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Expectations for next-generation orthopedic implants have changed in recent years as such factors as a massive aging population, an increasing volume of younger recipients, physically active patients, and longer life spans have spurred a significant demand for stronger, more durable devices. With an eye toward the future, researchers at the University of Glasgow (Scotland) have developed a technique for creating bioactive nanopatterns on PEEK surfaces that holds the potential for dramatically improving implant fixation and longevity.
Engineers have historically turned to metals to provide the necessary strength and durability for orthopedic implants such as knees and hips. But the use of metals for hip implants, in particular, has begun to fall out of favor in the wake of several high-profile metal-on-metal implant recalls and the identification of such issues as dangerous wear particle production and stress shielding. Furthermore, conventional orthopedic metals, as well as polymers and ceramics, are biologically inert—a quality that designers formerly prized but are now seeing as a potential drawback.
"[Current] orthopedic components come into contact with the bone marrow—containing mesenchymal stem and progenitor cells—and bone containing osteoblasts. Inert materials contain little 'information' for the cells to differentiate. This can lead to soft-tissue encapsulation and subsequent micromotion of the implant, ultimately leading to failure," explains Matthew Dalby of the university's Institute of Molecular, Cell, and Systems Biology. "Strategies like hydroxyapatite (HA) incorporation have been employed, but HA is osseoconductive rather than inductive; it promotes migration of osteoblasts but not osteoblast formation from mesenchymal stem cells. Also, roughness has been used, but it is hard to control and describe, and this can lead to reproducibility issues." In order to exchange these pitfalls for progress, engineers need to explore the use of bioactive materials to stimulate bone cell response and, ultimately, improve secondary implant fixation, according to Dalby.
Among the most promising materials for next-generation implants, the researchers state, is PEEK, which has experienced success in the spinal implant market but has been slow to penetrate broader orthopedic applications. "PEEK has mechanical properties similar to those of natural bone and thus will allow the body's natural remodeling to continue undisturbed," notes Nikolaj Gadegaard, senior lecturer in biomedical engineering at the university. "This leads to little or no bone loss around the implant, which is a great benefit for the patient." PEEK offers the added benefits of being easily and cost-effectively processed via injection molding.
The catch, however, is that PEEK is also a biologically inert material. To clear this design hurdle, the researchers have developed a technique for nanopatterning PEEK implant surfaces that renders them bioactive. Serving to encourage mesenchymal cells to form bone, the treated PEEK surface consists of a series of tiny pits that measure 120 nm in diameter and 100 nm deep.
"Previously, two strategies had been used for surface preparation: rigid order—techniques such as electron-beam lithography can give subnanometer accuracy—and total randomness, including sanding, blasting, anodizing, etc. Total order gave very little result in terms of osseoinduction, and randomness is hard to describe and control and, thus, results can vary," Dalby says. "What we did was take the middle route. We put our pits in a square lattice with 300-nm center-center spacing and then added 'controlled disorder'—up 50-nm displacement from the center position in x and y. This adjustment gave us the osseoinductive properties we had been looking for."
Imparting these osseoinductive properties to the PEEK surface paves the way for a range of exceptionally long-lasting finger, wrist, shoulder, spine, knee, and hip implants, according to the researchers. On the road to reaching that milestone, however, they are laboring to translate the Petri-dish-proven nanopatterned implants into working prototypes for preclinical evaluation.
"Besides exploring the discovered biological effects at a fundamental level, we are also exploring what other patterns we can define and use for stem cell control," Gadegaard says. "The advantage of our technology is that any new discovery can be directly fed into the pipeline we have developed for translation."
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Python is a dynamic object-oriented scripting language that can be used for many kinds of software development. It offers strong support for integration with other languages and tools, comes with extensive standard libraries, and can be learned in a few days.
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Softenv Keys for python on supermike2
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▶ Softenv FAQ?
The information here is applicable to LSU HPC and LONI systems.
SoftEnv is a utility that is supposed to help users manage complex user environments with potentially conflicting application versions and libraries.
System Default Path
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Viewing Available Packages
Using the softenv command, a user may view the list of available packages. Currently, it can not be ensured that the packages shown are actually available or working on the particular machine. Every attempt is made to present an identical environment on all of the LONI clusters, but sometimes this is not the case.
$ softenv These are the macros available: * @default These are the keywords explicitly available: +amber-8 Applications: 'Amber', version: 8 Amber is a +apache-ant-1.6.5 Ant, Java based XML make system version: 1.6. +charm-5.9 Applications: 'Charm++', version: 5.9 Charm++ +default this is the default environment...nukes /etc/ +essl-4.2 Libraries: 'ESSL', version: 4.2 ESSL is a sta +gaussian-03 Applications: 'Gaussian', version: 03 Gaussia ....
Listing of Available Packages
See Packages Available via SoftEnv on LSU HPC and LONI.
For a more accurate, up to date list, use the softenv command.
Currently there are some caveats to using this tool.
- packages might be out of sync between what is listed and what is actually available
- resoft and soft utilities are not; to update the environment for now, log out and login after modifying the ~/.soft file.
softenv is available on all LSU HPC and LONI clusters to all users in both interactive login sessions (i.e., just logging into the machine) and the batch environment created by the PBS job scheduler on Linux clusters and by loadleveler on AIX clusters..
Packages Availability
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Managing Environment with SoftEnv
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One of my favourite proxy options, along side the Burp Proxy (evolved into Burp Suite). I'll definately talk more about the Burp Suite later as it's excellent for testing anything web-based. Paros labels itself as MITM Proxy + Spider + Scanner plus anything else you want it to be, it is a pretty neat piece […]
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iPad assists South African President Zuma with State of the Nation address
South African President Jacob Zuma seems to be a big fan of the iPad. About a year ago, a photo was tweeted just prior to the 2011 State of the Nation address showing Zuma preparing his speech on an iPad. This year, as you can see at right, President Zuma is using his "indispensable" iPad again for the address. He appears to like the two-finger typing method favored by many iPad users. As noted on PhoneRPT.com, the State of the Nation address is part of the openi
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An Excerpt From A Burnt-out Case (1961) by Graham Greene
If no change means peace, this certainly was peace, to be found like a nut at the center of the hard shell of discomfort — the heat that engulfed them where the river narrowed to a mere hundred metres: the shower that was always hot from the ship's engine: in the evening the mosquitoes, and in the day the tsetse flies with wings raked back like tiny jet-fighters (a board above the bank at the last village had warned them in three languages: "Zone of sleeping sickness. Be careful of the tsetse flies.") The captain read his breviary with a fly-whisk in his hand, and whenever he made a kill he held up the tiny corpse for the passenger's inspection, saying "tsetse" — it was nearly the limit of their communication, for neither spoke the other's language with ease or accuracy.


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Expectations of another mild winter in the United States have dragged gas prices down to a six-week low. The decline added to worries about a sustained period of depressed tariffs that would encourage the development of US LNG export ventures.
Gas prices at Henry Hub, the US benchmark, dropped into the $US3.40s range per million British thermal units this week, well off their recent high of about $US3.90 just three weeks ago.
The fourth-mildest winter in US history last year helped push prices to record lows of about $US1.90 per mmBTU in April as the impact of weak demand combined with surging shale gas output.
The low prices and plentiful supply have fuelled increased interest from US gas producers and LNG traders in the potential for exports from the lower 48 states as players seek to tap into much higher prices for gas in Asia and Europe.
Exports from the US to the high-priced Asian gas market would compete directly with LNG exports from Australia and could loosen the tight ties in Asian LNG supply contracts with crude oil prices.
LNG exporters including
But the potential for LNG exports from the US and Canada is much greater, with now 20 projects identified in North America accounting for a potential supply of 200 million tonnes a year. "In the context of current global demand of 250 million tonnes per annum this is enormous," Bernstein Research analyst Neil Beveridge said.
Aside from pricing, the key to how much gas is exported from the US will be how many of the export ventures receive government approvals. So far only one venture, Cheniere Energy's Sabine Pass project in Louisiana, has secured all the needed clearances.
But last week's report for the US Department of Energy on the economic benefits of gas exports has been taken as a strong endorsement of exports.
Bernstein said that as a result of the report it now expects about 60 million tonnes a year of LNG capacity to be approved by 2020.
Meanwhile, US natural gas storage volumes, another factor that feeds into prices, are relatively plentiful, signalling they will offer little support for the market in the near term.
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I'm about to make another stab at the forum mirror task, if anyone wants
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one thing I might need is a standard unix mbx file of as many m0n0wall
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I am trying to decrypt a string to plain text using an example I found on
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$strString = convertto-securestring $strString -securekey $strServerKey
$ptrPassword =
$strString =
The intention is that $strString contains the plain text of the string.
(Actually, I don't need this in plain text I just need the securestring to be
correct.) When I do this on the computer I originally encrypted the string
on, it works fine. when I switch computers, the first several characters are
garbage. (They come up as question marks, and they can't be cast as a byte).
I originally encryted the string thusly:
$out = "What is the new password?"
$return = read-host $out -assecurestring
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Fred Davidson
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Professor of Educational Psychology
Professor of Curriculum and Instruction
Professor of Second Language Acquisition and Teacher Education
Center for Global Studies
Address: University of Illinois
Dept. of Linguistics, MC-168
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Office: 3040 Foreign Languages Bldg.
- Telephone: (217) 333-3563
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Research Interests
My areas of interest include language testing, research design and statistics for applied linguistics, and the history and philosophy of educational and psychological assessment. For more information, please visit my website, which is linked at the right.
- The Routledge Handbook of Language Testing. Ed. Glenn Fulcher and Fred Davidson. London: Routledge, 2012.
- Fulcher, Glenn, and Fred Davidson. Language Testing and Assessment: An Advanced Resource Book. Oxford, UK: Routledge, 2007.
Journal Articles
- "Releasability of Language Test Specifications." Japan Language Testing Association (JLTA) Journal 15 (2012): 1-23.
- Fulcher, Glenn, Fred Davidson, and Jenny Kemp. "Effective rating scale development for speaking tests: Performance Decision Trees." Language testing 28.1 (2011): 5-29.
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"Jerker" is too offensive to be effective
If I were a gay man it is likely that I would pick up a picket sign and march around the LGBT Center in Downtown Milwaukee.
That's the site of the production of "Jerker" which opened Wednesday night under the direction of Mark Bucher, artistic director of the Boulevard Theatre.
I have been going to the theater for over half a century and I have never heard a play this dirty. Whatever is in second place is a long way behind.
But it's not the dirt that would upset me. We can all live with lots of explicit language.
What I found so off-putting was the conceit of the play that portends to be a drama of the growth of a relationship between two gay men, forged on the telephone, in 20 calls.
I don't doubt for a minute that such a thing is possible. But this play falls far short of its promise. It starts with phone sex that could curl your hair, two strangers hooked at the genitals by a phone cord.
Seventy-five minutes later, as we approach the end of the play, they are still talking about what they want to do to each other and what they want done to themselves.
If I were a gay man I could well be insulted by the one-dimensional image of these men. They reinforce the absolute worst kind of stereotypes of gay men: Gay men are promiscuous and they just care about sex.
I find that kind of portrayal offensive.
The billing of this play is that it is one of the most important plays ever written about gay men. I guess I could argue that the love between Antonio and Bassanio in "Merchant of Venice" is pretty much more important than this.
The very end of the play has J. R., one of the two men, believing and realizing that the other one, Bert, has died of AIDS.
The play is set in 1985 San Francisco, just as the rest of the world was waking up to the HIV scare. The gay community was further along in awareness, but the issue had yet to grow into a worldwide concern.
This play is a staged reading with two actors, Bill Jackson and Marty McNamee, sitting on stools reading their lines. Ostensibly this is so that the audience will be able to focus on the words of the playwright without any of all those other nasty parts of a play, like costumes, music, movement and so forth.
Jackson and McNamee were just fine, but they only had very shallow water to wade in. Nobody got underwater or even very wet.
And it's really a shame. This material is ripe for a play. The very idea of two men growing to actually care about each other as human beings and not just sexual, transitory sex toys is an appealing one and seems like fertile ground to till.
But the inability of this play to show actual growth in these men prevents any fire from shooting sparks.
What we have is a simple show of fireworks without any ooohs or aaahs from the crowd.
CREDITS: Director, Mark Bucher; Production Designer, Maeve Jackson; Production Coordinator, Holly Blomquist; Technical Assistance, Jaime Jastrab. Visit the website for more information.
hardgeminiguy | Sept. 21, 2013 at 2:02 p.m. (report)
Too bad the play is a reading. I refuse to attend readings of any play. I had planned on seeing this "play". not now. glad i found out in time. By the way it is too bad the language bothers the critic. i saw the play once and the language did not bother me as a Gay man. This is theatre, after all. Jerry Johnson
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jcmke | Sept. 20, 2013 at 9:56 a.m. (report)
Dave Begel wildly misses the point of the play, its staging and apparently its history. The play is set in 1985 and captures a specific time in the gay community. On the tail end of the sexual liberation of the 60's and 70's - a heady time when moral restrictions were shed and yes, promiscuity was rampant. The mid 80's was a time of terror in the gay community in cities like NY and San Francisco as people came to grips with a plague that devastated entire communities. A time when some men where too afraid to have actual physical contact with anyone. Hence the phone - and the contact of "two strangers hooked at the genitals by a phone cord". So yes, the play is about sex. But if you can get past the sometimes squirm-inducing graphic language, there is a beautiful story of two people who are clinging to the only human and intimate contact in their lives ... a stranger on the other end of the phone. It is not a pretty picture - and in the context of the modern gay movement with its focus on relationships and family, it can be jarring. But it was real and it happened. And the play remains relevant today. There remains an undercurrent of this in today's culture - people that fully embrace the "hook-up" culture and celebrate their sexual freedom. If anything, the straight culture has taken up the banner of sexual freedom with even more enthusiasm than gays. But the specter of HIV is still there, only mostly forgotten by young people. As far as the staging of the play - you don't have to buy into the Theater's claim that it allows you to focus on the poetry of the play. I think it is a more effective than a full staging because it puts you on an equal footing with the characters in the play. This is a story who's action is entirely over the phone - I don't think it should not be a visual experience. Watching it as a reading reading was like being on a party-line and listening in on an intimate conversation (or 20 of them). Bill Jackson's (BJ) voice only makes it work even more so. His voice is like falling into a tumbler of hot toddy - warm, seductive and silky. And Marty McNamee (Bert) had the audience in tears more than once. I don't know about whether this play is "one of the most important" about gay men - I only know it packed an emotional punch to the gut. I'm sorry that Dave was too caught up in the "dirty" sex talk to pay attention to the story behind it.
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"The City of Vancouver is helping fund new research into growing the local sharing economy. Vancouver is already home to car-sharing and office-sharing. Now, researchers with The Sharing Project are looking to identify further demand through focus groups, interviews and surveys." – CBC News
Vancouver will be the latest city to join the ranks of a number of other councils around the world, including Seoul and San Francisco, to explore the growing impact and opportunities of collaborative consumption at a local level. With a burgeoning entrepreneurial scene, and interest at a council level, it will be interesting to see the outcomes of Vancouver's 'The Sharing Project' in the coming months.
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But the decision will not settle transatlantic differences over how the European Union currently allows GMO imports, which the majority of European consumers view with suspicion and some have dubbed "Frankenfoods".
"The European Commission has decided not to appeal the GMO decision as the current regulatory provisions are not in any way affected by the judgment," Peter Power, a European Commission spokesman for trade issues, said on Tuesday.
"The current approval system works, as evidenced by the approval of 10 authorisations since the (WTO dispute) panel was established. More authorisations are in the pipeline."
But the United States, which also announced that it would not appeal despite disagreeing with some aspects of the lengthy verdict, said that the findings meant that Brussels was obliged to speed up its GMO approvals.
It noted that some product approval applications had been waiting for over 10 years and that applications for "many commercially important products continue to face unjustified, politically motivated delays", US ambassador to the WTO in Geneva Peter Allgeier said in a statement.
"The findings of the (WTO) panel uphold the pinciple of science based policymaking over unjustified, anti-biotech policies," he added.
Earlier this year, the WTO found the EU had operated a de facto moratorium on GMO products, breaking global trade rules.
The case was brought by leading GMO producers Argentina, Canada and the United States. It did not touch on the sensitive issue of whether GMOs are safe or whether they can be considered comparable with conventional products.
"Where the judgment goes against the EU, namely in relation to the system that operated prior to 2004, the impact of that judgment is entirely of historical interest," Power said.
Tuesday was the deadline for either the EU or the United States to appeal.
The WTO found that by not approving GMO products between 1998 and 2004, the EU was applying an effective moratorium which constituted "undue delay" and violated trade rules.
The ruling also condemned six EU countries -- Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Italy and Luxembourg -- for applying their own bans on biotech that had been previously approved by the European Commission, the EU's executive arm.
"The findings of the (WTO) panel uphold the pinciple of science based policymaking over unjustified, anti-biotech policies," Allgeier said.
In the WTO case, the United States said its farmers were losing some US$300 million a year because of the EU action and the WTO ruling could help overcome reservations about GMO crops elsewhere in the world.
Some anti-GMO campaigners criticised the Commission's decision not to appeal.
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Quantity or quality? In the midfield-dominated battle that is AFL football today, it's a critical question. And the two games to open the season provided not necessarily definitive answers, but at least plenty of food for thought.
Does the ability of the AFL's most highly rated onballers generally win the day? Or will a midfield lighter on for star quality but longer on numbers eventually prevail in an environment where individuals are being stretched to their physical limit?
Essendon's 35-point win over Adelaide on Friday night certainly provided some ammunition for that latter theory. Much of the scepticism about the Bombers' prospects in 2013 has surrounded not only the potential for distraction because of the illegal supplements controversy, but their struggle to find help for Brownlow medallist Jobe Watson.
Adelaide's midfield reputation going into this season rode on its capacity to win contested ball, but also on the lofty status of its two biggest drivers, Scott Thompson and Patrick Dangerfield, and the rapidly emerging Rory Sloane.
They were pivots Essendon was able to curtail effectively at AAMI Stadium. Heath Hocking returned to the lockdown role he has performed so well in the past, first on Thompson, then Dangerfield. When Dangerfield became Hocking's main focus, the Bombers were able to use David Myers with effect on Thompson at the stoppages.
It didn't seem to leave the Crows with much in reserve. And numerically, that may well be the case a bit this year unless more Adelaide onballers learn to carry the load.
Champion Data's annual prospectus rates seven Crows - Thompson, Dangerfield, Sloane, Bernie Vince, Richard Douglas, Nathan van Berlo and David Mackay - as elite, above average or average midfielders. Essendon has only five in the same categories - Watson, Brendon Goddard, David Zaharakis, Ben Howlett and Hocking. But the same rankings give Essendon a midfield contingent across the list of 14, topped by only three other clubs, to Adelaide's 12. And it was the capacity of that bottom end to contribute that proved crucial on Friday.
Dyson Heppell wasn't even classed as a midfielder in that list, but the evidence is he's not only ready to play there permanently, but move into at least the above-average bracket very quickly. Ditto Howlett, for a while now far more highly rated inside Windy Hill than beyond. Myers is a strong-bodied, long-kicking, potentially class act who hasn't yet had enough midfield time to awaken the wider football world to his full capabilities.
And on Friday night, the Dons called on another two cast members with great effect - debutant Nick Kommer, and second-gamer Jackson Merrett, who provided valuable outside run. All of which helped find Brent Stanton more of the room he needs to do his best work, while Watson just did what Watson always seems to do.
As good as Thompson and Dangerfield are for the Crows, and Sloane will be, Brenton Sanderson's team looked like it could have used the extra couple of midfielders its opponent seemed blessed to have.
In Perth, injury helped Fremantle even up the midfield numbers with West Coast missing Daniel Kerr, Matt Rosa and Sharrod Wellingham. Nic Naitanui's absence and loss of his capacity to give his little men first use saw the Dockers' Jonathon Griffin at least break even with Dean Cox in the ruck.
Perhaps in this case, the resultant message was as much about finding a balance of quality with quantity.
Matt Priddis is the only midfielder in either team Champion Data ranks as elite, but of those players available on Saturday, Fremantle had five rated above average, the Eagles just two, Luke Shuey and Scott Selwood.
Two of those five Dockers - Michael Barlow and David Mundy - shared the Ross Glendinning Medal for best afield, and two more - Nat Fyfe and Danyle Pearce - were in the Dockers' best six.
As a unit they provide plenty of evidence that a half-dozen odd B-pluses will stack up collectively to more than a couple of As.
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Additional evidence that two Israel army officers and nine border patrolmen acted against orders on October 29 when they shot and killed 47 Arab villagers for violating curfew orders, were pushed by the prosecution today in the military trial of the 11 accused. An army officer testified that one of the accused, Lt. Gabriel Dehan, refused to go back to his headquarters to check on instructions about shooting at the villagers when requested to do so.


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My apologies for the long unexplained absence. I did not intend to be gone for this long. Our lives have been upside down for awhile now, and this space was the last thing on my mind.
First you should know that the kids are amazing. Jack is 1 now and he is so healthy and full of life, you would never know how sick he was just a year ago. Michael started school a few weeks back and he loves every bit of it- the child was made to be in an academic setting!
And now for the part you really came here for- the short(er) version:
Matt and I separated for awhile, pending changes on both sides. I made them, he did not. So I un-made them, and THEN he decided he was really serious about recommitting to the relationship. If only he had been the first time he "recommitted"- you know, we had that ceremony and all that . . . but at that point I didn't want to re-make the changes, so he's declared that he's "waiting" on me.
He has been living at home with us for a few weeks now, but we're not living together. It's a side-by-side deal. The house is, in fact, big enough for the two of us, and any communication between us pretty much has to do with either the kids or the house.
He's been an excellent roommate, doing his share of the dishes and cleaning, and taking care of the things around the house that he never would do before. He is also working less, and taking care of the kids a bit more. A large part of me says too little too late. However, there's always that little bit. I have been speaking with a lawyer, but I cannot manage to go forward with a divorce yet. I just can't make the step. I suppose there is a silly little bit of me hoping he'll finally do all the things he's promised for ages now.
I have no idea what will happen next. I'm stuck right now, waiting for a sign to move forward, or step back. Maybe waiting to see if he really changes this time, most likely waiting to see how foolish I am.
Friday, September 05, 2008
Just to Check In
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- akakarma said...
You go girl! You sound so strong and amazing! You shouldn't think hope is weak- it's the hard way but marriage can be worth it sometimes.I know divorce is everywhere but he sounds like he is interested in trying. It is so hard isn't it? Great to hear the kids are good and to hear from you! Thanks!
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- akakarma said...
Have a Happy New Year!
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- Jtorch said...
You know, you and I have much in common...we left a passionate, but difficult relationship for the safety of someone even-tempered and predictable, even if we didn't have the passion. Yet, he was the one who cheated. I wish you would post again
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Swanky New York restaurants and bustling Los Angeles supermarkets are a world away from the peaceful, rolling green hills of South Gippsland. But the tastes and spending power of American consumers in those establishments are affecting how people farm in the picturesque hills just two hours or so from Melbourne.
Rising demand in America pushed chilled grassfed beef and veal exports from Australia during the 2013-14 year to a record 148,449 tonnes. America was the number one destination for this category, overtaking Japan for the first time.
Some of last year's record-breaking, grass-fed beef shipment was fattened on the Dumbalk North cattle farm of Shane and Claire Harris.
For Dumbalk North - a South Gippsland farming community about 20 kilometres east of Leongatha - has all the attributes required to produce premium grass-fed eye and scotch fillets. It has plenty of spacious paddocks for cattle to graze, while the clouds that pass overhead produce much rainfall, an average of about 1200 millimetres a year, according to Mrs Harris.
"It's good here, we have high rainfall. Obviously it's cold in winter and we do have a bit of a pasture shortage, but we always have a reliable spring and we very rarely have a failed autumn," she said.
Early this year the family signed up to a new certification program with meat processor JBS Australia, a division of JBS, the largest meat processor in the world.
It means the family's cattle must be raised on pasture and not be fed grain. In return they get paid a premium for their beef, provided the cattle meet certain weight and fat conditions. At one point this year, grass-fed certification meant they could be paid about 30 cents a kilogram more than if they supplied the supermarkets, Mrs Harris said.
"The thing about fattening cattle on a grass system is it's difficult through winter, that's why they are paying you a bit of a premium to do it. So it costs you a little bit more to do it, but they're paying you quite well," she said.
Meat and Livestock Australia figures show total beef and veal exports (including frozen) in 2013 were a massive 1.1 million tonnes, an Australian record. New figures released this week suggest that record could be eclipsed this year, with exports to the end of July more than 100,000 tonnes ahead of the same period last year.
MLA chief economist Tim McRae said the US market was paying record prices.
"They effectively have a real shortage of beef, as hard as that sounds when you've got 88 million head of cattle and they're all very big," he said. "Their cattle herd's at a 60-year low. So they've got record prices right through the chain, through feedlots right through to what the consumer is paying. So they're effectively saying to the international market, 'we need more product'.''
Recently US importers were paying more than 600 cents a kilogram for lean Australian beef. "That's a price that's never been seen," he said.
In recent years both the US and Australian industry have been substantially hit by drought, reducing herds in both countries. In Australia, severe drought in northern New South Wales and Queensland led to very high slaughter levels (and in turn export levels) over the past two years.
Despite the grass-fed beef program that the Harris family have signed on to, and the surge in demand for Australian beef, Mr Harris said it was not easy for Australian cattle farmers to make a decent living.
"Even with this opportunity, farming is extremely hard. Without this it would be even harder. We don't get the returns of any other country in the world and our ongoing costs are going up through the roof," he said.
Cattle prices had "stayed much the same for 30-40 years," Mrs Harris said. "Forty years ago you could sell three or four bullocks and you'd be able to buy a car, a basic car. Whereas these days you'd have to sell 30-40 bullocks to buy a basic car."


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Feeling overwhelmed by the VCE? Help is out there, writes Ben Haywood.
The VCE can be a challenging couple of years, but there are scores of organisations across the state with information and resources to help. Some are free, most are cheap and all can broaden the perspective of students and improve their approach to subjects being studied.
From museums to teacher associations, here are some of the best places to find help during the final years of school.
The Australian Centre for the Moving Image at Federation Square has much on offer for VCE media, English and literature students.
ACMI run student lectures and screenings for all year 12 English and literature, film and television texts, including Gattaca, Breaker Morant and The Player. The sessions, which can only be booked by class groups, are $9.90 per student with teachers admitted free.
There are also ACMI study guides for some film texts for sale online, or at the ACMI information desk, for about $20.
From May 3, the centre is also hosting the Top Screen exhibition. Top Screen exhibits the best work by year 12 media students in 2004, and is bound to inspire students this year.
Where? Federation Square (on Flinders
More details: http://www.acmi.net.au
You don't have to be studying history or science to find an education program at the Melbourne Museum that might come in handy.
Want to get some practical language experience but don't have time for a trip overseas? The museum allows LOTE students to go on self-guided tours of the gallery with education resources provided in Japanese, Italian, German and Korean.
There are also some specially targeted programs for VCE biology, and several others for VCE geography, history, environmental science, outdoor and environmental studies, religion and society, psychology, health and physical education. All can be booked by schools.
From March 5, students can check out the best work from last year's VCE media, design and technology, food and technology, systems and technology, and visual communication and design students in Top Designs. Course-related seminars are available for VCE class groups viewing the exhibition.
Where? Next to the Royal Exhibition Buildings
in the Carlton Gardens
More details: www.melbourne.museum.vic.gov.au
The Immigration Museum has programs for a range of VCE subjects, including a new session for VCE Italian. Students can follow self-guided pathways in Italian, and examine mementoes, objects and stories of Italian migrants.
There is a creative writing program for VCE English and another program exploring the history of immigration for VCE geography and history students. All the programs are available exclusively for school groups.
Where? Old Customs House, 400 Flinders Street,
More details: www.immigration.museum.vic.gov.au/education
The Melbourne Aquarium is more than just a holiday attraction, running programs for VCE chemistry and biology students. The two-hour interactive and activity-based sessions for groups are provided by the aquarium's Underwater Zoo Education Service.
Where? Corner Queenswharf Road and King Street,
More details: www.melbourneaquarium.com.au/education
The Melbourne Symphony's Up Close and Musical workshops for VCE music styles and music performance students allow participants to get up close and personal with the entire orchestra as they perform two main works from their repertoire.
A detailed analysis and discussion of the performance is followed by an open forum involving the musicians and the conductor.
These workshops are for class groups but individual students can access most regular MSO performances at a concession rate.
More info: www.mso.com.au/education
Spread across two sites, the National Gallery of Victoria has a vast array of programs for VCE students throughout the school year.
At NGV International on St Kilda Road, school groups can use the gallery's permanent collection as a starting point for text studies in VCE English and literature.
There are other programs for VCE psychology, English as a second language, art, classical societies and cultures, religion and society, visual communication, and design and technology.
From April 1, at the Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia at Federation Square, the Top Arts exhibition will feature the best work by VCE art students in 2004.
There is also a holiday program in May for VCE art and studio arts - Inspirations and Insight for VCE 2005.
Where? NGV International: 180 St Kilda Road, Melbourne. The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia: Corner Russell and Flinders streets, Melbourne, at Federation Square.
More details: http://www.ngv.vic.gov.au
For research, or just somewhere quiet and comfortable to study, the State Library of Victoria should be the first port of call.
The library provides free access to a growing collection of 2 million books. Although resources can't be taken home, photocopies can be made.
The entire catalogue can be searched online from home or at school, and registered library users can have items brought from storage and left waiting for them. The pictures catalogue of more than 180,000 digital images can be accessed online. Some of the photos, paintings and maps included date as far back as the 1840s.
The library runs hands-on VCE Preparation Workshops for school groups who are just starting their VCE to help build research and referencing skills.
Where? 328 Swanston Street, Melbourne, opposite
Melbourne Central Station.
For more details: www.statelibrary.vic.gov.au
There are associations for most VCE studies that provide curriculum support for teachers and other useful resources for students, such as practice exams and revision seminars.
Find out more about what is available by visiting the following websites:
Accounting, business management, economics, industry and enterprise, legal studies: www.vcta.asn.au
Biology: www.stav.vic.edu.au
Chemistry: http://www.cea.asn.au
Drama: www.dramavictoria.vic.edu.au
English, English language, literature: www.vate.org.au
Geography: www.gtav.asn.au
Health and human development, physical education: www.achper.vic.edu.au
History: www.htav.asn.au
LOTE: www.mltav.asn.au
Mathematics: www.mav.vic.edu.au
Media studies: http://www.atomvic.org
Physics: www.vicphysics.org
Technology: www.teav.vic.edu.au
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VIDEO: Nicole Richie Talks Marriage On Larry King Live
Is Nicole Richie in any rush to get married?
The expectant mother says she likes things just the way they are with boyfriend Joel Madden and daughter Harlow Winter Kate. Nicole appeared on Larry King Live last night with her father Lionel Richie and opened up about her personal life.
When Larry King asked Nicole when she was planning on getting hitched, she responded, "Of course when I was a little girl, you dream about getting married, and that is definitely a dream of mine one day. Right now, we're really, really focused on our family, we're focused on our foundation, and as far as feeling that need of commitment, we both really have that in each other."
And as far as the rumors that Nicole and Joel are expecting a boy, they're not true! Nicole doesn't even know the sex of the baby! "We want the surprise…what is there really to plan? I'll get the clothes after."
However, Lionel is definitely hoping for a grandson. "Joel and I are having powwows," he said. Nicole added, "You should hear them prepping each other."
Share your thoughts on Nicole and Lionel's appearance on Larry King below, and check out her personal blog for updates!


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She's one of the most highly respected stars of the stage, television, and film, with an Oscar, four Emmys, and membership in the Order of the British Empire to her credit — but Helen Mirren's eclectic filmography has always had room for more than arthouse fare. She's also appeared in plenty of popcorn flicks, including National Treasure 2, Inkheart, and Red, which found her toting a machine gun and blowing away bad guys alongside Bruce Willis. It's been a career worth celebrating, and this week, it expands to include Mirren's starring turn in Lasse Hallstrom's culinary drama, The Hundred-foot Journey.actors
Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Music, Foreign
The second installment of Lindsay Anderson's epic Mick Travis trilogy, O Lucky Man! took Travis (played by Malcolm McDowell, reprising the role he originated in 1968's If…) on a journey from insurrectionist schoolboy to grown-up actor (with stops as a coffee salesman, prisoner, and medical guinea pig along the way). It's a big movie with big ideas, and an inflated running time to match (as well as a supporting cast whose members, including Mirren, were frequently called upon to perform multiple roles); understandably, some filmgoers (and a few critics) were put off by O Lucky's artsy meandering — especially those who, like Combustible Celluloid's Jeffrey M. Anderson, thought it amounted to "three hours without much of a plot." Most scribes, however, echoed the sentiments of Ken Hanke of the Mountain Xpress, who found it "Rich, densely layered, disturbing, unique and strangely satisfying in a way few films ever have been."Show full description
This sprawling, surrealist musical serves as an allegory for the pitfalls of capitalism, as it follows the adventures of a young coffee salesman in Europe. Many actors play multiple roles, giving the film a stagy tone.actors:
The legend of King Arthur and his knights of the Round Table has been retold countless times, for all manner of media, so for an adaptation to stand out, it has to be pretty special. Excalibur, director John Boorman's blood-and-lust-filled take on the tale, beat the odds and managed to stand out from the crowd, thanks in part to a cast that included Nigel Terry, Nicol Williamson, and younger versions of Patrick Stewart and Liam Neeson — as well as Mirren, who brought the vengeful sorceress Morgana Le Fay to chilling life. Nearly thirty years after its release, Excalibur still stands as one of the finest Arthurian films — as David Keyes of Cinemaphile wrote, it's "one of those great miracles in filmmaking… Its concept of Arthur and the landscape that surrounds him is a benchmark for fantasy as we know it."Show full description
The myth of King Arthur brought to the screen. Uthur Pendragon is given the mystical sword Excalibur by Merlyn. At his death Uthur buries the sword into a stone, and the next man that can pull it out will be King of England. Years later Arthur, Uthur's bastard son draws Excalibur and becomes king. Arthur's evil half-sister Morgana sires a son with him, who may prove his downfall.actors:
Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
You can pretty much bet that any political thriller with Helen Mirren's name on the poster is better than average, and here's a case in point. When Kevin Macdonald set about adapting the acclaimed BBC serial State of Play, he didn't take any chances with his cast, lining up Russell Crowe, Ben Affleck, and Rachel McAdams as his leads, then surrounding them with stellar supporting players, including Robin Wright Penn, Jeff Daniels, and (of course) Mirren. As the tight-lipped newspaper editor steering an investigation into the murder of a congressional aide whose boss (Affleck) went to college with her reporter (Crowe), Mirren didn't have the largest role in State of Play, but she did add an extra touch of class to the proceedings — and she was an important part of why it was such a hit with critics like Ben Lyons of At the Movies, who simply stated, "I want to see more films like this."Show full description
Handsome, unflappable U.S. Congressman Stephen Collins is the future of his political party: an honorable appointee who serves as the chairman of a committee overseeing defense spending. All eyes are upon the rising star to be his party's contender for the upcoming presidential race. Until his research assistant/mistress is brutally murdered and buried secrets come tumbling out.actors:
Comedy, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Mirren joined an outstanding ensemble cast — including Richard E. Grant, Dame Maggie Smith, Kristin Scott Thomas, the awesomely named Bob Balaban (who also produced), and her The Cook the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover castmate Michael Gambon — for this darkly funny murder mystery. Directed by Robert Altman, Gosford Park took a bunch of potential killers, confined them to an English manor, then proceeded to use that timeworn setup to make some pointed (and often humorous) statements about the absurdity of convention and how social status divides and defines relationships. Vintage Altman, in other words — and the Academy agreed, honoring Gosford Park with seven Oscar nominations (including Best Picture). An $87 million success, it was also a hit with audiences and critics such as Entertainment Weekly's Owen Gleiberman, who called it "A succulent and devious drawing-room mystery that, in its panoramic way, takes a puckish pleasure in scrambling and reshuffling the worlds of upstairs and downstairs."Show full description
Multiple storylined drama set in 1932, showing the lives of upstairs guest and downstairs servants at a party in a country house in England.actors:
Crime, Drama
What happens when a brutish gangster (Michael Gambon) takes over a respected restaurant? The poster for this Peter Greenaway production promised lust, murder, and dessert — and The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover delivered heaping portions of all of the above. As the mobster's surprisingly classy (albeit adulterous) wife, Mirren had the unique opportunity to play a character who runs the gamut from high society to perpetrating a thoroughly grisly revenge scheme that will be familiar to fans of Eric Cartman. It was all a bit much for filmgoers with gentler sensibilities; as ReelViews' James Berardinelli wrote, it's both "a wildly exuberant, bitingly satirical examination of excess, bad taste, and great acting" and "the kind of over-the-top experience that will have timid movie-goers running (not just walking) for the exits."Show full description
The wife of a barbaric crime boss engages in a secretive romance with a gentle bookseller between meals at her husband's restaurant. Food, colour coding, sex, murder, torture and cannibalism are the exotic fare in this beautifully filmed but brutally uncompromising modern fable which has been interpreted as an allegory for Thatcherism.actors:
Comedy, Drama, History
Mirren scored a Best Supporting Actress nomination from the Academy — and a Best Actress award at Cannes — for her work in this adaptation of Alan Bennett's play The Madness of George III, starring Nigel Hawthorne as the monarch during his apparent bout of lunacy during the Regency Crisis of 1788-89. A meaty showcase for Hawthorne, who got to chew scenery with impunity (and picked up his own Best Actor nomination in the process), The Madness of King George wasn't a commercial blockbuster, but it was one of the best-reviewed films of the year — as well as, in the words of the New York Times' Janet Maslin, "a deft, mischievous, beautifully acted historical drama with exceptionally broad appeal."Show full description
Nicholas Hytner's much awarded 1994 drama, based on Alan Bennett's West End play. George III's erratic behaviour leads to a plot in Parliament to have him declared insane and removed from the throne.actors:
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Before she wielded a machine gun in RED, Mirren displayed her gift for steely reserve as a no-nonsense mob moll in this British gangster movie classic. Starring Bob Hoskins as a cutthroat mobster whose dreams of going legit are threatened by a mysterious rival, The Long Good Friday combined political overtones with good old-fashioned bloody mayhem, and while it wasn't a huge American hit — in fact, it wasn't released in the states until 1982 — critics always appreciated its tightly written script and uniformly solid performances. "This movie is one amazing piece of work," declared Roger Ebert, "not only for the Hoskins performance but also for the energy of the filmmaking, the power of the music, and, oddly enough, for the engaging quality of its sometimes very violent sense of humor."Show full description
Harold, a prosperous English gangster, is about to close a lucrative new deal when bombs start showing up in very inconvenient places. A mysterious syndicate is trying to muscle in on his action, and Harold wants to know who they are. He finds out soon enough, and bloody mayhem ensues.actors:
No stranger to royalty, both onscreen (she'd played a queen on three previous occasions, including her Oscar-nominated performance in The Madness of King George) and offscreen (she was sworn into the Order of the British Empire in 2003, after refusing the honor in 1996), Helen Mirren was arguably the only logical choice to portray Queen Elizabeth in this dramatization of the events surrounding Princess Diana's untimely death in 1997. Unlike a lot of plays and films about royalty, The Queen didn't depend on the drama and mystery surrounding the monarchy; in fact, it sought to put a human face on the rigid ceremony of one of the world's longest-running institutions. And judging from the heaps of awards it earned — including a Best Actress Oscar for Mirren — it succeeded: In the words of the Detroit News' Tom Long, "Borne with grace and honor on the back of Helen Mirren's astounding title performance, The Queen manages to encompass the personal and political with both depth and grace."Show full description
The Queen is an intimate behind the scenes glimpse at the interaction between HM Elizabeth II and Prime Minister Tony Blair during their struggle, following the death of Diana, to reach a compromise between what was a private tragedy for the Royal family and the public's demand for an overt display of mourning.actors:


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Drew Peterson is an arrogant SOB. You know it (if you saw anything about him at all). I know it. He and Joran Van der Sloot have one major thing in common: They failed to SHUT UP, after any sane, decent man would have done so. Further, there is a good possibility--"probability" is not too strong a word--that Drew Peterson killed both wife no.3 and wife no. 4.
However, the LEGAL case against Drew Peterson for killing wife no. 3 is WEAK. There is really NO case--until a body is found or the circumstances of her death proven--against Drew Peterson for killing wife no.4. Remember Mike Nifong? He was the Duke rape case prosecutor who overstated his case n the media, and was disgraced. Who holds the MEDIA accountable for doing what Mike Nifong did, and much worse? Remember "The Fugitive", and the one-armed man? That was based on a real case of a doctor CONVICTED in the media--mainly for being a lousy human being. The Supreme Court eventually reversed his conviction based on publicity that made it impossible for him to get a fair trial.
Am I saying that it is an EVIL thing for the media to conduct a media trial of criminal cases? Yep. You got it right the first time. That is exactly what I am saying. Nancy Grace is beyond evil in the way she treats criminal cases as a subject of media opinion. I will go further: I consider it UNETHICAL for an attorney to go on television and express an opinion as to guilt or innocence of a crime. I further consider it UNETHICAL for a mental health "professional" to go on television and make mental health diagnoses, and give mental health "opinions", based on "news" reports. By definition, a person is INNOCENT (not guilty) in this country, until proven guilty IN A COURT OF LAW. The media iin this country are violating this principle every single day, and they are committing EVIL in so doint. It should amuse you that Richard Nixon was once criticized (by the media) for making a statement assuming the guilt of CHARLES MANSON (lol). Yep. Along with everything else, the media people are the worst hypocrites to ever walk the Earth.
Don't people have a right to an opinion? NOPE. This is the evil fallacy involved here. Yes, you have a "right" to a PRIVATE opinion, and to discuss that opinion with your friends. You do NOT have a right to a PUBLIC OPINION--trying to persuade the people of this country to violate one of this country's fundamental principles. Yes, the media should present the FACTS. If those facts lead to a conclusion of guilt, so be it. The media can even question the failure of prosecutors to pursue a case for which the evidence exists. That is a valid concern of te public. However, it is an EVIL thing for the media to conduct a CAMPAIGN to get someone convicted of a crime. That is what Geraldo Rivera--and others--are doing with regard to Drew Peterson. You might not remember, but I do, that the media started off trying to convict the Duke rape case students of RACISM--to bootstrap that into proof of rape (which it was not, although the media sort of went overboard the other way once their coverage turned--leading a campaign to discredit the complainant and no longer bringing up the alleged "racism"). On crimes, the media has NO BUSINESS giving "opinions", or presenting opinions of "experts" as if they mean anything. They could mean something if the "experts" limited themselves to explaining the PROCESS, but that is too "dull" for today's Media. (This disgraceful "coverage" of crimes is one of several reasons that I have often said that Fox News is part of the mainstream media PROBLEM, and not part of the solution).)
You are a kook if: (yes, back to my "you are a kook if:" series)
169. You think it is any easier to explain how a murder victim was drowned in a dry bathtub than it is to explain how an accident victim (or suicide) drowned in a dry bathtub;b.
Yes, I made the mistake of surfing by Geraldo Rivera this weekend. I knew better. So I got to hear Rivera ridicule the idea that Drew Peterson's wife no. 3 accidentally drowned n a dry bathtub. Rivera even had a guest assert that the prosecutor should begin and end the trial of Drew Peterson by ridiculing such an idea (accidental drowning in a dry bathtub). Rivera sat by with a vapid look of approval to this stupidity. Indeed, the mainstream media long ago set the "storyline" (especially on Fox) that the original investigation of the death of wife no. 3 was a farce, because no one would ever accidentally drown in a dry bathtub. POPPYCOCK. Wife no. 3 may have been murdered, but a "dry bathtub" is NO EVIDENCE even that a murder took place.
Let us assume wife no. 3 drowned--which seems to be the case, although the media is usually careful not to confuse you with the FACTS. I continued to watch Geraldo well after I should have broken the TV screen (or changed channels), just to see if I would ever get any FACTS. I did not. I knew no more about the facts of how wife no. 3 had died after the Geraldo Rivera segment than I did before. I digress (not really).
Assume wife no. 3 drowned (and she was not living with drew Peterson at the time--already separated). WHERE? Ia not the bathtub the most reasonable place--whether it is accident or murder? Sure it is. Is Geraldo Rivera really suggesting that Drew Peterson drowned the woman SOMEWHERE ELSE, and them moved her dead body to the bathtub? That is almost impossible to believe. Only a kook like Geraldo Rivera would even consider the possibility---absent affirmative evidence she drowned somewhere else. A "dry bathtub" is NOT such evidence. For example, my own bathtub stopper does not create a perfect seal. The water remains long after I could drown (I point out to you in case I am ever found drowned in a dry bathtub--although in that event I also tell you that SOME WOMAN did it). But in 12 to 24 hours the bathtub is dry. Let us assume the almost impossible--that Drew Peterson drowned/killed wife no. 3 somewhere else, and then moved her to the bathtub to simulate that she drowned there. Do you not see that there HAD to be water in the bathtub? Even Drew Peterson is not dumb enough to try to simulate drowning in a DRY BATHTUB. I am 100% convinced that there was water in the bathtub. What happened to that water is the same question, whether it was accident or murder (and really, wherever she was killed). You are a KOOK if you believe that a "dry bathtub" proves anything--absent other facts that make it relevant (which I have never heard). You can't drown in a dry bathtub, but you CAN drown in a bathtub that afterward becomes dry. You can also have a non-drowning accident that leaves you dead (although not of drowning) in a dry bathtub.
170 (continuing my "you are a kook if:" series): You are Geraldo Rivera.
Remember Al Capone's vault, and the shameless promotion by Geraldo of that non-event? I rest my case. The guy proved himself a permanent kook long ago. Some people are just kooks on isolated things that push their buttons. I have correctly labeled myself a kook for my--correct, as kooks can rarely be right--assertion that it was a mistake to ever give women the vote. I have said that my mother is a kook: on several things, but especially her continuing assertion that Obama is a Muslim (which should be the least of your worries about Obama). But, with Geraldo, you get total kook--the kind of kook where his picture appears next to the word in the dictionary.
What is the real evidence that Drew Peterson killed wife no. 3. Oh, come on. You know this one. It is the disappearance of WIFE NO. $. Yes, they are trying to railroad Drew Peterson (hard to feel to sorry for him, but it is the kind of thing that leads to trouble and violation of YOUR Constitutional rights) by bootstrapping HEARSAY "evidence" from the grave. You might remember that the Constitution guarantees people the right to confront the witnesses against them. But the real problem is that the prosecutor will surely NOT be able to use the disappearance of wife no. 4 as evidence of the murder of wife no. 3. Yet, that is the only convincing reason--on the "evidence" I know about, or Geraldo and the media have told me--to be convinced that Drew Peterson killed wife no. 3.
Yes, based solely on what the media has told me, I--as an "expert" lawyer for 30 plus years before my retirement--would vote to ACQUIT Drew Peterson. That is not because I believe him "innocent", but because I believe it is the state's burden to prove his guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. The ONLY question that is relevant is whether the state can do that. My personal opinion--and that of Geraldo Rivera and the people brought forward by uor media--are IRRELEVANT to that question. We should not be seeing those opinions, and that we see so much of them is a truly evil thing. I have, of course, hinted at my personal opinion of whether Drew Peterson "did it", but I have only done so in the context of slamming our media. Otherwise, I have no business asserting my opinion on that ABSTRACT question means anything. Neither I nor the media have any business inflicting our opinions on criminal guilt on the public. It violates one of the very foundations of our system, and trial by media is an EVIL thing (with fully as much, and more, potential for destroying people as the worst of the old-time "back fence gossip").
P.S. Am I really saying that the Mike Nifong clones of the media are WORSE, in their "coverage" of crimes, than the original Mike Nifong--even after fully taking into account the difference in their respective jobs? Ah, you have finally gotten the point. Ask Richard Jewell. And yes, the media had a lot to do with the excesses of Mike Nifong himself.


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