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Deb

Website: http://toriauru.blogspot.com

Bio: stay-at-home mum to 2 girls.

HOWTO Fight Canada's coming DMCA copyright law

December 3, 2007 4:12am

Thank you so much Cory, and Michael, and the others who are helping us average Canadians get ideas on how to complain against this. We really do have to mobilize ourselves. I know I feel a lot like "why even bother?" But we can't do that. I've joined the Facebook group "Fair Copyright". Please, come join us! :)

Visit to the Body Farm

October 30, 2007 3:27pm

In response to Joe's comment on Oct 30th, couples have asked to be placed there, according to Patricia Cornwell's novel "The Body Farm". I do believe it's a specific request before bodies are placed there. i.e. the people know ahead of time that yes, their bodies will exposed, examined, and used to determine scientific information.

Visit to the Body Farm

October 30, 2007 3:24pm

I went to a talk held by Dr. Kathy Reichs, the noted author and forensic anthropologist. In response to a question I asked to her about how the Body Farm helps professionals in the different fields she said that it was invaluable. Before Dr. Bass set it up, there was real guess-work as to how long a body was there before it was found. With the data they have collected and catalogued at the Farm there is a very wide range of knowledge as to time of death of corpses. It's no longer a guessing game. In Canada for instance, Steven Truscott, a boy that was charged at the age of 14 with the rape and murder of a 12 year old girl, it would have saved 47 years of agony knowing he was innocent all that time. But a pathologist who confirmed the time of death to within a half hour period sadly sealed his fate. That testimony was later completely quashed. Mr. Truscott very nearly was hung for murder. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Truscott If it was not for bold moves like the Body Farm, more people would be likely charged because there wouldn't be that body of knowledge.

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