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Right-wing media responded to budget negotiations and the debate over Planned Parenthood funding by making sexist attacks against women and deriding women's health services as, among other things, "non-vital" and "optional."
Conservative Media Attack Women And Women's Health Care During Budget Debate
Beck: "Hookers? ... Who Depends On Planned Parenthood?" On the April 11 edition of his radio show, Glenn Beck, along with his co-host Pat Gray and producer Stu Burguiere, repeatedly mocked MSNBC anchor Lawrence O'Donnell for getting emotional while reading an email from a woman who described her need for the services offered by Planned Parenthood. Beck then stated:
BECK: Hookers? Who? Who depends on Planned Parenthood? I have to have -- I've got 400 abortions that I have to have. I have to have these children aborted. I'm depending on Planned Parenthood. Lawrence O'Donnell has friends that depend on Planned Parenthood.
GRAY: Can you imagine, though, of all the things to be broken up about, these guys over there at that stupid channel make fun of Glenn almost nightly for crying or whatever, and it's crying over things that -- the country, patriotism --
BURGUIERE: Islamic extremism.
GRAY: -- losing our freedom --
BURGUIERE: People killed in Israel.
BECK: You're saying -- hang on a second. Wait. Wait.
GRAY: -- and he is all choked over Planned Parenthood?
BECK: Are you saying that it is not right to cry over children that are being killed?
GRAY: Or wanting them to be?
BURGUIERE: Yeah. You're supposed to be crying about them not -- avoiding being killed. [Premiere Radio Networks, The Glenn Beck Program, 4/11/11]
Limbaugh On Woman Concerned About Access To Birth Control: "We Are Supposed To Pay In The Event" She "Did Not Close Her Legs." On the April 8 edition of his radio show, Rush Limbaugh discussed with a caller the story of a woman concerned about access to birth control. From the show:
CALLER: I wanted to make a comment on the Democrat congresswoman going through security, and the woman was so concerned about her birth control?
LIMBAUGH: Yeah.
CALLER: What should've been said to her was try closing your legs. That works. And the tax payers don't have to pay for that.
LIMBAUGH: Yeah, it's kind of like abstinence. You know, it works every time it's tried.
CALLER: It certainly does. It certainly does and I just want --
LIMBAUGH: But, now, that's -- but, see, you understand that won't work. We are supposed to pay in the event the deputy sheriff did not close her legs. [Premiere Radio Networks, The Rush Limbaugh Show, 4/8/11]
WSJ Dismisses Importance Of Planned Parenthood Funding, Says It "Is A Low Fiscal Priority." In an April 12 editorial, The Wall Street Journal wrote:
We certainly agree that, amid a $1.5 trillion deficit, taxpayer funding for Planned Parenthood is preposterous. Let George Soros or Peter Lewis spend their private fortunes to support the group's abortion counseling. But Mr. Boehner was wise to drop the provision on Friday rather than let Mr. Obama portray a shutdown as a fight over abortion rights. If Republicans want to win this fight in the coming months, they need to convince voters that Planned Parenthood funding is a low fiscal priority, not make it seem as if they want to use the budget to stage a cultural brawl. [The Wall Street Journal, 4/12/11]
O'Reilly: Planned Parenthood Is "Non-Vital" Because "Nobody's Life Is Affected" By It. On the April 7 edition of his Fox News show, discussing budget negotiations with Rep. Charlie Rangel (D-NY), Bill O'Reilly argued that there's "a continued resistance by the Democratic Party to the deep cuts that are necessary to get the nation back on the road to solvency." O'Reilly advocated for defunding "non-vital" organizations like Planned Parenthood because, he claimed, "[n]obody's life is affected by Planned Parenthood." From the segment:
RANGEL: Well, Bill, you should know, and I know you do know, that just cutting spending doesn't mean you gotta have savings. You just can't come in and slash and burn and cut out programs.
O'REILLY: Why not? Why can't you slash Planned Parenthood and NPR and these non-vital programs? Why can't you slash them?
RANGEL: Well, we're talking about health care. We're talking about education. We're talking about environment.
O'REILLY: Well, health care is another matter. That has to -- look --
RANGEL: Oh, OK. What we're talking about --
O'REILLY: Health care is another matter. That has to be taken very methodically because people's lives are affected.
RANGEL: But what about --
O'REILLY: But nobody's life is affected by NPR. Nobody's life is affected by Planned Parenthood. These are options. [Fox News, The O'Reilly Factor, 4/7/11]
O'Reilly: "It's Hard To Believe Liberals Want To Continue Funding Things Like ... Planned Parenthood." "That's Optional Stuff." On the April 8 edition of his Fox News show, O'Reilly claimed that "liberals want an expensive nanny state," which is the reason Democrats "don't want deep cuts." He then blasted Planned Parenthood funding, saying:
O'REILLY: The world will not continue to prop up America's massive debt indefinitely. Chinese hold more than a trillion dollars in U.S. bonds and other debt vehicles. If they dump those investments on the world market, we the people are in huge trouble. The U.S. dollar might well collapse. So federal spending must come down and fast. It's hard to believe that liberals want to continue funding things like public broadcasting, Planned Parenthood, and various art projects. That's optional stuff. And it should be, all of those things should be in the private marketplace. If the Factor can raise a million bucks in less than two months from military families, then liberal Americans can damn well support Planned Parenthood. Or am I wrong? [Fox News, The O'Reilly Factor, 4/8/11]
Limbaugh Dismisses "Women's Health" As Pertaining Only To Abortion. Discussing the budget talks, Limbaugh stated that the negotiations could be summed up this way: "What's a few dead babies between friends?" He added: "I mean, that's really where we are here, folks, in discussing the pending government shutdown." Limbaugh went on to say:
LIMBAUGH: And they're calling this "women's health." Chuck Schumer and the rest of the Democrats are out there describing this as a Republican assault on women's health. Or alternately they say that they Republicans are focused on the usual social issues that the Independents don't care anything about. But what it boils down to is: What's a few dead babies between friends? Obama's got no problems ordering a moratorium on drilling for oil, but he will not support a moratorium on drilling for babies. [Premiere Radio Networks, The Rush Limbaugh Show, 4/8/11]
Big Hollywood Derides Health Care Ad For Women: "When I Say Essential Care To Millions Of Women, I Mean Killing Babies." In an April 8 post on Andrew Breitbart's Big Hollywood website, contributor John Nolte mocked an ad for Planned Parenthood narrated by actress Scarlett Johansson. Purporting to "translat[e]" the ad, Nolte wrote:
"Even though I have more money than the God I don't believe in, taxpayers should still foot the bill to murder the innocent unborn, especially the disproportionally Black innocent unborn. When I say essential care to millions of women, I mean killing babies. When I say health care, I mean killing babies. When I say STDs, I mean killing babies. When I say birth control, you better believe I mean killing babies. I'm a movie star mostly known for my awesome body but I want to be taken seriously and so even though there's hunger in the world, war, disease, and slavery -- this is my issue. Killing babies.
Has anyone seen my smart-girl glasses? They were right here." [Big Hollywood, 4/8/11]
Fox & Friends Dismisses Planned Parenthood Services Like Pap Smears Because You Can Get Them "At Walgreens." On the April 9 edition of Fox & Friends, discussing what co-host Brian Kilmeade called a "bizarre" speech by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid on how important it is to keep funding Planned Parenthood, Kilmeade and co-host Steve Doocy attempted to dismiss the importance of Planned Parenthood funding by claiming that services like pap smears are available "at Walgreens." From the show:
DOOCY: And the thing about it that was audacious was the fact that he [Sen. Harry Reid] was talking about Planned Parenthood being this great provider where women can get blood pressure checks, and pap smears, and breast --
KILMEADE: Which you can get at Walgreens.
DOOCY: -- examinations. Exactly right. [Fox News, Fox & Friends, 4/9/11]
- Walgreens Corrects Fox & Friends: We Don't Offer Pap Smears. Take Care Clinic spokeswoman Lauren Nestler responded to the segment in an email to Media Matters, saying that "[n]either Walgreens, nor its in-store healthcare clinics, Take Care Clinics, offer pap smears or breast exams." The clinics, which are a subsidiary of Walgreens, offer health services like flu vaccines and blood pressure screening at approximately 350 Walgreens stores. [Media Matters, 4/11/11]
Erickson: "Planned Parenthood Killed Almost As Many People In 2009 As Live In Cincinnati, OH." In an April 8 post on his Twitter feed, CNN contributor and RedState.com editor Erick Erickson highlighted a story on Beck's website, The Blaze, reporting that "Planned Parenthood performed one abortion every 95 seconds last year." Erickson wrote:
[Erick Erickson, Twitter feed, 4/8/11]
Huckabee: "I'm Not A Fan Of Planned Parenthood. I Think It's 'Planned Barren-hood,' For The Most Part." On the April 9 edition of Fox & Friends, Fox News contributor Mike Huckabee falsely claimed that Planned Parenthood is "primarily an abortion provider," saying, "Look, I'm not a fan of Planned Parenthood. I think it's 'planned barren-hood,' for the most part. And I don't appreciate the fact that they are primarily an abortion provider, even though they claim to be about women's health." [Fox News, Fox & Friends, 4/9/11]
WSJ's McGurn Outraged Over "How Inflexible" Obama Was Over Planned Parenthood Funding. In his April 12 Wall Street Journal column titled, "Who's the Extremist Now?" William McGurn complained that "[t]he president was willing to shut down the entire federal government rather than see Planned Parenthood's federal funding cut," and relayed a Republican aide's tale about how "chilling" it was "to see how inflexible Mr. Obama was" over the issue. McGurn then suggested that Obama's "ideological" stand on Planned Parenthood was "calculating" and due to "political logic." From McGurn's column, which carried the subhead: "The president would have shut down government over Planned Parenthood funding":
In the end, President Barack Obama was the one who refused to blink on Planned Parenthood. Another way of saying it is this: The president was willing to shut down the entire federal government rather than see Planned Parenthood's federal funding cut.
According to press accounts leaked by Democratic aides, House Speaker John Boehner argued for the funding cut late into the evening. The president answered, "Nope, zero." He then said, "John, this is it." Mr. Boehner accepted the budget deal without that cut.
A Republican aide confirmed more or less the same account to me. He said it was "chilling" to see how inflexible Mr. Obama was. You might call it ideological.
Certainly there's a political logic here. To begin with, many of the women's groups that supported him are still smarting over the executive order (banning federal dollars for abortions) he issued to secure passage of his health-care bill. That's still a sore spot, even though -- as his former chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, recently told the Chicago Tribune editorial board -- that language is not in the law. The presumption being, of course, that eventually the order will be overridden.
The hard line on Planned Parenthood funding also makes sense if the president was calculating that Mr. Boehner would get the blame for a shutdown no matter what. That's a reasonable assumption, judging from the way the press has swallowed the White House line on who the extremists here are.
Surely it tells you something about who the real extremists are that an up or down vote is deemed a concession. In an appearance at a rally before the deal, Mr. Schumer vowed that any bill taking taxpayer dollars from Planned Parenthood would "never, never, never" pass the Senate. In the normal way of doing things, it wouldn't even have come up for a vote.
Most Americans, it is probably safe to say, have no idea that we are talking about an organization that performed 332,278 abortions in 2009 -- one abortion every 95 seconds. Planned Parenthood counters that no federal dollars go to abortion, but Americans are not stupid. They know money is fungible.
As for serving pregnant women, that would be worth some congressional attention too. Planned Parenthood's own numbers show that more than 97% of pregnant women it treated were given abortions -- against fewer than 3% who received nonabortion services such as adoption or prenatal care.
Thanks to Mr. Boehner, we'll at least have a democratic debate on this subject instead of a backroom fait accompli. And thanks to the way this deal was struck, we have a reminder that it was the Democratic president and not the Republican speaker who stood on ideology when he decided that it was worth shutting down the entire federal government to protect Planned Parenthood's taxpayer dollars. [The Wall Street Journal, 4/12/11]
O'Reilly Suggests Women's Health Care Isn't "Worthy" Enough To Be Funded By Government. On the April 11 edition of his Fox News show, O'Reilly continued to bash federal funding for Planned Parenthood, saying, "I don't want Planned Parenthood funded by the government. I don't want it. If it's that worthy, private donations." Fox News contributor Juan Williams then stated: "That's such a losing ticket for the Republicans. What happens here is when the Republicans introduce social issues like Planned Parenthood -- essentially, abortion, an argument over abortion, highly polarizing, upsetting everybody -- they ceded the good ground." [Fox News, The O'Reilly Factor, 4/11/11]
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I'm so happy to have romance author Cris Anson here today! Not only do we share an EC editor, the awesome Jillian Bell, but I'm always excited to find a great new contemporary author to try.
Check out Cris on her incredible cover for What She Needs! Isn't it beautiful? And her "friend" isn't bad either. ;)
Take it away, Cris!
1) What was your inspiration for What She Needs?
Part of the inspiration came from real life. I attended my first Romantic Times convention sporting a black eye (I really did run into a door—the cabinet door under the kitchen sink as I swooped down to catch a fumbled flashlight). Because everyone knew I wrote erotic romance, I made light of it by saying, "I didn't say 'Yes Master' quick enough." Too bad a Dom didn't come up to me and say, "Then maybe you need a new Master" the way Kurt did to Delia in WHAT SHE NEEDS. After that, the characters started throwing sparks off each other and I just hung on for the ride.
2) Love your cover! It's gorgeous! How did you get a chance to model for it?
Last October, at Ellora's Cave first RomantiCon, I was approached by Art Director Syneca and asked if I'd like to do a photo shoot with hunky Angelo. (At the same shoot, Tara Nina posed with Taylor and Eve Vaughn with Rodney as well.) Only one answer there, right? So I spent 15 minutes gazing into Angelo's eyes as cameras clicked away. Syneca's skillful use of PhotoShop made me look thirty years younger LOL. BTW, my blog detailing this adventure will be available all this week (July 26-August 1) at Author Island www.AuthorIslandTikiHut.blogspot.com
3) There are lots of "shoulds" and "have tos" in this business. What one piece of advice would you advise an unpublished author NOT to follow?
I've heard so many times that you must sit down the same time every day. Write every day. Get into the habit every day. Well, that doesn't work for me. I can go days (weeks?) without writing then sit down and knock back 25 pages in a weekend. You have to find what works best for you.
4) What keeps you at the keyboard when you're not sure if you should keep going?
5) Do you have a "dream" genre or book of your heart you'd love to write?
I'm doing it. When I was first published, I wrote romantic suspense (under another name), but my editor kept telling me to tone down my love scenes. When I heard about Ellora's Cave, I was ecstatic to think I could be as steamy as my muse was urging me to be. So my first book for them was DANCE OF THE SEVEN VEILS— in Chapter One the heroine dances the veil dance at a masquerade until she's naked. And it gets even steamier. I love writing for them!
6) What are you working on right now?
At that same fateful RomantiCon last year, I was invited by one of the "Cougar Challenge" authors to join them. So when I was writing WHAT SHE NEEDS, I expected it to be part of that series, but my editor said it didn't fit the guidelines and she bought it as a stand-alone book. Back to the computer I went, and I wrote a novella entitled ADDING HEAT that my editor just contracted as a Cougar Challenge book. (Check out the unique Tempt the Cougar blog http://temptthecougar.blogspot.com/, where blogs are posted by heroines in the series about their hopes and fears and the younger men they meet—and also post, um, inspirational photos of younger men.)
Now I'm getting all kinds of heat from the playboy photographer who was the hero's best friend in WHAT SHE NEEDS, so I'll be writing his story next. While WHAT SHE NEEDS has a steamy-hot ménage a trois, I might take the sequel a little further…depends on the characters' wishes, of course.
By the way, here's the blurb for WHAT SHE NEEDS:
Older widow Delia Barnes greets fellow authors before an erotic romance convention sporting a black eye, which she explains away with "I didn't say 'Yes, Master' quick enough." Sitting at the bar, burned-out ad executive and former Dom Kurt Reinhardt overhears that comment once too often and interrupts to suggest, "Maybe you need a new Master."
Urged by her friends to accept the younger man's invitation to learn some D/s basics—hey, an author needs to do her research, right?—Delia joins him to get first-hand experience at being submissive, starting with removing her panties in a corner booth. Later, she learns more than she bargained for when she spends a weekend at Kurt's home with his eager business partner added to the mix.
But an innocent misstep brings Delia's world crashing down around her. Can she trust Kurt with her heart…and her life?
You can read an excerpt of WHAT SHE NEEDS and buy the book at: http://www.jasminejade.com/ps-8502-50-what-she-needs.aspx
If you want to know more about RomantiCon 2010, here's the link: https://www.jasminejade.com/romanticon/index.html
To read more about me and my books, please check out my Website: www.crisanson.com
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Thanks for stopping by! And thank you, Cari, for having me here.
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I asked the chief of police in San Pedro Sula, the second biggest city here, if they would take us along when a call came in on a crime. A minute later, we got our wish. (On camera): So we jumped in the trucks and we're headed there right now to see what's going on. It's completely real. We're not making up how violent this place is. We've been here four hours and our first body has turned up. Hearsay he's been shot. The impact wound appears to be right here on the right side of his head. And the police commissioner told us that, you know, as is very typical in these situations, nobody saw anything, nobody heard anything, and nobody knows this guy. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Hey, amigo. (speaking foreign language) LARSEN: Nobody wants to talk, which suggests that people are definitely afraid in this neighborhood, as they should be. (Voice-over): For years, the region has been plagued by violent gangs, started by gang members deported from California. But in the last few years it's also become the main corridor for narcotics coming up from South America. As the big Mexican cartels have looked for staging areas here, murder rates skyrocketed. (On camera): So this is the entrance to the morgue in Tegucigalpa. There must be 15 bodies here. (Voice-over): Yesterday they received seven bodies and this morning five more. (On camera): They get new bodies every day. Eighty percent of them are from violence. They're usually shot either with a pistol or a rifle. There's not much to say. I mean, this woman and her mother, who just lost two sons. They're two of the bodies I just saw inside the morgue, that's the son and the brothers of these two women. There's a -- there's a human cost to the drug war, and the Hondurans are paying it in blood. I just came from the morgue and there's literally bodies piling up in the hallway. Why is this country so violent? LISA KUBISKE, U.S. AMBASSADOR TO HONDURAS: Well, the violence is not actually traditional in Honduras. And it has increased as the drug traffic through Honduras has increased. And so I think a lot of it has to do with drugs. LARSEN (voice-over): The murder rate here is 16 times the U.S. rate. Murder has become so normal here that there are some Hondurans who don't seem to spend a lot of time agonizing over it. Outside the morgue, I met Darwin, who led me to his place around the corner. (On camera): He's telling me that this is a king-sized one for a fat person. So Darwin is probably the happiest, go-luckiest coffin builder that I've ever met in my whole life so he speaks really fast, so I didn't understand everything, but the one takeaway I got from being here is that the coffin business is booming in Tegucigalpa. (Voice-over): Insecurity pervades every aspect of life here. Even to visit a violence reduction program backed by the U.S. government, we had to have an escort of heavily armed policemen to patrol the street out front. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Yes, it's violent in Honduras, but that's what we're working on. LARSEN (on camera): Can you ask them how many of them have seen violence? How many of them have seen somebody killed or somebody shot? Raise your hand. (Voice-over): It's hard to get a sense of what it's like to live here when you have a heavy police escort everywhere you go. So we found someone who moves freely through the neighborhoods then let us come along. (On camera): So we should leave our phones, money, everything. (Voice-over): But first we are warned, no valuables, no phones, no passports, nothing that could get us killed. LAURENCE GAUBERT, DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS, HONDURAS: Yes, welcome. This is a piece of Doctors Without Borders, so if you want to come with me. LARSEN (on camera): Sure. (Voice-over): Laurence Gaubert moved from the Congo to Honduras early in 2011 to head the office here of Doctors Without Borders. GAUBERT: We're trying to tackle the violence, and tackling the violence is quite a big challenge. LARSEN (on camera): Were you surprised at the level of violence when you got here? GAUBERT: I was shocked. I was shocked. I didn't knew, when I just reached here, I was thinking, yes, it's the United States here, we can go down, like I can do everything, you have access to everything. But in fact, you meet exactly the same problems as you can meet in Congo. And we're in the capital city. LARSEN (voice-over): Laurence's helped Doctors Without Borders launch a street outreach mission. Every day, a team of doctors and social workers walk the most dangerous areas of the Tegucigalpa. (On camera): You're not -- you're not scared? GAUBERT: I think we have to be scared in order to protect ourselves also. If we're just going and thinking that it would be easy, we would be very at risk. LARSEN (voice-over): What goes hand in hand with the violence here is extreme poverty. The Doctors Without Borders street team was giving medical and psychological care to homeless people on a side street off a busy market. It looked like so many neighborhoods throughout Latin America. If we hadn't been told, we wouldn't have guessed that it was so violent. (On camera): So what he's telling -- what he's telling me is that this is where he lives, under this tarp, these are his spare clothes. And he's got -- and this is his kitchen, where you see these three fish being cooked right here. Yes. And they cook for all of the street children here, is one of the other things that he's saying. The other thing that you notice when you're speaking is that there's all these kids around here. But even in plain view of the cameras, all of them are sniffing glue. (Voice-over): Because we are the first foreigners, let alone journalists that the Doctors Without Borders street team had ever taken with them, they were extra alert to security. (On camera): Hey, you guys, the security driver just said that it's time to go so we should -- we should go. (Voice-over): As we headed back to the van, the market began to close down, night was falling, and the city, now even more dangerous, was getting ready to shut down. (END VIDEOTAPE) (COMMERCIAL BREAK) GUPTA: It's been called the most violent place on earth. It's a small area of Central America where our Kaj Larsen met one man who's fighting a war against a tidal wave of drugs and murder. (BEGIN VIDEOTAPE) LARSEN (voice-over): A police surveillance camera in Guatemala City captures a scene that has become common. A car stops at an intersection at midnight. A man is forced out and shot. It was one of the nearly 6,000 murders in Guatemala in 2011, eight times the U.S. homicide rate. Fueling the violence, narco trafficking, as Mexico's cartels, including the ultra violence Zetas, move south. (On camera): What we're talking about, really, is in many of these areas is ungoverned space, right, like the Zetas are the authorities in these areas? UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes. LARSEN (voice-over): We were briefed by a DEA agent who asked us not to reveal his face. (On camera): The M-240 machine gun fires a 762 round and we need it up in the country where we're going. (Voice-over): Dodging storms, we flew with the DEA in two Huey helicopter gunships into a no man's land in Guatemala, land that soon becomes uninhabited stretches of jungle, much of it flooded because of the rainy season. Soon we were flying over clandestine landing strips, hundreds of them, used for smuggling drugs coming up from Venezuela. Sometimes the planes crashed, but since one load of cocaine more than paid for a plane, often they were just abandoned. (On camera): There's an airplane carcass right there below me. You can see it right there. It's got some birds on it, crash landed. It's a little flooded right now from the rains, but when it's dry, there's about 30 to 40 aircraft just laying out here. All that were abandoned after they brought the drugs in. (Voice-over): After the U.S. helped beefed up the Guatemalan defenses, the traffickers began looking for another place to land drugs. They chose Guatemala's violent neighbor, Honduras. And it has become the new front line of the narco wars. JAMES KENNEY, U.S. DRUG ENFORCEMENT ADMINISTRATION, HONDURAS: It's the first entry point -- LARSEN: Jim Kenney has been fighting that war for more than 12 years. KENNEY: That lands, the first point, either by boat or an air track, an illicit airplane coming in. The best opportunity to stop the drugs is at that point. LARSEN: As head of the U.S. Drug Enforcement office in Honduras, Jim Kenney runs America's first line of defense, with the support of only two other DEA agents. If Jim's small team can't intercept the drugs when they land, the likelihood is that they'll make it all the way to the U.S./Mexico border. It's highly unusual for a DEA agent in overseas operations to be seen on camera, but I was allowed to follow Jim around Honduras. (On camera): I mean, we're out there now, right? This is the Wild West. KENNEY: As close as you get to it, yes. They're saying 75 to 80 percent of the 25 plus tons that come through here a month is maritime. LARSEN (voice-over): The boat we were riding on was one of the interceptor boats the Honduran Navy uses to try to stop smuggling boats whenever the DEA gets intelligence about a load coming in from South America. KENNEY: Yes, these are all from drug boats. LARSEN: When we got to the naval base and saw some of the go-fast boats confiscated from smugglers, it was easy to see how outmatched the Honduran Navy is. In this surveillance footage, you can actually see a smuggling vote firing on a Honduran Navy boat that's trying to intercept it. KENNEY: As a matter of fact last night we had a pretty good information about a go-fast that was coming up that was off the Roatan Island. Unfortunately, we were not able to find them. Very difficult. Very difficult. You know, you go out in a very vast, wide area. LARSEN (on camera): Yes, it's a needle in a haystack, right? KENNEY: Right. LARSEN (voice-over): Jim says that in the last 2 1/2 years in Honduras, he feels like he's aged 10 years. KENNEY: It's frustrating at times because we a lot of times have the knowledge and the intelligence to be able to respond and do things, but because of the lack of resources, it's difficult. LARSEN (on camera): Puts some gray in the old beard, is that -- (LAUGHTER) LARSEN (voice-over): But Jim has been making progress, changing a crucial piece of the puzzle here. (On camera): So this is your piece right here, these guys coming out? KENNEY: These guys are the vetted team that we trust, that we can pass very sensitive intelligence to. LARSEN (voice-over): This is Jim's vetted unit, specially selected Honduran police officers chosen for their skills and their honesty. KENNEY: Corruption is an issue here, as it is in Central America and other countries, South America. They've all been polygraphed. They're all drug tested. They're all interviewed. And they all get trained. And then we train each one from evidence handling to the tactics. LARSEN: When Jim gets a tip about an elicit aircraft headed towards Honduras with a load of cocaine, it's the vetted team's mission to fly to that landing site and intercept it. (On camera): There's a high likelihood that they could get in firefight on one of these missions, right? KENNEY: Yes, yes, and they have been in firefights. Very dangerous. These guys are very brave. They know that there's a very high possibility that there's going to be some type of confrontation. LARSEN (voice-over): When Jim arrived in Honduras early in 2009, the vetted unit had seven officers. Now it has 41. And of the 94 smuggling planes that landed in Honduras in 2010, the government of Honduras was able to intercept seven, five of which were intercepted by Jim's unit. That doesn't sound like a whole lot, except that the total for the previous year was zero. (On camera): Is it exhausting? KENNEY: It can be. Yes, you know. There's lots of long days. You hope it's fruitful at the end of it. (END VIDEOTAPE) (COMMERCIAL BREAK) BALDWIN: They are outmanned and outgunned, so in order to win the war against drugs in Central America, authorities will have to overcome overwhelming odds. GUPTA: But you know amid the spiraling violence and this culture of corruption, there are a few signs of glimmering hope. Kaj Larsen concludes his special report from the front lines of the narco war. (BEGIN VIDEOTAPE) LARSEN (voice-over): It's Saturday night in the Tegucigalpa, the capital of Honduras, the most violent nation on earth. Police here may look tough, but, in fact, they're outmanned and outgunned. Their control over many parts of the city is virtually nonexistent. (On camera): The police just stopped our caravan to bring us up to this little bluff right here to point out this piece of graffiti on the side of the building here that says, if you touch us, we will kill you, and for them that's an indicator of what they're facing. (Voice-over): It took 30 police officers with assault weapons for us to be able to visit this neighborhood. (On camera): It's hard to know what the right call, right? This is the most -- one of the most violent neighborhoods in the world. Not just in the city, in the world. And the police, while their tactics seem a little heavy-handed, this is -- their only attempt to wrestle control back from the gangs who have basically overrun the city. (Voice-over): There doesn't seem to be much hope in Honduras. The murder rate keeps rising. But next door in Guatemala, we found signs of progress. In Guatemala City, I met the Interior minister. In a region notorious for corruption, Carlos Menocal is a crusader who has shaken up the system. CARLOS MENOCAL, INTERIOR MINISTER, GUATEMALA (Through Translator): In Central America, six out of 10 murders are drug related. LARSEN: The drug trade flooding Guatemala dwarfs the country's resources. MENOCAL: $10.5 billion in four years. LARSEN: He says this past year, his government seized about $3 billion worth of drugs. The entire budget of the government is only about $5 billion. Menocal says anti-narcotics operations alone won't bring down the horrific murder rate. To do that, he had to convince the public that murders would actually be solved. Step one, create a team of trained detectives. In the basement of the Ministry of Justice, I visited the barracks of Guatemala City's CSI unit. Here teams of investigators take turns living in shifts, like firefighters in a firehouse. In this room, crime is monitored 24 hours a day. When a crime is committed, the radios start going off. (On camera): And then they launch the investigators to the scene of the crime. In the last week, how many times have you gone out on calls to investigate crime scenes or murders? Six times? Wow. (Voice-over): Minister Menocal says the new efforts are already paying off. MENOCAL (Through Translator): In the past couple of years, after they began making the police more professional, the murder rate has begun to decline. LARSEN: But it takes more than training investigators. Radical surgery had to be performed to fight one of the region's biggest and oldest problems -- corruption. This is the large suburb Mixco. Population, one million. It used to be one of the more violent areas in metropolitan Guatemala City. Then two crime-fighting pilot programs were introduced. With aid from the U.S. State Department. (On camera): What's unique about this police station is that they actually fired 100 percent of the police officers here and they took all rookies out of the academy. The reason, of course, is because corruption is so endemic that they had to start with fresh officers who had never been on the street. (Voice-over): The results have been dramatic. Police say that the conviction rate on cases filed has moved from practically zero to 98 percent. In Mixco City Hall, I met Amilcar Rivera, an energetic mayor who, along with U.S. aid, commissioned a surveillance camera system that's had a big impact. In one neighborhood called Milagro, 53 cameras have been installed and crime has dropped by 90 percent. MAYOR AMILCAR RIVERA, MIXCO CITY, GUATEMALA (Through Translator): And crime throughout the entire city is down 28 to 30 percent. LARSEN: This is one of the murders that the cameras were able to solve. (On camera): This guy just jumped out of a van right here, white sweatshirt, pulled out a gun, and now he's shooting. What this is, is that they took a screen grab of prior to the murder that we just saw up on the big screen, and it allowed them to identify the guy who committed the murder as well as that you have this guy in this purple sweatshirt, who actually handed the guy who committed the shooting of the gun. (Voice-over): In addition to watching the criminals, the cameras are also a way for the mayor to observe his own police force. So when the officers show up on scene, they're required to salute the cameras to show that they're on the job. (On camera): It's kind of funny, right, but in a place where police accountability is a huge issue, for him to be able to see his officers saluting on the job is actually a huge, huge improvement. (Voice-over): The murder rate here in Guatemala has just begun to decline slightly. Still, it's eight times the rate in the United States. Minister Menocal has a message for America, the largest consumer of illegal drugs. MENOCAL (Through Translator): Consuming drugs has consequences. Every kilo, every gram is paid for in blood in Latin America and Central America. (END VIDEOTAPE) GUPTA: And Kaj Larsen joins us, safe and sound, thankfully. You look good, all cleaned up. LARSEN: Thank you. GUPTA: Live here in the studio. LARSEN: No flack jacket or anything. GUPTA: That's right. (LAUGHTER) BALDWIN: It's nice to see you this way. You know, and we see so many narco trafficking stories out of Mexico, but to see these images coming out of both Guatemala and Honduras, what led you to this story? LARSEN: Well, I think, like you said, there has been a lot of focus on Mexico in the news, and the violence there has been very disturbing and it's been very visible because they're our nearest neighbor. But increasingly, the corridor in Central America has become a major trafficking route for narcotics. Just four years ago, less than 1 percent of the drugs moved up through that corridor. And you fast forward to today, over 60 percent are moving via land. And with that has become an exponential increase in violence in places like Honduras and Guatemala. So much so that even this month the Peace Corps is pulling out of their operations in Honduras. GUPTA: You've got the demand, as you point out in the piece, but the supply, sort of stopping the drugs moving along that route, I mean, what's being done for that? LARSEN: It's the right question because it's such a critical choke point for narcotics. You know over 90 percent of the cocaine is making its first stop in Honduras. And law enforcement increasingly is beginning to pay attention to this area, but it's a very difficult battle. There's a U.S. joint task force run by the military there that's supporting the Hondurans with air assets and intelligence. I embedded myself with the DEA and their vetted unit. GUPTA: I mean, I think you're making a point that the DEA really is fighting an uphill battle here. I mean what -- how do they feel about in terms of their resources? LARSEN: Obviously, they'd like to bring more resources to the fight. The DEA is a very tough, very professional organization, but the power of these cartels, which are effectively operating as multinational corporations with supply chains and distribution centers, I mean, the head of the Sinaloa Cartel, Joaquin Chapo Guzman, was on the "Forbes" list. So these are very, very powerful organizations, and they're very hard to combat. GUPTA: That's frightening. I learned a lot, though. Appreciate it. BALDWIN: So much. GUPTA: Appreciate it. BALDWIN: (INAUDIBLE) best reporting. GUPTA: And again glad you're back safe and sound. BALDWIN: Kaj, thank you. LARSEN: Great to see you guys. BALDWIN: Up next, was it murder or a miscarriage of justice? The story of two families torn apart by a deadly shooting. (COMMERCIAL BREAK) JACQUI JERAS, AMS METEOROLOGIST: I'm CNN meteorologist Jacqui Jeras in the Severe Weather Center. There's a very dangerous situation unfolding tonight across southern parts of Arkansas. The tornado threat is extremely high and we have two warnings we're very concerned about right now. Just to the southeast of Little Rock, trained storm spotters are reporting a funnel cloud here near the town of England. We also have very large hail associated with this storm, and then another one to the south of here. This is unconfirmed, but I'm hearing from the storm chaser community right now that there is likely a tornado on the ground near Fordyce. So we're watching this extremely strong to severe line of storms all across Arkansas right now. It's also producing heavy rain with the potential of damaging winds, around 80 miles per hour. Now to the north of there, we also have the severe weather threat. A new watch has just been issued. A tornado watch that includes parts of Illinois into Kentucky, into Indiana as well. We'll watch this severe weather situation unfold. Complete coverage coming up tonight at 10:00 Eastern. (COMMERCIAL BREAK) ANNOUNCER: We now return to CNN PRESENTS, with your hosts tonight, Brooke Baldwin and Dr. Sanjay Gupta. BALDWIN: Our criminal justice system is based upon the promise of a fair trial. GUPTA: But what if a trial isn't fair? What if the prosecution has stacked the deck against you unfairly? BALDWIN: Deborah Feyerick brings us this story of a man who is now sitting in prison, maybe for life, even after the trial that put him there was found by a judge to be full of holes. (BEGIN VIDEOTAPE) DIGUGLIELMO: I was convicted of second-degree murder with depraved indifference in 1997 and I was sentenced to 20 years to life. FEYERICK (voice-over): New York City Police Officer Richard DiGuglielmo served 11 years in prison before a judge tossed out his conviction and he was sent home. His friends and family celebrating his release. (On camera): When you walked out -- DIGUGLIELMO: It was surreal. I couldn't believe it. My ankles weren't shackled and I was like, wow, this is real. FEYERICK (voice-over): A free man, DiGuglielmo spent two years rebuilding his life. He got a job, an apartment, a wife, then just as suddenly, in a twist of the criminal justice system, it was all taken away. DIGUGLIELMO: I still cannot adjust being back here. It is difficult. It is difficult. FEYERICK: Richard DiGuglielmo's bizarre journey began here, Dobb's Ferry, a charming village 30 minutes outside New York City. On October 3rd, 1996, the small community was rocked by a deadly shooting, triggered over this parking space. The shooter was off-duty New York City Transit Officer Richard DiGuglielmo, Jr. or Richie for short. The victim was Charles Campbell, an amateur boxer who worked with under-privilege kids. His older brother called him Chaz. REV. WILLIAM CAMPBELL, CHARLES CAMPBELL'S BROTHER: He was a wonderful athlete, a wonderful person. He was a Christian. He loved kids. Loved people. All people. FEYERICK: It started around 5:00 on a clear autumn day. Richie DiGuglielmo was working behind the counter of his family-owned deli. He'd stopped by to help his brother-in-law and father, Richard Sr., who was recovering from a heart attack. (On camera): Parking was a major problem along this busy street. The DiGuglielmos owned the building and say tenants has been withholding rent to protest the lack of open spaces. Well, Charles Campbell didn't know about the ongoing tensions when he pulled his new Corvette into this reserved spot and then went across the street to get a piece of pizza. (Voice-over): Richie's father remembers that day. RICHARD DIGUGLIELMO, SR., OWNER, VENICE DELI: I asked him if he could please move to the other lot and then he refused to do it. FEYERICK: So the deli owner did what Dobb's Ferry police had told him to do, plaster a sticker on the window. Here's what father and son say happened when Campbell saw the sticker on his new car. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes, listen, I need a cop over here at Venice Deli in Dobb's Ferry. A fight just broke out outside. DIGUGLIELMO, SR.: Richie was in the store and he saw him running across the street. He came and I was like this, and he came behind me and he stepped like this, and he put his hands up like this, and he said, there's no need for this. FEYERICK: And then -- DIGUGLIELMO, SR.: He hit Richie in the face. DIGUGLIELMO: It sounds like getting hit with a hammer. They were hammer blows. He just was out of control. He was somebody who didn't want to listen to reason or anything like that at the time. FEYERICK: The fight spilled into the middle of the parking lot as father, son, and brother-in-law wrestled Campbell to the ground. DIGUGLIELMO, SR.: When I went to put my hand underneath his head, he said, that's it, I've had enough. So I said to Richie, that's it, it's over. We let him up, now whenever I had a fight, when I was a kid, it was over, it was over. FEYERICK: But the fight wasn't over. And what happened next changed everything. Charles Campbell, outnumbered three to one, went to his car. But rather than leave, he pulled out a bat. (On camera): This man with a bat in his hands, how much more of a threat did that make him to your father? DIGUGLIELMO: It made him a deadly threat. FEYERICK (voice-over): Back in the store, Rich DiGuglielmo says he saw Campbell strike his father not once, but twice with the metal bat. DIGUGLIELMO: I just saw him up with the bat and he started to swing and that's when I reached for the gun. FEYERICK: The off-duty officer grabbed the gun from under the cash register and raced outside, firing three times, hitting Charles Campbell in the middle of his chest. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Somebody was shot. DIGUGLIELMO: From the time that bat came out until the time the incident was over, it was a matter of four seconds, five seconds, and my training just kicked in. FEYERICK: DiGuglielmo doesn't remember the moments immediately after the shooting, only that one of the responding officers handed him the gun and asked for help removing the bullet clip. Then he, his father and brother-in-law were taken to the police station. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: We want what? CROWD: Justice. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: When do we want it? CROWD: Now. FEYERICK: Rumors spread like wildfire that the shooting was racially motivated, confirmed in part by the district attorney, Jeanine Pirro. JEANINE PIRRO, DISTRICT ATTORNEY: There were racial epithets that the victim was cursed at, at the time, just prior to the shooting. That information has been confirmed. FEYERICK (on camera): Did you ever use any racial slurs? DIGUGLIELMO, SR.: We never used a curse word and we never used a racial -- any racial words at all. None. FEYERICK (voice-over): Campbell's brother, William, was not there, but describes events as he came to understand them. CAMPBELL: He's going to probably try to work around to get to his car, and that's when Richie came out, and I think he came out from behind the truck, and he said die, die, and then shot him three times. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Witness Michael Dylan says the -- FEYERICK: Eyewitness Michael Dylan less than 30 feet away did not hear any racial slurs, instead telling a WNBC News crew he saw the bat aimed at the elder man. MICHAEL DYLAN, WITNESS: Full force swings hitting him at least in the legs and almost the head. That's pretty much what I saw. You could hear the smacks, like, block away. That's how hard he hit him. You see your father getting beat with a bat, you're going to do something about it. So it was self-defense, is what I saw. ROSEMARIE DIGUGLIELMO, RICHIE'S MOTHER: I remember at one point watching Dylan on television saying, you know, if you see your father getting beat, you got to do something. It was strictly self-defense. And I remember saying, oh, thank god for this witness. PIRRO: We brought murder charges -- FEYERICK: But that same night, District Attorney Pirro charged Richie DiGuglielmo with both intentional murder and murder with depraved indifference. DIGUGLIELMO: I was like, how is this murder? I don't understand it. FEYERICK (on camera): So this is the first time you killed a man? How heavily does that weigh on you? DIGUGLIELMO: Not a day I don't think about it. I believe I saved my father's life that day. FEYERICK (voice-over): Coming up, the trial that outraged a judge. (On camera): Was this a miscarriage of justice? RORY BELLANTONI, FORMER JUDGE: I believe it was a miscarriage of justice. (END VIDEOTAPE) (COMMERCIAL BREAK) GUPTA: In the case against a former NYPD officer, did prosecutors suppress crucial evidence that could have changed the jury's verdict? Deborah Feyerick found one judge who's convinced that's exactly what happened. (BEGIN VIDEOTAPE) FEYERICK (voice-over): Richard DiGuglielmo, Sr. is consumed by the shooting that sent his son to prison to serve 20 to life. DIGUGLIELMO, SR.: I wish my son was never there. Whether I got killed or not doesn't make any difference to me. What do I have now? My family is torn apart. Literally, torn apart. Where's my son? FEYERICK: We wanted to talk about the shooting to both the Dobb's Ferry Police Department and the then Westchester County district attorney, Jeanine Pirro. Repeated interview requests were denied. In her book, Pirro says no question the shooting was racially motivated. Race dominated the headlines, but never came up at trial. Instead, prosecutors claimed DiGuglielmo shot Charles Campbell in a murderous rage. Assistant district attorney, Patricia Murphy, telling the the jury, quote, "This is a case about revenge. This is a case about retribution. This is a case about payback." Prosecutors argued the father, son, and son-in-law ganged up on Campbell so that Campbell had no choice but to grab a bat from his car. CAMPBELL: I know Chaz. When he grabbed that bat, the idea of getting that bat was to just show, all right, y'all, back on up. You know, I'm not trying to start nothing here, but I will finish it. They kept charging him. So he swung, I think, once at the father. FEYERICK (on camera): Do you think Charles Campbell could have killed your father had that third hit struck him? DIGUGLIELMO: Sure. Absolutely. It was a metal baseball bat. FEYERICK: Everyone's saying it's over a parking space but -- R. DIGUGLIELMO: But it was about a baseball bat. DIGUGLIELMO, SR.: If there wasn't a baseball bat, there wouldn't have been a gun. FEYERICK (voice-over): Prosecutors, supported by eyewitness testimony, convinced the jury that Campbell, despite holding the bat, was backing away. The jury acquitted the DiGuglielmos of assault, but Richie was convicted of murder with depraved indifference. DIGUGLIELMO: I never denied shooting Charles Campbell. I said shot Charles Campbell to stop him from beating my father with a bat. Is that an act of intent, yes. You could say so. Definitely not depraved indifference murder. FEYERICK: The DA insisted justice was served. PIRRO: We brought murder charges, he was convicted of murder. That's what this case is about. CAMPBELL: I'm happy that the jury came back, I'm happy when it came back in the light that I wanted them to come back in. But I can't feel victory. Two families were totally destroyed. FEYERICK (on camera): But there was something wrong about the case against Richie DiGuglielmo. Two eyewitnesses came forward saying they told police DiGuglielmo was acting in self-defense. They say police pressured them to change their story. A new hearing was ordered and in 2006 Rory Bellantoni got the case. (Voice-over): Bellantoni was an appeals court judge. BELLANTONI: What I dealt with was whether or not certain witnesses were coerced, and if so, whether the jury was made aware of this coercion. FEYERICK: Although some witnesses from the original trial supported the prosecution's version of the shooting, two who were closest to the shooting did not. One of those witnesses was Michael Dylan. DYLAN: I saw about four guys -- BELLANTONI: After giving his original statement on the night of the shooting, he was picked up by police officers, night and day, until he changed his statement. DYLAN: The Dobb's Ferry detectives just kept asking me to -- the same questions over and over again, night after night. It was like an interrogation. FEYERICK: Here's what Dylan originally told police. DYLAN: To my best recollection, the black guy was swinging the bat at the older male when the shots were fired. FEYERICK: But the jury never heard that. Instead, Dylan testified at trial that Campbell wasn't swinging the bat. Another key witness, who refused to change his story and was not called to testify, was James White. JAMES WHITE, WITNESS: They were telling me that other people said this and other people said that, and I said, but I'm not interested in what other people said. I'm telling you what I saw and this is the truth. FEYERICK: White was standing inside the deli, and he saw Charles Campbell, not as victim, but as aggressor. WHITE: They held him down, only as long as it took for him to cease attacking. And once he did that, they would let him up. FEYERICK: White says that's when Campbell got the bat, swinging at the elder DiGuglielmo. WHITE: I'm looking at him saying, my god, he's going to kill him. FEYERICK: The jury never heard that version either. Bellantoni found the autopsy report supported White's story. BELLANTONI: One of the things the District Attorney's Office couldn't get around at the hearing was that the bat was being held upright. The only way you get five wounds with three bullets is this bullet went in the forearm, out the forearm, into the chest. FEYERICK: In a scathing 69-page report, Judge Bellantoni called the district attorney's case a wholesale assault on the justice system, and criticized prosecutors for a "win-at-all costs" mind-set. He overturned the conviction and set Richie DiGuglielmo free. (On camera): You had started working, you had moved into your own apartment. Tell me what else. DIGUGLIELMO: Met a woman, fell in love, got married. And then had to come back here. FEYERICK (voice-over): The prosecutors appealed, arguing Bellantoni had overstepped his authority, and in a stunning reversal, a four- judge panel on New York's highest court ruled, even had the jury known witnesses changed their stories, it likely would have changed the verdict. BELLANTONI: I don't know how they can say that. If 12 people heard that he stuck by his story and finally changed it because he just didn't want to be harassed by the police department any longer, and might the verdict have been different? The answer for me was yes. FEYERICK (on camera): Was this a miscarriage of justice? BELLANTONI: I believe it was a miscarriage of justice. DIGUGLIELMO: Today I'm here of my own free will, to surrender to this court, and I will continue to fight this fight. FEYERICK (voice-over): On June 3rd, 2010, Richie returned to prison to finish his sentence of 20 to life. CAMPBELL: I feel for Richie, because irregardless of what he was thinking, I forgive him, not his action. DIGUGLIELMO: It's been a tragedy from day one, and I won't belittle that in any way, but how does a judge send you home and another judge says, oh, no, well, we don't agree with you, so we're going to send you back? FEYERICK (on camera): Would you have rather stayed in prison, knowing what you know now? DIGUGLIELMO: There was a time where I would have said yes, but then I would have never met my wife. That's the sunshine in this dreary world. FEYERICK: So there's hope? DIGUGLIELMO: There's always hope. (END VIDEOTAPE) BALDWIN: And Deb Feyerick now joins us. You talk in your piece about a possible miscarriage of justice. The question is, has the DA at all answered this charge that the jurors never quite heard the full story? FEYERICK: Well, the former Westchester County district attorney, Jeanine Pirro, ultimately did give us a statement. She never answered any questions as to why race never came up at trial, nor did she explain why these key eyewitness statements were suppressed. She does say, however, that she describes Charles Campbell as an unarmed man and she says, quote, "Richard DiGuglielmo's guilt has repeatedly been affirmed by three appellate courts," and that is indeed correct. BALDWIN: OK. GUPTA: Despite the fact that he's holding the bat, which I guess is at issue, so what happens next? I mean what recourse does he have in all of this? FEYERICK: Well, the U.S. Supreme Court is out. They declined to hear this case. His lawyer is going to appeal to a federal court, present the new evidence, hopefully to say these eyewitness statements should have come in. And then -- but really, his legal options are running out. So he may have to wait until 2019, which is when he's up for parole, and the court actually said those two years he was out, he's got to serve those in prison. So he gets nothing. GUPTA: And he fell in love while he was there as well. BALDWIN: She is just standing by him? FEYERICK: She's absolutely standing by him. She's got total faith in him, he's got total faith in her, but he is losing a little bit of faith in the justice system. BALDWIN: Deb, thank you. GUPTA: Deb, thanks. Yes. BALDWIN: Now it's up to you to decide. Was justice served for Richard DiGuglielmo? GUPTA: You can go to our blog at CNN.com/presents. Let us know what you think. BALDWIN: That's it for tonight's show. GUPTA: But we leave you, though, with a preview of the next CNN PRESENTS. It's my special report on the dangers of concussions. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) UNIDENTIFIED MALE: He's laying on the bed and his head is swollen. He's not moving, he's not talking. 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Staples girls third in CIAC Golf Championships
Playing her first hole of the day, the second toughest hole on the course, Greenwich's Catherine McEvoy stumbled out of the gate with a double bogey. It was the last mistake she made.
McEvoy, a sophomore, ended up making six birdies, including five on the back nine, to finish with a terrific 2-under-par 72 to capture individual medalist honors and help propel the Cardinals to their first CIAC girls golf state championship Tuesday at Orange Hills Country Club in Orange.
Greenwich finished with a team total score of 335, the lowest score shot by a winning team, beating Berlin's 348 set in 2012. McEvoy set a state record for the lowest individual score, beating Westhill's Allison Oakes, who had the previous record of 77 set in 2008.
Greenwich won by a lofty nine shots over runner-up Berlin (346), which saw its string of three straight CIAC titles snapped. Staples, which was ranked first in the state by the CIAC for much of the season, finished third with a 355 team score.
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Over the course of last year, John Wayne Airport saw more than 8.85 million passengers pass through its gates — a 2.9% increase over the 8.6 million passengers in 2011, an airport traffic report said.
The number of travelers passing through JWA's gates last holiday season also jumped, by 5.5%, over the same time in 2011, according to the report.
In December 2011, a total of 697,512 passengers got on and off planes at JWA, the report said. In December 2012, that number increased to 735,626.
"The addition of service to three new destinations in Mexico by AirTran and Interjet helped contribute to this growth," Airport Director Alan L. Murphy said in a statement. "The overall increase in passengers, however, reflects both the new international service and improvements in the general domestic travel market."
Total aircraft operations increased in 2012 over the prior year by 1.1%, with 255,688 flights taking off or landing, over 252,943 in 2011.
But within those operations, commuter plane take-offs and landings dropped by 17.5%.
Commuter plane activity in December 2012 versus December 2011 also decreased, by 14.9%.
General aviation activity (non-commercial operations, including private planes), which made up about 67% of 2012's flights, increased by 1.2% over 2011.
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McGonagall started eating out five nights a week using a rotation of different guys she met through the dating site. McGonagall kept things simple—no more than five dates with the same guy.
The investment banker types were thrilled to woo her with extraordinary restaurants like the underground taqueria La Esquina and a Japanese restaurant, Megu, in Tribeca. One guy even took her to a champagne bar and purchased a $200 bottle. McGonagall went from easily spending $500 a month on dinners alone to having someone else dole out an average of $60-plus per night. She also stopped eating lunch and opted for a light breakfast to save even more.
According to our calculations, McGonagall made over $1,200 a month.
Match.com does require a $50 monthly subscription, but the dates more than made up for the entry price.
"I mean, a guy buys me three drinks at $15 a pop and that right there made up for my Match fee," said McGonagall.
McGonagall's roommates played the money-saving game as well. In fact, McGonagall first learned about online dating after watching one of her roommates go on extravagant outings every night.
Two weeks later, McGonagall and her other roommate joined. "We made ground rules," said McGonagall.
One of them called for making spreadsheets about each guy who took them out for their drinks and/or meals. It included names, photos and details from their Match.com accounts.
The girls also let each other know where they were going for the night. And they never let guys pick them up at their apartment and instead met up at a public location.
After awhile at their escapades, they soon learned how prevalent the online dating scene had become in New York City. McGonagall commonly ran into people she recognized from the site, and discovered that others using Match.com averaged at least ten dates before meeting her.
It's no surprise considering New York City ranks as the number one online dating city, according to a survey of singles by SNAP Interactive, a social media site. But as popular as online dating had become, and as much of a great saving tactic it was, McGonagall eventually tired of the scene. "It was exhausting," she said. "I needed my sleep and I was done playing the game."
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Wilder was shortlisted for manager of the month, but that accolade went to Cheltenham boss Mark Yates. Craddock, who scored six goals in October, was beaten by Port Vale's Ashley Vincent as the player of the month.


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A passenger said she pleaded with the limo driver to help after the white stretch limo became engulfed in flames on a bridge Saturday over San Francisco Bay. Five women were killed and four survivors were treated at hospitals. (May 6) AP
Five women in a bachelorette party, including a newlywed bride, died in the inferno.
One of the survivors of a limousine fire that killed five friends on a San Francisco Bay bridge is disputing the driver's version of what happened when the limo burst into flames.
Nelia Arellano, 36, of Oakland, told San Francisco's KGO-TV that she yelled at the driver to stop the car, but he "didn't want to listen."
When the driver, Orville Brown, did finally stop, Arellano said, he did nothing to help the women get out of the burning car after he exited. She also said the car's four rear doors were locked.
Brown has said that, at first, he misunderstood what one of the passengers in the back was saying when she knocked on the partition between the passenger area and the driver and complained about smelling smoke.
With the music up, he initially thought the woman was asking if she could smoke. Seconds later, he said, the women knocked again, this time screaming, "Smoke, smoke!" and "Pull over," Brown told the San Francisco Chronicle.
Brown says he helped four of the surviving women escape through the partition, though the limo was engulfed so quickly that he couldn't help everyone get out.
Tuesday, the San Mateo County Coroner officially identified the women who perished: the bride, Neriza Fojas, 31, of Monterey; Michelle Estrera, 35, of Fresno; Anna Alcantara, 46, of San Lorenzo; Felomina Geronga, 43, of Alameda, and Jennifer Balon, of Dublin, Calif..
Fojas and Estrera worked on a trauma medical/surgical floor at the Community Regional Medical Center in Fresno.
Of the four survivors, Arrellano and Mary Guardiano, 42, of Alameda, were taken to Stanford Medical Center. Arrellano has been released, but it wasn't known if Guardino was still hospitalized, the San Jose Mercury News reported Tuesday. Amalia Loyola, 48, of San Leandro; and Jasmine Desguia, 34, of San Jose, were listed in fair condition at Valley Medical Center.
The nine friends, all nurses, were headed across the San Francisco Bay to a hotel in Foster City on Saturday night for a bridal shower for Fojas, who was married recently.
Investigators had not determined Monday why the limo burst into flames, but they did note that the vehicle was carrying one more passenger than allowed under state regulations.
The five who died were found huddled near a partition between their compartment and the driver's. Unable to squeeze through a small opening, they "succumbed to the smoke and flames," Mike Maskarich of the California Highway Patrol said at a news conference Monday.
"My guess would be they were trying to get away from the fire and use that window opening as an escape route," San Mateo County Coroner Robert Foucrault said earlier.
The four survivors escaped by squeezing through the 3-foot-by-1 1/2-foot opening. Two were in critical condition Monday.
The 1999 Lincoln Town Car was westbound on the San Mateo-Hayward Bridge, which connects San Mateo and Alameda counties, about 20 miles southeast of San Francisco.
Many stretch limousines have doors at the front and the back, but not along the elongated section of the vehicle.
The company that operated the limo was identified as Limo Stop, of San Jose, which offers service through limousines, vans and SUVS. According to records from the California Public Utilities Commission, which regulates limousine companies, Limo Stop is licensed and insured.
Maskarich said the stretch limo is considered a "charter party vehicle" and was listed with the PUC to carry eight or fewer passengers.
"There were nine," Maskarich said. Officials did not comment on whether the overcrowding played any role in the tragedy.
He said it appears that Brown, the driver, was properly licensed.
The driver of a limousine that burst into flames on a San Francisco Bay bridge, killing five women inside, said it happened so fast, he couldn't help everyone get out. Authorities are investigating, and said the vehicle had too many passengers. ( AP
The company issued a statement saying it "will do everything possible to investigate and assist authorities in determining the cause of this fire in order to bring forth answers and provide closure to (the) victims and their families."
Fojas' sister, Rosalyn Bersamin, told the Chronicle that Fojas and her friends, after a night on the town, were heading to the hotel to join Fojas' new husband. "She was a hard worker, a loving sister," a sobbing Bersamin told the newspaper.
The couple had planned to repeat their marriage vows in the Philippines next month for family and friends, the Mercury News reported.
Contributing: Alia E. Dastagir in Tysons, Va.; Associated Press


text: At 05:40 PM 9/17/2002 +0200, Felix Rauch wrote: >On Mon, 16 Sep 2002, Jim Matthews wrote: > > I have been seeing a very strange problem with mpich 1.2.3 (and 1.2.4 as > > well from someone else who tested it). The problem occurs immediately > > following a reboot of the cluster nodes. What happens is that if I try > > to run a job on 16 processors, for example, the job will hang and never > > start when an mpirun is invoked. The solution is to start with a 2 > > processor job, which will always work, and from there go to a 3 > > processor job working my way up to 16 processors. Once that is done the > > job will run on all 16 processors (or however many) and continue to run > > and be re-run, with long periods of interruption, until the cluster is > > reboot at which time the problem will once again surface. > >We had a similar problem once when we installed mpich to compare it >with Score. The problem was that mpich didn't work correctly when >there were two mpich-jobs on different machines but with identical >process identifiers (PIDs). To solve the problem we wrote a little >script that logged in onto all the nodes and started a different >number of small jobs on the nodes (e.g. node_number * 100 "echo"s). Thanks! That points us to the code that must be broken. We'll have a fix in a few days. Bill