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Sunday, May 02, 2010
70 comments:
- Unknown said...
This pig of a man is ranting and raving because he knows his time is up and he will surely suffer for what he did to that girl.
Living the highlife in Paris, boy did he suffer the hard life, pretty much gave US authorities a big middle finger.
- May 2, 2010, 11:26:00 PM
- Ike Diamonds said...
Am I insane to feel that the punishment for an adult sleeping with a thirteen year old should probably be the death penalty?
- May 2, 2010, 11:28:00 PM
- Andi said...
There are some serious flaws in the US justice system and one of the biggest is that it favors those with wealth and power. The more I learn about Polanski's situation, the more of a cluster-fuck the whole thing is... He accepted a plea rather than face sentencing. It was a very cushy plea that would never have been offered to someone of lesser stature.
To be honest, I just wanna hand him over to Tig.
- May 2, 2010, 11:35:00 PM
Look facts are facts. He knows what he did, but the victim is begging to be left alone, so be it, she should be, no matter who said what, it is her life that she is trying to save not his.. just let it go, get passed it, thats what she is trying to do.Let this poor girl do just that! If peeps are so offended and upset by what he did, punish him, dont purchase or view any thing he had any part of, keep him indigent.
- May 2, 2010, 11:42:00 PM
He knows he is wrong and the deal was probably never really a true deal. That's why he fled and lived a wonderous life abroad. If he was right he would have stayed. No one runs away when they are right. He's chicken shit. Its always easy to blame the system, but the fact is... he raped a 13 year old girl and fled the country. He proves what scum he still is...trying to make us feel sorry for his ass. He needs to do his time, after all he's had 30 years vacation...he should be ready.
- May 2, 2010, 11:50:00 PM
- Unknown said...
For the reasons you list, as it pertains to crime and punishment, I am a conservative. I am so sick of people, specifically the rich and famous, thinking that they should not have to pay for their crimes and somehow it is not their fault (bad childhood, drugs, whatever other bullshit they can think of to pass the blame to someone else). Why we probably disagree greatly on many issues, I agree 100% with you on this one.
Also, you show kicks ass.
- May 2, 2010, 11:50:00 PM
- Maggie Mamacat said...
Kurt, I've admired every bit of your work I've ever seen. Now I know more about you as a human, and I admire you all the more. You hit the point exactly - Polanski shows no responsibility for his crime, and in his casual request that the "victim" be spared further grief he ONLY means the grief he blames on others. If only those nasty reporters and legal folks would stop pestering the poor woman, there would be no harm and no foul. You see more; you see the groggy little girl who was assaulted. We should never think that's excusable. You're more of a man than Polanski could be in a hundred incarnations. IMO you're also more talented. :-)
- May 2, 2010, 11:54:00 PM
And I...Anthony(Tiny)Valdovinos...is uncle status to 2 beautiful nieces, I feel he should remain silenced for life. Along with anyone else that delves into such atrocities.
- May 3, 2010, 12:05:00 AM
- donjohnson374 said...
If it was one of my daughters he raped, you would have never heard from him again.....he would have been buried in a very deep hole in an area where no one would have heard his final screams, so whatever he gets will be too light in my opinion. Personally I am sick and tired of celebrities using their wealth and power to avoid the law....OJ is guilty of murder and so is Robert Blake.....money buys anything and that isn't right....thanks Mr Sutter.....love the blog, and SOA!!!!!
- May 3, 2010, 12:07:00 AM
Hey, I think you got this one totally wrong, the mother brought this girl to him and encouraged their escapade... she doesnt even want to pursue this any longer and hasnt for better than 20 yrs, so let go already. Back in that day, shit happened with directors dont deny it. Maybe your too young to recall, the casting couch. This girl did not get a fair shake the first time, but he does not need to come back here and serve a sentence of who knows and who can actually say (like who's in charge here really?), its just bullshit publicity, let it go, its over....
- May 3, 2010, 12:07:00 AM
- AlexChopperbuilder said...
I truely hope you guys over in the states get this sicker fecker back over there to TAKE HIS PUNISHMENT LIKE A MAN... Sadly I fear that won't happen...
Money talks and the rich can walk... springs to mind...
Sickens me.. I agree with Kurt... Fuck what talents and skills the guy has... What he did was unforgivable, we as a society in general need to recognise these crimes as exactly that...
I don't 100% agree with the death penalty... But with paedophiles, it's needed...
- May 3, 2010, 12:17:00 AM
First off thanks for posting that. And I couldn't agree with you more, as boring as it may be.
One thing that really upset me is that he is in fact speaking about what the victim wants. Regardless of what she might have said via her lawyers and press. He has no right to include that in this letter. It's pathetic and disgusting. And for me personally it reads no remorse on his part!
As if they were on the same side sorta or that she in facts is supporting him in his cause to get this case thrown out!
- May 3, 2010, 12:19:00 AM
- Unknown said...
Dear Kurt,
I totaly agree.
I live in Switzerland and I can tell you most people, the population not the stars, agree with Polanski been arrested.
Never mind the number of years it has been since the crime has been comitted.
It's been done and time to finish paying the remaining debt is never too late.
When you say "God knows everyone's looking for a reason to hate us." I must tell you that swiss people feel the same too.
- May 3, 2010, 12:49:00 AM
- Perogyo said...
Nice to see you posting about this.
If he was really worried about preventing further harassment of his victim, he should quietly serve his sentence. Interest in her is raised because her attacker is sitting in freedom writing about things like this instead of in jail where he belongs.
Or, of course, he could have not drugged and raped her in the first place.
- May 3, 2010, 1:22:00 AM
He committed a heinous crime, he ran, he should be dragged back in chains to serve the rest of a more appropriate sentence for his crime. It doesn't matter who he is or how talented he is, the simple truth is this - you commit a crime, you must face justice.
- May 3, 2010, 3:12:00 AM
- Pointman said...
I hope the court of public opinion doesn't have bearing as I don't support mob rule.
I hate it when legal rhetoric degrades to attempts at emotional posturing.
He should be evaluated to see if he is a threat to society.
What Mr. Polanski should receive is a fair hearing/trial and sentenced equally.
We all know what a joke that concept is, as the criminal justice system is not blind as witnessed by the demographics of prison, compared to the treatment of celebrities/politicians with money by a ever growing machine that exists for the revenue and not the rule of law.
I believe in innocence/guilt by a set of laws administered with blind justice for all people.
Rome fell because the laws were so vague and applied with such prejudice that eventually the whole of society ignored them.
All we can do is watch this circus and shake our heads.
I'm going for a ride..
- May 3, 2010, 3:28:00 AM
When I first saw this post I said oh shit, here we go, another liberal rant from a pussified liberal hollywood director and it cut deeper cause I love Sam Crow..... But not enough that I wouldnt revoke my membership to SOA on FaceBook. BOY O' BOY WAS I WRONG!!!! Kudos to you Sutter; You hit the nail on the f&*%^$g head!!! This puke druged, and sodomized a fifteen year old. Wasnt even consensual. If ever that was perpertrated upon my daughter or my sisters I would fly to where he his and put a bullet in his head. Correct, this man does see himself as the victim. He has no remorse. Sorry Roman, come on back so the fellas at Chino can do to you what you did to that little girl. Good Job Mr. Sutter. I still consider myself "patched in". Now I will go back to face book and comment, too bad most of those commenting dont read....
- May 3, 2010, 3:55:00 AM
- Unknown said...
Just a thought from my curiosity- why was this 13 yr old girl out with Mr. Polanski at the time? Not that what he did was right, by any stretch of the imagination, but this certainly sounds like a case where he is not the ONLY one to blame. I have a 14 yr old step-daughter who was taken advantage of by a boy around her age and he is in a lot of trouble due to the technicality of the law- but on the flip side she put herself into that position to allow this to happen. Parents need to take some of the responsibility when clearly they do not know what their children are doing. Yes- he should have known that what he was doing was wrong- but if there were drugs around, then he may not have known right from wrong. Why was this girl allowed in the situation? And quite frankly why is LA spending the money on this, when there are far more important issues at hand?
- May 3, 2010, 4:40:00 AM
Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!I must admit, I was afraid to read this blog post initially in fear that you might actually come down in his favor. I should have known you wouldn't let me down. Very well said. Once again, THANK YOU!
- May 3, 2010, 4:49:00 AM
- Unknown said...
While I think what Mr. Polanski did was awful, I question why this girl was allowed to be in this situation? This does not make it OK, but as a parent, I have a decent clue as to where my children are. I too have a teen-aged step-daughter whom I worry about all the time- but I know where she is most of the time (now that she lives with us). I understand that teenagers push the limits, and will go places they are not supposed to, but by that time that we let them go we hope that we have taught them right from wrong so they will not place themselves in situations that allow for outcomes like this one.
- May 3, 2010, 4:49:00 AM
What's almost as disgusting as Polanski's pedophilia is the way so many Hollywood celebrities have rushed to this creep's aid. How refreshing it is to see a member of that community have the balls to call it as it is. Thanks Kurt.
Dave Windsheimer
Johnstown, NY
- May 3, 2010, 4:53:00 AM
- Webster World said...
A 13 year old little girl. What more needs to be said. I have grandaughters give or take that age. I know what I would want to do if someone raped them.
- May 3, 2010, 5:00:00 AM
- Miffed67 said...
I have to agree. I've never stood in that crowd that proclaims Polanski's acheivements in filmmaking as reason that he should be granted some leniency. Laws apply to everyone, and I say fry his ass.
- May 3, 2010, 5:09:00 AM
- Unknown said...
Here's the thing with this sick fucker, he didn't stop being a pedophile when he got caught for raping that first girl. I can guarantee that there were other girls before her and other girls after her. Hell, his current wife was 11 years old when he raped the 13 year old.
- May 3, 2010, 5:09:00 AM
- Unknown said...
Perfectly stated.
- May 3, 2010, 5:20:00 AM
As usual, well said Kurt!
- May 3, 2010, 5:27:00 AM
I have seen the documentary he refers to in his rant. He cooperated with them and even spoke about his like of young girls. He appeared proud of his attraction to young girls. He does not see his behavior as a problem. He does not see this behavior as a crime. He feels relationships between adults and children ok. He has continued his pedophilic behavior over the years. It is too bad the judge cut him a break with agreeing to any deals. But what he doesn't say in his rant what pissed off the judge...a picture was taken of him with some young girls drinking after his release. He went right back to to his behavior. Even if he doesn't do time for the rape which he should...he owes for the running from court all this time. He should be charged with escape and forced to do some time for it. I realize his victim has spoken on his behalf to spare herself but she also was paid by him a lot of money many years ago and may be speaking on his behalf due to the settlement deal. It could read that if she spoke negatively he would take the money back or sue her. Victims often speak out on the behalf of their abuser. Don't forget the French press made her the bad guy and blamed her for the abuse. She was made out to be a sexy party slut that wanted to be sexually abused by him. She was threatened and teased at school and her picture posted everywhere. As a rape victim she was raped again in the French press. Who wouldn't want such good memories brought back so many years later? Most of all now that she is parent.
- May 3, 2010, 5:41:00 AM
Most excellent post, Mr. Sutter. Nice to see someone in Hollywood isn't afraid to stand up and tell the truth, that Polanski is a moral degenerate.
- May 3, 2010, 5:54:00 AM
my name is Angie, i live in a small town in southern Iowa, so the only aspects of "Hollywood debauchery" that i know are what i hear in the news.i do know that what i hear and read in the press is mostly a biased view depending upon the author. I have to let you know that i wholly agree with your take on this.It is unfortunate, but this type of debauchery exists in all towns, not just Hollywood. Even in small town Iowa. While I do understand the victims desire to not have this dragged up again, there is a need for justice to be served. 42 days is not even near to a fair sentence for taking the innocence of a child. I know most 13 year olds do not want to be considered a child, but the fact remains that they are a child. I feel that it is our duty as a society to protect children. Like your referral to your 15 year old step daughter, EVERYONE knows a 13 year old girl, and if they would only stop and think, how they would feel if this had happened to her. To let a crime like this slip through the cracks, is to enable it to happen to others. The fact that he calls it an "affair" simply makes my skin crawl.He needs to call it what it is, a self serving act, child molestation, rape. The fact that he is an artist, an acclaimed director doesnt change that, or give him rights above every other man. I personally hope that he is brought to justice for this. He violated a child. I was violated as a child of 16, and know too well the lasting effects that has upon a person. It has taken me 23 years to begin to undo the damage that was done to me, the emotional scars. I pray that her "scars" have healed, and that her perpretrator pays for his crime with a fair sentence. I thank you for posting this, and always look forward to reading your blogs. they are thought provoking, and entertaing also. --peace
- May 3, 2010, 5:57:00 AM
- TheRedUn said...
Sounds to me like he's trying to use his notoriety and (in-)famousness to garner public support, trying to claim old crimes do not matter.
Tough luck, Roman.
- Russ
- May 3, 2010, 6:16:00 AM
Well-written commentary on a self-pitying rant. I get his point about the justice system's failings, but wasn't the very idea of a a child rapist serving 5 and a half weeks for that crime a failing? On behalf of my daughter and niece, I say to Mr. Polanski "tough shit".
- May 3, 2010, 6:23:00 AM
- Boudica's Child said...
What you say may be true, but I was not aware of the fact that the victim wants no part in this lynching. That is true, I looked it up. What he did was awful, but Hollywood isn't the only place where it happens and no one pays. It happens all the time. The fact is, this incident should be over with. Are we to victimize the victim again just to satisfy our own thirst for blood. Having endured her pain myself, I can safely say that if that DA goes forth with this, he has abused her again. It's unconscionable that after thirty years he plans to stir all of this up for her again just to make a name for himself. I can personally say that I could care less about Polanski and quite frankly he is no more arrogant and ugly than the people who seek to stir all of this back up for their own gain. As a father, think about this. Something happens to your daughter and no one pays, but she is strong and she goes on to have a normal life somehow after the dust has settled and people have forgotten her name. Would you want it to all be drug back up for her at 46(ish) years of age for your grandchildren to have to hear about; for her community to have to hear about?
Why are we giving Roman Polanski so much power? The worst thing we could really do to him is to just forget about him. If no one had paid attention when he made his comment, if no one bothers to care what he says, isn't that the biggest price for him? If he does time; if he is brought back here, it will never end.
From the survivor's point of view.
Lisa B., Ohio
- May 3, 2010, 6:25:00 AM
Very well said.
Personally I am an attorney, and I understand how there can be legal loopholes, and Monday details that fall through the cracks. If this is just a case of a Judge playing with the paper work, then it further represents a violation of procedural due process.
Having said that, the man is a convicted rapist. If his name was anything other then Roman Polanski, this would not be an issue. If I went to a foreign country and drugged and raped a minor, I would not have a celebrity crusade backing my cause. Polanski here comes off as elitist, and arrogant.
- May 3, 2010, 6:30:00 AM
I am a huge fan, having followed your time on the Shield to SOA - which has become my favorite TV show ever and I love it so much I've managed to get all my family and friends hooked as well. Once I started reading your blog though I have to say I have more of an appreciation for where you're coming from - as a libertarian I don't always see eye to eye with you but this piece here, with your note about the importance of family, shows that sensible people exist everywhere just as much as the extremists exist everywhere.
I think often those of us who might disagree are made out to be enemies - or we think we're supposed to be enemies - but nothing could be or should be farther from the truth. Keep up the good work and the interesting blogs. Looking forward to season 3.
- May 3, 2010, 7:14:00 AM
- Deborah said...
Amen Brother! Preach ON! I have a 13 year old niece and the thought of someone touching her ignites a primal rage in me! Mr Polanski does not have to live with the after effects of abuse like that young lady does. He needs to suck it up, grow a pair, and face the music!
- May 3, 2010, 7:20:00 AM
This monster has no remorse only fear of being treated in the same manor that his victim was. The glorification that Hollywood shows him only empowers him to have the audacity to quote, "speak out". He can no longer remain silent. Ha thats a joke. He is worried about his victim having to relive this. Here's a clue she probably has never stopped reliving the nightmare.
- May 3, 2010, 7:41:00 AM
45 Days for raping a child is ridiculous. That 45 days should have been spent in her parents basement tied up like a pinata. The arrogance of that letter is appalling. He feels he has served his time? I don't care who signed off on what piece of paper, he still has some time left to serve. I suppose he is old now and realizes that he is now the weak one. What an terrible thing it would be for a predator to grow feeble and know in his heart what predators are cabable of doing to the weak.
- May 3, 2010, 7:45:00 AM
- Orthodiva said...
It is my understanding that a plea deal is never done until you stand in court in front of a judge and he reads it and agrees with it. That obviously never happened here, so he had no plea deal and he obviously feared that it would not be accepted by the judge so he fled. Five and a half weeks for a crime of this nature? Most people spend that amount of time just sitting about in jail waiting for something to happen.
- May 3, 2010, 8:02:00 AM
- Unknown said...
Kurt, I agree with you. The guy is freaking out because he knows he is in deep **** and all his clout as an artist does not mean squat. I used to think his wife being butchered messed him up, but that is no excuse to do what he did. Instead of apologizing to the girl he raped, he instead referring to her as "the victim" (kind of cold, Roman) and using her requests to drop the case so she can move on with her life to push his selfish "keep my ass out of prison" agenda. Screw this guy...
- May 3, 2010, 8:07:00 AM
- John said...
I didn't know the details of his "time" and had to look them up and 40 days in a "hospital" is what wiki states.
In a way I guess he should just be happy he is still alive. I don't know what the next guy would do but My Daughter is the only person worth going to prison for and I will.
He bullpoop taking off and then coming back when he gets what he wants is over. I guess he fled the first time before the 40 days because he didn't want 20 years. I am sorry but this and only spending 40 days for something this lady has to relive not because of the media but because of being raped is bullpoop...
- May 3, 2010, 8:15:00 AM
betz kimble says:
Any adult male who has sex with a child , is, in my eyes, a demented fuck, not just a bonified pedophile, No matter if he had to drug her, or pay her, or promise her the moon, sex with a child is SICK. I don't care if she was one of these girls who as they say, develops early ( precocious (sp) puberty) I will never understand how an adult can be sexually attracted to a baby...( Is it because his pecker is so small he could not satisfy an adult woman?) I just don't get it...
Where was this young girl's parents during this encounter? You don't let babies go hang out at movie star's homes, just because...
Everytime I read what you write, my respect for you rises tenfold.
Thank You, Mr Sutter.
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- May 3, 2010, 8:31:00 AM
The facts are he drugged and raped a 13 year old girl. Being rich, talented and successfull does not exempt you from the law. Just ask OJ. Here in the US we may not get it right the first or even second time, but eventually we do. His chickens have come home to roost. Be a man and take your medicine. God only knows how many times he has gotten away with it.
- May 3, 2010, 8:54:00 AM
- Maria E said...
- May 3, 2010, 8:54:00 AM
Great post. Enlighted me.
- May 3, 2010, 9:40:00 AM
What is the saying.. . "do onto others as you would have them do onto you" Legitimate prison time for him to be raped.
- May 3, 2010, 10:10:00 AM
- Unknown said...
At first glance, i thought that Kurt was going to side with this piece of shit Polanski. Sure was glad to find out that was not the case. Yes, he ran away from prosecution, and yes he should be held culpable. I too am an artist, and that career choice will never allow me to view the world through rose colored glasses when it comes to holding other artists, or for that matter anyone else guilty of such a crime! Fuck em..he's a dick and needs to pay for it!..And one more thing.."Eyes Wide Shut" SUCKED!!..Fuck him again..lol
- May 3, 2010, 10:17:00 AM
- Unknown said...
Well put!
My rhetoric would simply have been; Fuck that guy.
Yours is a bit more eloquent
- May 3, 2010, 12:19:00 PM
He raped a child. Period, end of discussion. It doesn't matter how many years have passed. He RAPED a child. And like a coward, he ran. And he, thankfully, stayed away. Why? Because he knew he was in the wrong.
I'm not ashamed to say that if anyone were to hurt a child of mine, the justice system would be the least of their worries.
- May 3, 2010, 12:47:00 PM
Firstly, Mr. S, I'm glad to know that while you're liberal (I'm conservberal, a possible contradiction in terms, but it works for me), you are still willing to say when wrong is wrong. I agree.
Now, I'm going to be writing a few unpopular thoughts here. If you feel you don't want to post 'em, Mr. Sutter, that's your right, after all, it's your blog.
Polanski's vocabular vomit reads a lot like a 'poor pitiful me' diatribe with a token cry of mercy to his victim, whom I'm certain wants to forget, just as any victim of sexual assault wants to forget. Most are eventually allowed to do so, but if one is the victim of a celebrity, they're never allowed to forget. There's always some hack - either on the internet or in print - willing to resurrect the event and reopen the wounds.
Where's the mea culpea? Where's that acknowledgement that he was wrong? Didn't see it, just lots of chest beating by Polanski. It's interesting that Polanski is whining about his unfair treatment by the American court, because he is being expected to do time for the crime! Imagine that!
Was the man offered a time served sentence agreement? Probably. Something to consider is that the court system is a political circus. Somebody in the judge's retinue likely had an 'oh shit!' moment and told the judge the sentence was political suicide and the agreement was taken back. We all know what happened then. Hey, there is no law that says a plea agreement has to be accepted!
I'm old enough to remember the Manson family murders, and what happened to his wife in 1968 was a horrible thing. Charles Manson and his 'family' were tried, convicted, and sentenced of the killing of Polanski's wife. Most are still doing time for that killing and the others that accompanied it. I feel terrific empathy for Polanski for being a victim, but that empathy does NOT prevent me from being shocked, appalled, and sickened at what he did later. He did the crime, he was found guilty, and if the judge decided that further punishment was required, that's the way it goes. Imagine the hue and cry if the Manson family got a 45 day sentence for what they did!
What gets me is the way we continue to give celebs like Polanski, Michael Jackson, OJ Simpson, and others our love and support when they have been PROVEN to be guilty of heinous behavior. I say 'we' as a generalization.
Personally, I can't listen to any Jackson song, or watch any film that Simpson has been in, knowing what they did. To do so makes my skin crawl and I just won't support them. That's my choice.
It's fine to have idols, to look up to someone, to be a fan and support their work. The thing to keep in mind is that actors, writers, singers, athletes, etc., are human beings. They are capable of making the wrong choices. When they do, we should hold them just as accountable for those mistakes as we would anyone else.
I'm not dustin' off my pitchfork, although I have considered taking the rusy bottle cap to the root of the Polanski problem (the rusty bottle cap is my preferred method of punishment to ANY sexual predator/rapist, but that's just me). I feel for his loss in 1968, but don't feel that he was gyped. There is no law that says a judge has to accept a plea agreement.
Polanski would've been better off to have kept quiet, instead of beating his chest, rending his garment in anguish, and trying to whip up sympathy where none is deserved.
As for those who beat the 'what was the kid doin' there in the first place?' drum, I won't even START to go there. At least not here. Just hope your kid is never in a situation where some big name takes an interest in him/her.
All you have to do is look at past history. It's pretty sordid.
Thanks for tellin' it like it is, Mr. Sutter!
- May 3, 2010, 1:23:00 PM
- PeachyTO said...
I say gag the sick F@#% and throw him in general population.
He should be thankful that he is going to spend his time behind bars now, old and weathered, instead of when he was younger, able bodied, and no doubt enjoying nefarious sexual proclivities in insouciant European countries.
And someone please give the sniveling wretch a tissue already!
- May 3, 2010, 2:23:00 PM
As a 45 year old woman who was raped at 19, I understand the feelings of the victim to want to move on. She has dealt with the situation and she has worked past it. She had to. She didn't have the choice to run off to Europe and begin again like nothing happened. She's the one who stayed, dealt with the nightmares, the bizarre little triggers of memory like a scent, or a shadow, that turned her world upside down. SHE has served her sentence.
Now, Mr. Polanski's biggest problem with all of this is why didn't he sue his lawyers for NOT making sure the plea agreement was signed? Everyone knows, a plea agreement isn't valid until the ink is dry on the paper. Since that agreement was NEVER inked, then there was no agreement. Prosecutors and Defense can agree but if the JUDGE doesn't sign it, then it doesn't exist.
Mr. Polanski, stop running, stop whining, stop throwing a temper tantrums, just STOP. If you hadn't taken off like that, this would've been taken care of 33 years ago and EVERYONE would be past it now. You made a choice, now pay for the consequences.
- May 3, 2010, 2:36:00 PM
Thing is, Polanski has a history of "liking" underaged girls..After he fled, didn't he shack up with a miss Nastasaja Kinski - age 15 at the time?
I mean I feel for him about losing his wife and unborn child (Sharon Tate), but still, he is just another criminal sex offender in my eyes.
- May 3, 2010, 3:28:00 PM
- michele said...
Once again Mr. Sutter you have impressed me with your blog. As an incest survivor I have no sympathy for Mr. Polanski. I am old enough to remember when he drugged and raped that 16 year old girl. I was 16 at the time. He has lived the high life since he fled America 33 years ago. He has showed no remorse what he has done nor does he feel he should be punished for his actions. He does not deserve sympathy from anyone. He deserves to rot in hell for what he did and no matter what he states he is still a rapist and a pepophile. And he can take that to the grave with him!
- May 3, 2010, 5:18:00 PM
i think he should judt face the judhe and jury. stop crying! u raped a 13 year old! yeah its messed up its being brought e out again but it is a minimum of 5 years for the rest of the population(more like 1 after the guys in prison figure out what u did) u got off light because u are famous! stop crying and deal with the consequences of ur actions!
- May 3, 2010, 5:29:00 PM
- raiznhail said...
Kurt, once again, Well Put! they ought to take Polanski and all the priests that covered up and committed these horrible nightmare assaults on our young children and just throw away the keys and let them rot in their own excrement. ps I can't wait for the next Sons to hurry up and get here!
- May 3, 2010, 7:16:00 PM
I have two daughters myself. It's difficult not to want to see him punished forever. Maybe even to let the Sons take him out into the woods to meet their other sick carny buddy. This goes beyond liberal or conservative. Family is family. You don't mess with someone's baby and then cry foul when it's time to pay the piper.
- May 3, 2010, 7:45:00 PM
This guy is a pampered sniveling douche-bag. He drugged and raped a child for his own pleasure and believed he had the right to do so.
And he still believes he has the right to continue to victimize this woman who begs to be able to put this all behind her. He's the one who's made it an on-going unresolved issue, not the American justice system. If he'd stayed and discharged his punishment it would have been behind both of them long since. He's the one still victimizing her and dragging her through this - HIM - no one else.
It's natural to want to save her from further distress, but not pursuing Polanski only rewards him for having kept this shadow on her life alive for more than 30 years. His arrogance and cowardice have compounded her burden, rewarding him now for that would be morally reprehensible.
He needs to be put in the cell next to Phil Spector - they can commiserate on their misunderstood brilliance, on their persecution by the justice system, and how the child that was raped and the woman that was murdered, ruined THEIR lives.
- May 5, 2010, 10:54:00 AM
This is all a bunch of F%#^$$# posturing -from everyone. I was 13 when I was raped. No one gave a s&%$. I didn't look thirteen. Believe me, that was brought up in court as well as the time I was caught out after curfew. Bottom line was that I walked away feeling it had been my fault and he didn't pay for it.
That was thirty years ago. Where was all this outrage then? I guess my attacker wasn't famous enough. If someone told me now that they were going to put him in jail for whatever reason, I'd tell them to shut up about it and go to hell. It would be too little too late.
The only reason we are even talking about this goes all the way back to the day the judge cut the original deal. It's the only reason that Romie thought he would get away with it and had any wiggle room to think he was right in leaving. That first deal is the fruit of all this strife. The fact that the judge thought 45 days was enough to pay for what he did. I don't care if he changed his mind later or it was changed for him. Justice is not blind. Do you think that if it had been any other rapist that fled punishment to another country that our justice system would bother tracking them down? Absolutely not. This is all because of who he is. ALL OF IT. The fact that he had access to the girl, the original case, the documentary, and now trying to bring him back. He is a sick %&#* and his statement is a load of horse S$#%. I'm not saying I don't agree with you Kurt. Everything you say is true and on the money. He should have kept his mouth shut. I'm just sick of everyone's posturing about this. People who say they would do this or that if it happened to one of theirs have absolutely know idea what they would really do. I'm sure my father thought the same things. I pray that no one on here ever has to find out whether they are full of shit or not. This bogus witch hunt is pointless. He would have continued to live in fading cult like obscurity if that idiot had not done that documentary and stirred this back up. I doubt anyone even cared until then. All this outrage and indignation is just plan bull#$%&. maybe the documentary did need to be done to show people what went down, but all this other stuff now; everyone is beating their chest about justice and what is justice for the victim and I doubt seriously that any of these folks, maybe a few, know exactly what a victim of this crime feels like or needs.
BTW, I'm posting this anonymously, not because I don't have balls. Oh, I do. I just have no desire to drag my indecent back up in public and incite my rapist to come back and defend his victimhood like Mr. Polanski has done.
- May 6, 2010, 6:36:00 AM
copied from various sources around the net - this poem goes out to oprah and everyone who defends polanski:
A youthful error? Yes, perhaps.
But he's been punished for this lapse--
For decades exiled from LA
He knows, as he wakes up each day,
He'll miss the movers and the shakers.
He'll never get to see the Lakers.
For just one old and small mischance,
He has to live in Paris, France.
He's suffered slurs and other stuff.
Has he not suffered quite enough?
How can these people get so riled?
He only raped a single child.
Why make him into some Darth Vader
For sodomizing one eighth grader?
This man is brilliant, that's for sure
Authentically, a film auteur.
He gets awards that are his due.
He knows important people, too--
Important people just like us.
And we know how to make a fuss.
Celebrities would just be fools
To play by little people's rules.
So Roman's banner we unfurl.
He only raped one little girl.
- May 6, 2010, 9:29:00 AM
- shovelhead said...
Bro it is amazing to me how anyone can have an above reproach attitude.I have a seen many people walk into a room and hold everyone in that room in contempt.I chuckle when I see people with elitest attitudes and how fast and hard they fall.Polansky seems to be pissed the "authorities" have the audacity to charge him with crime. Old Roman would be a very nervous man had that young lady been my daughter.He would have had to leave the country to get away from me.When comes to my little girl hell is not far enough away for me not to my hands on him.The police would not be able to scrape enough of him to even charge with a crime.There are certain things you just do not do and touching minor girls one of those very things
- May 6, 2010, 9:01:00 PM
He surely deserves to be punished, but when you talk about family we have to think about something, he had his wife and unborn child murdered, that whole manson shit messed him up (as Indianacat said).
I could say by personal experince how it feels to have someone dear molested, it happened to my girlfriend when she was five, she never told to her parents or the cops, and the bastard is walking free and is still a friend of the family. If she would let me I would take care of the guy and bring the whole 81 boys to kick the hell ot of him and some nasty stuff that I don't dare to write it down in here.
The big issue here is that this guys are messed up, they have serius psycological problems and should be treated as such. And they shouldn't be compared whit the dude that had sex with a wiling 17 years old girl with a fake ID thah they just met in a club.
My impulsive side whould nut him and make him eat his own balls, but my logical side thinks that pedophiles should be put in mental institutions because if ou send them to jail you might as well give the the injection yourself and if they survive they will come out and they will do it again.
- May 7, 2010, 6:00:00 PM
To those saying the victim's wishes to let it rest are missing a key point. She was paid to do so. In other words, the argument is being made that you can do anything to anyone as long as you have enough money to pay off your victim.
There's a reason the laws are set up to allow prosecution without the cooperation of the victim, and this is one of them.
- May 9, 2010, 11:33:00 AM
- Best Liberal News said...
Lol.. The Judge Raped Polanski While He Was Asleep.
Keep it real Kurt. Go Liberals
- May 9, 2010, 7:15:00 PM
- May 10, 2010, 8:44:00 PM
- Unknown said...
He said he just wants to be treated fairly, just like anyone else. That's pretty much what everyone would like to see. What would happen to the average person that committed this horrific crime.
- May 14, 2010, 9:17:00 AM
- miadramaqueen said...
I was looking for updates on Season 3 (can't wait!) and I came across this post. I asked myself.. do I dare read this? What if he sides with Polanski and I hate him forever- how would I be able to separate Sutter the artist(the creative genius) from Sutter-a man who would side with Polanski? But I read on and was happily relieved to know that you feel what most of us "normal folk" do.. that his money, fame and artistry have nothing to do with the crime Polanski committed. The audacity of him to think that he has served his time. The system is already too lenient on these types of crimes and a stand must be made. No, not just with Polanski but with all the pedophiles out there. It enrages me and I am disappointed at other artists who side with him- simply because he is/was their friend or because he is talented. I need to respect the artists I support, so I thank you for making it easy to love and support your work. SOA is the only show on tv worth watching- I thank you for sharing it with us.
- Jul 6, 2010, 5:55:00 PM
Why does no one mention the fact that said girl came out in an article a few years back talking about the fact that her mom and her 20 year old boyfriend at the time encouraged her to go with Mr. Polanski and get to know him better since he could do good things for her career. Why does no one mention that she admits that she did coke with him and drank gave him oral and let him do same to her but when he wanted to have sex she was hesitant then decided she was to high to care, but she told him no about anal sex and THAT'S where the RAPE charge stems from??? Jack Nicholson and Angelica Houston walked in on them in the bedroom and she didn't tell them help me he's raping me no they stopped and all did a couple lines together. It wasn't till he didn't do anything for her acting career that her mom and her cried rape. It's disgusting he was set up, and if you see pictures of her from back then she didn't look 13. She has even said this has gone on long enough, it's totally the D.A. who is doing this it's sickening, go and look for the real pedohiles out there you know the one's who are raping and killing kids and getting released on bail those are the scumbags you need to get!!!!
- Jul 16, 2010, 12:49:00 PM
Rafasgirl, I'm not sure what the laws are over there, but here having consensual sex with a minor is still rape.
Shoving it up her ass cause she's too out of it to confirm if she's on birth-control makes it violent rape.
If the mother encouraged it she should have been prosecuted as well, but to try and blame a child for making decisions she is way too young to make is quite disgusting. This wasn't 2 kids experimenting, this was a grown man raping a young girl.
Allowing someone to buy their way out of whatever sentence they deserve (instead of the 40 odd days he 'suffered') for such act is far more dangerous than releasing criminals who've done their time.
- Aug 2, 2010, 11:33:00 AM
I was repeatedly raped by my older and bigger cousin when I was 11 and too young to fight back. He got off scot-free the way our buddy Roman did except my cousin didn't do ANY time.
I was surprised when Phil Spector got convicted, after Robert Blake was acquitted. I think "name recognition" is the reason Blake and Polanski got off and Spector went down, because not nearly as many people knew who the fuck Spector was, but everyone knows who Polanski and Blake are. ALL pedophiles need to do time (so they can see how it feels to be raped) before they are EXECUTED!
- Aug 15, 2010, 2:13:00 PM
You're so right about all this story. Shame on him for pretending to be the victim ! We all know who is the real victim, and Yes, Polanski have to "remain silent just a little longer"
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For the eighth consecutive year, Braidwood Generating Station will host Exelon Nuclear's "Fishing for a Cure." Anglers are invited to cast a line for charity in the team bass tournament on Saturday, May 30 at Braidwood Lake in Braceville, Ill.
BRACEVILLE, Ill. (March 11, 2009) - For the eighth consecutive year, Braidwood Generating Station will host Exelon Nuclear's "Fishing for a Cure." Anglers are invited to cast a line for charity in the team bass tournament on Saturday, May 30 at Braidwood Lake in Braceville, Ill.
The station is putting up $10,000 in cash prizes for competing fishermen. The first place team will reel in an impressive $4,000, with second and third place netting $2,500 and $1,000 respectively. The fourth, fifth and sixth place finishers will win $500 and teams finishing seventh through tenth will win $250.
This year's tournament proceeds will benefit Autism Speaks, whose goal is to change the future for all who struggle with autism. Autism is a complex neurobiological disorder that impairs a person's ability to communicate and relate to others and typically lasts throughout a person's lifetime. Today, one in 150 children are diagnosed with autism. Autism Speaks raises money to fund new research to uncover the cause, help with prevention and treatments, and find a cure for autism.
"This event continues to grow in popularity each year," said Braidwood Station Site Vice President Bryan Hanson. "Our employees enjoy the opportunity to meet anglers from all over the area. And we are glad that a worthy cause is the beneficiary of a day filled with fun, camaraderie and competitive fishing. Autism Speaks is a terrific organization and we look forward to doing all that we can to further their wonderful cause."
The tournament will commence from Braidwood Lake's Kankakee Road (South) Ramp. The entry fee is $100 per team with all proceeds, including 100 percent of all tournament entry fees, going to Autism Speaks.
"On behalf of the many children with autism who are unable to communicate and express their gratitude, I would like to thank the employees of Exelon Nuclear and Braidwood Station for your fundraising efforts to help us find a cause and cure for autism," said Susan Tybon, executive director of the Chicagoland chapter of Autism Speaks. "Your investment in our work is much appreciated."Rules and entry forms are available on the Internet at www.exeloncorp.com/programs/fishing.
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Like a neutron colliding with an atom, two factors are igniting Americans, and particularly environmentalists, into reconciling a messy question: Do we or don't we want to develop nuclear power? Eight years of the Bush Administration's heavily pro-nuclear policies with billions in government subsidies have roused the ailing nuclear industry. Simultaneously, our search for clean, greenhouse gas-free energy sources has turned urgent in the face of climate change. The mix of influences is propelling nuclear energy into the lime light for serious reconsideration.
But many of the old concerns remain. Since the accident at Pennsylvania's Three Mile Island power plant in 1979, no applications for new nuclear power plant building permits were submitted for almost 30 years. While no one was killed or even hurt following the reactor's partial meltdown, the public glimpsed the potential for disaster.
Nonetheless, the industry has persevered, claiming improved oversight and potential to improve air quality, although it has found no long-term solution for disposing its radioactive waste. Today, 104 nuclear reactors in 31 states supply 20 percent of our electricity, making it our second largest energy source after coal.
Things began to heat up for the industry within two weeks of President Bush taking office in January 2001. He formed the National Energy Policy Development Group (NEPD), headed by Vice President Dick Cheney, which produced a National Energy Policy report by May of that year, recommending "the President support the expansion of nuclear energy in the United States as a major component of our national energy policy."
Following a long legal battle to force the release of NEPD documents to the public, environmental lawyers at Natural Resource Defense Council uncovered that industry lobbyists were integral in forming the president's energy policy and his decision to launch a so-called 'nuclear revival'. Over eight years the nuclear industry has received billions in government funds, while construction and operating license applications for 30 new reactors are in the works. Such support would likely increase if Arizona Senator John McCain takes office next year. He recently said, "… the French are able to generate 80 percent of their electricity with nuclear power. There's no reason why America shouldn't."
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In the coming week, we'll delve into some of the arguments for and against increasing nuclear energy, but here we've briefly summed up some of the hot topics:
Emissions: Compared to other major existing energy sources, such as coal and oil, nuclear power emits almost no greenhouse gasses, or nitrogen oxide and sulfur dioxide, the primary components of air pollution.
Energy independence: Increasing American nuclear energy enables the country to reduce the amount of oil it imports from other parts of the world and provides reliable base-load power. However, there are limited stores of uranium isotope U-235, which is required for nuclear fission and is largely found in Canada, Australia, and Niger.
Cost: The expense of building two advanced technology nuclear reactors was originally estimated at around $7 billion. The price tag recently rose to $14 billion and construction hasn't even begun. Champions of wind, solar, and other forms of alternative energy argue high cost and government support for nuclear are gobbling up money that could help develop less established industries.
Environmental health and safety: The risk of a catastrophic reactor accident, as well as significant waste disposal problems, hangs around nuclear power's neck like a noose. Uranium mining can also endanger the health of miners and people living near mines, as well as the environment, as radioactive ore waste has been shown to contaminate surface and groundwater.
Security: Underlying a nuclear chain reaction in both an energy reactor and weapon is an isotope called uranium-235. Reactor grade uranium requires a 3-5 percent concentration of U-235, while weapon grade needs 90 percent concentration. Therefore anyone possessing U-235 and the necessary equipment can make either nuclear energy or bombs.
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Kent State University has completed a first-of-its-kind online engagement project to enable its faculty, staff and students to participate significantly in envisioning the university's academic future.
To engage the school's community in substantive conversations around its Academic Affairs Strategic Plan, the university hired Ohio-based tech start-up the Civic Commons. The Civic Commons is an online engagement organization that works with schools and other institutions, municipalities and businesses to orchestrate productive, interactive conversations that inform and/or determine key decisions.
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"Our hope that the Civic Commons would increase input into our strategic planning process has been realized," says Todd Diacon, Kent State's senior vice president for academic affairs and provost. "Hundreds of people added their voice via the Commons, and I appreciate the willingness of our faculty, staff and students to voice their opinions, and the ability of the Civic Commons to facilitate the process."
The discussions, moderated by members of the Strategic Planning Committee and the Civic Commons, sought input from every corner of the university community — undergraduate and graduate students, adjunct and full-time faculty, staff, administrators and more — calling for open, dynamic, transparent dialogue. Provisions also were made for reluctant participants to write in anonymously if they preferred. In-person round-table sessions also were held across Kent State University campuses to allow for participants to give face-to-face feedback to committee members or to input data into the Civic Commons site at public computer stations.
"Now that we have the results from our data collection process, the Academic Affairs Strategic Planning Committee is working very hard to translate this information into actionable strategies to make Kent State a stronger institution," says Carey McDougall, an associate professor of art at Kent State University at Stark and co-chair of the Academic Affairs Strategic Planning Committee.
The engagement resulted in a frank discussion of the school's future and a range of suggestions, with more than 2,000 Kent State community members reading or participating in the dialogue. To date, 2,570 suggestions or concerns were recorded and will be incorporated into the committee's final recommendations.
"Once a final draft of the plan is developed, we will be sharing this draft with the university community through the Civic Commons, as well as other channels," says Stan Wearden, dean of the College of Communication and Information at Kent State and co-chair of the Academic Affairs Strategic Planning Committee. "Everyone will have an opportunity to provide feedback before it is submitted to the provost."
Some notable points of consensus were the need for greater student support services, including financial aid and for greater promotion or recognition of faculty and research work. The university also garnered ideas for new ways to engage with academic communities abroad and to provide services for its immediate community.
"Working with Kent State University to engage its students, faculty and staff online as part of its Academic Affairs Strategic Planning process has been terrific," says Mike Shafarenko, president of the Civic Commons. "Its leaders need to be commended for applying an innovative engagement process to an otherwise common institutional practice and, as a result, being the first nationally among its university peers to do so."
"We've found that a time-limited, moderated online conversation in a civil and transparent environment yields posts and interactions that are articulate, rich with detail and often build on ideas contributed by others," says Dan Moulthrop, curator of conversation at the Civic Commons. "In the six weeks on the Commons, the Kent State community has generated a body of candid observations and ideas that might have taken years to develop, and its Strategic Plan will benefit greatly from all that insight."
Kent State's eight-campus system, among the largest regional systems in the country, serves both the development of a true living/learning approach at the Kent Campus and the regional needs on seven other campuses throughout Northeast Ohio. Kent State is ranked among the nation's 77 public research universities demonstrating high-research activity by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. In 2010, Kent State celebrated 100 years of guiding students, providing vital resources to Ohio and producing graduates and research that have the power to change communities.
The Civic Commons, a social media site dedicated to civic good, was founded in 2010 with support from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation and the Fund for Our Economic Future. In addition to its tools for citizens, the Civic Commons provides subscription-based engagement services for organizations and businesses on a national basis. The services are dedicated to building two-way conversations that inform and/or determine key decisions to expand and deepen the relationship between organizations and the communities they serve.
For more information about the Civic Commons, visit http://theciviccommons.com.


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05 December 2013 | News | By BioSpectrum Bureau
Egyptian delegates said that they are not just interested in imports of final product but to manufacture the product in Egypt
Singapore: With analysts predicting great growth from overseas for the Indian pharmaceutical industry, Egypt recently joined in the list of countries keen on receiving investment from the subcontinent.
The country has invited Indian pharma companies to invest and manufacture final product in that country.
"Indian pharma industry has proceeded and progressed well. We invite pharma industry in India to invest in Egypt. This kind of mutual cooperation and investment is very beneficial to both the sides. We are not just interested in imports of final product but to manufacture the product in Egypt," Egyptian Pharmaceutical Vigilance & Egyptian Ministry of Health Head Amrasad said in a press statement.
He added that the focal point to export to the whole Mena region will be a win-win situation for both sides and that they would do their best to help this push.
In view of tapping growing pharma exports in the Middle East and African markets, industry body the Pharmaceuticals Export Promotion Council of India (Pharmexcil) will set up Indian Pavilion at Arab Health, a major international exhibition to be held in Dubai in January 2014.
Pharmexcil organised 3-day CPhl India 2013 conference in Mumbai. The 2013 edition has witnessed participation by over 1,000 exhibitors from 95 countries, and is likely to be attended by nearly 30,000 attendees from 109 countries.


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NEW YORK -- Revenue dropped by $7.3 million in third quarter 2010 for Town Sports International (TSI), New York, according to financials released today.
The company's third quarter revenue of $113.1 million was a 6.1 percent decrease from third quarter 2009. Revenue from comparable clubs (those operated for more than 12 months) decreased 5 percent.
Member numbers also fell by 0.2 percent comparing Sept. 30, 2010, to Sept. 30, 2009, according to the company. However, attrition improved, averaging 3.8 percent per month in the third quarter compared to 4.2 percent per month in the third quarter last year.
Robert Giardiana, TSI's CEO, said on a call with analysts that TSI lost 3,000 net members in third quarter 2010. In third quarter 2009, TSI lost 19,000 net members, which included 10,000 student members.
"Our quarter end count was just 1,000 members below a year ago," Giardina said on the call. "So, we are feeling good about our expectation of having our first year-over-year membership increase since the first quarter of 2009."
The company also had positive news in its ancillary revenues. Personal training revenue increased from $13.5 million in third quarter 2009 to $13.8 million this past quarter. Ancillary club revenue from sources other than personal training also increased from $7.2 million in third quarter 2009 to $7.8 million in third quarter 2010.
Membership dues and initiation fees dropped in the quarter. In third quarter 2010, membership dues were $89 million and initiation fees were $1.2 million compared to $95.4 million in membership dues and $3.1 million in initiation fees for third quarter 2009.
Net loss for the company was $18,000 compared to net loss of $1.5 million in the third quarter 2009.
"Overall, I'm very happy about many aspects of the business, including increased traffic and how our elevated member experience is having a positive impact on attrition," Giardina said on the call. "Third quarter revenue was still not quite up to the expectations we had set for ourselves. But as you know, the first component of the business that has to move in the right direction is membership, and we are encouraged by the success we are seeing on this front."
For the first nine months of 2010, the revenue numbers are down by $22.7 million, or 6.1 percent, compared to the same period last year.
For the fourth quarter, TSI anticipates revenue of between $110 million and $111 million compared to $114.3 million for fourth quarter 2009. The company expects a net loss in the fourth quarter of between $0 and $500,000.


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Ottawa named as new host for 2013 ITU Duathlon World Championships
By Merryn Sherwood on 24/07/12 at 7:46 pm
The International Triathlon Union (ITU) is pleased to announce that Ottawa, Canada will now act as the 2013 ITU Duathlon World Championships for Under23, Junior, Paraduathlon and Age-Group athletes, replacing the previous host city Segovia.
The races will be held on August 10-11, 2013, in the centre of Canada's capital city. The elite races for the 2013 ITU Duathlon World Championships will be held at the 2013 World Games in Cali, Colombia.
Marisol Casado (IOC), President of the International Triathlon Union (ITU) said:
"As the President of ITU, I am delighted to inform you that the 2013 Duathlon World Championships for Age Groups, Junior, U23 and Paraduathlon will take place in your national capital, Ottawa. We are delighted to make this award to this wonderful city. We are confident that Triathlon Canada, the national federation, and the beautiful city of Ottawa will deliver a wonderful event."
While course details are being finalised with Ottawa Tourism and will involve the input of the National Capital Commission, the City of Ottawa and other stakeholders, it is proposed that for the full distance ITU World Championship events, the opening 10km run will be two 5km loops that will see the athletes run from Parliament, cross the Ottawa River on a bridge with stunning views, return on another bridge for a loop course. The 40km bike will start with a technical portion downtown, then head out on the Ottawa River parkway for an out-and-back portion. It will be a one-loop cycle. The final 5km run will repeat the first loop of the opening run. The junior, paraduathlon and age-group sprint races will be contested over a sprint distance course, completing less laps of the same course.
The elite races for the 2013 ITU Duathlon World Championships will be held at the 2013 World Games in Cali, Colombia. The World Games, first held in 1981, are a major international multi-sport event held every four years for sports that are not contested in the Olympic Games. Duathlon appears in the World Games for the first time in 2013.
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Christmas is in 17 days, which is only just slightly beyond tomorrow. The temperature today is 10 degrees C, so snow is imminent. Time for Christmas decorations to go up and snow to fall down on the site. Tidings of the season to everyone!


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"Dancing" Athletes Grace the Stage (and other Media)
This one seems to stop abruptly for me, but I thought it was cool.
Access Hollywood with Aaron, Karina, Donny and Kym, and Ashley and Edyta:
Excerpts from People Online – Monday's DWTS: What You Didn't See:
Buff Daddy: While most people drop weight on Dancing, pro Tony Dovolani has been packing on the pounds — nearly 20 — since the end of season 8 in May. Dovolani, whose twins turned one earlier this month, tells PEOPLE he's in training for a role in the upcoming independent film Pumping Up. Shooting stars in December and Dovolani has been working out every day. "I eat like a horse, five or six times a day, and I drink protein shakes, I eat protein bars," he says. "Right now I'm 192. Usually I'm at 175." In the movie, Dovolani plays "a character getting ready for a bodybuilding competition. He's an Italian guy from Queens."
Scaredy Cats: The show's opening number was quite the grand entrance as the eight male pros descended from the ceiling on scaffolding. "I was scared wreckless," Alec Mazo confesses. Even tough guy Maksim Chmerkovskiy couldn't wait to get his feet firmly on the ground. "I did not like that at all, and Mark [Ballas] was shaking and rocking the [scaffolding]," Chmerkovskiy says. "I am so glad that is over. Never again."
Excerpts from People Online – Tuesday's DWTS: What You didn't See:
Snack Attack: Since it was ladies' night on the dance floor, the men were able to relax and watch the show. Sitting side-by-side, snowboarder Louis Vito and football pro Michael Irvin shared a bag of gummy worms. Even former politician Tom DeLay was spotted dropping a worm into his mouth. At one point, all the guys were munching on something. "Candy, gummy worms and peanut M&Ms, and cookies and Altoids," says Vito of his evening snacks. "It's like watching a movie. How can you watch a movie without something to eat?"
Say What?: The Grammy-award winning singer Macy Gray had everyone on their toes, even the producers. After her first turn on the dance floor, Gray was asked how she felt. "I feel like I just busted my cherry." While viewers struggled to figure out what she said, the audience roared with laughter. Tom DeLay was spotted wiping away tears from laughing so hard. A source added that backstage was no different: "Everyone was laughing, from the designers to production assistants!"
MSNBC Talks about Ladies Night:
Natalie Coughlin isn't quite a household name, but as an Olympic medalist in swimming, she's at least athletic — and she's paired with Alec Mazo, who's been looking for a good partner ever since winning with Kelly Monaco in the first season of the show. Alec first worked to cure her of her tendency to grimace angrily while competing, then went on to teach her the salsa. At times, Natalie seemed to have the hang of it, but her hips aren't quite built for Latin dancing just yet. She's coordinated and athletic, but she still tends to look like she's working a little too hard.
Singer Macy Gray is dancing with the lovely and frequently challenged Jonathan Roberts (who handled Marie Osmond's fainting spell and Heather Mills' missing leg), and it's pretty clear that this is not the year things get easier for him. Roberts called Macy "a little bit eccentric" from the beginning, and indeed, she seemed as out of her element as anyone the show has ever featured. Macy managed to walk around the floor in time with the music when it came time for her "Viennese waltz," but that was about it. Carrie Ann called the performance "beautiful in its own bizarre way," which was clearly the strongest praise she could muster.
Model Joanna Krupa and past winner Derek Hough look like a great team when they're standing in line waiting for the show to start — so how do they look in motion? In spite of wearing what appear to be pants made from Big Bird pelts, Joanna looked good dancing. Hers was the first salsa that looked genuinely sexy (her model appearance, of course, doesn't hurt), and she definitely looks like a competitor to watch.
Last up was Louis van Amstel and Kelly Osbourne, who's a naturally sympathetic figure, given her wacky family and her obvious insecurities about her looks, weight, and whether she's got any sex appeal at all. In fact, Kelly explained that it was her eagerness to try something more feminine that led her to the show. Her natural fear that she'd be hopelessly clumsy did not come true at all: she turned out to have a lovely smile, plenty of grace, and much more natural ability than anyone (especially Kelly herself) expected. Looking like a likely fan favorite because she's both talented and an underdog of sorts, Kelly hugged her wildly excited and weepy famous parents and received very nice praise from the judges. It was an obviously genuine moment, and precisely the kind of thing that keeps people tuning in to the show.


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By: Tyne Morgan, Ag Day TV National Reporter
Rough Waters Still Ahead on the Mississippi River
Record Crop Could Mean Train Troubles This Fall
The Water Resources Development Act provides funding for U.S. waterways, including locks, dams and dredging.
As Congress finishes up work before its summer recess, the Water Resources Development Act (WRDA) remains on the table. WRDA is the legislation that provides funding for U.S. waterways, including locks and dams and dredging.
While the legislation could be taken up on the House floor this fall, the Senate passed their version in May. Debra Colbert, senior vice president of the Waterways Council, says the House has finished drafting its version of the bill, but she's yet to see the legislation.
"What the industry is pushing for is those process delivery reforms with the Corp of Engineers," says Colbert. "We're also calling for the removal of Olmsted and we're also calling for an increase in the user fee that we pay from the current 20 cent per gallon of diesel fuel that's burned on the system to between 26 and 29 cent per gallon."
Colbert says the Olmsted Project is in Kentucky and the Ohio River. It's aimed to establish a state-of-the-art lock-and-dam system. Funding was first put into place in the 1980s with an original price tag of $775 million. She says due to engineering issues and other complications, that price tag is now more like $3.2 billion and still not complete.
"We would like to see that Olmsted Project removed from: inland waterways trust fund, that only about 300 tow operators pay into , because if it's not removed, we'll never be able to finish any other projects on the system, and it could draw out until about 2090," says Colbert.
Currently, she says there are more than 25 locks and dams projects on a high priority maintenance list. Colbert says if funding for the Olmsted project continues in WRDA, then it will continue to eat away at the money available to fix the crumbing infrastructure system on U.S. waterways.
For Colbert, failure to pass WRDA means U.S. exports will be at stake.
"We hear daily about China's trillions of dollars in reinvestment and South America's investment," she says. "That gap will close, and we're starting to see it now."
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Somehow, upscale restaurateurs believe that diners will soon willingly pay more for a beef dish if it comes with disclosure of the DNA of the actual cow being eaten, according to a May Associated Press report. "People want to know where their food is coming from," said one excited chef, lauding the knowledge to be gleaned from a calf's upbringing. (A more practical beef-supply executive added that DNA can help identify the "multiple animals" whose parts were used in hunks of ground beef — a 10-pound package of which may include contributions from "hundreds" of different cows.)
Can't Possibly Be True
• It was not difficult to find critics when the Orlando-area government job-service engine Workforce Central Florida said it was spending more than $70,000 of federal stimulus money to help the laid-off by handing out 6,000 satiny capes for jobless "superheroes" to "fight" "Dr. Evil Unemployment." ("Absolutely absurd" was the reaction of a laid-off customer service representative.) Several critics interviewed by the Orlando Sentinel noted that such an awkward program further erodes the unemployed's fragile self-respect. WCF, though, remained convinced. In the words of a spokeswoman, "Everyone is a superhero in the fight against unemployment."
• Urban Legend Come to Life: Too-good-to-be-true stories have circulated for years about men who accidentally fell, posterior first, onto compressed-air nozzles and self-inflated to resemble "dough boys," usually with fatal results. However, in May in Opotiki, New Zealand, trucker Steven McCormack found himself in similar circumstances, and had it not been for quick-thinking colleagues who pulled him away, he would have been killed — as the air, puncturing a buttock, had already begun separating tissue from muscle. McCormack was hospitalized in severe pain, but the air gradually seeped from his body (according to a doctor, in the way air "usually" seeps from a body).
• Oops! Oswind David was convicted of "first-degree assault" in a 2006 trial in New York City, but unknown to him, his lawyer and the judge, the charge had already been dismissed by another judge due to prosecutorial error. Nonetheless, David has been in prison since his conviction, serving a 23-year term, and was freed only in May when the error came to light. (However, the New York City district attorney still resisted releasing David, arguing that only the "first-degree" part had been dismissed. A judge finally freed David on bail while prosecutors ponder reopening the case.)
• Parents were puzzled in June after Dry Creek School District in Roseville, Calif., passed out questionnaires asking for biographical details of prospective students, including whether or not the child has been delivered by C-section. Parents told Sacramento station KOVR-TV that school officials were refusing to explain why they wanted to know that.
News That Sounds Like a Joke
(1) Night club singer Simon Ledger was arrested following a performance at the Driftwood Beach Bar on Britain's Isle of Wight in April after a patron complained to police. Ledger was covering the 1974 hit "Kung Fu Fighting," and two customers of Chinese descent reported that they felt victims of illegal "racially aggravated harassment." (2) Leslie Clarke, 29, turned himself in to police in Darwin, Australia, in May after authorities released surveillance tape of a break-in and vandalism at the Hidden Valley Tavern. Clarke, a large man, confessed to going on a drunken prowl with friends, but said he remembered the break-in only when he saw the video and recognized his distinctive image from the back, including several inches of his butt crack.
(1) An April Associated Press story, citing federal government sources, reported that 247 people on the terrorist "watch list" were nonetheless legally permitted to purchase guns in 2010 — about the same number who did so legally in 2009. (2) In May, Oklahoma judge Susie Pritchett, receiving guilty pleas from a $31 drug-deal raid in 2010 that netted a mother and her two grown children, sentenced the mother and son to probation, but the 31-year-old daughter to 12 years in prison (just because the daughter showed "no … remorse").
Unclear on the Concept
In May, a federal appeals court reinstated the Americans with Disabilities Act lawsuit filed in 2007 by Darrell Miller after he was fired as a bridge maintenance worker by the Illinois Department of Transportation. Miller had been medically diagnosed with a fear of heights, and could not work on many projects, but a lower court dismissed his lawsuit, concluding that working at heights was an unavoidable condition of bridge maintenance. (The appeals court said that a jury "might" find that bridge maintenance could be done in "teams" with one worker always on the ground.)
The Redneck Chronicles
(1) Zachary Woody, 21, of Calhoun, Ga., was charged with aggravated assault in May after stabbing a friend. Allegedly, Woody had escalated what was initially just a fistfight over whether Fords are better than Chevrolets. (2) Joseph Hayes, 48, was arrested in South Memphis, Tenn., in June after allegedly threatening (with a gun in his waistband) the hostess of a birthday party to which his kids had been invited but which ran out of cake and ice cream. "Y'all didn't save my kids no damn ice cream and cake," he was heard to say, and "I ain't scared to go to jail."
People With Issues
Stanley Thornton Jr., 30, and his "nurse"-roommate, Sandra Dias, featured on a May edition of the TV show "Taboo" (National Geographic Channel), are both drawing federal Supplemental Security Income as disabled persons, even though Thornton builds his own "adult baby" furniture (cribs and high chairs large enough to accommodate his 350-pound body) and operates a website where people living as adult babies can communicate. U.S. Sen. Tom Coburn asked the Social Security Administration to investigate whether Thornton is abusing the system (and Dias, too, since if she can "nurse" Thornton, she can "nurse" for a living). Thornton subsequently told The Washington Times that if his SSI checks were discontinued, he would kill himself.
Lawrence Bottone, 52, of Stamford, Conn., served four years in prison in the late-1990s for his fondness for attracting and convincing teenage boys and young men to strip down to underwear and allow him to torture (and photograph) them — chaining them to his garage wall, whipping them and inserting stakes under their fingernails. In May 2011, police in Westchester County, N.Y., arrested Bottone for what appears to signal a return to his specialty but with an updated, 21st-century rationale: Now, according to police, he "recruits" young men to work at a fictitious "intelligence agency" — which requires Bottone to "train" them to withstand torture.
Brave Nude World
Nakedness Recently in the News: (1) Just after Clayton County, Ga., schoolteacher Harlan Porter was told his contract would not be renewed, he walked naked through the school hallways (no students were present) and spoke of a "newer level of enlightenment" now that his "third eye was open" (April). (2) After a clothing malfunction, veteran marathoner Brett Henderson, 35, decided during the Flying Pig race in Cincinnati that, since marathoners sometimes run naked in California, he could do it there. Henderson outran police and stopped only when he was Tasered (May).
A News of the Weird Classic (January 1994)
In December (1993), a New York appeals court rejected Edna Hobbs' lawsuit against the company that makes the device called The Clapper. Hobbs claimed she hurt her hands because she had to clap too hard in order to turn her appliances on: "I couldn't peel potatoes (when my hands hurt). I never ate so many baked potatoes in my life. I was in pain." However, the judge said Hobbs had merely failed to adjust the sensitivity controls.


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Rangers stay positive while injury woes mount
ARLINGTON -- With Jim Adduci the latest casualty Saturday, the Rangers now have 10 players on the disabled list -- the most in the Major Leagues. Yet they had managed a respectable 10-7 record entering Saturday. Manager Ron Washington praised the team's ability to piece together wins with a group of players who weren't expected to play key roles for the Rangers.
"Sometimes some teams get hit by these type of injuries," Washington said. "So far our depth has shown up and has been able to keep us moving forward. The organization and the players that are having to step into these situations deserve a lot of credit. We could be in that 'woe is us' situation, but we control our attitude and that's not our attitude."
Right now, the Rangers are without their expected starters at catcher (Geovany Soto), second base (Jurickson Profar) and third base (Adrian Beltre), plus two pitchers who figure to be in the starting rotation when they return (Matt Harrison and Derek Holland), and two pitchers who began the season in the rotation (Tanner Scheppers and Joe Saunders). Adduci, left-handed reliever Joseph Ortiz and outfielder Engel Beltre round out the extended disabled list for Texas.
As of Saturday, only five MLB teams had more than half as many players on the DL as the Rangers did, and no other team had more than seven players on the DL. Five of the Rangers' injured players are on the 60-day DL; the other five are on the 15-day DL.


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California's governing system is broken in part because it's centralized, but Sacramento doesn't want to devolve power.
As it happens, Sacramento professional basketball team, the Kings, is also a disaster on and off the field, but Sacramento won't let it go either.
Leading Sacramento citizens announced they are seeking to qualify a local referendum in the city of Anaheim -- 400 miles to the capital's south -- to block a bond package that the city council passed to bring the Kings there.
U.S. & World
This is not as strange as it may sound, but it is very California. Local initiative and referendum have often taken stadiums and the movement of sports teams as their subjects. And economic warfare between cities has often produced local ballot measure wars. What's puzzling is why anyone would want the Sacramento Kings, who have never made the National Basketball Association finals and have lost 30 more games than they've won this season.
Sacramento would seem to be better off without the Kings. And Anaheim already has two pro basketball teams in its TV market (OK, one pro team, the Lakers, and a hard-to-describe entity called the Los Angeles Clippers). Can't we all agree that the Sacramento Kings is one business that should move out of state?