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The novel (and subsequently movie) Jurassic Park featured a dinosaur called Dilophosaurus, that was purported to be venomous and had an ability similar to that of the extant spitting cobra. Unfortunately, the whole setup isn't real.
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The COSMOS ("cosmic evolution survey") Legacy Survey has assembled data from some of the world's most powerful telescopes spanning the electromagnetic spectrum. This image contains Chandra data from this survey, equivalent to about 4.6 million seconds of observing time. The colors in this image represent different levels of X-ray energy detected by Chandra. Here the lowest-energy X-rays are red, the medium band is green, and the highest-energy X-rays observed by Chandra are blue. Most of the colored dots in this image are black holes. Data from the Spitzer Space Telescope are shown in grey. The inset shows an artist's impression of a growing black hole in the center of a galaxy. A disk of material surrounding the black hole and a jet of outflowing material are also depicted.
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They detected 305 galaxies in their survey with black hole masses less than 300,000 solar masses. Observations with Chandra and with ESA's XMM-Newton of a small part of this sample show that about half of the 305 IMBH candidates are likely to be valid IMBHs. The masses for the ten sources detected with X-ray observations were determined to be between 40,000 and 300,000 times the mass of the Sun.
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A paper describing the COSMOS-Legacy result by Mar Mezcua (Institute for Space Sciences, Spain) and colleagues was published in the August issue of the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society and is available online. The paper by Igor Chilingarian (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics) on the closer IMBH sample is being published in the August 10th issue of The Astrophysical Journal and is available online.
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To Three or Not To Three?
I'm back over at Alamo City Moms Blog today talking about the dilemma in our house right now - To Three or Not To Three? Come on over and visit:
Monday, August 12, 2013
Target - Mommy's Secret Little Addiction
I'm over on Alamo City Moms Blog today talking about my Target obsession - head on over!
Sunday, August 4, 2013
Ffree Years Old!
You are a gentle soul - sweet and nurturing. You take my face in your hands and quietly say, "I love you Mommy. You're my sweet girl." You love your little brother and like to whisk him from room to room, "Come on little Cito. You're my little lovie."
Your shy to the outside world, cautious and careful. You analyze each situation before trusting that it is the right move. I can see your little brain at work, weighing all outcomes before you take each step. At home you are giggly, silly, and 100% three years old. You can be so funny! You spin and twirl, "Look at me Daddy! I'm spinnnnnnnning!"
You live in a little world of wonder. I hear you back in your room, lost in your thoughts and in full conversations with yourself. You will sing and dance, imagine and dream for hours on end.
Your little buddy T-Rex is still a must have and must be wrapped in Soft Blanket each night to sleep by your side. You are slowly turning from dinosaurs to princesses but a brachiosaurus or a diplodocus will still catch your eye. Sweet girl, you would spend hours lost in a pile of dress up clothes and accessories if I let you. You have a definite opinion about your fashion. Most days, you insist on wearing a "fancy dress" but you have your favorite Thomas "panties" underneath that fancy dress. And shoes? Most shoes these days, whether a flip-flip, a croc or a jelly, are "glass slippers" and your red Mary Jane is preferred over all others.
There are times I can catch a glimpse of you at 12, at 16, at 21, and I love who I see in your future. But for now, my sweet girl, stay in your world of fairies and dreams. Cling to your innocence and your three-year-old self. These days will be gone all too soon and they make your momma weepy.
I love you my little Squirrel! "Do you know how much I love you?"....."Soooooo much!" Happy 3rd to you Harper Meabon!
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- 肯定文動名詞の例文1. 英語フレーズ「~すること」
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I have been to Europe.
I have been working for 10 years
How long have you been studying Enlgish?
I am younger than you.
He is the smartest of three.
He is as tall as me.
You're a musician, aren't you?
He stopped to drink coffee.
I bought a book to study English.
I go to school to study English.
She stopped smoking.
I'm invited to the party by Tom.
I have a friend who is from U.S.A.
I know that girl whose name is Nancy.
He is the person whom I respect the most.
I have a book which is about Japanese history.
They are the people that want to buy our house.
This is what I wanted.
This is the park where I met her.
I still remember the day when I met her.
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At the start of his cross-examination, Jack McMahon greeted the prosecution's star witness with a slap upside the head.
"I'd appreciate it if you look at me when I talk," the defense lawyer admonished Jeffrey Walker.
McMahon, a flashy former prosecutor with a white mustache and a shaved head, then spent the next six hours pummeling the witness.
On the receiving end, Walker, a big bearded former narcotics cop who entered the courtroom wearing handcuffs and a drab green prison jumpsuit, seemed used to taking abuse.
"We know you were a thief, right?" McMahon asked the fallen cop that another defense lawyer has characterized to the jury as a train wreck.
"Yes, I was," Walker admitted.
"You're a thief and a historical liar," McMahon added.
"I lie," Walker admitted. "I continued my thievery until I was arrested."
On May 23, 2013, Walker got caught red-handed in an FBI sting operation planting cocaine on a drug dealer and helping himself to $15,000 of the dealer's money while undercover cameras were rolling. After he was arrested, Walker turned on six of his fellow former narcs, telling the feds that they used to routinely beat and rob drug dealers.
McMahon was the lead defense attorney in the campaign to discredit the prosecution's star witness. He certainly brought a lot of enthusiasm to the job The only problem for the defense is that Walker is such a forlorn sap who previously was the butt of jokes from the defendants that the jury might start feeling sorry for the guy.
Walker, of course, may be a thief, a liar and a sap, but the only thing that matters is whether the jury believes him.
McMahon started his demo job by going back to the beginning of Walker's career. The big guy who used to wear dreadlocks got started as a cop in 1989. Five years later, Walker admitted on the stand, while working as an officer in the 16th District, he stole money for the first time.
McMahon pointed out that Walker was a thief and a liar before he worked narcotics with the defendants, and he was a thief and a liar two years after he left the narcotics squad and got busted in the FBI sting.
Walker's defense was that he was a thief and liar before, during and after his time on the narcotics squad.
McMahon got Walker to admit that he's planted drugs on people so many times that he's lost count.
"Yes, and I did it with them too," Walker said pointing to the defendants.
That's not what I asked you, McMahon yelled at the witness.
McMahon also got Walker to admit that time after time he came into court and lied on the witness stand about the evidence he had planted on people.
"You would lie to a jury in a jury trial?" McMahon asked.
"Yes," Walker said.
And those lies resulted in innocent people going to jail, McMahon asked.
"At times yes," Walker admitted.
And what did you do with the money you stole from the drug dealers, the defense lawyer wanted to know. Did you spend it on "wine, women and song?"
"That's correct," Walker said. At another point in his testimony, Walker admitted, "The money I stole that was my play money."
McMahon went through Walker's statement to the FBI after he got busted in the sting operation.
"I knew when I went into that [drug dealer's] house, I crossed the line," Walker had told the feds.
McMahon read that quote out loud to the jury. And then he shouted at the witness, "You crossed it 25 years ago," the first time you stole money, the defense lawyer said. You lied to the FBI.
"It wasn't a con," Walker responded.
"You crossed that line a long, long, long time ago," McMahon said for emphasis.
"Yes, I did," Walker reluctantly agreed.
McMahon drew on Walker's direct testimony on Tuesday, where he told the prosecutor he stole from drug dealers because "I wanted money."
Here, Walker drew a line. He sang to the feds because he wanted to "save myself," Walker insisted.
"I'm willing to save myself from myself," he said, by finally telling the truth. "They were part of the truth," Walker said pointing to the defendants. In telling the truth, Walker said, he was trying "to save my soul."
"I was forced to see the truth in myself," he said.
McMahon, however, pointed out that with all the crimes Walker has confessed to, all the times he planted drugs on people and robbed drug dealers, he's not been charged for any of it.
"You've gotten a pass for all these crimes," McMahon told the witness.
Walker agreed, but said the cooperation agreement he signed with the government stipulated that he had to tell the truth this time on the witness stand.
"If I lie, I will be charged," Walker said. And if the feds throw the book at him for all the crimes he's committed, he could be in jail for life.
"I could never walk out of there," Walker told the jury.
McMahon brought up Walker's personal life, which includes a couple of failed marriages, depression, and a drinking problem.
Because of his personal problems, Walker admitted he was showing up drunk for work, and falling asleep on the job, including when he was on some surveillance operations.
Walker also had a weight problem that he solved by undergoing gastric bypass surgery. His fellow narcs, Walker testified, responded by making fun of him.
"They were making jokes about my life," Walker said of the defendants. "Only one person was supportive of me and that was [Linwood] Norman," who like Walker, is an African-American.
After Norman left the narcotics squad, "I was by myself," Walker said. "They forced me to work alone," he said of the defendants.
A low point was the day when Walker couldn't remember what he did with his service revolver.
"I misplaced my gun," he said. "My gun was in the car; I found it under a seat."
Walker testified about how he reacted to being ostracized by his fellow officers.
"I would do anything to get back in good graces with them," he said. That included lying to cover for his fellow officers.
On top of screwing up on the job and being ridiculed by his fellow officers, Walker testified, his boss, Sgt. Joe McCloskey, was mean to him.
"Every mistake I made he made it bigger than it was," Walker complained about his boss. "He was riding me."
The sergeant knew he had a drinking problem, Walker said. He knew Walker showed up drunk on the job and was carrying a gun. He should have gotten me some help, Walker complained. Instead, "He did nothing," Walker said about Sgt. McCloskey.
At one point, Walker said, his girlfriend urged him to seek counseling. Walker walked into one treatment facility but ended up splitting. His fellow officers were sent to his home. But Walker denied McMahon's suggestion that he had barricaded himself in the house.
"I was going through a lot of problems," Walker said. " I made a lot of mistakes."
McMahon asked about the narcs' method of putting a drug dealer "on ice."
Walker explained how that process applied to Robert Kushner, a white drug dealer they caught on Ridge Avenue driving his maroon Hummer. In the back of the Hummer Kushner had stashed a bag of money containing $30,000 and five pounds of marijuana.
"We put him on ice so he could think about what he was doing," Walker explained.
Kushner went to the Fifth District. Meanwhile, Officer Thomas Liciardello, who took Kushner's keys, then drove the Hummer with Walker in it over to Kushner's apartment on City Line Avenue. There, they ransacked the place and left with a safe with $80,000 inside.
It was Walker who carried the safe down 18 flights of stairs because Liciardello knew there were security cameras in the elevator, Walker told the jury.
"Tommy said take the safe," Walker testified. "I picked it up and carried it out. It was heavy."
In response to McMahon's questions, Walker explained to the jury how he dragged Kushner out of his car and thoroughly intimidated him.
"We scared him to death," Walker said. "I towered over him. I was screaming at him. He had no choice. You scare someone half to death they're gonna give something up."
McMahon took Walker to task for exaggerating stories about the narcs' exploits. The defense lawyer pointed out on one statement to the FBI, Walker had claimed that fellow narcotics officer Linwood Norman had hung a handcuffed drug dealer upside down by his feet over a balcony.
"I say a lot of things," Walker responded.
"I know you say a lot of things," McMahon shot back. "On that I agree with you."
Walker testified that he routinely didn't count the money he stole; a contention that McMahon seemed incredulous at.
"If it's a lot of money," Walker insisted, "I'm kind of lazy. I don't count it."
During his cross-examination, McMahon was accused by the prosecutors of frequently cutting off Walker's answers, talking over the witness and repeatedly asking the same questions.
Several times today, Judge Eduardo C. Robreno agreed, admonishing McMahon for yelling at the witness. The judge also repeatedly upheld the prosecution's objections to McMahon's cross examination, prompting quick apologies of questionable sincerity from the defense lawyer.
"Keep your voice down," the judge told McMahon. "We're not deaf."
The judge got angry about spectators snickering over McMahon's sarcastic remarks to Walker. During a break, the court clerk warned spectators that anyone seen laughing or making comments would be evicted from the courtroom.
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Hey little boy blues.Hold your drinks up high and toast to Tommy and the gang getting back out on the streets.It's just not safe out here on the streets without them..Lol even a rapist gets bail.That's the scumbag level this meatball was on.Not long before the wifey starts looking elsewhere.And Karma is a bitch.Maybe a nice and respectable drug dealer can start taking care of your woman for you.
ReplyDeleteReplies- SON OF SATINApril 16, 2015 at 8:54 AM
Delete - AnonymousApril 16, 2015 at 2:52 PM
AND THATS WHY no one feels bad for people like you, you belong in jail, where im sure you have been and im sure youll be again.
- AnonymousApril 15, 2015 at 10:48 PM
Walker was a crooked cop before being assigned to this unit and after he left this unit.
He has confessed to an innumerable amount of crimes. And yet, with all the crimes Walker has confessed to, he has not been charged with any crime. The cooperation agreement he signed with the government depends on how well he performs on the stand for the prosecution. If he lies and tells his version of events, the prosecution is going to reward him with a light sentence. So, of course he is going to lie to make the best deal for himself.
Here is a guy who was showing up drunk for work, and falling asleep on the job, including when he was on some surveillance operations. These guys ostracized him because he was a bad cop and was going to get them killed.
This is his only shot at revenge. I was terrorized byTom L,and his narcotic squad,he raided my two buildings, August 22nd 2009,I can tell you from experience these cops are dirty, and crazy, never in my life did I ever come across that craziness in a cop, there's more to the story, I spent a year in jail, my constitutional rights, there was none, Tom L was judge jury and executioner, I'm still messed up over it, how his supervisors, how judges down the courthouse didn't see it, and let him run around for 10 years, like Hitler's SS troops, until you get your constitutional rights trampled on when you talk to me,
ReplyDeleteReplies- AnonymousApril 16, 2015 at 6:56 AM
You were terrorized???? Oh you poor thing. You were a drug dealer. You tore families apart. You took children away from their parents. You left children without parents. You killed people. You are a despicable piece of scum. You have no problems when you are selling drugs. Cops take that away from you and its everyone elses fault but your own. Jeffrey Walker has the same criminal mentality. Its all fine and dandy when you haven't been caught but as soon as you do, its the judge's fault, its the officer's fault, its my co-workers fault etc. So sorry you are so messed up over spending a year in jail. I can just imagine how messed up that mother is who's son you sold drugs to.
Delete everything you said about me is true, I was hey scumbag drug dealer, tore families apart,Exedra Exedra Exedra, that's why the judge gave me 17 years, but I didn't do it with a badge, I was just a greedy scumbag,but I wasn't a hypocrite,I did A year in jail, but I was facing 25 years if I would have been convictedI went on trial, Tommy and the boys, crooked cops testified against me, the judge said there was no evidence!!!, it got thrown out at trial, there was no evidence I did anything wrong, no probable cause, Tommy sat on the stand he thought I was selling drugs, the judge as Tommy, if he thought he had him up, the judge was outraged!, I thought I was going away for 25 years, until it happens to you sweetheart, then we can talk
I was terrorized byTom L,and his narcotic squad,he raided my two buildings, August 22nd 2009,I can tell you from experience these cops are dirty, and crazy, never in my life did I ever come across that craziness in a cop, there's more to the story, I spent a year in jail, my constitutional rights, there was none, Tom L was judge jury and executioner, I'm still messed up over it, how his supervisors, how judges down the courthouse didn't see it, and let him run around for 10 years, like Hitler's SS troops, until you get your constitutional rights trampled on when you talk to me,
ReplyDeleteReplies- AnonymousApril 16, 2015 at 5:04 AM
Billy C and JG grow up and take responsibility for your choices in life instead of counting on a lying piece of shit like use 2. I WAS VIOLATED you 2 little Cunt got caught and are looking for a deal frim the only guy who is dirty out of these 6 cops.
- Set Them FreeApril 16, 2015 at 4:55 AM
U were busted for selling drugs u idiots and want to skate on a admitted drunken lying robbing dirty cop planting drugs and geting caught then blaming others for his misfortunes because he got caught instead of taking responsibility for his actions. Looking for a get out of Jail free card so he turns on his unit. U idiots really believe the Jury doesnt see he.s lying if so i have a bridge to sell you on the river.
NOT GUILTY U DRUG DEALING PIECES OF SHIT. They did.nt believe him and sure as hell did.nt believe use. - AnonymousApril 16, 2015 at 5:56 AM
You must be a cop since you wanna defend these crumbs they are guilty an thats what the verdict is gonna be. They are suppose to serve an protect not rob. Lie . An abuse people cause they wanna live a better life you dont know anything.
ReplyDelete - AnonymousApril 16, 2015 at 7:07 AM
I was in the courtroom yesterday. Jeffrey Walker testified that "he went and got the tools to break open the safe." When asked by Jack McMahon where he got the tools from, Jeff's reply.."I don't remember." Jeff doesn't remember because the Feds forgot to tell him that part of the story. There were so many instances of this that went on that there is no way a jury isn't catching on that his entire testimony was fed to him.
ReplyDelete - AnonymousApril 16, 2015 at 8:20 AM
A jury will never be able to give a guilty verdict after his testimony yesterday. He was caught in so many lies. He also contradicting so much of what other witnesses have already said. The goverment also was caught yet again yesterday. McMahon read an excerpt from the grand jury report where Walker testifies to them that they all entered the property without a search warrant. Then McMahon puts a copy up of the search warrant for the judge and jury to see. The feds, once again, were caught showing that they put liars in front of a grand jury without ever checking to see if their statements were true.
ReplyDelete - AnonymousApril 16, 2015 at 9:34 AM
I am inside News Media. The Pro Ex Narc writers on this page are more then misleading, even in their opinion, they are wrong. However, every opinion on this page has Freedom of Speech and thus-Supports and Protects our Constitutional Amendments. I do not support Those Officers on Federal Trial and its is also not my job by far to Convict them. And in my opinion only, all of these Ex Narcotic officers will be found guilty of most of the 22 count indictment if not all of the counts. The Federal Courts have proven beyond reasonable doubt that Those six officers have committed some sorts of criminal acts, and the defense attorneys just have not done enough to prove Those ex officers did not. Also, this jury was allowed to hear all the Civil Rights Violations in this case already and in my Opinion(and in many of my co workers opinions), the jury will view this case as "IF ANY OFFICER OF THE LAW WOULD WILLING VIOLATE THE CONSTITUTION OF ANY AMERICAN, THEN IT WOULD BE THAT MUCH MORE EASIER FOR THEM TO BREAK COMMON LAW".
ReplyDeleteReplies- AnonymousApril 16, 2015 at 9:49 AM
And this statement above is exactly why no one can believe the media and we are told time and time again that the media gives the public the "facts" they think will sound good. You have just proven that point. You just stated that the "defense attorneys just have not done enought to prove Those ex officers did not". The defense has not even put on their case yet!!!!! You are a complete idiot and s disgrace to your profession.
Delete - AnonymousApril 16, 2015 at 9:53 AM
Inside news media does not write the shit you just wrote. Please get a life.
Delete - AnonymousApril 16, 2015 at 10:02 AM
If you are inside news media how come you have not reported that Officer Speiser is not mentioned at all in discovery and was never fingered by Walker? REPLACED Walker, didn't work with him. He's basically a side bar in this whole trial. Not accused of planting evidence, beating people, etc, etc. Indicted for falsifying documents, but no witnesses, not one who pointed a finger at him.
Delete - AnonymousApril 16, 2015 at 11:19 AM
Please let us know your "inside news media" opinion again in 7 weeks LOL
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- AnonymousApril 16, 2015 at 11:33 AM
No. Its just by chance i have worked for several News Media covering this Story on Corruption in the Phila. Police dept. I also have several years working in the Pa. Judicial system processing Violations and claims against the City of Phila. in of itself.
I have also worked with Politicians in Harrisburg to Amend and Revise Our Constitution and the State Rules, as far as how they are applied. These officers on trial have in my opinion- Have been Granted a Fair Trial. And again, I believe they have nothing to offer in terms of their own individual defense (despite all of them acting as one sole group), with the amount of evidence piled up against them. "If they continue to climb this mountain ( at best) they will barely survive the Avalanche(sure to come yet)...and this will be the only solitary reason these officers are sentenced to 40 years plus but not Life in prison. - AnonymousApril 16, 2015 at 1:55 PM
40 years plus is a death sentence in prison given their ages. Solitary confinement in a Supermax prison will be the safest place in prison for them.
- AnonymousApril 16, 2015 at 11:10 AM
Makr them and they fammly pay like theyy did us. Let theh kids get scared and let they wifes of husband get tossed around. They familyy sjould go to jaila along time with the six copsss on trial Guiltttyyyy all the way and they familyb shuld go down and to jail too and the kids should go to jail with dad.
ReplyDeleteReplies- AnonymousApril 16, 2015 at 12:43 PM
You should probably try the drug trade , because apparently you didn't pay attention in school. Maybe you can be a taste tester for Oxy Contin, and let see if you top the other clown and maybe eat 12 a day.
- AnonymousApril 16, 2015 at 11:49 AM
The feds told Walker to say he didn't count any of his money. How else could they explain the discprencies that Walker said he stole and the drug dealers said they had stolen. If its a lie, you always have to get your stories straight. Pretty sad that they think a jury is gonna believe someone isn't counting their money.
ReplyDelete back in the 1990'S I received a 17-year federal prison sentencein in front of James T Giles, a federal judge, I almost passed out, but I know first hand about that building, I also was a drug dealer like the crooked cops, and a thief, just like Tommy L and his crew of crooked cops,I got locked up by honest cops, just doing their job, there is nobody going to sell drugs and stealing this city and not get caught, it took me to learn the hard way, and I came across a lot of crazy people in my life, but Tommy L and his crooked cops, where the scariest people I came acrossed, my constitutional rights with trashed, because I used to be a big drug dealer, I did my time got out, got a job, and never was I ever going to break the law again, until Tommy L and his gang showed up, he terrorized me, knowing that I had nobody to go to that would listen to me, because I was an ex-con, I did not understand what was happening, tommy said he was going to get me a life sentence,if I did not give in to his demands, it reminded me of the Jews in Germany during the Second World War, which my father fought in, and was wounded, fighting for our constitutional rights, I have more on my resume, what you people think that these cops are innocent, you know that ain't true deep down, where was Tommy's wife, coming home from a shift with thousands of dollars, jewelry, and drugs, that he stole from drug dealers,do you think the wife said where you getting all the money and drugs and jewelry, the families had to know,I started to think my father fought in World War 2 for nothing, let someone with a badge go around every day and violate the constitutional rights of Americans, if someone breaks the law lock them up, like I got locked up and did 17 years, but don't steal because you got a badge, how hard was that, more on my resume if you want to know
ReplyDeleteReplies- AnonymousApril 16, 2015 at 3:07 PM
so let me get this straight, "honest police officers" arrested you in the 90's and you did 17 years...then these guys just found you..but you were living an "honest" "stand-up" life. they made you give in to their "demands"? and if you didnt you would end up with a life sentence ? and all because17 years prior you were a big drug dealer? thats a long time my friend for cops to remember you and then find you, even a long time for other people to remember your name to send them to you if you were just living an honest, clean life once you got out. Sounds as believable as Jeff Walker "not remembering" where he got the tools to break in to a safe. ( aka the feds didnt tell him where he got the tools) or that he never counted the money he stole because "if it was alot he was to lazy" ( weird, he could have been a millionaire and never even known it) that or he doesnt know how much the drug dealers said they took so if he gave a different amount the numbers wouldnt match up. i hope that you did learn a lesson from doing that much time in prison, but something tells me if cops know you SEVENTEEN YEARS after the fact that your not working 9-5 going to happy hour with your colleges and then home to your wife and kids.
Delete responding to you, I got a 17 year federal sentence, on my 10th year I won an appeal, and I got out after 10 years, yesTommy L knew me as being a big time drug dealer,and yes I thought I was in a Stephen King horror movie, because I could not make any sense of it, that I was not selling drugs, and I was being threatened with a life sentence with a phony arrest by him, I am not making this up, this actually happened to me, I could not figure out his motiveto give me a life sentence I knew the other motive was moneybut the frustrating was I was broke !why is it so hard to believe that they do these things, and the crooked cops did it to me,at the time I did not understand it myself, the feds do not investigate you, unless you're doing something wrong! That's why the feds were watching that crew of crooked cops, they don't look at innocent people,
Delete- AnonymousApril 16, 2015 at 9:38 PM
ohhh the good old goodwin brothers! YOU took a deal with the feds and gave up your own family and then continued to make and sell Meth even after you got off on a plea deal, even after you had already served time in prison prior to all of that. BUT this time after serving ten years you cleaned up your act- live a clean life style, surround your self with nice people ( not the K&A gang anymore right??), i guess Tom L must have been just at home googling "drug dealers that have recently been released from prison" and found your address ( wink wink ) or maybe you still surrounded your self with the same criminals that you did your whole life? maybe? so although i will give it to you, you sound well educated for a highschool drop out...stop trolling this site to give your boo whoo story of how your rights were violated and your dad fought in the war for those rights and yada yada yada your whole family are criminals and in to drugs to.this.day, and out of respect in general i wont go into that.
- AnonymousApril 16, 2015 at 1:33 PM
John G..or whoever you are..blow me with your resume. Maybe you should have thought of the kids who's lives you ruined with your poison. Cry me a fuckin river with your bullshit...you are part of the problem not the solution
ReplyDeleteRepliesit's the greed that gets us! it's the greed that gets us caught,it's the greed that got the crooked cops caught, I'm not crying, I'm being truthful, there's no difference between me and Tommy L and his crooked gang with a badge,then x cops didn't do that to protectand serve, they did it for the money, greed ,get you all the time,,! I say a prayer for Tommy and the boys, because I know what's in store for them in their future, and I wouldn't wish that on my worst enemy, I will say a prayer for them
Delete- AnonymousApril 16, 2015 at 2:58 PM
Heck with a prayer for them(above). Let them rot and burn in hell all six of them cops. They are cursed a thousand times over!!!! In the end God will be the one and only on one to forgive them im sure. And let they wives and children pay the sins of they fathers(the 6 ex cops) so that they understand too that reaping the rewards of they crooked dads is not right and so they must suffer too!!!! No one has sympathy for dirty cops....no one One!!!!
Delete - AnonymousApril 16, 2015 at 6:35 PM
Mr. Goodwin...didnt you have meth in your house on Frankford Ave? Yeah..you were living the straight and narrow life. Lies will get you too.
Delete you would have to ask Tommy L. how it got there, he was holding true to his promise, with a fake search warrant then 4 months later a fake one for my arrest, with no effing evidence!! They playing is it there, I don't expect you to believe it, 3 people know the truth me Tommy L and God, I know the truth he planted them drugs there I was working at the time, and the judge seems to think so too, it was the worst comes the judge scene as far as someone's rights being trampled on,
DeleteI don't hide behind anonymous names, I give you my real name and tell the truth, when the crooked cops get found guilty,the government will give them a chance to cooperate on other cops or people, so they don't get a big sentence sentence, that'show the feds work,and then don't start the forfeiture, taking everythingthat is not nailed down,
DeleteI don't hide behind anonymous names, I give you my real name and tell the truth, when the crooked cops get found guilty,the government will give them a chance to cooperate on other cops or people, so they don't get a big sentence sentence, that'show the feds work,and then don't start the forfeiture, taking everythingthat is not nailed down,
Delete- AnonymousApril 16, 2015 at 10:35 PM
John G. Let these friends of these dirty narcs talk shit. In the end when they are proven wrong and their boys the six Aholes ex narcs get sent up the river....they will cry that the cops got railroaded and they will get back on appeals(not!). F them their opinions dont mean shit. When one of the ex dirty narcs buys his daughter all these lavish gifts for christ sake shes only 15yrs old! Then the other Ahole ex narc gives his kid sports gear only pros can afford wtf...idiot! Now the wife of the stupidist ex narc Tom L. HAD ALL THAT MONEY SAVED AND HAD TO GIVE IT ALL BACK TO THE LAWYER MISTER JACK ASS....LOL He took that cash fast as can be. Wtf he truly care about a dirty cop...shit....his defended criminals dope dealers and even murderers his entire career. And as for the Nut Norman ex dirty fag cop....stop telling family members your thinking suicide. Your black brother! It a make your transition to homo in prison alittle easier.
Delete you would have to ask Tommy L. how it got there, he was holding true to his promise, with a fake search warrant then 4 months later a fake one for my arrest, with no effing evidence!! They playing is it there, I don't expect you to believe it, 3 people know the truth me Tommy L and God, I know the truth he planted them drugs there I was working at the time, and the judge seems to think so too, it was the worst comes the judge scene as far as someone's rights being trampled on,
Deleteit's the greed that gets us! it's the greed that gets us caught,it's the greed that got the crooked cops caught, I'm not crying, I'm being truthful, there's no difference between me and Tommy L and his crooked gang with a badge,then x cops didn't do that to protectand serve, they did it for the money, greed ,get you all the time,,! I say a prayer for Tommy and the boys, because I know what's in store for them in their future, and I wouldn't wish that on my worst enemy, I will say a prayer for them
- AnonymousApril 17, 2015 at 11:46 AM
Things happened to me with these cops on trial but fuck it. I won some and lost some and thats how it is when in the streets dealing. I didnt rat didnt need to and they tried hard to get me too. But i dont wish this shit on these cops family and kids. Nah...they had nothing to do with what went on with these cops. But the cops will either beat or lose they case and to me it dont matter either way!
ReplyDelete - AnonymousApril 17, 2015 at 4:26 PM
John Goodwin please go back to school and get some education please. You can't spell or even form a sentence properly and you post the same comment 4 and 5 times. I wonder why you turned to selling drugs to make a living, you are a damn dope, listen to yourself. If you weren't selling drugs, they would of never had you on their radar to begin with, they just don't grab a name out of the air and say lets go set him up. I'm sure you wouldn't want someone selling drugs to your kids or grandkids, I have no mercy on drug dealers or drug users and I have the upmost respect for the PPD. Keep in mind people who do wrong in life usually don't like cops like yourself, and there is no way in hell any jury will come back with a guilty verdict listening to all these half ass stories that keep changing on a daily basis, its more then ridiculous at this point. If I was you I would stay off the internet and thank god your not still in prison
ReplyDelete - AnonymousApril 17, 2015 at 5:39 PM
Yo Anonymous 2.58 what does somones kid have to do with anything. May be just Maybe its time for THERAPYYYYY! !!!!!""""""""
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Obituary: John T. Hannaford
John T. Hannaford, of Berthoud passed away at his home on December 13, 2011. He was 62 years old. Born on May 7, 1949 in Greenwich, Connecticut to Harold and Delores Hannaford, he was raised in southern California in the greater Los Angeles area where he graduated high school. John moved to northern Colorado in the late 80's and has resided in Berthoud. He is survived by two children: son Jesse Hannaford of Soap Lake, Washington; daughter Sarah Jane Hannaford of Portland, Oregon; sister and ... Full Story


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Deal or no deal? The role of emotions in negotiating offers
We all negotiate compromises every day, but it often seems that certain people always get their way. Do these skilled negotiators simply go with their gut instinct every time or are they just extremely calculating, figuring out all possible outcomes before settling on the best option? Behavioral studies have shown that emotions play an important role in decision making. However, it was not known to what extent our negotiating skills depend on our emotions. Columbia University scientists Andrew Stephen and Michel Tuan Pham decided to explore the interplay of emotion and reason in everyday deal-making. They designed a series of laboratory experiments to see if people who trust their feelings (and those who do not) handle themselves differently in the art of negotiation.
In this study, they used a classic negotiation game called the "ultimatum game." In the ultimatum game, one person (the "proposer") has a given amount of cash, which he is told to divide with a second person any way he likes. The catch is that the second person must either accept the offer or reject it entirely, no negotiation allowed. If he rejects it, both players walk away with nothing.
To test how emotions influence deal-making (or in some cases, deal-breaking!), the researchers manipulated how much participants trusted their feelings before they played a series of ultimatum games for real money. They asked some of the participants to think of two occasions in their past when trusting their feelings to make decisions resulted in good outcomes. People generally find it easy to think of two such occasions, giving participants greater confidence in trusting their own emotions while making decisions. Other participants were told to think of 10 occasions when trusting their feelings to make decisions resulted in poor outcomesâ€"this made participants wary of trusting their feelings. Then all the participants played a computerized version of the ultimatum game, in the role of "proposer."
The results, as reported in the October issue of the journal Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, were intriguing. The participants who were more confident in following their emotions offered somewhat less money than the others. This is because they were more focused on the "gist" of the offer itself (and what felt good), rather than on estimating the other player's possible reaction and calculating the probabilities of payoff. In short, the immediacy of the offer trumped the more complicated calculation.
When the researchers tried two other variations of the ultimatum game (one with more room for negotiation and one with less), they found similar results. When the participants were primed to trust their emotions, they saw the transaction as simpler and cleaner — rather than complex, abstract and cognitively demanding. The researchers believe that emotional negotiators actually have an easier time visualizing the offer itself: They picture themselves offering someone $20 from their $50 pot and it feels "okay."
"We believe that when proposers rely on their feelings, the relative power implied by the rules of the game is central to their gist representation of the negotiation, and this representation shapes whether offers 'feel right' to them," the authors stated.
Interestingly, the negotiators who were guided by their emotions did not fare worse than the others financially. Indeed, they ended up with at least as much, and often more, than their more calculating counterparts, suggesting that emotional decision making may not only be simpler, but may also be more lucrative.
Source: Association for Psychological Science
Other sources
- Deal Or No Deal? The Role Of Emotions In Negotiating Offersfrom Science DailyThu, 16 Oct 2008, 6:21:30 UTC
- Deal or no deal? The role of emotions in negotiating offersfrom PhysorgWed, 15 Oct 2008, 15:07:27 UTC


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"This book describes a serious look at defending the planet in the event of an extra-terrestrial invasion. Travis Taylor, et al, have written the definitive book on the defense of earth against a potential alien incursion. Whatever your beliefs on the subject...the book also serves as an important primer on the potential future of warfare on every level. It is tightly grounded in current day realities of war and extrapolates thoughtfully but closely about future potentials. It should be on the reading list of anyone who is serious about national security and the future of war."The authors believe that there is a "high probability" that one or two intelligent alien species visit Earth every century. They also reject Carl Sagan's famous assertion that advanced space-faring civs have by necessity (i.e. selectional processes) advanced beyond the need for war. "It's a wonderful idea that has no basis in reality," claims Taylor.
Consequently, they feel that the world, or more specifically "America," needs to be on the ready. They advocate asymmetric warfare to combat the extraterrestrials. The authors argue that the likely technological imbalance would force defending forces to adopt guerrilla-like tactics -- warfare along the lines of what is currently being experienced by troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. "[I]if we were attacked by aliens, this is our best defense," writes Taylor.
Post-Singularity warfare
There is so much wrong with all this that I don't know where to begin. Their line of argumentation seems to belong in the 20th century.
The idea of the United States defending the planet with guerrilla tactics reminds me of one of the most absurd films of all-time, Independence Day. In this movie, America experiences a supreme ass kicking until the alien invaders are thwarted by the Fresh Prince and his Apple Newton (remember those?).
Okay, time for a 21st century reality check. And let me put it this way: setting aside hand-waving dismissals of the Fermi Paradox (and that's a BIG caveat), if an advanced space-faring intelligence were to arrive at Earth with hostile intentions, their attack would be over before we could say, "E.T. phone home."
Specifically, I'm imagining a post-Singularity machine intelligence with access to artificial superintelligence, advanced robotics, genetically designed phages, and Drexlerian nanotechnology (if not femtotechnology). It would be like the Terminator and Matrix worlds on steroids. And that's if they want a planet to recover; the use of anti-matter weapons would make quick work of our planet should they want to destroy it. Alternately they could set the atmosphere aflame using grey-goo nano. Or how about robotic locust swarms, autonomous hunter-killers, and neurowarfare?
Moreover, malevolent ETIs wouldn't even need to visit the Earth -- they could send their forces by proxy in the form of Von Neumann probes, or what has also been dubbed berserker probes. These are self-replicating space-craft that could conceivably reproduce and travel across the Galaxy at an exponential rate. These devices could carry a number of nasty weapons with them for their attack.
As an aside, the theoretical prospect of berserkers poses a conundrum that's related to the Fermi Paradox. Any malevolent or misguided advanced intelligence could spawn a fleet of these probes to sterilize the Galaxy in fairly short order. That said, we clearly don't live in a sterile Galaxy as witnessed by our ongoing existence. We appear to live in a Galaxy that's devoid of berserkers for non-obvious reasons.
So, my advice on preparing for an alien invasion?
Simple: don't bother -- you won't even know what hit you.


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In a fitness industry driven by competition and aesthetics, Erwan Le Corre is a beacon of light. His school of natural movement celebrates Nature – both within us and around us.
As millions of feet pound millions of treadmills in air-conditioned gyms the world over, one man in the wilds of New Mexico is quietly starting a natural fitness revolution.
Le Corre is a 40-year-old French athlete who believes that human beings cannot be happy unless they move and that this movement must not only be completely natural but must take place in the natural environment.
He wants to reawaken what he calls our 'True Nature'. And his school of physical education, MovNat, was set up to show people how to move with healthy posture, just as an animal or a child does. The programme also urges participants to immerse themselves in greenery, whether it be the silent wilds of a remote mountain or the busy hub of an urban park.
To watch Le Corre himself moving over the landscape – always barefoot – is to glimpse our species (Homo sapiens) in its glorious natural form: supremely athletic and really interacting in a physical way with Nature. He lifts rocks, clambers up trees and covers the terrain at pace, all the time retaining good posture. It is a picture of total freedom.
Le Corre prefers the word 'movement' to the word 'exercise'. "Moving in Nature is not a health campaign," he says. "It's an instinctive physical, mental and spiritual drive." With a smile, he asks: "What is the best fitness regime for a tiger?" In other words, he is not selling anything new here; there's no flashy science, no workout gimmick. Instead, the idea of moving in Nature simply reflects how we are meant to 'get fit'. It is, he says, "an expression of who we truly are". And in a world that more usually celebrates fitness only as a route to looking good, staying slim and – as the London Olympics approach – winning and conquering, this attitude of Le Corre's is a breath of fresh air.
He was brought up in the leafy outskirts of Paris by a father who believed we should have contact with Nature and grow strong within it: "Having his children moving in Nature and toughening up physically and mentally in the process was an educational priority for him," says Le Corre, "as important as learning to read and write."
When he was a teenager, Le Corre excelled in sports such as karate, but none of it felt quite right. He became cross when he didn't win. This all changed when, at the age of 19, he joined a group practising a form of street running called Combat Vital. Under cover of darkness they would scale the bridges of Paris, swim in the Seine, run barefoot through the streets and jump over the rooftops like cats.
He went on to partake in sports such as Olympic weightlifting, long-distance triathlon and jiu-jitsu, before stumbling across a dusty copy of Méthode naturelle when he was 33. This is a manual written in 1912 that illustrates how humans can hone natural motion skills to strengthen and avoid injury.
It matched everything Le Corre had been taught as a child and as a street runner. He decided to create a modern school based upon it. It would be a system of re-education, freeing the body via its true dexterity, in its natural environment and without competitive motive. In 2008 MovNat was born.
Le Corre is now based in the United States, but his instructors travel all over the world. Pupils (of varying abilities and ages) are shown how their bodies are supposed to move. For example, in order to rest, land or pick something up, natural movers will squat – the position enables relaxation and good posture during motion, which prevents injury. Toddlers squat, but after years of sitting and bending over, adults forget.
Such postures are then used to move through the wild. Whereas once he used Paris as his obstacle course, Le Corre now free runs in Nature, bear crawling (moving on all fours) over rocks, jumping streams, scaling trees, lifting logs and swimming in deep blue river pools. This is his outdoor gym and a glorious rejection of the regular air-conditioned gyms, which block out the natural environment and promote the use of machines that are, he says, actually bad for the body.
Unhelpful gym equipment is just one part of what Le Corre likes to call 'the zoo' (after Desmond Morris labelled cities 'human zoos'). "We have domesticated ourselves," he says, "and live divorced from the Nature within us and around us, trading freedom for false comforts."
Le Corre defines his hell as being stuck somewhere he couldn't move his body, without fresh air and sunlight, such as an office cubicle. His bliss is deep-sea diving and he describes the ocean as a natural cathedral.
Other natural movement schools, such as Wildfitness and Exuberant Animal, are joining Le Corre in his quest to satisfy the howl for the wild that lies latent in human limbs. His ultimate vision is to establish MovNat as a physical education model in schools. He wants children to be shown what his father taught him all those years ago – to move as the animals they are, freely, with joy, flexibility and strength, and to do it outdoors, in Nature, where we are all meant to be.
For more information about Erwan Le Corre's work visit www.movnat.com
MovNat Trainer Certification Workshop in London, UK, October 5th to 7th 2012: The MovNat Trainer Certification Workshop is aimed at those with a passion to share natural human movement and improve the health and well-being of others. The 3 day workshop is designed to provide participants with both an introduction to MovNat as well as all of the necessary teaching tools and fundamental movement principles to become a MovNat Trainer and successfully teach MovNat to any and all, regardless of their entry level of fitness, age and gender.
For more information: www.MovNat.com


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Busy Night at the 3rd Street Promenade Information Table
A few days ago, a group of dedicated counterjihadists manned a booth on a public promenade on the first day of Ramadan. Are you wondering how it went? Here's a report by Louis Palme:
Saturday night was one of the busiest nights ever for the Counter-Jihad Coalition on the Santa Monica (California) pedestrian mall known as the Third Street Promenade. Volunteers were able to educate the public about the threat of Islamic terrorism at home and abroad and about how the creeping imposition of Islamic Sharia Law on Muslims as well as non-Muslims is a threat to our basic Constitutional guarantees. Over 200 pamphlets were handed out.
Many who stopped at our table wanted more information about ISIS (the Islamic State of Iraq and Sham) and the Islamic terrorism occurring right now in Iraq. They seemed to be much more aware of these new developments than any previous Islamic terrorist outrages such as the Boston Marathon bombing with 267 casualties and the "Soldier of Allah" Nidal Hasan "workplace violence" that left 13 dead and another 30 injured.
The sign on our table and the cover for the principal handout tied the World Cup Soccer events with the terrorist organization ISIS using severed heads for soccer balls. It really got people's attention. We have also begun to keep a tally of the annual Ramadan Bombathon, using graphics and data from TheReligionofPeace.com website. Last year, fasting Muslims managed to pull off 310 terror attacks causing 4,700 casualties around the globe in just one month. This year the prospects are even more horrific.
Over time the Counter-Jihad Coalition has developed a number of hard-hitting, factual brochures to help explain why the Islamist agenda and the norms of Sharia Law have no place in 21st Century America. Here is a sampling of some of the titles:
- An African-American Muslim is a Slave to a Racist Ideology
- Is It "Un-Christian" to Speak Out About Islam?
- Islam in a Nutshell
- Muslim Brotherhood in a Nutshell
- Sharia Law for Dummies
- The Three Stages of Jihad
- Violence in Islam
- What does Mohammed Say About Taking Non-Muslims As Friends?
- Women Who Marry Into Islam May be Required to Abandon All Their Natural Rights
We also had a bit of competition — a rival Muslim table manned by bearded men wearing thobes and one woman in a full abaya. They were handing out shop-worn pamphlets obtained from www.whyislam.org, an operation managed by the ICNA (Islamic Circle of North America, an affiliate of the Muslim Brotherhood). At least two of the Muslims were new converts to Islam, and they actually knew very little about the Quran. We suspect their dawah service was part of their induction program.
We thanked them for wearing long beards and dressing up like the most notorious Muslim terrorists known in the U.S., namely, Osama bin Laden and Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. It just makes our message so much more credible.
For the next engagement at the Promenade, the Counter-Jihad Coalition is preparing a list of questions in response to their invitation to "Ask a Muslim." The list has grown to over 50 Islamic imponderables. Here are just a few:
1. If the Quran is truly the word of Allah, why would asking questions about it cause you to lose faith? (See Surah 5:101-102)
2. If Allah leads people astray, is it "justice" that Allah should then punish them for that? (See Surahs 5:41, 7:155, 14:4, 16:53, and 6:149)
3. If Satan cannot harm anyone except with Allah's permission, doesn't that mean that all harm that comes to a person is Allah's will? (See Surah 58:10)
4. If Jesus is to return on Judgment Day to judge mankind (per Surah 43:61 and Bukhari, Vol. 4, No. 657), wouldn't it be better to follow the teachings of Jesus rather than the teachings of Muhammad and the Quran (which contains no teachings of Jesus)?
5. If Jesus had no sin (See Surah 3:35-36 and Bukhari, Vol. 4, No. 641) and if Muhammad had many sins (See Surah 47:19 and Bukhari Vol. 8, No. 319), why is Muhammad considered the "good example" (Surah 33:21) and emulated in preference to Jesus?
6. Is it true that Allah caused a man and his donkey to die, and then after 100 years he restored them exactly as they were the day they died? (See Surah 2:259)
7. Is it true that Adam (the first man) was 60 cubits (or about 90 feet) tall? (See Bukhari, Vol. 4, No. 543 )
8. Is it true that the earth is stationary and the sun goes down below the horizon into a murky pond? (See Surah 18:86)
9. Is it true that if you sleep during prayer time, Satan will urinate in your ears? (See Bukhari Vol. 2, No. 245)
10. Is it true that Muhammad was unsure of his own salvation on Judgment Day? (See Bukhari, Vol. 5, No. 266)
The Counter-Jihad Coalition can always use more volunteers who are somewhat knowledgeable about Islam, the Quran, and Sharia Law. Sometimes the debates with the public get lively, but our community is in dire need of straight talk about the ideology and practices of Islam. Contact our email address for more information.


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Jennifer Hayes had always wanted a child. And like many other American women, Hayes figured she would have at least one by the time she reached her early 30s. But when she hit her 34th birthday in 2009, she was unmarried, childless, and spending long hours battling to keep her Telluride restaurant business afloat amid the recession. "I had a baby shower to go to every other weekend, and I felt like the only person in my world who wasn't married," Hayes says. "I was really, really tired of worrying about my biological clock."
Not too long thereafter, Hayes learned that there might be a way to silence the ticking. A friend who, at the age of 40, was undergoing in vitro fertilization (IVF) at a Denver clinic told Hayes about a new procedure designed to preserve women's fertility. She urged Hayes to look into it. Do anything you can, she said, to avoid the stressful and costly multiple IVF rounds she and her husband were experiencing.
The following year, Hayes traveled from Telluride to the Colorado Center for Reproductive Medicine (CCRM) in Lone Tree. It was there that Hayes decided to move forward with something called oocyte cryopreservation. Within six weeks, the now 37-year-old had 19 eggs cradled in a cryogenic tank, indefinitely suspended in time.
Like Jennifer Hayes, more and more Americans are waiting longer and longer to marry and start families. In fact, the median age for an American woman to get married for the first time is 26—up from 22 in 1980—and the average age at which she has her first child has risen to 25 from 21 in 1970. Those statistics mean that some American women are seriously pushing the outer limits of normal human fertility.
As such, women are turning to technology to nudge those boundaries outward. The emerging field of oocyte cryopreservation—or egg freezing—is one of the newest methods through which women are hoping to preserve their ability to have a biological child beyond what are considered typical child-bearing years.
Scientists began freezing embryos in the '80s, but unfertilized eggs, which contain large amounts of liquid prone to viability-destroying crystallization, proved trickier. In 2004, embryologists began experimenting with a new flash-freezing method called vitrification that yielded better results. In the past three years, peer-reviewed studies have illustrated a dramatic change: Before 2007, fewer than a dozen live births from frozen eggs were reported; since then, more than 1,500 babies have been born from frozen eggs worldwide. A literature review by the co-founder of New York University School of Medicine's Fertility Center reported that babies born from frozen eggs had the same rate of congenital abnormalities as naturally conceived infants, and clinics such as Denver's CCRM and the NYU center report pregnancy rates for frozen eggs that are similar to those for "fresh" eggs used in traditional IVF.
This technology—and the recent successes it's had—is ushering in a new era of choice for American women, similar to the one unleashed by the birth control pill in the 1960s. Birth control separated sex and conception to create sexual freedom. But that freedom had certain consequences, of which one was a major uptick in age-related infertility. Egg freezing—at least to some degree—separates fertility from the proverbial biological clock, increasing women's ability to choose when, how, and with whom to have children.
Dr. William Schoolcraft, founder and medical director of the CCRM, started using the new vitrification method five years ago. Once he added the procedure to his already nationally and internationally known fertility practice, word spread quickly. The number of patients coming to his Lone Tree clinic (there are three CCRM clinics in the metro Denver area) for the process has doubled each of the last three years, rising from 21 in 2010 to 49 in 2011 to a projected 75 to 100 in 2012. Currently, roughly half of Schoolcraft's clients are freezing their eggs before undergoing treatments like chemotherapy (known to harm the reproductive system), but Schoolcraft expects the number of healthy clients who come simply for fertility preservation to quickly surpass that percentage.
"Traditionally, if women waited until their late-30s or 40s it was too late and the only option was to find a donor egg. This way, they can act as their own donor," says Schoolcraft, who began freezing embryos at UCLA during his residency in the early 1980s and decided to dedicate his career to solving infertility. "It's exciting for me because I talk to 42-year-olds who just got married last year and frequently I have to tell them they're past the point of getting pregnant," he explains. "They say they wish they'd known about this technology five years ago."
That may be the case, but the process isn't truly accessible to everyone and it doesn't serve as a guarantee that a woman will have a successful pregnancy. Egg freezing is extremely expensive, costing between $10,000 and $20,000. And the process is still considered experimental by the American Society for Reproductive Medicine (ASRM), although that designation dates to 2006 and is under review. "There's so much research being done in the field, and as more data becomes available that status might change," says Dr. Samantha Pfeifer, chair of ASRM's practice committee and associate professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Pennsylvania.
Although Schoolcraft is confident in his roughly 60 percent success rate (comparable to his IVF rates) and pleased with the 50 live births he's produced using the egg-freezing technology since 2009, he tells patients there are no assurances and describes the egg-freezing procedure as an insurance policy or backup plan. "No one's saying not to try to get pregnant conventionally; it's just one more opportunity that women who don't freeze their own eggs wouldn't have," he says.
According to the experts, too many women don't understand fertility until they learn they no longer have it. ASRM's Pfeifer says it's common for patients in their mid- and even late-40s to blithely assume they can get pregnant, merely because they feel young and healthy. "It doesn't work that way," she says. Many women who are freezing their eggs say they wish they'd realized earlier how big a role age plays in the ability to conceive, instead of looking to movie stars having babies in their 40s—often through donor eggs—to guide their sense of what's possible. "Thirty is the new 20 and our whole lives are being pushed back," says Brigitte Adams, a San Francisco marketing consultant who came to Denver to freeze her eggs at the age of 39. "We think because we're looking younger and living longer that our window of fertility would be extended, too. But it isn't."
One of CCRM's patients, Renée,* a Denverite who works in financial reporting, was surprised to learn that even at 33, she would have a difficult time conceiving naturally. Recently divorced, she'd elected to freeze her eggs to eliminate "the pressure of having to find somebody and immediately have a baby." When clinic physicians tested her hormone levels, they found they were similar to those of a woman in her mid-40s. They also discovered that she had a lower-than-normal resting follicle count (number of eggs) for someone her age. Neither problem had been detected during her annual gynecologic exams, as those visits don't typically include such tests. Six months and $20,000 later, Renée had 21 eggs frozen in storage. Had she waited to find a mate and to conceive naturally, having a child would likely have become even more difficult and more expensive.
While Renée paid her own egg-freezing bill, many patients have help. Hayes' family assisted her with the medical payments, while Adams' parents chipped in around $7,000, which paid for half. "It was a family decision because they know how much I want children and they want that to happen for me," says Hayes, who points out that compared to adoption, egg freezing with the required subsequent IVF process to fertilize the egg and implant the embryo is generally less expensive—and less complicated. "No one questions parents paying for a wedding; why would they question this?"
In addition to the financial commitment, oocyte vitrification entails a physical dedication that varies in intensity. All oocyte vitrification patients must inject themselves with hormones daily for an average of 10 days to stimulate egg maturation. After that, patients are sedated for about 15 minutes while the eggs are harvested in a minimally invasive procedure. But the length of the process and how many cycles it requires depends on each woman's fertility factors. Hayes' process lasted six weeks, while Renée's lasted six months.
Hayes says she realizes that her frozen eggs don't come with a certificate that reads, "Congrats on your future arrival." She knows there is no guarantee. But she feels relieved that she's done everything she can to sustain her dream of motherhood. "What I care about," she says, "is that I won't have any regrets."