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These are the generations that I have found. 1.Nicholas Stallings Sr. 2.John Stallings Sr. 3.john Stallings Jr. 4.Simon Stallings 5.Daniel Stallings Sr. 6. Danile Stallings Jr. 7.Whitmel Stallings. 8.john Willie Stallings. 9. Lillie Belle Stallings, She married Ellis Rudolph Dixon, this is where I come in. There are 3 generations of Dixons so far. Clyde Walter Dixon ( my father) He had one brother Ellis Rudolph Dixon Jr. And two sisters, Alcora and Iola. Then there are me and my brothers and sister. Clyde Dixon Jr. Angela ( me) Theresa, Micheal, Robert and Mark. Our children are Tiffany (Theresas daughter) Aaron (my son) Heather and April ( Micheals daughters) Cory and Cameron ( Roberts sons) Elizabeth (Marks daughter) Next generation starts with my Grandson Aaron Jr.
Looking for Dixons and Stallings from NC & VA
I have traced the Stallings name back to Nicholas Stallings. B.1620 in Middlesex England. He came to America. He was first reported to have been in James County Va on Nov. 5,1635. Iam not sure about the dates, if he came here in 1635 that means he was only 15 years old. A book written by Nell N. Nugent 1943 claims Nicholas was imported with 23 others by William Swan. Swan bought 1200 acres of land in James County Va on the south side of the James river. Nicholas Stallings was the overseer. He married Christine Morecroft in 1654 in Nanesmond County Va. I believe Nicholas d. april of 1663. I believe all my dates for Nicholas Stallings Sr. are wrong. I know he had 3 sons, Nicholas Jr, John, and Elias. John is where my family begins. I have 10 generations. All the way to my grandson Aaron.
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The last time I updated about our debt reduction, we owed more than 50% on our student loans. I am happy to say that today we hit over 50% paid! I am ecstatic! I thought it would take us a lot longer than this to knock out some debt. I had originally planned on paying off the student loan in the next nine months, but then decided that I would do a "reverse debt snowball" instead, and put the money that I was going to throw at the student loan in a savings account earning 4% interest. It looks like that was a sound decision, because now there's rumors that they will start converting my area first. Oh well. I've got an emergency fund, and that's what it for: in case we need it.
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Davos, Switzerland, January 15, 2013 – The mountain resort village of Davos, Switzerland, slowly awakes as the international professional snowboard community starts to descend on the picturesque alpine town for what has become one of the most iconic events on the annual contest calendar.
With light snow once again blanketing this winter paradise at the time of writing, fond memories of last year's edition of the O'Neill Evolution return to the fore, when more than two meters of fresh snow fell from the skies during the week, almost forcing the cancellation of the event.
And let's face it – if you are ever going to cancel an event, too much snow is the best reason there ever was or has been. Yet, with the almost unheard of 'powder landings' blessing a freestyle contest, Mark McMorris (CAN) squeezed his way past an explosive Eric Willett (USA) in a hard-fought and unforgettable freestyle throw-down. This year's edition of the O'Neill Evolution promises all of last year's standout action… and even more.
While not unfolding in the French-speaking quarter of Switzerland, you can expect to hear a lot of French with 'un accent quebecois'. Yet again, the best riders to emerge from Eastern Canada have invaded Davos, with Seb Toots, Antoine Truchon and Maxence Parrot already laying down some seriously impressive training runs. A top 14 placing from Truchon will result in a new leader in the race for the World Snowboard Tour Big Air Title, while podium positions for either Seb or Maxence will see them drive into the Big Air Top 5.
O'Neill Team rider – Seb Toots (CAN)
Other names worthy of mention and certainly in contention are the Austrian contingent of Mario Wanger and Tom Klocker, both of whom will have their sights set on scoring podium results in the Big Air to jump up the rankings. Further major movements in the Big Air rankings will be more than probable should Scandinavian marauders Emil Ulstetten (NOR), Torgeir Bergrem (NOR) and Kalle Järvilehto (FIN) stomp all their tricks with typical Scandi precision.
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As a "little nerdy Jewish kid in Chicago," Balaban loved the movies and theater but had no inkling he would be involved in show business. "I was trying to do well in school and hoping I would survive adolescence," said Balaban, currently appearing in George Clooney's World War II adventure "The Monuments Men," which opens Feb. 7.
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Usually cast in intellectual and comedic, whimsical roles, Balaban has worked with some of cinema's top directors, including John Schlesinger ("Midnight Cowboy"), Steven Spielberg ("Close Encounters of the Third Kind"), Sydney Pollack ("Absence of Malice"), Christopher Guest ("Waiting for Guffman," "Best in Show"), Robert Altman ("Gosford Park") and Wes Anderson ("Moonrise Kingdom," "The Grand Budapest Hotel"). Balaban has also directed TV movies such as 2008's "Bernard and Doris" and 2010's "Georgia O'Keeffe" and has written two children's books series, including the bestselling "McGrowl."
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You may have noticed that I the Nutrisystem updates have not been happening lately. Well, I fell off the wagon and I fell hard. I have spent the last few months or so eating my feelings instead of taking care of myself and the result was gaining the weight I worked so hard to get off.
Now I am fully recommitting myself to Nutrisystem and owning up to my gain. I admit, I was ashamed to admit to you all that I failed but part of being accountable during this process is blogging about it so there you have it. Now I'm back on the program, trying to take better care of my body and not eating my feelings away with Starbucks Cake Pops and chicken piccata as I was doing for the last few months.
With that said, I've stocked up on my fruits, vegetables, carb and protein portions for the week but I have a new obsession I wanted to talk about and it is plain old, simple water. It all started when a PR gal sent me a case of Hint Naturally Flavored Water. Hint has zero calories and it has none of that artificial sweetness you get with other sugar-free beverages. You know that fake sweetness I'm talking about. With Hint, it seems natural. It is as if someone left some watermelon, cucumber or pear slices just chillin' in some water and the result is Hint. Since then, I have picked up some cases for work but at home I have been slicing up lemons and oranges and putting them in my Britta pitcher. The result is fantastic, it reminds me of Paris when we visited a Clarins boutique and they had the most amazing spa water. I have been driving my friends and family crazy with my special water urging them to drink it. 😉
This water got me thinking of my favorite "on the wagon" diet favorites. If you're trying Nutrisystem for the first time, the choices might be overwhelming. What do you choose? I'll give you a little breakdown of my favorites on the program, the things I have in my pantry now and am coming back to. Maybe it will help make your decision a little easier.
- Cinnamon Bun Bar – I'm not a cinnamon roll or cinnamon bun type of gal but the combination of the icing and the crunchiness of this bar with a cup of coffee hits the spot.
- Breakfast Burrito – this is my favorite Nutrisystem breakfast hands down, if I didn't know this was on the program, I wouldn't believe it was lo-cal.
- Crispy Rice Cereal – you can't really go wrong with this, it is a classic. It is not sweetened and I usually go for this when I'm not using my dairy portion on a non-fat latte.
- Vegetable Beef Soup – I'm a big vegetable beef soup gal and this hits the spot without all the calories of my old go-to canned soup.
- Steak and Cheese Melt -this is another thing I wouldn't think was lo-cal if I didn't know it was from Nutrisystem. It smells so good while you're heating it up and satisfies the ooey-gooey cheesy craving.
- Mexican Style Tortilla Soup – sometimes dehydrated soups are hit or miss, this one is the best one out of all of the ones I've tried. The spice isn't overwhelming and I like the tortilla strips in it.
- Salisbury Steak with Macaroni and Cheese – I don't crave macaroni and cheese often but when I do, I know I can count on this entree. Plus the sauce in this entree is delicious!
- Glazed Chicken Tenders – the frozen entrees are someone what new to Nutrisystem and this is the entree that has impressed me the most. It is tasty and most of all – fresh!
- Rotini with Meatballs and Tomato Sauce – I happen to think Nutrisystem's tomato sauce based entrees are the best ones and this one is my favorite out of all of them.
- Butter Flavored Popcorn – can you really screw up popcorn? I think not, I actually prefer the fake buttery flavor of it to say, Popcorn Indiana.
- Almond Biscotti – sometimes I switch this up for breakfast with a latte. You wouldn't be able to tell that this was a Nutrisystem dessert if it was on a platter.
- Creamy Fudge Bar – another classic. Some of the frozen desserts have a little bit of a odd after taste but this one doesn't. It's my favorite dessert on the program.
One thing about the program that amazes me is how its participants can take an entree and use it as an ingredient. I'm not creative enough for that, it wouldn't have occurred in a million years for me to do that. I think I'm going to be spending more time on their message boards hunting for a recipe that I want to try because I can't have my favorites all the time. 😉
So it's back on the diet wagon for me today. All I can think about today is what I can't have but I keep telling myself "I can do this" over and over again in the hopes that it will stick. I still feel like feeding my feelings but I'm trying to turn over a new leaf and not rely on my old standby to feel better about myself. My motivation and encouragement is not what it use to be but I'm going to get it back, I just need that one good weigh in to keep me going.
Would you like to lose weight and get healthy on Nutrisystem too? Visit Nutrisystem today or call 1-888-853-4689. Nutrisystem is providing their program and support services free of charge for my participation in the Nutrisystem Nation Blogging Program.


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"The tests were performed as part of the health department's analysis of soil samples from all of Montreal's nearly 100 community gardens. Beausoleil said about 30 gardens city-wide are contaminated. However, only 11 gardens have been closed – nine of them last year. The other affected gardens will be made public this year by the boroughs in which they are located, Beausoleil said.
"We can tell you right now, there is no worry for your health as a result of eating vegetables from this soil," Monique Beausoleil, a toxicologist with the department — She explained that most of the contaminants were found in soil lower than the roots that most typical vegetables grow, so their absorption rate was very low."
Montréal Gazette article, April 1, 2008.
Links to official tests and reports.
Montréal's community gardening program – description, 14 page PDF.


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Every lost manufacturing job means the loss of around 2.3 other jobs in the economy (e.g. in research and design). Manufacturing's decline slows economic growth. While manufacturing represents 10% of the jobs in the economy, job loss in manufacturing hits nearly 30% of the economy.
There is a structural weakness in our manufacturing. Our manufacturing is not competitive. Invasion of import competition from China was responsible for between one‐quarter to more than one‐half of the lost manufacturing jobs in the 2000s.
A new report – published by The Information Technology & Innovation Foundation – states that "the loss of manufacturing is due to underinvestment in manufacturing technology support policies (…), among others."
Underinvestment in medium- and high-technology is causing a structural decline of our economy. To be able to use those technologies, we of course need high-tech skills.
So the future of manufacturing begins with education, and with the resulting high-skilled top talent.
The current situation of manufacturing is like having a weakened immune system.
Without the right system of cells you will never keep the integrity of the body intact.
The body has soldiers, members of the immune system army: the B-cell and the T-cell. The dutiful soldiers get into action the moment any foreign substance or agent enters our body. B-cells circulate all around the body in the bloodstream, and eventually bind to the agent. T-cells circulate in the bloodstream and lymph and kill the agent. The blood and lymph systems are responsible for transporting the soldiers of the immune system.
- The blood stream is our education system.
- The B-cells are our high-level technologies.
- The T-cells are our highly-skilled workers.
They are our protective shields to combat infections. If our cells are not strong enough, viruses are attacking our vital organs.
Germany, Korea and Japan have transformed to high-skilled manufacturing. They have a significantly higher share of their manufacturing output in high-tech and medium-high-tech industries than the United States; they have transformed their manufacturing industries toward more complex, higher-value-added production. They face less competition, so they increase their manufacturing employment.
More and stronger cells, a better blood stream, a stronger immune system that shows higher productivity is required for strong health.
More students, more advanced technology, better education is required for economic success.
With a strong manufacturing immune system, the economy would be much healthier.
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Few items we own are as precious as our phone, and losing it can be a dreadful experience (unless you decide to turn it into an opportunity to make a weird and voyeuristic film). If you need to find out how to track a phone, you've come to the right place. Whether you're simply trying to track the location of your lost phone or you're a secret agent who needs to gain intel on the whereabouts of a crooked diplomat, we're here to give you the information you need to get the job done. It'll be easier if you're trying to track a smartphone, but there are ways to locate older phones as well, so don't give up hope if you're still rocking a first-gen Motorola Razr — we've still got your back.
Tracking your phone before you lose it
If you're here just to prepare for the day that you lose your phone (which for many is inevitable), then you're ahead of the game. If you've got a smartphone, consider installing the apps listed below.
For smartphones
There are several app choices available for your phone, but also remember to set up any included phone-locating software that comes with your device. That includes Apple's Find My iPhone, Google's Find My Device, and Samsung's Find My Mobile. Head to the next section for more details. If you're looking for more choice, try these out:
Prey is free to use for up to three devices, there are paid plans for more, and the service can be used for both computers and phones. After you sign up for the service, you simply sync your devices with it, sit back, and relax. The day that your phone goes missing, all you have to do is find a computer, log into your account, and start tracking. Prey runs discreetly in the background and won't track your phone's location until you tell it to, so there is no need to worry about your privacy while the phone is in your possession. We recommend this for any Android or iOS device, as well as any Mac, Windows, or Linux PC.
Avast Antivirus & Security
One of the big boys in the antivirus industry, Avast's name should be familiar to a lot of PC users. The app is more of a complete package, offering virus scanning and protection, backup options, and power saving — as well as anti-theft options. You can remotely lock or wipe your smartphone, listen remotely, or take a "Theftie" of the rascals themselves. You can also activate stealth mode on your device, so the thief doesn't know Avast is protecting your phone. Avast provides SIM card change notifications and locking, too, and the company offers similar services for Android, Mac, and PC. Avast is offering an all-in-one app for device protection from viruses and thieves — as long as you're willing to pay for the premium service.
Lookout combines security, tracking, and antivirus or malware protection. There are several interesting features, such as the ability to record a phone's last location right before the battery dies, the chance to back up contact data before a remote erase, and the option to snap a photo of any would-be thief and email it to yourself along with location data. There is a free two-week trial, after which it will cost $3 per month or $30 for the year if you want the premium features.
Cerberus anti theft
Cerberus is a feature-rich app and one of the best anti-theft apps you can get. It's free to try for a week, but you'll have to pay $6 for a yearly license for one device. The app offers numerous ways to track and control your smartphone via the website, and even via SMS. You can also sound an alarm, even if your device in silent mode, and lock it with a unique code. Additional features include the ability to record audio remotely and snap photos of anyone trying to use your phone. Location history is just a plus. It also comes with Wear OS support, so alerts will be pushed to your smartwatch should the paired device go out of range.
For non-smartphones …
We recommend using a GPS tracking service. There are many different options out there, but AccuTracking is our current favorite.
It costs as little as $6 per month (less if you subscribe for a year), and uses GPS to track the location of your phone — and lucky for you, it works with a wide variety of feature phones. As long as your phone is GPS-enabled, this service should do the trick. Most modern cell phones are, so as long as your phone isn't headed to the museum due to age, you should be fine.
When the day comes that you can't locate your phone, just log in to AccuTracking's Web interface from any internet-connected computer and — so long as your phone isn't dead — it will immediately show you its location.


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Dinner time with kids can often be chaotic. I am a parent with 3 young children, a busy household, work and extracurricular activities, and I know it can be a challenge to get dinner on the table, make it healthy, keep my kids occupied and keep myself sane through dinner preparation, dinner time and cleaning up. To help our family get through dinner time we use a few strategies to engage our kids, have fun, and enjoy our family time.
It is easy to get flustered and focus on getting your kids to eat, not to mention to have a moment to stuff food in your own mouth, while trying to stop catastrophic spills and messes from happening. But there is a way to make dinner time a family time that you and your kids love.
You can get your kids to calm down, eat their dinner and be polite, with a few simple ideas.
First, stick to, or create, a dinnertime routine. For example, have your older kids help set the table or get everyone drinks, and then when dinner is served everyone can sit down. Next, if you have your kids help you make the meal, they will be very excited to taste the food, even if it has ingredients they usually don't eat. Get them involved with the meal (a theme or 1 dish wonder or playing a game). If you tell a story, or play a game during dinner, set up rules that kids have to follow in order to play (sit quietly, eat bites of food, stay seated and so on).
Play a Game during Dinner
At first it might seem that the dinner table is the absolute worst place to play during dinner. But with kids the goal is to get through dinner without a melt-down, everyone eating some of their food and to spend time together as a family. There is a place for conversational, formal-type dinners, but I do not think that helps to keep your kids, especially young ones, engaged at dinner time. Set some rules so that everyone knows they must be sitting in their chair and continuing to eat while the game is played. Here are a few Game ideas.
- Name Something that Is: Color, Shape, Food grown in ground, on a tree, or any other group or things.
- I Spy: Play the usual I spy game but everyone has to be able to see it from their seats.
- What Is It? Someone says 2 to 3 clues and each person takes a turn guessing what it is. (ex. do animals or foods that are easy for kids to guess).
- 20 Questions: Guess the Animal (Does it live in the water? Does it have wings?)
- Tell a Story: Let everyone add to the story, or take turns telling stories.
Themed Dinners
Kids love to make things up and to be a part of something fun. Think of the type of food you want to make and create a theme around it that your kids will love. Some ideas are:
- Fiesta – a Mexican Feast – tie in favorite foods or character, i.e. Dora or Diego
- Camping Out– grill out or just have foods from a camping trip- hot dogs, beans, etc (or veggie hot dogs).
- Beach Bash– have seafood (fish, crab meat, scallops, or other beachy items)
- Picnic in the Backyard– make an easy pasta salad, cut up fruit and a few other easy items and pack it up and take it out back or to the park
- King or Queen for a Meal or Throw a Royal Feast– Let your kids wear a special hat and give them a few healthy meal choices to pick for their royal treatment and add a special royal treat at the end.
- Opposite or Reverse Day– Why not serve breakfast at dinner-time? Kids love to do something different and special, so make breakfast at the end of the day. Serve whole wheat pancakes, eggs and fresh fruit. Often breakfast or lunch foods are easy to make, so on a night when you are in a hurry this is an easy and fun option. You can let your kids help stir the batter or sprinkle veggies or cheese on the eggs.
- Shapes and Colors Meal– Have your kids help you plan a meal with foods that are all the same color or the same shapes. It is a fun way to try new foods when they are combined with favorites (ex. serve grapes with a new green veggie or strawberries with red pepper slices). What a great way to talk about shapes, colors, similarities and differences.
1 Dish Wonders and No Utensils
What child does not love to use their hands when eating? Make an easy, healthy version of your family's favorites that are a special treat to eat and do not require their utensils. Make a mexican dish that has rice, beans, cheese, lettuce, tomatoes and serve with whole grain chips or make nachos (use healthy chips, low-fat cheese, put some beans and chicken and veggies on top) so that they can use chips or whole wheat pita wedges instead of utensils and you have instant fun!!! Kids love dipping and it is a treat to get all of your food in 1 dish, instead of a separate fruit, veggie, protein for a change.
Give Your Kids a New Printable Activity before Dinner
One way to keep your kids busy right before dinner and to help them wind down is to give them an activity at the table that will only take a short time to finish. Many websites have free coloring or printable activities. ZiggityZoom.com is one of them. Dinnertime printables: For coloring pages, click here. For Printable Placemats and other items, click here.
Don't be afraid to be silly with your kids. Relax and enjoy the time you have with your kids. Our kids sense when we are frustrated or immersed in our own thoughts or when you are distracted and not giving them your full attention. If you need a cue to snap out of the business of the day and re-engage with your kids, just give your body a good shake or brush the stress from your shoulders and say- "Hey, Lets Have a Great Family Dinner."
Reengage. Have Fun. Tell Stories and Play Games. Your kids will remember dinner time as their favorite part of the day for a lifetime and so will you when they are grown. Remember, this time may be hectic, but it is up to you to make it something more than racing to finish your meal and wash the dishes. It is about reconnecting with your spouse and kids and a time to slow down for a half an hour. Remember what is important and dinners will be much calmer and a lot more fun for everyone.


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LVM2 section
The section on LVM is incorrect. There is no lvm-monitoring.service. The proper way to enable LVM2 is through systemctl enable lvm. Theking2 (talk) 19:15, 13 December 2012 (UTC)
Should the section "writing a custom .service" be expanded?
I think so.. as long as I got, this is necessary to run self-made scripts during the boot process, but this is not clear and the structure of the files is not well presented.
Moreover, when explain how to transit from the initscript, some referrals on how to move the old custom hooks in /etc/rc.d/functions.d to be executed by systemd, should be made.
--DarioP (talk) 12:42, 18 November 2012 (UTC)
- I think it needs to be expanded indeed. As a newbie, it is easy to grasp the concept of "put your code in rc.local", and it's not clear how to transition. Specific questions, as also mentioned by DarioP: In what directory should I place my service definition? On the examples page, there are some files named with an at-sign, what difference does that make? It would be very helpful to have a complete example for running a single command at boot (my example: "echo noop > /sys/block/sdb/queue/scheduler"). --Fa2k
Display manager fails to load with fast SSD
I was having a problem with my display manager (LXDM) not loading on my laptop, which has a Sandisk Extreme SSD. Xorg.log would show errors like "No screens found."
I eventually figured out that the problem was that my computer was booting so fast that KMS didn't have enough time to kick in before X was started. I solved by adding the KMS driver (i915 in my case) to the initramfs.
Just a tip for SSD users, not sure if it should be added to the page or not.
--Steev (talk) 16:59, 2 September 2012 (UTC)
- This is a general problem that needs to be solved in the display manager. GDM already implements the bits for the CanGraphical flag.
- -- Falconindy (talk) 21:34, 2 September 2012 (UTC)
Should we add a note about CUPS under 'Transitioning from initscripts to systemd'?
Are there any more sockets that change?
Copied from the CUPS wiki:
Systemd uses a different CUPS socket file located at:
The default CUPS socket file is located at:
/etc/cups/cupsd.conf and
/etc/cups/client.conf as root to use the systemd socket instead of the default. Make sure to restart CUPS when you are done:
# systemctl restart cups
-- JKAbrams 5 November 2012
- This sounds more like a cups packaging bug that should just be fixed.
- -- Jstjohn (talk) 01:11, 8 November 2012 (UTC)
Still reading up on this, so I'm not 100% solid but I discovered during the systemd transition that it defaults the / mount to rshared (see Shared subtree for definitions). Excerpted from core/mount-setup.c in systemd github:
/* Mark the root directory as shared in regards to mount * propagation. The kernel defaults to "private", but we think * it makes more sense to have a default of "shared" so that * nspawn and the container tools work out of the box. If * specific setups need other settings they can reset the * propagation mode to private if needed. */ if (detect_container(NULL) <= 0) if (mount(NULL, "/", NULL, MS_REC|MS_SHARED, NULL) < 0) log_warning("Failed to set up the root directory for shared mount propagation: %m");
This means that all bind mounts made through fstab will default to shared behavior, not private. For those users who depend on non-recursive bind mounts, this can be a very big gotcha (as the mount propagation effectively nullifies the non-recursion). I think it should be at least noted under Filesystem Mounts, since fstab bind entries definitely may not preserve behavior across the systemd transition and there are definitely some systems that would fail to start up/operate properly due to this, perhaps even silently.
As a side note, for nested bind mounts this also results in multiplicative bloat of the mount table, depending on what kind of nesting structure is used (it's actually relatively easy to construct a nesting sequence that makes 2^n mounts out of n mount calls).
Still looking into good (and easy) configuration solutions.
Compgamer89 (talk) 07:16, 4 December 2012 (UTC)
- You may find this commit useful. --David Strauss (talk) 22:58, 13 December 2012 (UTC)


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The subtitle of legal pundit Lisa Bloom's new book, "Suspicion Nation," is a bit misleading when it claims to be "the inside story" of the killing of Trayvon Martin and the trial that followed.
There are few, if any, behind-the-scenes revelations in "Suspicion Nation." Anyone who followed the 2013 trial of shooter George Zimmerman will be familiar with Bloom's account of the case. And in a divided United States, millions followed the story obsessively, joining competing pro-Trayvon and pro-Zimmerman Greek choruses on social media.
Bloom, a Los Angeles atto rney, wrote two previous books, "Swagger: 10 Urgent Rules for Raising Boys in an Era of Failing Schools, Mass Joblessness, and Thug Culture" and "Think: Straight Talk for Women to Stay Smart in a Dumbed-Down World," which offered advice to harried parents and professional women. In "Suspicion Nation," she unapologetically enters the fray on behalf of the hoodie-wearing teenager Trayvon and against Neighborhood Watch volunteer Zimmerman who shot him in February 2012 and claimed it was self-defense. Zimmerman was acquitted.
At its best, "Suspicion Nation" is a thorough evisceration of the amateurish job done by the Florida prosecutors who tried Zimmerman. And at its worst, it's like turning on the television and listening to yet another annoying television pundit make sport of a human tragedy. Bloom is, in fact, a television pundit, in addition to being the daughter of high-profile lawyer Gloria Allred.
Despite "Suspicion Nation's" glib and talky writing style, her analysis of the Zimmerman prosecution's many missteps is a compelling one.
What were those mistakes? For starters, the prosecutors failed to establish the "unreasonableness" of Zimmerman's fears of Trayvon, Bloom writes. Shooting someone in self-defense is justifiable, according to Florida law, if one has a "reasonable" fear of death or serious bodily harm. Zimmerman misread the situation because he was overtly prejudiced and was fixated on black youths in his neighborhood, as established by several previous 911 calls, Bloom argues. Inexplicably, the prosecutor did not play those tapes for the jury, despite having won an earlier legal battle to do so.
The prosecution also failed to aggressively point out the obvious contradictions in Zimmerman's testimony about his confrontation and fisticuffs with Trayvon and the shooting that followed, Bloom argues.
"Somehow, during the presentation of the evidence at Zimmerman's trial, the prosecution was unaware of the vitally important fact that Zimmerman's gun was holstered on his backside," Bloom writes. Thus positioned, it was nearly impossible for Trayvon to have seen it (therefore disproving Zimmerman's assertion that Trayvon was reaching for the weapon). Most critically, it would have made it impossible for Zimmerman to take the weapon out of his holster if he had been on his back, with Trayvon on top of him, as he told police.
Bloom writes that if the prosecution had conducted a reenactment of Zimmerman's version of events, he would have been unmasked as a "liar."
In "Suspicion Nation," Bloom also argues that two key prosecution witnesses (medical examiner Shiping Bao and Trayvon friend Rachel Jeantel) performed terribly in court because the prosecuting attorneys neglected to conduct any pre-trial preparation with them. The prosecutors also missed an opportunity to attack the credentials of a key defense expert, Dr. Vincent Di Maio, whose testimony on behalf of defendants had been vigorously and successfully picked apart in earlier criminal trials, including the Phil Spector case.
Unlike some pundits, Bloom does not believe that the Florida prosecutors deliberately threw the case. Rather, she thinks they performed poorly because they didn't believe they should prosecute Zimmerman in the first place and did so only after public outrage led Florida's attorney general to appoint a special prosecutor.
"Police and prosecutor had believed Zimmerman's self-defense story, and neither the outside agitation nor the Special Prosecutor had changed their hearts and minds," she writes. Their closing arguments, Bloom says, were a disorganized mess that convinced no one.
Unfortunately, Bloom takes some serious arguments and makes her own mash out of them. She opens her book with an interview she conducted of the juror who held out the strongest for a Zimmerman conviction — and inadvertently makes that juror look silly. That juror's complaints against her colleagues include, strangely, the fact that they hogged the television remote at the hotel and forced her to watch "Game of Thrones."
In her dissection of the prosecutors, Bloom uses hackneyed and downright silly writing devices. Among other things, she imagines herself as the prosecutor questioning key witnesses and writes long sections of imaginary testimony — most ending with Perry Mason-style "ah ha!" moments.
Nor is she much interested in peering beneath the surface of the national soap opera at the personalities involved. The paranoid Zimmerman is surely worthy of a good character study (especially in light of his repeated post-acquittal arrests), but you won't find out anything new about him here. Bloom considers Trayvon's school disciplinary record in a long second section on racial profiling in American society. But she makes no effort to interview anyone who knew Trayvon and who might shed light on the real human being behind the liberal cause célèbre.
"Suspicion Nation" ends with a good if not entirely new discussion of the history of Americans' obsession with self-defense. But the heart of her book is the encounter in the gated Retreat at Twin Lakes.
Bloom does a good job of telling us why the prosecutors failed to hold Zimmerman to account for his actions that rainy night. But supporters of Zimmerman will surely ignore its arguments. And those who felt Zimmerman was guilty will feel as if they'd been forced to watch the wall-to-wall television coverage unfold all over again — only to see the story reach the same perplexing ending.
Suspicion Nation
The Inside Story of the Trayvon Martin Injustice and Why We Continue to Repeat It
Lisa Bloom
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We all have reality TV shows that we love, that we program into the DVR to make sure we don't miss a single moment of. And we have the ones that, to our minds, are meh. So, what's the key to the ones that seem to hit the mark?
The Envelope invited four hosts of top reality competition shows — Phil Keoghan ("The Amazing Race"), Jane Lynch ("Hollywood Game Night"), RuPaul ("RuPaul's Drag Race") and Padma Lakshmi ("Top Chef") — to chat about the reality TV landscape and address the question of what makes one work.
The answer, it would seem, is preparation — preparing a situation with careful planning and careful casting and seeing what happens.
"When you throw interesting people into an interesting situation," says Keoghan, "out of that can come great moments. And when you cut those great moments together, we call it reality."
"You have to look for a natural narrative in the behavior that you tape and find," Lakshmi agrees. "You don't know who's going to freak out at the challenge, you don't know who's going to shine, you don't know who's going to get into a fight. So you have to be able to find and follow the drama, as Phil said, you have to create an opportunity for it to flourish and blossom."
But is it manipulated? Do they use "frankenbiting," which is taking a sound bite and using it out of context to create a drama that wasn't there?
See what the panelists had to say about that and more in the video above, and check out The Envelope's other Round Table videos as well.


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Benghazi: 5 things we learned
Eights months after the attack that killed four Americans in Libya, the news on Benghazi just kept coming this week.
Wednesday's House committee hearings didn't result in dramatic revelations — but they were enough for Republicans and their allies to hail them as a major advance in the investigation. Then came the the report of a series of emails documenting how the long-maligned talking points evolved with input from the White House and the State Department.
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( Also on POLITICO: Grading the media's Benghazi coverage)
Here are POLITICO's five things learned about the continuing political fallout this week:
Hillary Clinton's more than just the subtext
In the beginning, Republicans used Benghazi to derail Susan Rice's path to succeed Clinton at the State Department, while the former secretary of state enjoyed relative deference on the issue from the other side of the aisle. No more. As the House Oversight Committee hearing made clear, Clinton – whose name was mentioned 32 times – is now the GOP's primary target.
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), at the start of on a weekend trip to Iowa where he's meeting with a host of activists important to a 2016 campaign, said Clinton is "absolutely responsible" for the Benghazi attack. He also wrote on Twitter that "Benghazi proves that Hilary Clinton should never hold high office again."
( PODCAST: This week's emotional Benghazi hearing)
Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah), who traveled to Libya on his own fact-finding mission, said Clinton will be haunted by her January Senate committee hearing response to Sen. Ron Johnson's (R-Wis.) question why the U.S. compound at Benghazi was attacked.
"Her comment about, 'What difference does it make?' will live with her forever," Chaffetz told POLITICO Friday. "That is so cold-hearted, I think that is what she really believes. But to do it in such a public setting is really going to live with her forever."
Rep. Steve Stockman (R-Texas), a firebrand conservative, said Friday that Obama, Clinton and Rice "blatantly lied" to protect the president during his re-election campaign.
David Axelrod, the architect of Obama's two winning presidential campaigns, said it was clear to him that nothing but presidential politics was driving any of it.
On Twitter, Axelrod wrote that he "can't help but feeling that If Ken Salazar were the front runner for '16, the House GOP (would) be holding hearings on the BP oil spill."
Clinton herself has strenuously avoided the topic since she appeared at House and Senate hearings in January. She delivered a speech Wednesday night in California that didn't make mention of the House hearings held hours earlier.
"We truly still today, despite all of our partisan wrangling and the gridlock that sometimes seems to take hold, we stand up for the rights and opportunities of all people," was the closest Clinton came to addressing it.
White House attempts to put out the fire only fueled it
From the beginning, the Obama administration's nothing-to-see-here public attitude to the Benghazi attacks and response has only driven more interest from Republicans and the conservative media.
Obama himself took aim at Sens. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) when they made Rice the center of questions for her appearance on the Sunday morning shows to relay the White House talking points. White House press secretary Jay Carney has repeatedly dismissed additional questions about the event as efforts to carry water for Republicans.
Carney on Friday blamed both Mitt Romney and congressional Republicans for politicizing the attack as he sought to downplay both the newsworthiness of the Benghazi fallout and the amount of attention the GOP has paid to the administration's response.
"It's a big deal because Republicans have chosen, in the latest iterations of their efforts, to politicize it," Carney said. "There is an ongoing effort to make something political out of it, but the problem with that effort is that it's never been clear what they think they are accusing the administration of doing."


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you appreciate and enjoy good sports cars, you probably recall the
first time you drove a Porsche. It might have been in the late Fifties
or early Sixties, perhaps a 1500 or 1600 coupe. You remember how
much character it had, how honest it was. Its solidity, its agile
handling, its long-legged gait and its amazing comfort showed it
had been made by men who love automobiles. Porsches
today are another order of magnitude more complex, more elaborate
and more costly than the models of the last generation from Zuffenhausen.
But there is an automobile in production now that's a technical
twin to a 1961 Porsche 1600, in almost every important specification.
There are only two big differences: Brazil's swinging new Puma GT
1600 is 7 and a half inches lower than the Porsche and weighs 500
pounds less. One other difference: Instead of looking like a well-used
cake of soap the Puma has somehow captured the crispness of the
Lamborghini Miura and the aggressiveness of the Ferrari GTB. When
you first see the Puma, a normal car built on a normal chassis by
(perhaps not quite) normal men, you think: "This is incredible. If
this can be achieved, with such logic and beauty, and in a car tooled
for very simple production, how come there are so many ugly-looking
sports cars in the world?" Not that it has been easy to come
this far, for Puma. Brazil's native automobile industry is only
a child, a scant dozen years old, and while it is capable of doing
many things it has not yet needed to strive for the detail excellence
that a fine sports car requires.
handsome car has been brought into being by talent, persistence,
ability and good luck.
News By: Gugulakhe Masango
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