This collection of poems covers a wide range of topics from social justice, politics, religion, sports, overcoming adversity, and relationship loss. Specifically, police violence, the Insurrection, acquaintance rape, wrongful convictions, gun violence, racism, and homelessness are addressed. Readers will be able to relate to poems about love and loss and still find hope in the difficult subjects touched on here. Several friends have gone through divorce and relationship loss and I wrote their stories as if they were my own. Poems with "pain" in their titles are my own stories dealing with adversity as is "Dust on the Shelf.
A "how-to-do" and "what-not-to-do" book for anyone planning to carry a gun in Mississippi. A must-have publication with information for permit holders of other states having reciprocal agreements with Mississippi. Don't come armed to Mississippi without it. The author covers everything from firearms safety, to nomenclature, judgmental shooting, post-shooting considerations, as well as a review and analysis of significant citizen shooting engagements around the country. Told in a down-to-earth manner, with explicit photographs and sometimes candid humor. It defines training required under Mississippi's new "enhanced" carry law, over and above what the state has mandated. It is a benchmark for other states to follow. Told by an expert.
Wayne Lott decides to pursue a career as a prosecutor and ends up in Stonewall County, Mississippi. While following leads involving a missing businessman, a suspicious airplane, and a drug-running ring out of Colombia, he uncovers a deadly web of bribery and conspiracy.
Blood for molasses: a Mississippi massacre, is based on a true story about a slaughter that started over the accidental spilling of molasses in the small central Mississippi town of Carrollton.
Young lawyer turns legislator, up to his neck in gaming and lobbying corruption. Wayne Lott is a naive, idealistic lamb being led to the slaughter. Caught with a hired temptress and threatened blackmail, he is forced to choose between being a participant in corruption, or becoming a government witness.
Fast, foolproof and extremely versatile, "Pressure Cooking for Everyone" is the answer for every busy cook. Author and acclaimed cooking teacher Rick Rodgers proves nearly everything can be cooked better and faster under pressure. From Pasta Soup to Creamy Orange-Chocolate Marble Cheesecake, this cookbook reveals secrets behind dozens of succulent dishes.
This book explores the challenges of an academic teaching career. The authors discuss the issues that may arise in the tenure process, scholarship activities, publishing, and providing service to their academic communities as well as how to keep teaching lessons relevant and fresh.
There are moments glimpsed only in shadow, where darkness rules and evil incarnate thrives. You hope against hope that in your lifetime, evil is relegated to the shadows. But what if it wasn't? What if you lived in a universe where your life was measured only by what you could do for the Empire? What would you do to survive? Would you sell your soul to free yourself? If you were offered the chance to rule, would you seize it? If you could free your universe from the darkness but only at the cost of your life, would you pay that price? Star Trek: Enterprise®—she seized power in a heartbeat, daring to place herself against all the overlords of the Empire. Empress Hoshi Sato knows the future that could be; now all she has to do is make sure it never happens. For her to rule, she must hold sway not only over the starship from the future but also over her warlords, the resistance, and her Andorian husband. As quickly and brutally as Hoshi seized power, imperial rule is taken from her. Her only chance to rule again is to ally herself with a lifelong foe, and an alien. Star Trek® One man can change the future, but does he dare? Spock, intrigued by the vision of another universe's Federation, does what no Vulcan, no emperor, has ever done: seize power in one blinding stroke of mass murder. And at the same instant he gains imperial power, Spock sows the seeds for the Empire's downfall. Is this a form of Vulcan madness, or is it the coolly logical plan of a man who knows the price his universe must pay for its freedom? Star Trek: The Next Generation®—Humanity is a pitiful collection of enslaved, indentured, and abused peoples. No one dares to question the order, except at peril of their lives. One man survives by blinding himself to the misery around him. However, Jean-Luc Picard resists, just once. And in that one instant he unlocks a horror beyond the tyranny of the Alliance. Can a man so beaten down by a lifetime of oppression stop the destruction?
Mississippi Governors have passed the wand of secrecy for almost 20 years, protecting the industry that owns it soul. Official facts are erroneous, and not without omissions. Only now, have the no-holds barred, cold, hard facts, been told. Lies, cover-ups, manipulation, protection scams, and incompetency shock the reader. It is a lawless template of prophecy filled with obstructions of justice for other states with legalized gambling. This is a story of the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. Please help us God!
The Fit open source testing framework brings unprecedented agility to the entire development process. Fit for Developing Software shows you how to use Fit to clarify business rules, express them with concrete examples, and organize the examples into test tables that drive testing throughout the software lifecycle. Using a realistic case study, Rick Mugridge and Ward Cunningham--the creator of Fit--introduce each of Fit's underlying concepts and techniques, and explain how you can put Fit to work incrementally, with the lowest possible risk. Highlights include Integrating Fit into your development processes Using Fit to promote effective communication between businesspeople, testers, and developers Expressing business rules that define calculations, decisions, and business processes Connecting Fit tables to the system with "fixtures" that check whether tests are actually satisfied Constructing tests for code evolution, restructuring, and other changes to legacy systems Managing the quality and evolution of tests A companion Web site (http://fit.c2.com/) that offers additional resources and source code
This book serves as a text for the Mississippi Enhanced Concealed Weapons classes. It can be used for other classes or individuals not seeking the Enhanced Carry endorsement. Mississippi Laws are in an Appendix in the back. The subject matter and techniques, without the laws particular to the State of Mississippi, are comparable to any state.
This book is a "tell-all" of how one young lady started a flash fire of gun laws that would make history, toppling 130 years of oppression with gun rights. It is a documented account-by-account of the clandestine discussions that led to political actions reaching the Attorney General, Legislature and the Governor, necessitating their actions without their knowledge of the reasons, origins or players. A book told in simple terms of how to protect yourself, with candid comments that most firearms instructors wouldn't touch. A must- have for anyone especially in the State of Mississippi who owns, carries openly, or conceals a handgun. The Police Chief's Association is exposed as the liars of the 2nd Amendment supporters and the one organization that would create an "us and them" by convincing businesses they needed to post "No Gun" signs supposedly to protect their customers, but secretly catering to their agenda to make it too difficult for us to carry guns. It covers the history of Mississippi gun laws from the 1870's until current day.
You may not know the little birds from the little flowers and not even care to, but still you will find in Adventures with a Texas Naturalist a ripe mind seeing in all relationships the human significance ...
The year is 1970. The "Summer Love" was only three years before. The "Woodstock Generation" is in full bloom. Mike Ridley has a job working the night shift at the State Mental Hospital... the men's section of Pima Ward... "Psycho Central." Only fourteen months earlier, Ridley awakened in restraints on the floor of the Phoenix Police Station, battered and beaten by two hits of green double-dome acid... his mind hung out to dry on Main Street in Hell. Now he's in charge of a whole ward of patients who are clinging to reality... just as he is himself. What he finds behind the walls of the State Mental Hospital is much more than expected... a doorway to something far greater than his fragile and fractured eighteen-year-old mind could ever imagine...
Rick was drawn to go out that night. Feeling it was time to start living again after a year of getting over a breakup. He ended up at the same bar as Doug. They were the only ones in the bar besides the bartender. Doug told Rick that he had just been diagnosed HIV positive and that he had just lost his mom, all within a two week period. He came down to Florida from Connecticut with $3,000 in his pocket and had gone to Orlando to drink, party and had plans to kill himself once his money was gone.Once Rick found out that Dough had only $37 left, he took Dough home to prevent him from committing suicide. Rick just held him in his arms and watched him sleep, wonder what would have happened to this beautiful man had God not put them together.Back then the stigma of the HIV/AIDS virus instilled fear in everyone. No knowing how it was spread and exactly how close you could be in the proximity with someone infected with this disease. Jobs were had to get, even housing was not readily available for those suffering with HIV/AIDS.Problems with health issues and addictions made their relationship even more tense. Although it was difficult to deal with the tragedy of Doug's illness, and his outrageous behavior made for a lot of lighthearted and hysterical moments.It was a turbulent relationship with one being infected with the virus, and the other being affected by it. The love they built together was something that is still with Rick to this very day.Cover art created by David Rule.
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