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Pictured here is a 19th century flat button (about the size of a dime) I found on the former Robert Lewis Dabney property located in Augusta County, Virginia. The button's backmark reads: "George ????? - Extra Rich - Baltimore" - all in gold gilt. The front is unmarked with no design. Of course, there is no way to confirm this button is in any way related to the man who once served as Stonewall Jackson's Chief of Staff and who was one of the South's most prominent theologians. But the possibility does exist. The button was found near a spring located on the property. I will, at some point in the future, include some video of this dig as well as the property. The house pictured below was built by Dabney in 1852, while he served as Pastor of Tinkling Spring Presbyterian Church. I hope to return next week to do some more exploring on this historic property.
My daily drive often includes a back road that takes me by Dabney's home. It, like Dabney, was built strong—of stone—and built to last.
Dabney learned the trade of stone masonry as a boy working on the family farm, and he constructed this sturdy structure with his own hands. Just a mile or two more down the road from this house is the Tinkling Spring Presbyterian Church where Dabney served as pastor from 1847 to 1853. Tinkling Springs is one of the oldest Presbyterian churches west of the Blue Ridge. Within the old stone graveyard of the church rest the dust of so many of the stout Scots-Irish pioneers to whom Dabney ministered, including the grandparents of the legendary Confederate cavalry general, Jeb Stuart. Besides serving as Stonewall Jackson's chief of staff during Jackson's legendary Valley Campaign, Major Dabney was also Jackson's original biographer and is, of course, still renowned for his theological works and prolific writing.
Yet many students of history have misunderstood Dabney. He is most often depicted by moderns as little more than a defender of the Lost Cause and the "old regime." While Dabney did produce volumes of postbellum writings that defended the old South's agrarianism and slavery, there is quite a bit more to consider of this theologian.
As noted by Christian History and Biography - ("Robert L. Dabney" Christian History and Biography, Issue 19, July 1988.):
Robert Lewis Dabney (1829 [sic]–1898) was one of the greatest Protestant theologians of the 19th century. A Southern Presbyterian, he was a teacher, statesman, writer, and social critic, as well as theologian, and taught at Union Seminary in Richmond, Virginia. In the American Civil War he once served as Chief of Staff to the Confederate general "Stonewall" Jackson. Dabney's contributions have been dampened partially by his vigorous defense of the pre-Civil War South's institution of slavery; however, his work, especially his Systematic Theology, has been highly regarded by scholars from Benjamin Warfield to Karl Barth.
Born on March 5, 1820, to pious parents, Dabney grew up on the family farm and mill on the South Anna River in Louisa County, Virginia. Dabney's parents, particularly his father, wielded much influence over their young son. In a letter to his own son, Dr. Charles W. Dabney, Robert Dabney wrote these words revealing just how much influence his own father had upon his life:
When I recall what the position of Christian meant, as occupied, for instance, by my parents, it seems to me as if that type of Christianity must have been in another sphere, and before the fall of man almost! With what careful seriousness, self-examination and prayer did they take their religious vows! How regular, deliberate and solemn were family prayers! How did the scriptural instruction of us children take the precedence of all the day, and of all other duties, lessons and amusements. How sacredly was the Sabbath improved! My father went about making the best of the sacred day just as seriously and systematically as any wise business man planning to put in the best work possible on some favorable day in the middle of harvest. He evidently acted on this clear, rational and conscientious conviction, "I have a great and urgent work to do for my own soul and others'; the one day in seven which a kind Heavenly Father has endeavored to secure for me, for this task, is none too much, if improved to the best. So I must make the most of it." I well remember his deliberate and careful preparation of himself in advance of communion days. It began about Friday, by reducing his concern with farm matters to a minimum; spending the most of the two week-days in a private room, shut up with his Bible, Flavel's Sacramental Meditations, and such like books. One may know well how much the Lord's Supper meant to him, and what impulse and nourishment it was to his soul.
Dabney was only thirteen when his father passed away, leaving a great void in the young man's life. But the father had left his son well prepared to assume the leadership role of the household. Robert interrupted his own education in order to keep the family's honor intact and pay off debts. Three years later, in June of 1836, Dabney enrolled at Hampden-Sydney College.4 Dabney was only able to stay until September of 1837 due to a lack of money. Nevertheless, Dabney's time there proved to be providentially beneficial. During a "religious revival" that swept through the campus the same month that Dabney left, he made a public confession of faith in Christ and "carried home at the close of his collegiate work the affection of his classmates and also a deep religious impression." (See: Henry Alexander White, Southern Presbyterian Leaders (Neale Publishing Company, 1911), 382.)
Upon his return home he was received as a member of the Providence Presbyterian Church in Louisa County. While Dabney is remembered as an intellectual and a man of letters, it is important to note that he was also accustomed to strenuous manual labor and believed that the dual values of piety and industry, taught him by his father, were essential. Henry Alexander White noted that . . .
. . . the old mill that made flour and meal for the people of the community, forming a part of his mother's property, must be rebuilt. The tall, slender lad, not yet eighteen years of age, went into the rock quarry and with his own hands helped to give shape to the stones that were needed for the walls of the mill … Then the fields called him again to the plow. Through the long summer days of 1838 and 1839 he was in the cornfields and wheatfields, toiling steadily with his own hands.
Dabney continued to work on the family farm and supplemented his income with teaching in the community. By the autumn of 1839 he was once again ready to pursue his education and enrolled at the University of Virginia. Dabney often found himself looking with disdain at Virginia's privileged sons at the university, many of whom thought the physical labor that Dabney cherished was beneath them. Despite these conflicts and his abhorrence of some of the "decadence" he witnessed while in Charlottesville, Dabney earned a Master of Arts from Mr. Jefferson's University in 1842.
In 1844 Dabney returned to Hampden-Sydney and the school's Union Theological Seminary where he would complete his studies in May of 1846. A year later, he was pastoring at Tinkling Springs but would, once again, return to Hampden-Sydney to complete his theological studies and where he would also teach in the seminary and pastor in the campus church. It was here and during this time that Dabney's pen became increasingly busy and where he honed his prolific writing abilities. Dabney's reputation grew quickly and, "He was soon to become one of the most efficient expounders of the Calvinistic system of theology that our country has ever known." So well respected was Dabney that, in 1860, he was offered the chair of church history at Princeton Seminary. He declined, seeing "his place of duty in Virginia."
With war looming, Dabney wrote a widely publicized pamphlet titled "A Pacific Appeal to Christians" in January of 1861, which argued for preserving a state of peace. Though he sought peace, he unhesitatingly served the Confederate Army in whatever role his country needed him and by the summer was a chaplain with the 18th Virginia regiment. Stonewall Jackson often attended some of the services conducted by Chaplain Dabney, and the two soon became friends. This friendship led to Dabney's service on Jackson's staff.
Anyone familiar with Dabney knows of his fervent belief in the doctrine of providence and that it was a frequent topic of his sermons. This coupled with Dabney's service in the Confederacy provided for an illustration of Dabney's practical belief in "a special providence" as well as his sense of humor. Major Hugh Nelson was present during a service where Dabney exhorted the soldiers to face death fearlessly as providence had already determined the time and place of their deaths. Some time after that service, Nelson was present at the Battle of Malvern Hill and found himself "under one of the heaviest fires he had ever experienced." Jackson was also in the vicinity, and as the fire became heavy, ordered his staff to dismount and find shelter. Dabney "found a place behind a large and very thick oak gate post, where he sat bolt upright with his back against the post." About that time, Nelson, whose views on providence did not completely agree with Dabney's, rode up and galloped directly toward Dabney where he coolly saluted the nervous chaplain and said: "Dr. Dabney, every shot, and shell, and bullet is directed by the God of battles, and you must pardon me for expressing my surprise that you should want to put a gate post between you and special Providence." Dabney, without hesitation, replied: "No! Major, you misunderstand the doctrine I teach. And the truth is that I regard this gate post as a special providence, under present circumstances." (See: Seven Days Around Richmond. Reminiscences of The Army of Northern Virginia by J. William Jones. Southern Historical Society Papers, Vol. IX. Richmond, Va., Oct., Nov., and Dec. 1881. Nos. 10, 11, & 12.)
Dabney's service with Jackson was short-lived as sickness and fatigue forced him to return to Hampden-Sydney. Dabney continued to write, teach, and preach after the war and became one of the South's most unrepentant ex-Confederates. Dabney's last years were spent in Texas where he taught at Austin Seminary and later at the University of Texas. He died on January 3, 1898.
In eulogizing Dr. Dabney, B. M. Palmer described him as "a pillar of strength in the house of our God. How we shall miss him for defense in the great battle for truth! He was mentally and morally constituted a great polemic, with a massive intellect capable of searching into the foundations of truth, and with an intellectual as well as moral indignation against every form of falsehood."
The following is a list of some of Dabney's major works:
- Memoir of Rev. Dr. Francis S. Sampson (1855), whose commentary on Hebrews Dabney edited (1857)
- Life of General Thomas J. Jackson (1866)
- A Defense of Virginia, and Through Her, of the South, in Recent and Pending Contests Against the Sectional Party (1867), an apologia for the Confederacy
- Lectures on Sacred Rhetoric (1870)
- Syllabus and Notes of the Course of Systematic and Polemic Theology (1871; 2nd ed. 1878), later republished as Systematic Theology
- Systematic Theology (1878)
- Sensualistic Philosophy of the Nineteenth Century Examined (1875; 2nd ed. 1887)
- Practical Philosophy (1897)
- Discussions (1890–1897), four volumes of his shorter essays, edited by C. R. Vaughan
- Penal Character of the Atonement of Christ Discussed in the Light of Recent Popular Heresies (1898, posthumous), on the satisfaction view of the atonement
*I have several promised posts on which I'm working. A post on heroes and distorted history and another on the Tea Party - both of these are rebuttals to fellow history blogger, Michael Aubrecht. I also have some interesting photos and stories from my recent adventures relic hunting near Brandy Station. And, I'm working on the new book, an essay which will be published on another website, several book reviews, and some videos. I've suddenly become quite busy. Hopefully, I can catch up some of these posts by next week.


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Clearfield, Inc. (NASDAQ:CLFD) was upgraded by Zacks Investment Research from a "sell" rating to a "hold" rating in a report issued on Tuesday.
According to Zacks, "CLEARFIELD INC., formerly APA Cables & Networks, designs and manufactures the FieldSmart fiber management platform, which includes its latest generation Fiber Distribution System and Fiber Scalability Center. The FDS and FSC product-lines support a wide range of panel configurations, densities, connectors and adapter options and is offered alongside an assortment of passive optical components. Clearfield also provides a complete line of fiber and copper assemblies for controlled and outside plant environments. "
Clearfield (NASDAQ CLFD) traded up 0.75% during trading on Tuesday, hitting $13.35. 28,809 shares of the stock traded hands. The firm's 50-day moving average is $13.69 and its 200 day moving average is $16.72. The stock has a market cap of $188.15 million, a P/E ratio of 26.75 and a beta of 1.36. Clearfield has a 52 week low of $12.20 and a 52 week high of $21.60.
Clearfield (NASDAQ:CLFD) last posted its quarterly earnings results on Friday, April 28th. The communications equipment provider reported $0.07 earnings per share for the quarter, missing the Thomson Reuters' consensus estimate of $0.10 by $0.03. Clearfield had a net margin of 8.58% and a return on equity of 10.68%. The company had revenue of $17.70 million for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $20.85 million. During the same period in the prior year, the firm posted $0.11 EPS. The business's revenue was up 4.7% on a year-over-year basis. Equities research analysts forecast that Clearfield will post $0.32 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.
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In other Clearfield news, Chairman Ronald G. Roth acquired 5,000 shares of Clearfield stock in a transaction that occurred on Friday, May 12th. The stock was bought at an average price of $14.14 per share, with a total value of $70,700.00. Following the completion of the purchase, the chairman now directly owns 1,219,170 shares of the company's stock, valued at approximately $17,239,063.80. The purchase was disclosed in a document filed with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which can be accessed through this link. Insiders own 18.30% of the company's stock.
A number of institutional investors have recently modified their holdings of the company. Renaissance Technologies LLC increased its position in shares of Clearfield by 8.9% in the first quarter. Renaissance Technologies LLC now owns 517,286 shares of the communications equipment provider's stock worth $8,509,000 after buying an additional 42,087 shares during the period. Dimensional Fund Advisors LP increased its position in shares of Clearfield by 2.4% in the first quarter. Dimensional Fund Advisors LP now owns 324,288 shares of the communications equipment provider's stock worth $5,335,000 after buying an additional 7,645 shares during the period. Geode Capital Management LLC increased its position in shares of Clearfield by 8.4% in the first quarter. Geode Capital Management LLC now owns 91,098 shares of the communications equipment provider's stock worth $1,498,000 after buying an additional 7,038 shares during the period. Vanguard Group Inc. increased its position in shares of Clearfield by 12.7% in the first quarter. Vanguard Group Inc. now owns 447,606 shares of the communications equipment provider's stock worth $7,363,000 after buying an additional 50,391 shares during the period. Finally, Teachers Advisors LLC increased its position in shares of Clearfield by 7.9% in the first quarter. Teachers Advisors LLC now owns 18,822 shares of the communications equipment provider's stock worth $310,000 after buying an additional 1,374 shares during the period. 27.15% of the stock is owned by institutional investors.
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Clearfield, Inc manufactures, markets and sells fiber management and enclosure platform that consolidates, distributes and protects fiber as it moves from the inside plant to the outside plant and all the way to the home, business and cell site. The Company's products include Clearview Cassette, which is the building block of its product platform; Connectivity and Optical Components; FieldSmart, which is a series of panels, cabinets, wall boxes and other enclosures that house the Clearview components; FieldShield, which is a fiber delivery method for broadband deployment; CraftSmart, which is a line of optical protection field enclosures, and Cable Assemblies.
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- I think it maybe the child of Cosmo, but in general their may not be much of a difference if that seed is cosmo or her child. Humans fear death but to reject death would be to reject life as well, it is accepting the fact that it's time to pass on that really gets the cycle of life eternal, so it may as well be Cosmo's kid. Thats just my theory as X is my least fave Sonic cartoon.--Mystic Monkey 02:20, 29 August 2008 (UTC)
I agree that X is the worst show, and really the only reason i care is because Tails hasn't really ever had a love intrest.Scythethehedgehog 17:25, 2 September 2008 (UTC)
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20 year-old Jamie Sterry has looked very good for Newcastle at right-back in pre-season and he is attempting to be in the match-day squad for our first game of the Championship a week on Friday at Fulham.
There are only two pre-season friendlies left and the 20 year-old started the game at Lokeren last Saturday and he has appeared in every one of Newcastle's three pre-season friendly games so far this summer.
Jamie Sterry in action against Spurs in May
The local lad has been interviewed in the Chronicle today and he is pleased with his progress and he also hails Rafa as a world-class manager:
"Hopefully this season we can bounce back up." "We are aiming for a good start to the season. This summer feels good with Rafa Benitez in charge."
"He is one of the best managers in the world, everybody knows that."
"I had been training really well and showed him that I am good enough." "Thankfully he realized that I can play, it was a great feeling to know I could be part of it."
"It's always in your head about making your debut for the first team and thankfully I got that against Tottenham on the last day of last season, now I am looking forward to the new season."
Jamie certainly comes across as being upbeat there and not short on confidence in himself, which is good to see in youngsters.
As soon as Benitez arrived at Newcastle he seemed to pick out Sterry as one for the future, but then Rafa reduced the overcrowding at the Benton training grounds by moving the U-21 squad back to train on their own pitches and away from the first team squad.
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lurking not far beneath the prettiness lies the real Pagford—a dystopia that would take a wizard to set right.
Can you imagine Walters, his executive-producing partner, post-May 16, lurking with him behind the cameras?
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Did Steven Avery murder photographer Teresa Halbach? I'm not sure anymore. He might have. Some in Manitowoc County law enforcement have a lot to answer for, though.
Furthermore, Avery's very cognitively slow, mumbling and malleable nephew Brendan Dassey, who was only 16 when Halbach died, probably deserves a new trial. Dassey's conviction – he is not eligible for parole until 2048 – strikes me as potentially being the greatest miscarriage of justice here, coming as it did without any grounding in forensic evidence against Dassey.
It should strike fear in anyone who truly understands the awesome power of government, especially when wielded against a cognitively challenged special education student who was lacking money, intellect and social capital.
I'm realizing these things after binge-watching Netflix's 10-episode true-crime documentary "Making a Murderer" over the weekend.
The documentary series, which is garnering rave reviews and escalating social media buzz, depicts Wisconsin as a snowdrift-covered backwater filled with kohlrabi-growing rubes, junk yards, cigarette-smoking weathered-faced frizzy-permed people who could use a trip to the dentist and colorless – possibly corrupt – cops who wear ill-fitting suit jackets that look like they came out of the wardrobe chest of a 1970s-era TV police series.
Officials are already blasting back hard, claiming the documentary is unfair and slanted toward the defense. They're right about the last part. It's definitely slanted toward the defense.
Also: Do we really have accents like that? Well, I grew up in northwestern Wisconsin, so I know we kind of do. The series reminded me of the Coen brothers' movie "Fargo," with a burn pit instead of a wood chipper and, sadly, a very real victim: Halbach, who died at 25.
Before watching the series, I was certain that Avery was guilty. Dassey too. Both disgusted me, actually. I am not a person who usually buys into the "cops framed me" type of defense. If you are from Wisconsin, as I am, you probably remember Avery. He was the Manitowoc County man with the flowing blonde beard who served 18 years in prison for a sexual assault that DNA later proved he did not commit.
The Wisconsin Innocence Project helped free him and, for a time, he became a cause celebre to Wisconsin politicians, Democrats and Republicans alike. It was weird to watch a parade of politicians from Wisconsin's past on Netflix, from Peg Lautenschlager to Jim Doyle. I also saw a bunch of lawyers and reporters I've met and landscapes I've driven.
Not long after Avery's release, with his civil suit against Manitowoc County law enforcement heating up, Avery was charged in the murder of Halbach, who was at his family auto salvage yard to photograph a van and whose bone fragments were found in a burn pit next to his trailer. He is serving life in prison without the possibility of parole.
The series did what I didn't expect, though: It slowly changed my perceptions about the cases. By the time the final episode had finished, I was convinced that Dassey's conviction is deeply flawed (his attorneys still have a pending appeal in federal court on his behalf). I am not saying Dassey didn't do it. I don't know who killed Teresa Halbach. I am saying everyone deserves fair representation.
I am less sure regarding Avery's complicity. Maybe he did do it. There are things pointing in his direction, clearly. Is that reasonable doubt? Maybe. There are serious questions remaining, such as:
How the heck was it possible that Manitowoc County had publicly turned over the Halbach murder investigation to another county – due to Avery's heating up and pending civil suit against Manitowoc County – yet it was a Manitowoc law enforcement officer who found a central piece of evidence inside Avery's trailer (Halbach's car key, with his DNA on it), after no one else saw this key during repeated earlier searches over the course of eight days?
This was an officer who had just been deposed in Avery's highly contentious civil suit against Manitowoc County, which was why the Manitowoc County's Sheriff's Department supposedly backed out of the investigation in the first place. The depositions had occurred just days before the murder. Pretty odd, even though cops from another county were supposed to be watching.
And how was it that a Manitowoc detective found another key piece of evidence in Avery's garage that everyone else had also missed – a bullet with Halbach's DNA on it– and only found it months later, after searching by four other officers earlier had failed to find it? Pretty odd indeed.
Why did another Manitowoc officer who had just been deposed call in Halbach's license plate to dispatch the day she was reported missing but before her car was found on the Avery property?
Why did the state crime lab analyst who accidentally contaminated a key DNA sample ask for a waiver to get around protocols that said contaminated samples should be ruled inconclusive and retested? (There was not enough of the sample left for retesting). This same analyst provided key hair sample evidence against Avery in his earlier sexual assault case, the sexual assault it turned out that he didn't do. Weird, eh?
Frankly, if questions remain, that's at least somewhat the fault of Manitowoc officers, who should have known better, simply stayed away and let others handle it. Now, there's this odd overlay of characters turning up both in the past shameful wrongful conviction case of Avery and in this case too – and finding key evidence, no less, that others somehow missed. They could have avoided it. They should have.
There were essentially three key pieces of forensic evidence in Avery's case: Halbach's car key found in his house, the bullet in the garage and the blood of Avery and Halbach found in her car. There were other things that pointed to Avery, of course, in addition to Halbach's bones in his burn pit. She was seen on his property, although numerous others lived on the property too, including other adult males. And her van was found in the salvage yard.
How was it, though, that there was literally no Halbach blood evidence found in Avery's garage or home if Halbach was brutally murdered there? Not a speck. Why did the key not have Halbach's own DNA on it?
Why did some of what might have been Halbach's bones turn up miles away from the Avery property?
Why weren't others who lived on the property or who knew Halbach more thoroughly investigated?
Why was there a small hole pierced in the top of a vial of Avery's blood from the earlier sexual assault kit, and why had the seal on it been broken? The defense claimed this blood was planted in Halbach's car; prosecutors presented controversial and rare FBI testing to counter that.
Why would Avery commit a murder – especially of someone who would be instantly traced to him – when his life had taken a turn for the better, and he was poised to likely become a multi-millionaire? If he did do it, why would he leave evidence (the key, her car on his property) lying around, especially when he had a car crusher on the property and had been through the nightmare of a false conviction? Is that something someone who knows he's a target does? Halbach was not reported missing until three days after she was seen photographing the van.
If your instinct is to say this is all ridiculous, that Avery and Dassey did it, without watching the series, you should watch it first. See if your opinion changes by the end of episode 10. Mine did. I get that it's constructed entertainment-style reality told through the defense advocacy perspective (this is unusual in our true-crime fixated media where, whether it's Scott Peterson or Officer Darren Wilson, the accused is generally painted as guilty, even before trial, because the media imply it's so). However, the earlier media accounts – which is how most of us gained our understanding of the trials – were also constructed reality, in a sense.
Normally, I am not a fan of such "trials by media" in which the rules of evidence go out the window, and both sides don't get a fair shake or equal time. That's why I think, in Dassey's case, a new trial in another courtroom should be in order. I admit that I haven't read every shred of evidence in the cases, nor did I sit through either trial. I'm not a juror; I'm just a pundit with a keyboard.
However, the documentary is painstakingly built upon a literal and shockingly impressive mountain of video, audio and paper record evidence, collected over 10 years by two documentarians who started filming before the Halbach trial and actually moved to Manitowoc for years, turning viewers into eavesdroppers of real-time intimate family and attorney conversations.
This is not the reconstructed documentaries we usually see; it's riveting stuff, filled with nuanced human characters, such as Avery's overalls-wearing, common-sense talking, salvage yard owning elderly dad and his endlessly devoted mom. In some ways, it's a parable about class and how devastatingly difficult it is for the poor and outcasts of society to go against the power of the state. You have to be rich or a celebrity to have a fighting chance.
I admit that my impressions of the case before the documentary derived from casual exposure to Wisconsin news coverage – mostly two things.
I remember then Calumet County DA (and special prosecutor) Ken Kratz – yes, the same DA who later resigned in a sexting scandal – reading the extraordinarily long, graphic and disturbing criminal complaint live in a press conference. I heard it on the radio. It was impossible not to have an emotional reaction of utter visceral disgust upon hearing the horrifying details. I remembered that this complaint seemed largely based on a "confession" by Dassey, Avery's 16-year-old nephew. Pretty persuasive stuff. I went back and reread the complaint after watching the Netflix series and, untethered from the video and audio accounts, it remains grim stuff that enrages you into thinking Avery and Dassey did it.
But that only raises more questions.
Why didn't then DA Kratz call Dassey to the witness stand to testify against Avery? You read that right. That big confession? He didn't use it against Avery.
Why wasn't there blood in the house if Dassey's account was true that she was murdered in Avery's bed? Were jurors really able to get the prejudicial pretrial publicity out of their minds? If Kratz didn't think Dassey's confession(s) were strong enough to introduce in his case in chief, why did he think they were strong enough to send Dassey to prison on? Kratz is now a private attorney in Superior.
However, I thought the most troubling passages of video dealt – bizarrely – with Dassey's own defense team. Why did Dassey's earlier defense attorney seem so determined to get him to enter a guilty plea when Dassey repeatedly said he didn't do it? Why did his defense team private investigator cry on the stand when shown a photo relating to Halbach? Why did he appear to badger Dassey into changing his written statement – which originally said Dassey didn't do it, in great detail – and to instead write one admitting guilt, including with diagrams the PI seemed to somewhat direct?
Why was it OK for law enforcement investigators to interrogate a 16-year-old with extreme cognitive slowness without a parent or lawyer? Why did his lawyer allow this? You read that right. Dassey's lawyer allowed the cops to interview him without a lawyer present. How is that being a good lawyer?
Why did the defense team's private investigator send an email to Dassey's lawyer that trashed the Avery family as being a bunch of criminals? According to the Appleton Post-Crescent, "In the e-mail … sent May 9, 2006, to (the lawyer), he (the private investigator for the defense) wrote about the Dassey family, 'This is truly where the devil resides in comfort.' (The PI) also wrote that a friend of his suggested, 'This is a one-branch family tree. Cut this tree down. We need to end the gene pool here.'"
These were the people working for Dassey, mind you.
Why did the jury not hear other parts of Dassey's comments, in which he said things were put in his head? Or more expert testimony about the fallibility of confessions, especially of juveniles, and especially when not backed up with forensics? Why did Dassey's later lawyer tell the jury that Dassey may have observed Halbach's body in the burn pit, when Dassey had repeatedly denied this point to his own lawyers? It is all kind of creepy. Dassey's excessively grinning first lawyer is pretty hard to get out of your mind.
You have to watch and listen to the many videotapes and audio segments of Dassey "confessing" and then "unconfessing" – you have to hear his slow-moving mannerisms and see his fogged over eyes and dim demeanor – in contrast to the skilled, intelligent, adult investigators, to really understand the problem here. At one point, he thinks he gets to go back to school after confessing to murder. Watch it. It's hard to put into words. You have to hear him. Then watch him cave into his own defense team's insistence that he put down evidence of guilt in writing and drawing as he repeatedly insists he's innocent.
I am not prepared to say for sure that the uncle and nephew didn't do it, though, particularly when it comes to Avery. If Avery didn't do it, who did? Why didn't Avery testify? (Yeah, I know that's his right). If someone planted the bones in his burn pit, how did they manage to do this undetected? Ditto with the car. If someone else killed her, how did her car end up back on his property? Why was Dassey's confession so detailed?
How would this work exactly for the cops to plant Avery's blood in Halbach's car? Again, they vociferously deny this. Were they really that determined to avenge a civil suit that would have held the county, not them, personally liable? Isn't it often said that, when it comes to crimes, the simplest answer is usually the right one? Could it be possible that they planted evidence to make a case stronger against a man who was really guilty?
It doesn't take a rocket scientist to see why Avery would be suspected – he was the last guy to see her alive, that we know of, and her bones were found in his backyard. I can understand how the jury got there. On the other hand, it's not like he wasn't convicted wrongfully before. He was, and some of the same people contributed to that. All very weird.
I am reminded of something one of Avery's excellent defense attorneys said near the tail end of the series. He said that he almost hopes Avery did do it, because if he didn't, the idea of this man who was once wrongfully convicted being set up again is nightmarish and horrific. Avery maintains he's innocent. He's literally back full circle, in prison, trying to prove it against great odds.
Of course, Halbach will never get to live past 25. I can't imagine the pain her family has gone through, and now to see it dredged back up. They didn't participate in the documentary, although her brother's press conferences are prominently featured in it.
Absent new science, Avery's best hope is to prove who really did it, if he didn't, I suppose. That was woefully lacking in the series: Who are the other suspects? There were numerous other adult men living on the property, not just Avery, but the defense was barred from raising other possible suspects in court. Maybe Netflix worried about liability. Who else had the opportunity? The ability? The motive?
"Making a Murderer" raises lots of questions, but those two may be the biggest: If Avery didn't do it – and that's just an if – who killed Teresa Halbach? And why?
earl | Dec. 30, 2015 at 9:14 a.m. (report)
Good article although author seems to be stretching to find issues with both defenses. Steve not testifying makes complete sense. First, if he really knows nothing of what happened then what value is his testimony? He can't add anything to his defense and given that he isn't the sharpest knife in the drawer has a real chance to get crossed up by the prosecutor and hurt his case. The "detail" that Brendan comes up with, he says he got them from a book he's read and anyone can make up a story. If that implied guild then every horror/murder story author should be brought up for trial. None of his details are supported by any kind of physical evidence, its pure fantasy.
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WoodGuyIN2 | Dec. 29, 2015 at 1:00 p.m. (report)
Very well written, and perfectly captures how I felt after watching all 10 episodes. I am even more appreciative of your stance b/c you were aware of this case prior to Making a Murderer was released. >Why didn't Avery testify? (Yea, I know. It's his right.) It's critical to make the emphasize that it's not only a right, but the very first right you're read when arrested. You have the right to remain silent, not only while arrested, but also throughout your entire proceedings. I don't think you should be flippant with your parenthetical statement. We are entitled to the PRESUMPTION of innocence. If, before anyone's trial, the question is posed, did he/she do it? As a juror (or really any member of society), your response should be, "I presume he/she is innocent." What's really been hammered home to me is you should CLING TO THAT RIGHT at all costs when speaking to police if you think you are in any way being questioned in connection with a crime. To me, one of the most angering parts of this story is that Kratz was allowed to read that terrible account of what ALLEGEDLY happened to Halbach prior to Avery's trial even starting? It complete errodes that presumption by any who hear it. Furthermore, they dropped all charges vs. Avery that came from the Dassey confession.
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Goose714 | Dec. 29, 2015 at 12:14 p.m. (report)
My theory is it's Scott Tydach and Boddy Dassey (as many others have speculated). Teresa had been on the property many times before. Perhaps Scott or Bobby took a liking. Teresa arrives and leaves, and one or both follow, confront, and kill Teresa at the rock quarry. Throw the body in back of her truck (leaving the blood in the back) take it back to the property. They burn the body in the barrel. At some point either they, or the Manitowoc Police dump the barrel into Steve's pit. Bobby and Scott leave the vehicle where its found by seachers. But not before Officer Colburn conducts an illegal search of Avery's property immediate following her missing persons is filed (this is when he ran her plate for no apparent reason). Officer Colburn or more probable, Officer Lenk, remove the key from the vehicle, scrub it, plant Steven's DNA and wait for the right time to plant it. Lenk knows where to get Steven;s DNA from the blood sample and also plants it in the vehicle. When the garage comes into play, again Lenk scambles to plant the bullet several month later, to solidify this cases even more. Arrogant prosecutor Katz airs the coerced confession of Brendan Dassey to disgust and sway public opinion. At this point the police and prosecution have gone so far down a rabbit hole they cannot turn back. They have to convict Avery or everyone in the Wisc. justice system is up shits creek. They railroad the defense by deny certain abilities in court, and even call in the FBI to do some non-sense EDTA blood test to back them. Scott and Bobby are never even considered suspects, despite being each others alibi. Nor was anyone else. In theory, Lenk could have pulled this whole frame job off himself, and the rest would go along just because of who Steve Avery was to that community.
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Darnell | Dec. 28, 2015 at 8:13 a.m. (report)
Thinking Steven Avery killed Teresa Haibach is akin to thinking 9/11 wasn't an inside job. Some people are not prepared to face facts.
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LadyWriter | Dec. 25, 2015 at 12:01 p.m. (report)
I too just finished watching the documentary and, while reading transcripts online and other court documents, I came across this very well-written article. Hands down, this is the best editorial that I've found regarding this tragedy. Actually, I almost didn't bother watching this documentary. Like Ms. McBride, I was 100% positive that Mr. Avery and his nephew, Brendan, were absolutely guilty of this heinous murder. Additionally, I was disgusted that Netflix and the producers of this documentary were capitalizing on the death of poor Teresa Halbach. The ONLY reason I watched it was to be informed of what it contained prior to criticizing it on Facebook, Reddit, or wherever I could write scathing comments. Instead, I realized that I, along with the general public who believed whatever lurid tidbits that the media and the Manitowoc Sheriff's Department gave us, had been misled. I erroneously assumed that there was forensic evidence that backed up the prosecution's allegations that these two were the culprits. Only to learn now that there was no forensic evidence, not one drop of Teresa's DNA or Brandon's inside that trailer or garage. And after watching Brandon's "confessions" and reading the transcripts online, I don't understand how this was admissible in court, when it was obviously coerced and subsequent "confessions" were even more coerced, and that the jury did not see ALL of the videotaped "confessions." And two of the jurors should not have been on the jury, as they had close relatives working in the sheriff's department. I would assume that factoid came out during jury selection. Why the defense agreed to those jurors being selected is just one of many, many reasons why Brendan deserves a new trial and to have an attorney who is going to advocate for HIM, not for the prosecution and certainly not for the Court of Public Opinion. I think both of these defendants deserve a new trial, especially Brendan, but I have my doubts this will ever happen. The judicial system will never allow new trials because this would mean admitting, especially to the Halbach family, that mistakes were made in the investigation of Teresa's murder and, worse yet, admitting that her real killer may still out there.
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Expo-FIHOQ 2016: a new location, but still as much fun to get together
Numerous visitors came to roam the alleyways at the Centre Cogeco in Drummondville for the most recent edition of the Expo-FIHOQ that took place on November 16, 17 and 18.
Besides the heavy attendance, the number of visitors from traditional ornamental horticulture sectors was on the increase as well. More growers, garden centres and landscapers came to meet the exhibitors and learn more about their new and flagship products, all while discussing with them in person.
A path through a flower-decked town
Happy and smiling visitors followed the route that had been set out for them on two floors, with more than 60,000 square feet of exhibition surface area in total. On the second floor, they wandered through Main Street, a fun downtown area that was packed with flowers. They visited the highly popular exhibitors' boutiques before taking the grand staircase leading to the main exposition hall where more than 225 exhibitors with more than 415 stands were waiting to greet them.
Ornamental horticulture and green space management professionals as well as stakeholders from the municipal world were able to visit with plant, inert materials and equipment suppliers as well as service providers.
The exhibitors have all gone back to their drawing boards and are busy preparing colourful stands for the next edition of Expo-FIHOQ from November 15 to 17, 2017 in Drummondville. We'll see you there!


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The truth is that Montana is a beautiful place, but it's difficult to construe this fact to strangers.
When talking to someone about my childhood, there are several falsehoods I have to debunk on a recurring basis.
"Yes, there is a speed limit in Montana."
"No, we don't eat bull testicles... that often."
And my favorite:
"No, I didn't ride a horse to school."
For better or worse, living in Montana wasn't all that different from what I saw on TV growing up (quelle surprise, we had television sets), although there were a few standout aspects of my childhood. For instance, some folks don't believe me when I tell them this, but on occasion I'd find myself running alongside herds of deer in gym class. My high school was on the outskirts of town, and if weather permitted, the gym teachers would have us run the mile outside. Wildlife doesn't just disappear in the face of expanding urban industrialization. They still gather and graze, and when confronted with a bevy of sprinting high school kids, their intuition was to join in, resulting in complete chaos.
Though Montana is generally business as normal, as I got older there were increasing exceptions. It can be a challenge to entertain yourself in the country, especially at night. On evenings when storms blew the power out, we'd sit in the basement and wrack our brains for ways to stay occupied. This is how The Eighteen Hundreds Game came to fruition.
The game is simple. You sit in the dark and imagine it's the 1800's. Simple, right? You get bonus points for wrapping yourself in a sheet and pretending to be a Brontë sister. And if you're thinking, "Hey Adam, they totally had electricity in the nineteenth century," well, then, you have a pretty good idea of how effective the Montana education system is.
Not everyone understood the appeal of the game, however.
After graduating I went to college in Boston, but I returned home to Montana during summer breaks. Like most kids under the legal age, I became all too familiar with that veritable quandry of where to drink at night. For kids in Big Sky Country, the solution usually involved lugging tallboys of Budweiser out into the wilderness and drinking under the stars. And for me, the favorite spot was on top of a giant rock just north of the airport, nestled away from the city lights (and those pesky cops).
As most agrestic youths know, drinking in the wild comes with a unique set of dangers. I can't count the number of times I huddled atop that rock with the resolve to finish my beer no matter what, come rain or shine or alien invasion.
The principle tenet when doing anything in the wild is to prolong breaking the seal as long as possible. Once those gates open, there's no turning back, and there's nothing worse than drunkenly stumbling around rugged terrain in the dark.
Because of course, danger lurks around every corner.
The first Montana summer where I was finally old enough to go to bars was a borderline religious experience. It wasn't long before I discover The Crystal Lounge, Montana's premiere karaoke bar. When it comes to small town dive bars, the fancier the name, the grosser the establishment. And The Crystal Lounge was a fabulous petrie dish of fail.
It wasn't the cheap drinks that appealed to me, or the nearly pitch black atmosphere, or even the soft "plink plink" of Rohypnol being dropped into bottles of Miller Lite. As with any scuzzy hole-in-the-wall, it's the clientele that makes the memories. And this is where The Crystal shines.
One of my favorite regulars is an older woman who comes in on Saturday nights, has a drink or twelve, and then submits her karaoke request. Every time she sings "I Will Always Love You," dedicates it to her son Darrell stationed in Iraq, and sings the entire song in a single high-pitched note barely audible to anyone of the non-canine variety.
Then there are the bros with backwards Nascar hats, and their girlfriends with over-processed Ramen Noodle hair, but my most revered client by far is a quiet guy who comes in on the weekends, always followed closely by the flashiest hooker I've ever seen. This is notable because while Montana certainly has hookers, they're generally of the bargain bin variety.
This fella must import his girls from out of state. I've never seen him with any of the budget hookers who meander the streets downtown at 7 PM on a Tuesday. His hookers are Gucci Mane music video type hookers. They strut around, giving off attitude and raising drinks to his lips, and when it's time for him to sing, they hold the microphone up for him, and he mutters quietly along to the throbbing beats of the loudspeakers, barely discernable to anyone in the building.
The Crystal Lounge has become tradition when I return home to visit, even if it's just for a weekend. I can only hope that someday I'll slowly degenerate into one of The Crystal's regulars, smelling of Newport Menthol 100's and nursing a Wild Turkey on the rocks while I wait for my turn to belt out Shampoo's "I Know What Boys Like," thinking I'm being ironic, but only succeeding in making everyone uncomfortable and confused.
...Maybe I should dream bigger.
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The Hero of Truth (Japanese: 真実の勇者 Hero of Truth) and the Hero of Ideals (Japanese: 理想の勇者 Hero of Ideals) are characters that appeared in both White—Victini and Zekrom and Black—Victini and Reshiram.
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They are twin brothers and are the sons of the King of the People of the Vale that lived one thousand years ago in Kingdom of the Vale.
One day, the two brothers began to fight over their beliefs and started a war in the process. This devastated the kingdom and caused the Dragon Force energy that was enriching their kingdom to become destructive and chaotic, causing it to destroy the land.
The chaos the Dragon Force caused forced the King to use Victini's power to move the Sword of the Vale to the location that would eventually become Eindoak Town. Despite managing to calm the Dragon Force, the King unfortunately died soon after, accidentally leaving Victini trapped inside of the Sword of the Vale's barrier. Reshiram and Zekrom, exhausted from their battle, reverted into stones known as "Dragon Stones". Guilt ridden, the brothers took and hid the stones in a secret cave hidden deep underneath the castle.
Reshiram was used by the Hero of Truth in the war between the brothers. After a long and fierce battle with Zekrom, Reshiram was reverted into a stone form and remained that way until being awakened in the future.
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Zekrom was used by the Hero of Ideals in the war between the brothers. After a long and fierce battle with Reshiram, Zekrom was reverted into a stone form and remained that way until being awakened in the future.
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The Heroes of Truth and Ideals are mentioned in Black and White, usually called "The Twin Heroes." According to legend, they once shared a powerful dragon, but could not decide weather to pursue truth or ideals. The dragon split into two parts, Reshiram following the Hero of Truth and Zekrom following the Hero of Ideals.
At the beginning of the games, one hero's dragon (ZekromB or ReshiramW) resides in the Dragonspiral Tower and is called upon by N to create his ideal world. The player is tasked with resolving the history the twins began in the past by finding ReshiramB or ZekromW in the Light StoneB or Dark StoneW and reviving it.
It is also said that one of the Twin Heroes built the Relic Castle, which became the center of civilization in Unova.
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No, it is not likely that you should encounter immigration inspections while traveling between France and Poland. But keep in mind that Poland is part of the same immigration zone as France, so the time that you spend in France will count towards your total in Poland, and vice versa. While there should not be any immigration controls while flying between the two countries the time that you spend in either count towards the rather large overstay you have already accumulated.
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The Port of Felixstowe welcomed the maiden call of the Cosco Glory, the newest and largest vessel in the Cosco fleet, on Sunday 10th July 2011.
The Cosco Glory and sister ship Cosco Pride were constructed by Hyundai Heavy Industries Co. Ltd, measure 366m in length and weigh in at 140,542 tons apiece. Capable of carrying 13,100TEU, they are the flagship vessels of the Cosco container ship fleet.
David Gledhill, Chief Executive Officer of Hutchison Ports (UK) Ltd, which owns the Port of Felixstowe said:
"We are very pleased to welcome the Cosco Glory to the port on her maiden voyage and are proud to be one of the only UK ports to be able to berth the increasingly large ships entering the market. With the current expansion at the port, we will be able to handle more of these super post-panamax vessels simultaneously, and with the UK's best road, rail and coastal feeder services to support our operations, our customers can be sure of unparalleled advantages when using the UK's number one container port."
The Cosco Glory is currently employed on the NE3 service, for which the port rotation is: Rotterdam, Felixstowe, Hamburg, Antwerp, Nansha, Hong Kong, Xingang, Dalian, Qingdao, Ningbo, Yantian and Singapore.


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Author | Nitin Pandey | Wednesday, Mar 24,2010 8:28 AM
The Government was likely to implement content regulation in three tiers for news channels, said Uday Kumar Varma, Special Secretary, Ministry of Information & Broadcasting, at the three-day Convergence India 2010 conference that got underway in Delhi on March 24. While the first two tiers will be offered for self-regulation, the third tier will be an independent autonomous body.
Speaking on the issue of content regulation Varma pointed out that nowhere in the world was media free content wise. "Content needs to be regulated, but the big question is how? Substantial media players thinks they can self regulate themselves, but there are 500 channels in India and all have to be taken together, otherwise it cannot work. There are few organisations in the country that seem to be responsible. We are in the process of negotiations with content and carriage providers and hoping to come to the mutual consensus very soon," he added.
"Few people raise the question on self-regulation – that how can somebody be a judge of his own act? Banks and telecom operators don't regulate themselves, they have got a separate body to keep an eye on them. So, how can TV news media be different?" Varma asked.
He further expressed satisfaction with the responses of news associations and said, "Associations like NBA and BAI have shown responsible behaviour by replying to some of the queries that we had sent to them. Some days back, when few news channels were showing objectionable content from the movie 'Love, Sex and Dhokha', we issued a notice to them and they stopped showing that content. We are in the process of evolving consensus with news broadcasters and hoping to get everything done soon."
Varma also spoke on the IPTV and DTH industry in India. He stressed that digitisation of cable network was not a choice, but more of a compulsion. He added, "Equipment manufacturers and digital buyers will have to improve their production. Tax and duty structure needs to be rationalized, because DTH operators keep on complaining about taxes."
On IPTV services, he said, "I don't see IPTV harming other mediums in the near future. On IPTV, we are looking to get feedbacks from the industry as well. Although mobile penetration is very high in India, yet the penetration of mobile TV is very less. Issue of spectrum in mobile TV has to be discussed for its bright future."


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Thanks so much for everybody who replied to this. I apologize for not replying/thanking sooner, but I have been trying to get this thing working. Unfortunately I'm having only marginal success. I'm thinking maybe there's something very fundamental that I'm not getting. Here's where I'm at: 1. I can get the deployer to recognize myhostdir/ROOT/META-INF/context.xml. It works ONLY with the default docBase of "" and ROOT. Nothing else works for instance docBase="www" and directory myhostdir/www/META-INF/context.xml won't work. 2. Some things in context.xml work, others don't. For instance a RemoteAddrValve works, but a Realm doesn't work. 3. Even for the context in server.xml, the problem with #2 appears with docBase of "" and dir ROOT. It goes away when I put docBase="www" and dir as www. 4. The Realm problem gives no log information. It just acts like the realm doesn't exist. Perhaps the problem isn't with the Realm definition, but the implementation in WEB-INF/web.xml? Does the ROOT context somehow make the app ignore web.xml? I'm kind of lost at this point. Thanks. Victor Huang <email@example.com> wrote: You need to specify docBase which is your application's doc root in element in ROOT.xml. e.g. unpackWARs="true" autoDeploy="true" xmlValidation="false" xmlNamespaceAware="false"> crossContext="true"> You need to specify docBase which is your application's doc root in <Context> element in ROOT.xml. e.g. <Context debug="0" docBase="www" reloadable="true" crossContext="true/> Regards, Victor -----Original Message----- From: Jake Alley [mailto:email@example.com] Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2007 10:10 AM To: firstname.lastname@example.com Subject: Context information outside of server.xml I'm trying to rework my server.xml file so that the context info can be reloaded without restarting the entire server. As far as I can tell this involves putting the context information in a file outside of server.xml. I've read that META-INF/context.xml only works with WAR files, and I don't use those. I'm puting the info in conf/Catalina/mydomain/ROOT.xml. It doesn't seem to work. For instance the following: In conf/server.xml <Host name="test1.mydomain.com" appBase="/home/myhome/sites/test1" unpackWARs="true" autoDeploy="true" xmlValidation="false" xmlNamespaceAware="false"> <Context debug="1" path="" docBase ="www" reloadable="true" crossContext="true"> </Context> In conf/Catalina/test1.mydomain.com/ROOT.xml <Context> <Valve className="org.apache.catalina.valves.AccessLogValve" directory="/home/myhome/sites/test1/logs" prefix="test1." suffix=".log" pattern="common"/> </Context> I know this doesn't work because the logs don't get updated when in ROOT.xml, but do when in server.xml. Can anybody see what I'm doing wrong? Thanks. Can anybody see what I'm doing wrong? Thanks. --------------------------------- Looking for a deal? Find great prices on flights and hotels with Yahoo! FareChase. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To start a new topic, e-mail: email@example.com To unsubscribe, e-mail: email@example.com For additional commands, e-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com --------------------------------- Fussy? Opinionated? Impossible to please? Perfect. Join Yahoo!'s user panel and lay it on us.
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January 27, 2003
While the governor of Virginia continues to block implementation of requirements for proof of legal residency to obtain a state driver's license, a Norfolk, Virginia, policewoman was murdered on Jan. 16 by a previously deported illegal alien who managed to return to the U.S. using false documents. The Jamaican national, Mario Roberto Keen, who had been deported in September 1997, was able to use altered documents to return to the U.S.
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Although seven of the 19 September 11th terrorists had taken advantage of Virginia's lax driver's license and state ID policies, very little has been done to rectify the situation, reports the Washington Times. The paper faults the administration of Gov. Mark Warner, "which appears to be working behind the scenes to kill legislation that would end the state's reputation as a mecca for immigration fraud by requiring applicants for driver's licenses to prove they are legally in the United States."
Legislation introduced last year in the Virginia House of Delegates requiring proof of legal U.S. residency was killed in the State Senate. Citing the need for fiscal austerity, the governor seems to be attempting to block implementation once again. In the meantime, an official of the Virginia DMV confirms that applicants for driver's licenses are not being asked to provide proof of legal residency.
In reaction to publicity surrounding the news that Mexican consular ID cards were being accepted as proof of identification for admission to the Philip Burton Federal Building in San Francisco, the General Services Administration has suspended the policy. However, officials of the Mexican government, the office of House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), as well as an assortment of immigrants' rights groups are pressing for reinstatement of the cards.
As spokeswoman for Pelosi argued that acceptance of the cards, "helps to identify people who are in the community." Groups like the National Council of La Raza, which has fought tirelessly against secure identification documents issued by the U.S. government, also protested the suspension in the acceptance of the Mexican-issued IDs. David Ray of FAIR, however, told the San Francisco Chronicle, "We are absolutely alarmed by the vacuum of protest from the Bush Administration…about accepting ID cards possessed solely by illegal aliens."
In one of the most remarkable examples of political spin to be found anywhere, an immigration lawyers' web site interprets the results of a new Gallup Poll as an indication that Americans want more, not less immigration.
According to the survey conducted between Jan. 13-16, 31 percent of respondents said they were "somewhat dissatisfied" with U.S. immigration policy, while 34 percent were "very dissatisfied." This compares with 3 percent who are "very satisfied" and 24 percent who are "somewhat satisfied." In order to conclude that the overwhelming dissatisfaction is due to too little immigration, rather than too much, the immigration lawyers urges that we "look at the fine print." (Caution: you're going to need a very powerful magnifying glass.) The poll notes that Republicans are more satisfied than Democrats, and since Democrats are more likely than Republicans to want higher immigration, therefore Americans who identify with both parties want more immigration. Got it? There's just one important piece of information the immigration lawyers leave out: Although Democrats are more likely to favor higher immigration than Republicans, most Democrats also think immigration levels are too high. The difference is that Democrats would probably make small reductions than Republicans.
"Catholic bishops from the United States and Mexico urged Presidents Bush and Vicente Fox on Friday to renew talks on immigration that stalled after the Sept. 11 attacks and enact reforms that 'respect the human dignity' of immigrants," the AP reports. "The pastoral letter, considered a policy statement of the church, also is addressed to the 65 million U.S. Catholics and 90 million Mexican Catholics. It calls on members to respond better to migrants' needs through such efforts as training priests and church leaders to accompany migrants on their travels."
"The head of a U.S.-based Muslim group said he was stopped at Ireland's Shannon Airport after a three-week visit to Jordan and told he could not return to the United States," the AP reported. "Sabri Samirah, president of the United Muslim Americans Association in Palos Hills, outside Chicago, said Sunday he still had not learned exactly why immigration officials denied him permission to return after visiting his parents in Jordan."
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Make me blush: how to style blush tones for all occasions7:00 AM
My wedding is long over (we actually just celebrated our 6th wedding anniversary!) but my love for pretty dresses is never ending. As I browsed pinterest I came upon this lovely image and was inspired to find some blush pieces to wear for every day.
I love these looks and am already pulling together what I have in my closet to recreate these.
I would like to add a few more blush pieces to my wardrobe. These below from Forever 21 are all super affordable and can be worn styled just like the above inspirations.
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Our wedding was also 6 years ago - but I still like browsing pretty wedding-related things once in awhile. :)ReplyDelete
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The Philadelphia Flyers and New York Rangers are set for Game 1 of their first-round matchup Thursday at 7 p.m. at Madison Square Garden in New York.
The teams split their regular season series 2-2, with the home team winning all four games. With the Rangers possessing home ice advantage, and their recent dominance at the Garden, it's going to be one of the keys to this series.
Here is a look at five players that could make a difference for both teams.
Rangers goalie Henrik Lundqvist
Lundqvist is one of the NHL's top goaltenders every season. That being said, he hasn't been this season.
Lundqvist finished 15th in the NHL with a 2.36 GAA. His .920 save percentage is also 15th. But that doesn't change the fact he elevates his game in the playoffs every season, boasting a 2.28 GAA and .920 save percentage in 67 career playoff games.
Lundqvist has also dominated the Flyers in his career, boasting a 26-12-0-3 record. He is 12-3 in his last 15 games (since March 6, 2011), and has won eight straight at the Garden.
Rangers right wing Martin St. Louis
The Rangers gave up a lot in a trade to get St. Louis in the red, white and blue for this season and next. St. Louis is an elite offensive player even at the age of 38. But right now, he hasn't been living up to the price.
In 19 games since being acquired at the deadline, St. Louis has just one goal and seven assists, low numbers for a player who is a season removed from winning the Art Ross Trophy.
The Rangers need him to elevate his scoring for the team to score better than its 2.61 goals per game suggests.
Flyers center Sean Couturier
If anyone on the Flyers is going to be relied upon to lead the forecheck and attack Rangers defenseman Ryan McDonagh in his zone, it's going to be Couturier.
Couturier is the Flyers' top forechecker and defensive forward. He has shown the ability to keep the puck in the opposing team's zone, and has been responsible for neutralizing some of the NHL's top forwards in the past three seasons.
Couturier can also find the back of the net with his hard snap shot and relentless drive to the crease.
Rangers right wing Rick Nash
Nash was another big acquisition for the Rangers, coming to the team prior to last season. Though he battled some health issues, missing 17 games, he is arguably New York's most dangerous offensive weapon.
Nash is a big, strong power forward at 6-foot-4. He has played well with Derek Stepan and Carl Hagelin on the top line. If he can have his way with the puck in the Flyers' zone, he is going to be a nightmare for the Flyers' blue line.
Flyers defenseman Braydon Coburn
Coburn is the Flyers' top defenseman, and the only one who can match up with Nash's size and speed. Coburn is very fast on his skates and has a very active stick in the defensive zone.
Coburn is their most aggressive blue liner, possessing the ability to knock the puck carrier off the puck before entering the zone. And if the opposing player gets in, Coburn is good at driving that player to the perimeter.
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Gluten-Free at the Neighborhood Barbeque
- June 2014
- 5 min read
Summer not only brings warm weather and the occasional sunburn but also outdoor get-togethers that involve a plethora of food. Whether you are attending or hosting a summertime bash, there are plenty of gluten-free and healthy alternatives when it comes to the menu and your plate. Don't let feelings of stress keep you from having a good time. Below are some tips on how to safely attend these gatherings but still be mindful of what you are eating.
- Ask the host what he/she will be serving ahead of time. Briefly explain your need for a gluten-free diet and see if the menu they plan on serving fits your gluten-free needs.
- Eat something gluten free before the party if you are unsure of the food that will be served , that way you aren't tempted by a growling stomach.
- Bring an emergency snack! Create snack bags for your purse or pocket such as a handful of nuts. This healthy and filling snack will help you resist the snack table at your next summer gathering.
- Load up on naturally gluten-free foods like fruits and vegetables.
- Nominate yourself to bring a gluten-free dish. Not only is this a great alternative for you but others can join in on the gluten-free fun.
- If you are hosting a get together this summer, invite your guests to be involved with your gluten-free menu planning. It could be a fun culinary challenge for all involved!
- Hot dog buns and pasta salad are some obvious sources of gluten but be on the lookout for other foods and beverages that may contain gluten such as:
- Processed meats
- Processed cheese
- Veggie burgers
- Pre-prepared dips
- Desserts such as cookies and cakes
- Alcoholic beverages
- Many condiments and sauces also can contain ingredients that have gluten in them, such as thickeners and vinegar. Vinegar made from wheat, barley or rye that has not been distilled is not gluten-free. Some common culprits include:
- BBQ sauce
- Ketchup
- Mayonnaise
- Mustard
- Soy sauce
- Salad dressing
- Marinades
Keep these tips in mind and be on the lookout for these foods at your next party. If you aren't comfortable about asking the hostess for the menu beforehand, you can always bring your own gluten-free alternatives and check available labels to stay in control of what you eat.