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Homebuilder confidence held in September at the highest level in almost eight years, a sign housing will remain a bright spot for the U.S. economy.
The National Association of Home Builders/Wells Fargo confidence index registered 58 this month, matching August's revised reading as the strongest since November 2005, a report from the Washington-based group showed today. Readings greater than 50 mean more builders view conditions as good than poor.
"Following a solid run up in builder confidence over the past year, we are seeing a pause in the momentum as consumers wait to see where interest rates settle and as the headwinds of tight credit, shrinking supplies of lots for development and increasing labor costs continue," David Crowe, the association's chief economist, said in a statement.
Companies including Hovnanian Enterprises Inc. have said the recent rise in mortgage rates will temporarily restrain the housing recovery rather than end it. While work orders from the past few months will probably sustain construction gains, faster growth in hiring and wages are needed to spur bigger increases in demand.
The median forecast in a Bloomberg survey of 51 economists projected a reading of 58. Estimates ranged from 55 to 61. The index, which was first published in January 1985, averaged 54 in the five years leading to the recession that began in December 2007. It reached a record low of 8 in January 2009.
Less Inflation
Another report today showed the cost of living rose less than forecast in August, a sign it will take time for inflation to reach the Federal Reserve's goal. The consumer-price index increased 0.1 percent, the least in three months, after a 0.2 percent gain in July, Labor Department figures showed.
The builders group's index of present sales of single- family homes held at 62 this month, matching the highest since January 2006. A measure of sales expectations for the next six months declined to 65 from 68. The gauge of buyer traffic increased to 47, the highest since October 2005, from 46 the prior month.
The confidence survey asks builders to characterize current sales as "good," "fair" or "poor" and to gauge prospective buyers' traffic. It also asks participants to gauge the outlook for the next six months.
Confidence improved among builders in all four U.S. regions, led by a jump to 45 from 39 in the Northeast. The gauge for builders in the Midwest climbed to 66, the highest in monthly records going back to December 2004.
Weighting Impact
The regional gauges can all show gains while the national measure is little changed because of the weightings used to calculate the data, a spokesman for the group said in an e-mail.
Residential real estate "increased moderately," helping to contribute to the economic expansion from early July through late August, the Fed said in its Beige Book survey released Sept. 4. The central bank's officials are meeting today and tomorrow to consider whether to scale back monthly asset purchases.
The rate on 30-year home loans averaged 4.57 percent in the week ended Sept. 12, close to the highest level since July 2011, according to Freddie Mac data. The rate, which had been as low as 3.81 percent at the end of May, has been rising since Fed Chairman Ben S. Bernanke that month indicated the central bank may slow purchases of government and mortgage bonds.
The advance in mortgage costs is unlikely to halt the nation's housing recovery, Red Bank, New Jersey-based Hovnanian said. The company reported a profit for its fiscal third quarter as net contracts climbed 1.8 percent and the contract backlog, an indication of future sales, jumped 18 percent to 2,893 homes.
The company is confident any hesitancy from its customers caused by the jump in borrowing costs "will be a temporary bump in the road to housing recovery," Chief Executive Officer Ara Hovnanian said on a Sept. 9 conference call with analysts.


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UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- Ballot positions for the 2013 election of trustees by alumni have been determined by a drawing, a procedure established by Penn State's Board of Trustees.
Paula R. Ammerman, associate secretary, conducted the drawing and said ballots for the trustee election will be available online to Penn State Alumni on April 10. Additionally, biographical information and position statements for each candidate will be available by March 18 on a Meet the Candidates Page by visiting http://www.psu.edu/trustees/index.html. The Penn State Alumni Association will again invite the candidates to participate in a voluntary "Three Questions for the Candidates" online initiative and those responses will be posted www.pennstatermag.com/bot2013/ beginning April 4.
All online voting must be completed by the close of the election at 9 a.m. EDT May 2.
The names of the 39 candidates for three positions on the board to be elected by alumni, and the order in which they will appear on the ballot, are as follows (year of graduation, business title/profession and place of residence are also provided):
1. Kathleen A. Pavelko, '75, '79g, Lib, Com, President & CEO, WITF, New Cumberland, Pa.
2. Pratima Gatehouse, '96, '10g, Eng, Vice President, Product Design, Park 7, Short Hills, N.J.
3. Eugene J. Bella, '63, Eng, Retired, Murrysville, Pa.
4. Paul V. Suhey, '79, Lib, Orthopedic Surgeon, Martin & Suhey Orthopedics, Boalsburg, Pa.
5. Thomas A. Conley, '01, Eng, USAF Pilot, District of Columbia Air National Guard, Washington, D.C.
6. John W. Diercks, '63, '67g, '75g, EMS, Retired, U.S. Air Force, State College, Pa.
7. Edward "Ted" B. Brown, III, '68, Sci, President/CEO, KETCH Consulting Inc., State College, Pa.
8. Rudolph K. Glocker, '91, '93g, Lib, Managing Partner, Pediped Footwear, Henderson, Nev.
9. Christopher J. Bartnik, '91, '96g, Bus, Senior Vice President, East Region Benefits Leader, Wells Fargo & Co., Chantilly, Va.
10. Vincent J. Tedesco, Jr., '64, Bus, Director, Lockheed Martin Corp., State College, Pa.
11. William J. Cluck, '82, Lib, Attorney, Law Offices of William J. Cluck, Harrisburg, Pa.
12. Stephanie Nolan Deviney, '97 JD, DSL, Attorney at Law, Fox Rothschild LLP, Exton, Pa.
13. John M. Mason Jr., '70, '72, Eng; Cap, Associate Provost & VP for Research, Auburn University, Auburn, Ala.
14. Robert J. Bowsher, '86, Bus, Writer and Accountant, San Diego
15. Doreen Ulichney Schivley, '78, Edu, Retired Special Education Teacher, Kent County Board of Education, State College, Pa.
16. J. Andrew Weidman, '78, Bus, Chairman, Reinsel Kuntz Lesher LLP, Reading, Pa.
17. Ben J. Novak, '65, '99g, Lib, IDF, Retired, Ave Maria, Fla.
18. O. Richard Bundy, III, '93, '96g, Lib, President and CEO, University of Vermont Foundation, South Burlington, Vt.
19. Matthew A. Bird, '80, Eng, Project Controls Manager, Bechtel Group, Gettysburg, Pa.
20. Frederik O. Riefkohl, '87, Bus, Senior Vice President, CSA Group, Annapolis, Md.
21. Mark S. Connolly, '84g, Sci, Intellectual Property Director, E.I. DuPont de Nemours & Co., West Chester, Pa.
22. Barbara L. Doran, '75, Lib, Wealth Adviser, Morgan Stanley Smith Barney, New York, N.Y.
23. Darlene R. Baker, '80, Sci, Vice President of Operations, PSKW LLC, Warminster, Pa.
24. Robert J. Hooper, '79, H&HD, President/Chair of the Board, Vermont State Employees Association, Burlington, Vt.
25. Amy L. Williams, '80, H&HD, Founder & Managing Director, SageWorks Rx LLC., Wayne, Pa.
26. Robert N. Grimes, '80, H&HD, Chairman, CEO & President, ConStrata Tech Consulting, Potomac, Md.
27. Jeffrey N. Goldsmith, '82, H&HD, Account Executive, Premium Card Solutions, Harrisburg, Pa.
28. David K. Mullaly, '69, '72g, Lib, Retired Teacher, Annapolis, Md.
29. Robert P. McKinnon, '90, Com, Founder, GALEWILL Design, Inc., Hastings on Hudson, N.Y.
30. Ted J. Sebastianelli, '69, Bus, Retired, Deputy HR Director, Military District of Washington D.C., State College, Pa.
31. Christopher R. Owens, '06, IST, Lib, Mobile Banking Manager, Pennsylvania State Employees Credit Union, Mechanicsburg, Pa.
32. Gregory A. Slachta, MD, '66, Sci, Retired Urologic Surgeon, Ridgeland, S.C.
33. Charles R. Mazzitti, '80, Lib, President, Mazzitti & Sullivan E.A.P. Services, Elizabethtown, Pa.
34. Gregory "Sandy" S. Sanderson, '00, Eng, CEO, CollClub Sports, Pittsburgh
35. Robert C. Jubelirer, '59, '62 JD, Lib, DSL, Partner, Obermayer Rebmann Maxwell & Hippel, Boalsburg, Pa.
36. William F. Oldsey, '76, Lib, Operating Partner, Atlas Advisors, Basking Ridge, N.J.
37. Patrick J. Howley, '12, H&HD, Baltimore
38. Ryan M. Bagwell, '02, A&A; Com, Hirshorn Zuckerman Design Group, Middleton, Wis.
39. Scott T. Kimler, '83, EMS, Owner, ST Consulting, Ladysmith, British Columbia, Canada

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Denim made from sustainable wood pulp, rather than cotton, could be the key to reducing the jeans industry's sizable environmental footprint, according to a fashion student at Heriot-Watt University. Dawn Ellams, a Ph.D researcher at the School of Textiles and Design in Scotland, developed her "no-cotton" jeans using eucalyptus-tree pulp, which is spun into a cotton-like yarn marketed under the trade name of Tencel. She also used digital-printing technology to replicate the stone-washed effect denim aficionados crave. Despite their physical similarities, Ellams says her "wooden" jean uses only a fifth of the water, energy, and chemicals required by its conventional counterpart.
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Producing a single pair of cotton-denim jeans, Ellams says, isn't just energy-intensive. It also uses an average of 42 liters of water, along with up to 15 dyeing vats full of toxic chemicals. Her greener alternative, on the other hand, costs roughly £27 ($42) to make. Plus, it drastically reduces carbon emissions through a closed-loop production process that manages close to 100 percent recovery of the solvent used to render the wood into fiber.
A pair of cotton-denim jeans uses an average of 42 liters of water, along with up to 15 dyeing vats full of harmful chemicals.
A pair of cotton-denim jeans uses an average of 42 liters of water, along with up to 15 dyeing vats full of harmful chemicals.
"The sustainability issues associated with the manufacturing of cotton garments are already well understood, yet the use of cotton shows no sign of diminishing," she says. "The research challenged the design and manufacture of denim jeans, probably the most iconic use of cotton. The overall aim was to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions and water use associated with conventional manufacturing for denim jeans."
Another upside? Eucalyptus grows rapidly without the need for pesticides, artificial irrigation or gene manipulation, according to Lenzing, the Austrian fiber company that popularized the material. The fiber yield with Tencel is also 10 times higher than with conventional cotton, even when grown on so-called "marginal lands" that cannot be used to cultivate food crops, it adds.
Ellams' goal is to create an entire collection, even a eucalyptus-based dress or two.


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In what was a thrilling back-and-forth affair in the final innings, Houston allowed a late two-run lead to slip away as the Rice Owls came from behind to edge the Cougars 4-3 in 10 innings.
Rice now leads the Silver Glove Series 2-1 for the season and the weekend series between the teams is tied 1-1.
The teams will meet for their final regular season tilt at 1 p.m. on Sunday. Sophomore righthander John Simms (3-0, 2.72) will take the mound for the Owls. Houston's starter is unknown — coach Todd Whitting said after Saturday's game that he still was unsure who's going to get the call. Best guess? I'd say either lefthander Matt Hernandez or righthander Jordan Mannisto, with Jared Ray being a possible dark horse.
The game will be broadcast live on Comcast Sports Southwest (Comcast Ch. 129).
For the Cougars (16-27-1, 4-12-1 Conference USA), it was pretty simple on Saturday: it came down to them not being able to make key defensive plays in the late innings. Both runs Rice (32-13, 12-5) scored in the eighth and ninth innings were unearned and were facilitated by mistakes.
"It's not OK to lose this game," a frustrated Whitting said afterward. "It's not OK to lose in extra innings. Until we get to that point in this program, I'm not going to accept it. It's not OK."
Defensive miscues
After a stellar defensive outing in Friday's win over Rice (zero errors) and playing error-free ball for the first seven innings on Saturday, the Cougars committed three critical errors in the next two frames. In the eighth inning and the Cougars leading 2-0 with a runner on first and one out, third baseman Taylor White tried to make a tough play going toward the second base bag, but fired off a wild throw to first base, which sailed past first baseman Jacob Lueneburg and into first base/right field foul territory. The error allowed Ford Stainback to get to third and he later scored the Owls' first run on an RBI-sacrifice fly by Christian Stringer.
In the ninth inning, Rice got its leadoff man on, Michael Ratterree, when Houston shortstop Chase Jensen couldn't haul in a ground ball. Ratterree eventually came home as the tying run on a well-executed squeeze bunt by Michael Fuda to force extra innings.
"We have to be able to make plays," Houston coach Todd Whitting said. "We can't seem to make plays any little leaguer would be able to make. Until we have the ability to make the routine play, the absolute very routine play, you're going to lose games like that."
Lewis shines
The loss overshadowed one of the best pitching performances of senior lefthander Jordan Lewis' UH career. Lewis went eight innings, allowing two runs (zero earned) on three hits, striking out six and walking two on 110 pitches. He had his breaking pitches working and didn't allow the leadoff hitter on base in the first seven innings.
"I thought he was outstanding," Whitting said. "It was as good as I've ever seen Jordan Lewis. He couldn't have pitched any better."
Owls offense gets it together in 10th
The Owls got quality swings off of Houston sophomore righthander Chase Wellbrock in the 10th inning to power their way to the win. Wellbrock walked Chase McDowell to lead off the inning then Christian Stringer and J.T. Chargois followed with back-to-back singles — McDowell scored on the Chargois single to tie the game 3-3. With no outs and runners on the corners, Whitting elected to intentionally walk Michael Ratterree to set up a force at every base, then Jeremy Rathjen hit a sacrifice fly just deep enough into center field that allowed Stringer to score the winning run from third.
Cougars scratch and claw
Rice's pitching reverted to its usual stellar form on Saturday after the Cougars got to the Owls' arms on Friday. Wayne Graham had a quick hook on righthander Austin Kubitza (three innings, one unearned run on two hits), but the Owls bullpen was solid. Lefthander Taylor Wall threw 4 1/3 scoreless to lead that effort.
Houston was still able to scratch out two runs on some Rice mistakes: the first one came from Wall after back-to-back bunts from the Cougars. Wall misplayed then made an errant throw on a Gibson bunt that allowed John Cannon to score from second base for a 1-0 UH lead in the fourth. In the eighth, Jonathan Davis drew a one-out walk, moved to third on an error by shortstop Derek Hamilton and came home on and RBI single by Zack Gibson.
Davis also had a clutch hit in the 10th, leading off the inning with a double and eventually coming home on a pinch-hit RBI single by Jake Runte.
"The kids played hard and I feel bad for our team because I know they really wanted to win this game and they played as hard as they could but it just didn't work out for us," Whitting said. "They'll be fine (mentally). This isn't the first time this has happened to us this year. We usually bounce back pretty good."
Odds and ends
- Senior closer Mo Wiley has been ruled out for the remainder of the weekend. He suffered a jaw injury after being struck in the face by a ball at practice on Wednesday.
- Saturday was the first Rice win when trailing after eight innings. It was Houston's first loss when leading after seven innings (they're now 13-1 this season).
On the softball field: Houston sophomore catcher Haley Outon tied the Cougars' single-season record for home runs by hitting her 19th on Saturday as Houston swept Southern Mississippi in a doubleheader at Cougar Softball Stadium.
Outon helped lift the Cougars to a 4-3 win in the second-half of the doubleheader. She has 19 on the season, tying Laurie Wagner's total set in 2008. Outon had two home runs on the day, also hitting one in the first game, a 7-5 win.
It was senior day for the Cougars, who have three seniors on the squad: Melissa Gregson, Jennifer Klinkert and Kelly Lindley. All three played all 14 innings on Saturday.
Bailey Watts (13-8) got the win in the first game, throwing a complete game. Freshman Summer Groholski (8-5) got the win in the nightcap. Melissa Gregson went 3-for-6 with two doubles.
Houston plays its home finale against Southern Miss at noon on Sunday at Cougar Softball Stadium.


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When you think of the Royal Opera House people naturally think of Covent Garden but in recent times Thurrock (on the River Thames to the East of London) has become another key location for the ROH. It's been two and a half years since ROH's Bob and Tamar Manoukian Production Workshop opened as the first element of the High House Production Park in Purfleet, alongside the wonderfully restored High House Farm buildings.
Since then the Workshop has produced scenery for Main Stage productions including epic scale stagings of Les Troyens and Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and we're proud that when a finished production is in front of thousands at Covent Garden, it was 'made in Thurrock'. The High House Production Park has also been hugely successful in providing training for our apprentices.
We're now looking into whether we can increase our production operations at the High House Production Park by building a facility that would supplement our costume making operation within the Royal Opera House, and store costumes from both our current ballet and opera productions, and our historic collections.
We're hoping that, by working in partnership with others, we'll be able to establish the new building as hub for both for learning and training in costume, and for sharing knowledge with creative industries across the Eastern region about sustainable production and business practice.
This would add an exciting new element to the High House Production Park which, with the National Skills Academy's new Backstage Centre now fully operational and Acme's Artists' Studios due to open later in the summer, has firmly established itself as a vibrant centre for creative industries.
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A large, climatically diverse country producing just about every wine style imaginable, Australia is not just a source of blockbuster Shiraz or inexpensive wine with cute labels, though both can certainly be found here. Australia has a grand winemaking history and some of the oldest vines on the planet, along with a huge range of landscapes and climates; it is impossible to make generalizations about Australian wine. Most regions are concentrated in the south of the country with those inland experiencing warm, dry weather, and those in more coastal areas receiving humid and tropical, or maritime weather patterns. Australia has for several decades been at the forefront of winemaking technology and has widely adopted the use of screwcaps, even for some premium and ultra-premium bottles.
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Using spaces of homomorphisms and the descending central series of the free groups, simplicial spaces are constructed for each integer q > 1 and every topological group G, with realizations B(q,G) that filter the classifying space BG. In particular for q=2 this yields a single space B(2,G) assembled from all the n-tuples of commuting elements in G. Related stable splittings for spaces of commuting elements in a compact Lie group will also be discussed.
In this talk, which is a report on joint work with Stefan Friedl, I will explain why, for n prime (or more generally n a prime power), every irreducible metabelian SL(n,C) representation of a knot group factors through a finite group. It is a consequence that every such representation is conjugate to an SU(n) representation and that there are only finitely many (up to conjugation). I will present a simple formula for this number in terms of the Alexander polynomial of the knot. This result is the natural n > 2 generalization of a result of Nagasato on metabelian SL(2,C) representations of knot groups.
Essential dimension is a notion invented by Joe Buhler and Zinovy Reichstein to measure the number of parameters required to define an algbraic object. In my talk, I'll define the essential dimension of a stack and state a "genericity theorem" which computes the essential dimension of a smooth Deligne-Mumford stack as the sum of the essential dimension over the generic point in the course moduli space and the dimension of the course moduli space. I'll give a more precise theorem that holds when the stack is a gerbe over a complete local ring.
This is joint work with Zinovy Reichstein and Angelo Vistoli.
We obtain invariants of topological homology cobordism of 3-manifolds and link concordance from iterated p-covers. Our invariants have values in certain L-groups and can detect torsion which is invisible via signature invariants. We also show that the invariants can extract information from arbitrarily higher terms of the derived series of the fundamental group. Applications include the first proof of the conjecture that the Bing double of the figure eight knot is not slice.
We show that the understanding of certain natural algebraic invariants associated to a class of Lagrangian submanifolds (called wide) is intimately related to certain number theoretic questions via the theory of quadratic forms. This relation is significant because it offers a conceptual perspective on the definition of some enumerative invariants involving genus zero pseudo-holomorphic curves with boundary.
This talk is based on joint work with Paul Biran.
Actions of the Lie algebra sl(2) on vector spaces arise naturally in combinatorics, geometry, and algebra. Such an action consists of a sequence of vector spaces with linear maps between them satisfying certain relations.
From this perspective, one can define an action of sl(2) on a category to be a sequence of categories with functors between them satisfying certain relations. Such actions were studied by Chuang-Rouquier in the context of representations of the symmetric group in positive characteristic. More recently, Cautis, Licata, and the speaker studied an action of sl(2) where the categories involved were derived categories of coherent sheaves on cotangent bundles to Grassmannians. Following the ideas of Chuang-Rouquier, we used this sl(2) action to construct an equivalence of derived categories between different cotangent bundles of Grassmannians.
A normal projective complex surface is called a rational homology projective plane (rhpp) if it has the same Betti numbers with the complex projective plane. It is known that a rhpp with quotient singularities has at most 5 singular points. So far all known examples have at most 4 singular points. In this talk, we prove that such a rhpp has at most 4 singular points except one case. The exceptional case comes from Enriques surfaces with a special configuration of 9 smooth rational curves. This answers a question posed by J. Kollár.
We also obtain a similar result in the symplectic orbifold case.
This is related to a conjecture posed by D. Montgomery and C. T. Yang in the 1970s about differentiable circle actions on the 5-dimensional sphere S5 with finitely many non-free orbits. Some progress on this problem will also be discussed.
In this talk, we will explain how construction of Seidel's long exact sequence of Floer cohomology under the symplectic Dehn twists can be extended to general, especially closed, Calabi-Yau manifolds. The highlight of the talk is our usage of the notion of "anchored Lagrangian submanifolds" and some study of compactness issue of the moduli space of pseudo-holomorphic sections in the setting of symplectic Lefschetz fibrations.


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The researchers also found that selective use of drug-eluting stents saves the nation's health care system about $400 million a year.
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The standards for determining prosecutorial misconduct in closing argument are analyzed and applied.
Appeal from Wyandotte District Court; J. DEXTER BURDETTE, judge. Opinion filed January 11, 2001. Conviction affirmed, sentence vacated, and case remanded with directions.
Thomas R. Telthorst, of Kansas City, for the appellant.
Terra D. Morehead, assistant district attorney, Nick A. Tomasic, district attorney, and Carla J. Stovall, attorney general, for the appellee.
Before BEIER, P.J., PIERRON, J., and WAHL, S.J.
PIERRON, J.: Ulysses S. Wright, appeals his conviction for one count of robbery, a severity level 5 person felony, in violation of K.S.A. 21-3426. Wright argues that improper comments by the prosecutor denied him a fair trial and that his upward departure sentence should be reversed under Apprendi v. New Jersey, 530 U.S. 466, 147 L. Ed. 2d 435, 120 S. Ct. 2348 (2000). We affirm the conviction and remand for resentencing.
John Cauley is an elderly man who knew Tahmeka Henson for many years prior to the robbery. He said he occasionally gave Henson money and that he referred to her as "Mickey." Cauley testified he was mowing his lawn on the day of the robbery when Henson and Wright pulled up in a red truck. Cauley said Henson asked to use the phone. Cauley got the phone and let Henson use it on the porch while he continued mowing. Cauley said that after awhile Wright got out of the truck and came on the porch with Henson.
After using the phone, Henson asked for a drink of water. Cauley escorted Henson inside while Wright stayed on the porch. Cauley said while they were in the kitchen, Wright came up behind him and bear-hugged him. Wright demanded $300. Cauley said he did not have any money. Wright told Henson to check Cauley's pockets where she found approximately $100. Cauley testified Wright threatened to kill him and then took him to the basement. After Wright could not find any more money, he told Cauley to stay in the basement until he was gone.
Cauley came out of the basement a few minutes later and telephoned Henson's grandmother to tell her about the robbery. Cauley said he also told his neighbor, Clarence Garrison, about the robbery. It was not until later that day or the next day that he called the police to report the robbery. Cauley identified Henson at trial but said he had not seen her since the robbery and that "it look[ed] like it could be her."
Garrison positively identified Wright and Henson as being at Cauley's house on the day in question. Garrison saw Henson using the phone on the porch while Cauley was mowing his lawn. He testified that after some time, Wright got out of the truck and joined Henson on the porch. He said Cauley later went inside while the two remained on the porch. Garrison went inside his house and did not see anything else concerning the robbery. However, Garrison said Cauley later told him he had been robbed. Garrison picked Wright out of a photo lineup.
Both Wright and Henson took the stand. Henson said she had had a prostitution relationship with Cauley since she was 17 years old. Henson testified that on the day in question, she visited Cauley to borrow money. Cauley agreed to give her money in exchange for posing nude and for giving Cauley oral sex. Henson said Cauley refused to pay her for services and an argument ensued and ended up on Cauley's front porch. After Cauley gave her the money, Henson said Cauley grabbed her buttocks. Henson testified that Wright came to the front porch and saw Cauley grab Henson's buttocks, but he did not participate in the argument.
Wright testified he dropped Henson off at Cauley's house so she could use the phone. He sat in the truck while Henson used the phone inside Cauley's house. Wright said he waited 15 to 25 minutes and then decided to see what was going on. As he got out of the truck, he saw Henson and Cauley on the front porch. Wright said it looked like Henson and Cauley were arguing and then he saw Cauley grab Henson.
Wright testified he walked up on the porch and confronted Cauley. He asked Cauley, "[H]ow you gonna disrespect me by grabbing Tahmekah on her butt? How you gonna disrespect me by grabbing my woman on her butt?" Wright said he turned to Henson and she said Cauley had propositioned her to have oral sex with him for money. Wright said he was upset, and he told Cauley that he guessed Cauley owed Henson money for grabbing her butt. Wright then returned to his truck. Wright denied entering Cauley's house or robbing him.
On cross-examination, Wright admitted writing a letter to Henson after they were arrested. Part of the letter stated: "Baby, no matter what you hear, I'm going to stick to our story of what went on that day. I wish we could start all over again. Boy have we messed up our lives." Wright testified that by using the word "story," he was describing the events of the day. He also said the comment about messing up their lives was in reference to the fact that he had found out that day that Henson had been exchanging sexual favors for money with Cauley and that had messed up their relationship.
The jury convicted both Wright and Henson of robbery. Wright's classification of 5-F on the nondrug sentencing guidelines grid gave him a presumptive sentencing range of 41 - 47 months' incarceration. The trial court granted the State's motion for upward durational departure and sentenced Wright to 83 months' incarceration.
Wright argues the State committed reversible error during closing arguments in commenting on the defendants' willingness to lie and by impermissibly bolstering the credibility of Cauley's testimony. Neither of the alleged prejudicial comments were objected to at trial.
Reversible error predicated on prosecutorial misconduct must be of such a magnitude as to deny a defendant's constitutional right to a fair trial. State v. Sperry, 267 Kan. 287, 308, 978 P.2d 933 (1999). The court in State v. Pabst, 268 Kan. 501, Syl. ¶ 3, 996 P.2d 321 (2000), set forth the following two-part test:
"The analysis of the effect of a prosecutor's allegedly improper remarks in closing argument is a two-step process. First, an appellate court determines whether the remarks were outside the considerable latitude the prosecutor is allowed in discussing the evidence. In criminal trials, the prosecution is given wide latitude in language and in manner or presentation of closing argument as long as it is consistent with the evidence adduced. Second, an appellate court must determine whether the remarks constitute plain error; that is, whether they are so gross and flagrant as to prejudice the jury against the accused and deny a fair trial, requiring reversal."
Wright complains of the following comments by the State during closing argument:
"But obviously there is something at stake for them. Is that enough to make them lie? Is it enough that they would lie for themselves? Is Tahmekah Henson gonna lie to keep Tahmekah Henson out of trouble? And is Ulysses Wright gonna lie to keep Ulysses Wright out of trouble?
"But, better yet, you'll see instruction or State's Exhibit No. 2 or 3, it's a love letter. Mr. Wright identified it as a letter, but it's filled with, I love you, I hope you're doing fine. I love you with all that is in me. You'll have this back there to read. It's a love letter. They were fiancees. They were getting ready to be married. And what do you do when you go out in trouble go out and get in trouble? Tahmekah Henson's gonna lie for herself and she's gonna lie for Ulysses Wright. Ulysses Wright's gonna lie for himself and he's gonna lie for Tahmekah. And they thought up this story."
Wright also complains that when defense counsel commented: "Maybe [Cauley's] memory's gone bad, maybe he's having problems remembering the facts," the State stated in rebuttal, "Well, it didn't sound to me like it's faded."
Wright argues the State's comments satisfied both elements of the prosecutorial misconduct test. He contends it was clearly improper for the State to tell the jury the defendants were "gonna lie" and that they "thought up this story." He also contends the State improperly bolstered Cauley's testimony by giving her personal opinion of Cauley's testimony. Wright argues both comments were severely prejudicial and denied him a fair trial. He states the crux of this case was about credibility and the State's comments "tainted the critical jury determination upon which the entire case balanced." He contends the State's personal impression of Cauley's memory bolstered his testimony, while the allegations of lying denigrated his testimony. He suggests the jurors could have returned a not guilty verdict absent the State's comments since they reasonably could have doubted Cauley's memory and veracity.
The State concedes the prosecutor's comments should not have been made. However, in citing State v. Scott, 271 Kan. 103, 21 P.3d 516 (2001), the State argues there has been nothing to suggest an "ill will" on the part of the State or that the comments were so gross and flagrant to prejudice the jury against Wright and deny him a fair trial.
Credibility was the key issue in this case. The court in Pabst stated: "When a case develops that turns on which of two conflicting stories is true, it may be reasonable to argue, based on evidence, that certain testimony is not believable. However, the ultimate conclusion as to any witness' veracity rests solely with the jury." 268 Kan. at 507.
Under the first prong of the Pabst test, we are to determine whether the remarks were outside the considerable latitude the prosecutor is allowed in discussing the evidence. 268 Kan. 501, Syl. ¶ 3. No rule governing oral argument is more fundamental than that requiring counsel to confine their remarks to matters in evidence. State v. Bradford, 219 Kan. 336, Syl. ¶ 4, 548 P.2d 812 (1976). When the prosecutor calls the defendant a liar or vouches for the credibility of a witness, such comment is clearly outside matters in evidence. Pabst, 268 Kan. at 506. These types of comments are improper and violative of the Kansas Rules of Professional Conduct and the ABA standards for prosecutors. See KPRC 3.4 (2001 Kan. Ct. R. Annot. 406); ABA Standard 3-5.8(e). The State has conceded this point and further comment is unnecessary.
Not every trial error constitutes reversible error. In examining the second prong of the prosecutorial misconduct test, the court in Scott cited the following analysis in determining reversible error:
"(1) whether the misconduct is so gross and flagrant as to deny the accused a fair trial; (2) whether the remarks show ill will on the prosecutor's part; and (3) whether the evidence against the defendant is of such a direct and overwhelming nature that the misconduct would likely have little weight in the minds of the jury. State v. Lockhart, 24 Kan. App. 2d 488, 492, 947 P.2d 461, rev. denied 263 Kan. 889 (1997). We must also consider whether the comment was sanctioned by the trial court. See Pabst, 268 Kan. at 509 (considering trial court's response to misconduct of prosecutor after objection by defendant); State v. Zamora, 247 Kan. 684, 691, 803 P.2d 568 (1990) (considering whether failure to sustain objection and admonish jury prejudiced the defendant's right to a fair trial); State v. Salter, 2 Kan. App. 2d 635, 637-39, 586 P.2d 62 (1978) (reversing conviction and ordering new trial where trial court stated that it was a 'fair conclusion' when prosecutor stated that witness had lied)." 271 Kan. at ___.
Wright does not cite any cases for factual similarity. Rather, he makes the general statement recognizing the issue hinges on our subjective reaction to the prosecutor's improper comments. Wright maintains no one can say with certainty how the jurors would have voted absent the prosecutorial misconduct.
We have examined caselaw on the prejudicial effect of prosecutorial misconduct in closing argument. The present case clearly does not rise to the level of misconduct found in Pabst, for example, where the prosecutor called the defendant a liar at least 11 times and attempted to bolster the State's witnesses while also attempting to alter the burden of proof, or as found in State v. Lockhart, 24 Kan. App. 2d 488, 492, 947 P.2d 461, rev. denied 263 Kan. 889 (1997), where the prosecutor repeatedly called both the defendant and his defense counsel liars, even after the trial court sustained defense counsel's objection.
The comments in the case at bar are similar to those made by the prosecutors in State v. Whitaker, 255 Kan. 118, 872 P.2d 278 (1994), and State v. Eastridge, 20 Kan. App. 2d 973, 894 P.2d 243 (1995). The comments complained of by Wright do not meet the three factors set forth in Scott. Compared to other cases where the defendant is intentionally called a liar or defense counsel's integrity is questioned, there is no evidence of ill will on the part of the prosecutor in the present case. Additionally, the prosecutor's improper remarks were not so gross and flagrant as to prejudice the jury against the accused and deny him a fair trial. See Whitaker, 255 Kan. at 134.
After reviewing the record in its entirety and the relevant law, we find the State's comments had little, if any, likelihood of having changed the result of the trial, and we are able to hold such a belief beyond a reasonable doubt. Again, though, it cannot be overstated that a prosecutor's zealousness in arguing a case to the jury should not be given too loose a rein. Drawing reasonable inferences from the evidence is critical to the effective prosecution of a case, but restraint is equally necessary to not inappropriately denigrate opposing counsel or inject personal evaluations of the honesty of witnesses.
Wright also argues his upward departure sentence should be reversed based on the United States Supreme Court's decision in Apprendi, 530 U.S. 466. We agree based on our Supreme Court's recent decision in State v. Gould, 271 Kan. ___, 23 P.3d 801 (2001).
The trial court granted the State's motion for upward durational departure, stating Wright and Henson took advantage of Cauley, an 89-year-old man, that Wright put his hands on and threatened Cauley, and that Wright violated Cauley's personal safety. The trial court's findings of fact and reasons justifying a departure are supported by evidence in the record and constitute substantial and compelling reasons for departure as a matter of law. See K.S.A. 21-4721(d). However, Gould, relying on Apprendi, stated:
"The notice and jury trial guarantees of the Sixth Amendment and the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment require that a factual determination resulting in an increase in the maximum prison sentence for an offense beyond the sentence established in the appropriate grid box under K.S.A. 2000 Supp. 21- 4704 be made by a jury beyond a reasonable doubt." 271 Kan. ___, Syl. ¶ 2.
The Gould court found the Kansas Sentencing Guidelines scheme for imposing upward departure sentences, embodied in K.S.A. 2000 Supp. 21-4716, to be unconstitutional on its face. 271 Kan. 103, Syl. ¶ 3. The holding in Gould applies to this case. See State v. Seibel, 29 Kan. App. 2d. ___, 28 P.3d 445 (2001). Therefore, Wright must be resentenced.
Conviction affirmed, sentence vacated, and case remanded for resentencing.
BEIER, J., concurring: I write separately because I believe the prosecutorial misconduct in this case raises an extremely close question and highlights our need for additional direction from the Supreme Court on the quality and quantity of misbehavior necessary before we are compelled to find the existence of "ill will."
Although I agree ultimately that the prosecutorial misconduct here does not require reversal, I would not rely, as the majority of the panel does, on State v. Whitaker, 255 Kan. 118, 872 P.2d 278 (1994), and State v. Eastridge, 20 Kan. App. 2d 973, 894 P.2d 243 (1995). Those decisions predate State v. Pabst, 268 Kan. 501, 996 P.2d 321 (2000), and State v. Lockhart, 24 Kan. App. 2d 488, 947 P.2d 461, rev. denied 263 Kan. 889 (1997), the Court of Appeals opinion dealing with a prosecutor's statements denigrating defense counsel's credibility, on which Pabst in part relied. I believe the persuasive value of Whitaker and Eastridge has been diminished. I instead look to Pabst and its two-part standard, the second part of which is further broken down into three factors. Pabstand subsequent cases attempting to employ its revitalized scrutiny of prosecutorial misconductcontrol the analysis and outcome here.
As Judge Pierron has noted, Pabst counsels us to look first at whether the prosecutor's remarks were outside the considerable latitude allowed in a discussion of the evidence. There can be no serious dispute that the remarks at issue here fall well outside recognized boundaries. Pabst then asks us to determine whether the remarks constitute plain error. 268 Kan. at 505.
The second prong of Pabst requires us to evaluate whether the conduct was "'"'so gross and flagrant as to deny the accused a fair trial,'"'" whether the remarks showed ill will on the prosecutor's part, and whether the evidence against the accused was "'"'of such a direct and overwhelming nature that the misconduct would likely have little weight in the minds of the jurors.'"'" 268 Kan. at 508 (quoting Lockhart, 24 Kan. App. 2d at 492).
The majority panel opinion concludes: "Compared to other cases where the defendant is intentionally called a liar or defense counsel's integrity is questioned, there is no evidence of ill will on the part of the prosecutor in the present case." This is the statement with which I differ. Neither Pabst nor the cases following it inevitably require the defendant to demonstrate an instance or instances of spiteful or malicious State conduct beyond the credibility-maligning misconduct underlying the claim. See State v. Hazley, 28 Kan. App. 2d 664, 669-70, 19 P.3d 800 (2001) (negative comments about credibility of defense witness meet ill will standard; conclusion bolstered by additional improper argument); State v. Magdaleno, 28 Kan. App. 2d 429, 437, 17 P.3d 974, rev. denied 271 Kan. ___ (2001) (negative comments about defense counsel's integrity manifest ill will); State v. Pham, 27 Kan. App. 2d 996, 1005-06, 10 P.3d 780 (2000) (negative comments about defense counsel reflect ill will; other improper comments reinforce that conclusion). This makes logical as well as legal sense. Although the "ill will" inquiry may be largely an enterprise that relies on individual judges to "know it when they see it," a single impermissible remark or behavior may be so persistent, so extreme, or so unduly prejudicial that it alone demonstrates the existence of ill will. One objectionable comment or behavior repeated and emphasized with impunity is certainly amenable to such a characterization. See Pabst, 268 Kan. at 505-12; Lockhart, 24 Kan. App. 2d 491-93. In my view, that is exactly what we are faced with in this case.
The prosecutor in Wright's trial did not make an isolated, stray, or accidental remark. Rather, the prosecutor told the jury explicitly that Wright and his fiancee would lie: "Tahmekah Henson's gonna lie for herself and she's gonna lie for Ulysses Wright. Ulysses Wright's gonna lie for himself and he's gonna lie for Tahmekah. And they thought up this story." Unchecked by any defense objection or admonition from the bench, the prosecutor was considerably more direct than prosecutors in other cases subject to reversal have been. See Hazley, 28 Kan. App. 2d at 666 (no doubt witness "knew of facts contrary to his testimony"); Magdaleno, 28 Kan. App. 2d at 437 (defense counsel "knows . . . that is not true"); Pham, 27 Kan. App. 2d at 1005 (defendant and defense counsel do not "care about the truth").
The Pabst/Lockhart factor that saves this case from reversal is the third. The weight of the evidence was "'"'of such a direct and overwhelming nature that the misconduct would likely have little weight in the minds of the jurors.'"'" Pabst, 268 Kan. at 508 (quoting Lockhart, 24 Kan. App. 2d at 492). Given the elderly victim's testimony, the neighbor's corroboration, and the ambiguity in Wright's letter, the error had little, if any, likelihood of changing the result at trial. We also have not detected other error that could have combined with the prosecutorial misconduct and required reversal under the doctrine of cumulative error. I therefore concur in affirming Wright's conviction.


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WELLS, Maine -- Grinders Games is offering free table space anytime for people to bring in their own games and play, or borrow some of the business's. It also has set up a computer lab that will be free for job-hunting and school work.
After opening doors in November 2012, Grinders has grown to serve locals in all things social-gaming related, from board games, role playing games, and table top games, all the way up to collectible card games. Recently the business installed a computer lab with six computer stations in the back. The purpose is to answer what appears to be a desperate need in the area for public internet sources. They have Wifi and now six stations and are offering free computer use for job hunting and for school work. Everything else is going to be $4/hour.
Store hours are noon until late, seven days a week. We will never close before 10pm and due to weather, said owner Aaron M. Combs.
Grinders is at 1517 Post Rd Suite #9 (located inside the old Movie Gallery location) in Wells.
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Olympic gold medalist credits training with Todd Honea for helping to save her life. Jeff Metcalfe/azcentral sports
Todd Honea discovered his calling, partly out of necessity, while in the Marines: to get fit and help others to do the same. But he could never imagine, after graduating as Ironman from Platoon 2082 Hotel Company boot camp, that eventually his fitness regimen would help to save the life of an Olympian.
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Amy Van Dyken-Rouen simply wanted to get into better shape when she was referred to Honea at StudioFit in Scottsdale about a year ago.
"One of my dearest friends (Elisa Persi) said I was going to like this place," Van Dyken-Rouen said. "I went and met Todd and had a good vibe about him. Every time I would come home (from Los Angeles, where she was then working for Fox Sports Radio) I made sure to go work out there. It was a no-brainer to join when I came back to Arizona."
Elite swimming took a toll on Van Dyken-Rouen, a six-time Olympryic gold medalist in the 1996 and 2000 Games. There were shoulder surgeries leading in to her second Olympics — "I'm surprised that I can even put on a swimsuit, let alone try to make an Olympic team," she said before the 2000 Olympic Trials — followed by back and neck spasms affecting her entire body.
Settling in Scottsdale with her husband, Tom Rouen, Van Dyken-Rouen found some relief at AZ Pain Centers and became one of their celebrity spokespersons, appearing in television commercials with former Arizona State and Dallas Cowboys quarterback Danny White.
Honea returned to his native Arizona after his military service to begin accumulating fitness certifications and working in the industry. When StudioFit opened a second location in May 2013, he joined as co-manager and soon would meet Van Dyken-Rouen.
"I knew her name and that she was friends with one of our members," Honea said. "As soon as I started training her, there was an instant bond between us. We get each other."
Or as an Olympic athlete, Van Dyken-Rouen understood what Honea demanded of her.
"There were a lot of nasty looks, mostly me to him," she said, laughing but only half-joking. "He's not afraid to push me. I was cussing him out. How could he hurt me, just a petite little flower, like that? But if he hadn't, I wouldn't be here."
On June 6, Van Dyken-Rouen nearly died in an ATV accident in Show Low. She believes her survival of the crash and subsequent six-hour spinal surgery at Scottsdale Healthcare Osborn Medical Center is in part due to what Honea describes as three-dimensional training "so everything starts working as one unit and makes the body more adaptable to change and trauma."
Life for Van Dyken-Rouen now is all about change. She's mostly paralyzed from the waist down although recently, during rehabilitation at Craig Hospital in Denver, was able to move her hip flexors. That breakthrough will allow her to put braces on her legs to prevent her knees from buckling and walk with crutches.
Van Dyken-Rouen said she uses the strength gained from training with Honea daily.
"Without that, I would have been crushed by the ATV and who knows if I would be recovering as well?" she said. "It makes getting in and out of the wheelchair easier. He also works a lot on mental toughness, which you need in a situation like this. Not that I didn't have that before, but it's been so long since I competed that it's nice to hone it. You always want to feel you're in shape even if it's just to look good in short shorts. But it can also save your life."
Honea learned about Van Dyken-Rouen's accident June 7 and was at the hospital with her family until completion of her surgery. He was one of the first to speak with her when she could see visitors 72 hours after surgery.
"She was thankful, and I was thankful she was still alive," Honea said. "I said, 'All right Amy we're going to have this conversation once.' I told her, 'I'm very sorry for this happening and in many aspects I wish it had been me and I feel horrible. With that said, I'm not going to give you any more slack than I ever did. I'm going to train you just as hard, if not harder, and we have work to do.' "
Van Dyken-Rouen said, "Yes, we do," and they hugged.
She is scheduled to be discharged Aug. 14 from Craig Hospital and return to Arizona by early September.
There was never any doubt in her mind that the next step would be to return to training with Honea, who will be in Colorado to meet with her and her physical therapist this month. Almost four months before the accident, she wrote a five-star review of StudioFit on its website, saying she would "follow him (Honea) to the end of the earth."
Honea, 42, a year older than Van Dyken-Rouen, looks no-nonsense with his red hair combed back and a sinewy build that matches his profession. The soft side to the father of two young children comes out talking about his clients and the grief they went through when one of their own was severely injured.
"Right after it first happened, people couldn't complain about doing too many lunges," Honea said. "It kind of put life into perspective. We're all as a family very excited to get her back in here and get our arms around her, embrace her and help her with this part of her life."
Van Dyken-Rouen is planning to complete a marathon in her purple wheelchair with skulls, which she gets in another two weeks, with her brother David. Honea, with a couple of P.F. Chang's Rock 'n' Roll Arizona 1/2 marathons to his credit, promises to not only train her — upper body, grip strength, core stability — for the 26.2-mile race but complete it with her.
"I would say there are no accidents in life," Honea said. "Who knows why she was sent to me, but she was. We all had our part and still do. It's my job to fulfill that part. With Amy, I always expect extraordinary. It's what she does."


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Who Should Be The New Face of Twinkies?
After a brief and panic-inducing sabbatical, Twinkies are coming back, now that investors have scooped them up from the dying Hostess corporation. The big question now: who can be trusted to represent this storied American chemical product?
Names being floated by the new owner include Zach Galifianakis and "the cast of 'Duck Dynasty.'" Uhhhhhh, people with beards clearly should not eat Twinkies due to the dangers of Creme Crumb Syndrome. The new owner needs some new ideas. And America needs a new hero.
1. George W. Bush: Everyone wins. George gets a job, his family gets him out of the house, America gets to keep him occupied with something he's good at. There is no downside.
2. Blowfly: Probably already has some lyrics involving Twinkies. Will accept Twinkies as payment.
3. George Washington: "What does the father of his country eat when he works up an appetite from securing our freedoms and such?" *Camera cuts to team of assistants hanging off Mount Rushmore by ropes shoveling handfuls of Twinkies into the carved 'mouth' of Washington's rocky visage* "Twinkies. That's what... I'm being told legal has not cleared this spot."
4. Popular Bollywood Actress Shilpa Shetty: "Shilpa Shetty has had some exposure outside of India, most notably on the British edition of reality TV atrocity Big Brother, where she was the victim of some cruel racial slurs. If you needed any more proof that racism is wrong, there it is." A product with a message.
5. A bloated corpse: The typical end-stage Twinkies consumer.
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It's hard for me to express just how excited I am about the new documentary, "The Business of Being Born," with Ricki Lake as the executive producer. From what I have read and seen, it looks like it was very well done. It is my supreme hope that it will continue to build momentum towards a shift in how birth happens in this country.
There was just a brief discussion about it on The View this morning. I don't normally watch The View, but a friend told me Ricki was going to be on, so I tuned in to catch what I could while Ava chattered in the background. 😉 Ricki said she isn't trying to say that everyone should have a home birth or that she's anti-hospitals, but she wants all women to know that they have a choice. Rosie O'Donnell sounded very supportive of it and Elisabeth Hasselbeck, who's pregnant with her second child, seemed very interested as well. Joy Behar said she was skeptical. I guess ya can't win 'em all. And Barbara Walters wasn't there. (aww, bummer. ha!)
Here are a few clips from the segment. It sucks that I can't find the whole thing online yet. Maybe later.
Added on 5/5/07: Someone on Mothering.com posted a link to the whole Ricki Lake segment on "The View" from the other day.
About the documentary from The Business of Being Born:
Birth is a miracle, a rite of passage, a natural part of life. But birth is also big
Compelled to explore the subject after the delivery of her first child, actress Ricki
Lake recruits filmmaker Abby Epstein to question the way American women have
Epstein gains access to several pregnant New York City women as they weigh
their options. Some of these women are or will become clients of Cara
Muhlhahn, a charismatic midwife who, between birth events, shares both
memories and footage of her own birth experience.
Footage of women having babies punctuates THE BUSINESS OF BEING
BORN. Each experience is unique; all are equally beautiful and equally
surprising. Giving birth is clearly the most physically challenging event these
women have ever gone through, but it is also the most emotionally rewarding.
Along the way, Epstein conducts interviews with a number of obstetricians,
experts and advocates about the history, culture and economics of childbirth.
The film's fundamental question: should most births be viewed as a natural life
process, or should every delivery be treated as a potential medical emergency?
As Epstein uncovers some surprising answers, her own pregnancy adds a very
personal dimension to THE BUSINESS OF BEING BORN, a must-see movie for
anyone even thinking about having a baby.
Want to read more? Here's an interview with Ricki Lake and the Huffington Post discussing the movie. Here's a bit of it:
Why did you want to produce this film?
I wanted to make this movie after my two very different birth experiences with my children. I felt like I had an opportunity to explore and question birthing practices in this country and perhaps be an advocate for mothers' rights and better maternity care.
How did your personal birth experiences influence you?
After the birth of my sons, particularly my home birth with my second son, I thought I wanted to become a midwife. Then I looked at all the years of schooling and training that I would have to do and felt that the time could be better spent doing a documentary on the subject of birth.
How intimate does the film get?
I am naked at 195 pounds giving birth in my own bathtub. It can't get any more intimate than that!
What do you hope people take away from the film?
A lot! I hope this film educates people and empowers them to really know their choices in childbirth. We do not want to make any woman feel bad about the outcome of her birth, or the choices she made (or will make).
The film is currently premiering at the Tribeca Film Festival and, according to Rosie O'Donnell on The View, it was the only film that received a standing ovation. 🙂
I leave you with some quotes about birth:
"If we are to heal the planet, we must begin by healing birthing." — Agnes Sallet Von Tannenberg
"$13 to $20 billion a year could be saved in health care costs by demedicalizing childbirth, developing midwifery, and encouraging breastfeeding." — Frank Oski, MD, Professor and Director, Department of Pediatrics, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
"Unfortunately, the role of obstetrics has never been to help women give birth. There is a big difference between the medical discipline we call "obstetrics' and something completely different, the art of midwifery. If we want to find safe alternatives to obstetrics, we must rediscover midwifery. To rediscover midwifery is the same as giving back childbirth to women. And imagine the future if surgical teams were at the service of the midwives and the women instead of controlling them." — Michel Odent, MD
"The experience profoundly changed my perspective. In the hospital, I hadn't perceived the anxiety and foreboding that permeated birth until I experienced the impact of its absence among the midwives. The peace, wonder, and intimacy were infinitely greater. What a compelling difference!" — Heidi Rinehart, MD (as quoted in Ina May's Guide to Childbirth by Ina May Gaskin)


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Tony Scheffler's eight-year NFL career is over because of concussions.
A second-round pick of the Denver Broncos back in 2006, Scheffler played four years with Denver and four years with Detroit. He told The Associated Press that he's decided to retire after three concussions in four years.
Scheffler was released by the Lions last October and had workouts with Chicago and Kansas City. He says there was "moderate" interest in him as a free agent.
A draft pick under Mike Shanahan in Denver, Scheffler's physical skills were always unquestioned. He caught a ton of highlight reel passes from Jay Cutler early in his career, gaining nearly 1,200 yards between 2007-2008. He was never as comfortable as a blocker, and wound up getting traded to Detroit in a three-way deal. We also remember him well from the underrated Stefan Fatsis book about the 2006 Broncos, A Few Seconds of Panic.
The Lions have moved on from Scheffler, pairing veteran Brandon Pettigrew with first round pick Eric Ebron this offseason.
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Fox Business Rebukes Poor People For Not Being Ashamed Of Their Poverty
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Fox Business maligned essential anti-poverty programs, deriding food stamps, unemployment insurance, and the Earned Income Tax Credit as "a form a welfare, income redistribution" and evidence that America now has an "entitlement mentality."
Host Stuart Varney's attack on these programs came just as a new study from the National Bureau of Economic Research showed just how essential these and other government programs are to keeping tens of millions of Americans out of poverty.
Arloc Sherman of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities noted that "public programs keep one in six Americans out of poverty -- primarily the elderly, disabled, and working poor -- and that the poverty rate would double without these programs." The CBPP included a graph to show just how important these programs are for reducing poverty amongst millions of Americans:
Yet Varney bemoaned "all these people on food stamps," Medicaid, the Earned Income Tax Credit and unemployment insurance as "a form of welfare, income redistribution" and "entitlement mentality." Watch:
Varney completely ignored the need for such programs to keep millions of Americans out of poverty. After guest and Democratic strategist Krystal Ball defended the social safety net, Fox's Charles Payne castigated poor people for not being embarrassed enough about their situation:
PAYNE: Krystal, there's no doubt that these are good programs. I think the real narrative here, though, is that people aren't embarrassed by it. People aren't ashamed by it. In other words, there was a time when people were embarrassed to be on food stamps. There was a time when people were embarrassed to be on unemployment for six months, let alone demanding to be on it for more than two years.
I think that's what Stu is trying to say, is that when the president says Wall Street is at fault, so, you are entitled to get anything that you want from the government, because it's not really your fault, no longer is the man being told to look in the mirror and cast down a judgment on himself. It's someone else's fault. So food stamps, unemployment, all of this stuff, is something that they probably earned in some indirect way.
Maybe it's Fox Business who should be ashamed of themselves.
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Create your own CD-i gamepad mod
>> Friday, December 28, 2007
One of the members of Retroforum.nl created his own personal CD-i gamepad by modifying his Sega Genesis Quickshot controller with the electronic part of the CD-i gamepad. Apparently it's not that difficult to mod a CD-i gamepad and create a more responsive gamepad instead. We all know the Philips gamepads are not the best and it's typically a hardware issue because the original Genesis (Megadrive) CD-i gamepad converter already shows it can get a lot better. Now this guy, called 'the fixer', showed us you can easily manipulate two gamepads compiling one good working CD-i pad as well.
I recommend you to read this review by Devin about the CD-i peripheral created by Paul Hackmann first, so you remember what happened between 2002 and 2005 about modding CD-i gamepads.
In these pictures it is shown what he has done to change the electronic part of the CD-i pad from the CD-i pad case into the Quickshot case. It is a destructive operation so you won't get back your original CD-i pad, be careful! Open the CD-i gamepad and cut out the circuit board, and make it smaller so it fits the Quickshot or similar sized controller.
After this operation, prepare the CD-i circuit board onto the Quickshot Megadrive controller pad and re-link all the buttons. According to this guy it's a very simple operation although I doubt all of us can copy this! I'm going to try this with my SNES quickshot controller soon.
Watch the pictures closely and you'll see how small the eventual circuit boards ends to be, and the relinking of the buttons is a difficult job if you're not experienced with electronics! Please note neither 'The Fixer' nor Interactive Dreams takes any responsibility for any damage you get by altering your CD-i hardware. Be careful and remember it's at your own risk!
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