabitants - the same rate as Switzerland and only just above Japan where the biggest crime problem is bicycle thefts. The detailed findings of the ICVS survey showthat England and Wales are top of the international league for car thefts with 2.6% of all car owners suffering the loss of their vehicle in the previous 12 months. In other sorts of car crime, England was second only to Poland.
Australia and then England and Wales had the highest burglary rates and rates for violent crimes such as robbery, assault and sexual assault "
the result of the backward thinking of the home office is the brutalizing of its helpless citizens... helpless to defend themselves against the strong and the vicious... a trajic example of "form over substance"... "let them eat cake" The lawless run england... In America... 3,000,000 such crimes are prevented by firearms each year... citizens have freedom and dignity one good thing about englands crime rate.... they have, obviously by necessity, learned to care for the traumatized, humiliated and injured victims...guess that's something
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I see laz got his revenge:eek:
poor poor beetle....by startin that thread on guns you woke up some mysterious minds my fellow commonwealth friend:D
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people tend to forget about not waking the sleeping giant... to their chagrin
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LOL Wolfgang! So shoot me. :p
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you woke up some mysterious minds
now where was I referring to shooting anyone ?
sounds like someone's trigger happy to me... :eek:
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But games have rules. How would you like it if someone moved your golf ball on the fairway
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Does running over it with the cart count? :D
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Sorry for reprising this, but Laz
at least he writes his sig up all nice and small
Originally posted by lazs2
he has the right to make a fool out of himself with his sig.
lazs
"Alan Travis, home affairs editor
Friday February 23, 2001
The Guardian
England and Wales have one of the worst crime records in the industrialised world - even worse than America - according to the findings of an official survey published yesterday which compares the experience of victims across 17 countries.
The study, coordinated by the Dutch ministry of justice, shows England and Wales at the top of the world league with Australia as the countries where you are most likely to become a victim of crime. These countries face an annual rate of 58 crimes for every 100 inhabitants.
The findings, based on interviews with 35,000 people about their experience of crime across the 17 countries, were carried out last year. They are a blow to Labour's record and underline the challenge facing Tony Blair when he marks the launch of Labour's 10-year anti-crime plan next Monday by becoming the first serving prime minister to visit a prison.
The 2000 International Crime Victimisation survey shows that the falls in crime recorded since the mid-1990s in England and Wales are part of a general pattern of falling crime across the industrialised world but, unlike America, crime levels in England and Wales are still higher than they were at the end of the 1980s. When the survey was last carried out in 1996, England and Wales also topped the league table with 61 offences per 100 inhabitants.
The survey does show, however, that Britain has the best services when it comes to looking after the victims of crime, but it also shows we have a tougher approach to punishing criminals. Asked what should be done with a burglar convicted of stealing a colour television for a second time, more than 50% in England and Wales said he or she should be sent to prison for two years. Only 7% in Spain and 12% in France thought he or she should be jailed at all.
People were asked whether they had been victims of a range of 11 different offences in the previous 12 months, including violent and sexual assault, car crime, burglary and consumer fraud.
The survey also shows that Scotland, with 43 offences per 100 inhabitants, ranks joint fifth alongside America in the international crime league behind England, Australia, the Netherlands and Sweden. Northern Ireland has the second best crime record of the countries surveyed, with 24 offences per 100 inhabitants - the same rate as Switzerland and only just above Japan where the biggest crime problem is bicycle thefts. The detailed findings of the ICVS survey showthat England and Wales are top of the international league for car thefts with 2.6% of all car owners suffering the loss of their vehicle in the previous 12 months. In other sorts of car crime, England was second only to Poland.
Australia and then England and Wales had the highest burglary rates and rates for violent crimes such as robbery, assault and sexual assault "
the result of the backward thinking of the home office is the brutalizing of its helpless citizens... helpless to defend themselves against the strong and the vicious... a trajic example of "form over substance"... "let them eat cake" The lawless run england... In America... 3,000,000 such crimes are prevented by firearms each year... citizens have freedom and dignity one good thing about englands crime rate.... they have, obviously by necessity, learned to care for the traumatized, humiliated and injured victims...guess that's something
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I do the majority of my shopping online.
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The Blue Knights
Cranberry, Blueberry, and Apple Cider-Glazed Duck with Chestnut, Oyster, Corn and Mushroom Dressing
Recipe courtesy Emeril Lagasse, 2002
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..ever noticed one of his eyes kinda droops ??
Cranberry, Blueberry, and Apple Cider Glaze:
1/2 cup fresh cranberries
3/4 cup fresh blueberries
4 cups apple cider
3 cups maple sugar
1/2 cup apple cider vinegar
1 (5-pound) whole duck, washed, wings trimmed and patted dry
4 Rhode Island Greening Apples, cored and quartered
Chestnut, Oyster, Corn, and Mushroom Dressing:
Oil
1/2 pound button mushrooms, wiped clean and sliced
3/4 cup diced yellow onions
1/4 cup diced celery
1/2 cup corn kernels
2 teaspoons minced garlic
1 teaspoon Essence, recipe follows
3/4 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper
1 dozen shucked oysters, drained with their liquor reserved
1/4 cup chopped roasted chestnuts
2 large eggs, lightly beaten
1 to 2 cups buttermilk
Hot sauce
Worcestershire sauce
4 cups stale crumbled cornbread
To make the glaze: Place cranberries, blueberries, apple cider, maple sugar, and apple cider vinegar in a saucepan and bring to a boil. Reduce to a simmer and cook until the liquid has reduced by half and has a syrupy consistency, about 30 minutes. Strain through a fine mesh sieve and cool. Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F. To make the duck: Remove the duck from the refrigerator and let come to room temperature, about 30 minutes. Trim off excess fat from the duck. Piece the skin with the tines of a fork all over the duck. Spread half of the glaze over the duck, turning and rubbing to coat evenly. Place, breast-side up on a rack in a roasting pan. Add some water to the bottom of the pan to prevent the glaze from burning and roast for 45 minutes. Turn duck so that it is breast side down, brush with more glaze and add some more water to the bottom of the pan to prevent the glaze from burning and roast for 30 minutes. Turn duck back over, brush again with the glaze and add the apples to the pan and roast for another 20 minutes, or until golden brown and cooked through.
Remove from the oven and let rest, covered with foil, for 15 minutes.
To make the dressing: Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F. Lightly grease a 9 by 11-inch baking dish and set aside. In a large saute pan, add oil and heat. Add the mushrooms, onions, celery, and corn and saute for 4 minutes, or until soft. Add garlic and saute for 30 seconds more. Season with Essence, salt, and cayenne. Remove from heat and cool.
Fold in the oysters and chestnuts. In a mixing bowl, whisk the eggs, oyster liquor, and 1 cup of the buttermilk together. Season with hot sauce and Worcestershire. Pour the mixture over the cornbread. Mix well. After the liquid has soaked into the cornbread, fold in the oyster/mushroom mixture. If the mixture is too dry, add a little more buttermilk.
Pour into the prepared pan. Bake until the dressing is golden brown and cooked through, about 55 minutes. Remove from the oven and cool for 5 minutes before serving. Slice duck and serve with some of the dressing.
Essence (Emeril's Creole Seasoning):
2 1/2 tablespoons paprika
2 tablespoons salt
2 tablespoons garlic powder
1 tablespoon black pepper
1 tablespoon onion powder
1 tablespoon cayenne pepper
1 tablespoon dried leaf oregano
1 tablespoon dried thyme
Combine all ingredients thoroughly and store in an airtight jar or container.
Yield: about 2/3 cup
Yield: 4 servings
Prep Time: 30 minutes
Inactive Prep Time: 45 minutes
Cook Time: 3 hours 10 minutes
Difficulty: Medium