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Dylan Moran, 41, has had a charmed career, or at least when it's viewed from the outside. The youngest ever winner of the Perrier Award for comedy, he scaled the heights of his chosen profession before he even knew how to identify them.
Fans in Ireland and here in the U.S. love him for his work in classic like Shaun of the Dead and Black Books, but even more than that they love his standup, which is driven by a withering contempt for ignorance in any form. (You can see for yourself when Moran appears at New York's Theatre 80 from December 3 to 8).
Moran probably got used to being the smartest man in the room years ago, but what he may not have expected to find was an international paying audience devoted to his every utterance. But it was all an accident, he says, a career that he fell into. None of it was planned.
"I never really had a career to be honest with you," he tells the Irish Voice. "I never in my life sat down and planned it. I have thought, 'Oh, I'd like to do this,' like anybody would. But I'm not the type that says if I do this it will lead to that.
"There's no master plan, it has never occurred to me. Instead I have found myself being asked to do this or that, and sometimes it would work out, and sometimes I wouldn't fancy it. It was never any kind of pathway or journey to somewhere in particular."
Moran's standup routines are unlike any other Irish comic on the circuit. They're flamboyant and strange and acidly funny.
They're also pointedly theatrical in the same way he is. It's no wonder he has a reputation for being intimidatingly clever.
"I have heard that about myself the odd time, but I'm always completely stumped whenever I do. I do not walk around imaging myself to be intimidating or smart," he says.
"I've seen stand up comedy and after a while you start to notice that a lot of people are doing things that are like a lot of other people. There can be a bit of a herd mentality and that's obviously less interesting because there's less going on. I'm just being totally frank with you.
"I'm interested in far more elaborate forms where you're in a castle or you're in a hot air balloon. I want to make it as elaborate and fun and as various as possible."
Who makes Moran laugh? It's usually writers more than stand-ups, he reveals.
"I don't watch a whole lot of stand up. Mainly I prefer to read writers, they make me laugh the most. Something gets you when you're alone and someone's voice is coming through their work. There's a different quality to it that stays with you a bit more."
In recent weeks Moran's been on set in writer and director John McDonagh's Calvary, his follow up to The Guard (which was the highest grossing film ever screened in Ireland).
"The plot very much falls upon the character played by Brendan Gleeson, a local priest intent on making the world a better place until he runs afoul of the vested interests in his little town. Think High Noon in Connemara," says Moran.
It seems certain to be the same kind of hit that McDonagh's hugely popular The Guard was, Moran says.
"I think it's a really good old-fashioned kind of Hollywood movie really. We were shooting in the west of Ireland, which I didn't know growing up, and it's extraordinary dramatic and beautiful landscape," Moran says.
"It adds to the atmosphere of a script pregnant with history. It feels big in a way that Ireland often doesn't."
Moran made his name as an actor in television and film playing brilliant but unstable characters not a million miles from his own real life persona. Does he agree?
"It's fair to say there's a lot of me in my work, but the important word is that it's heightened, or whatever you want to call it. In Black Books the objective was to make an entertaining half hour," he says.
"That's all you can do, you set the bar high for yourself. The distortion and the mangling of who you really are is inevitable and it wouldn't really be funny without that."
Growing up, one gets the sense that Moran must have been a handful. With all that restless intellectual energy, what was he like in his teens?
"I was quite keen to get to Dublin as quickly as possible," he laughs. "I'm at the point now where I've been out of Ireland as long as I was in it. I remember registering that.
"I'm really not big on nationalism to be honest with you. I really don't think it gets people anywhere except near a pile of dead bodies. I'm Irish, yeah, but I don't need to get up on a soapbox about it."
Coming from Ireland, with such a strong monoculture, he learned to have patience with other cultures, at least until he knows what's really going on.


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Roger improved to 56-1 in his last 57 North American hardcourt matches by trouncing Chinese Taipei's Yeu-Tzuoo Wang 6-4, 6-1, 6-0 in 100-minute fashion at Ashe Stadium. He swatted seven aces and broke Wang's serve eight times in a routine outing.
Brimming with confidence, Roger overpowered Wang with his superior shot making, and never allowed the Taiwanese to settle into the match at the Arthur Ashe main stadium. "I tried to play my game by being consistent and making him work hard," said Roger. "It really went well so this is a good start for me."
He next plays the winner of an all-British veterans battle between Greg Rusedski and Tim Henman. Roger, who waited until the third day of the tournament to hit the court, seemed to strengthen as the match progressed. He won 90 percent of his first serve points and hit twice as many winners (44-22) as Wang.
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OAKLAND -- A career criminal who had recently rekindled a decades-old romance with a federal criminal investigator has been arrested on suspicion of murder more than two months after the Oakland woman was found dead near a Vacaville park.
Randy Alana stands accused of killing Sandra Coke, 50, somewhere in Oakland on or around Aug. 4. Alana and Coke had met and begun a relationship while Coke investigated a capital murder case about 20 years ago.
On Thursday afternoon, Oakland police investigators officially arrested the 56-year-old Alana on suspicion of murder, vehicle theft and grand theft for multiple use of stolen credit cards or ATM cards, according to Alameda County jail records.
Alana has been held in Santa Rita Jail in Dublin on a parole hold since Aug. 6, and was booked for the new charges at 3:39 p.m. Thursday, records show.
He has not been formally charged by the Alameda County district attorney, said spokeswoman Teresa Drenick, who declined to comment on the case. Oakland police Sgt. Arturo Bautista declined to comment Thursday evening, referring all inquires to the district attorney's office.
Alana was arrested Aug. 6 at a BART station in Pittsburg after he fought with officers and their police dogs before he was subdued and transported to Santa Rita Jail. At the time of his arrest, Alana was on parole; he had been released from prison in June 2012 after serving 15 years for robbery. He is accused of violating that state prison parole by having "numerous contacts" with Coke despite a stay-away order, failing to charge his GPS monitor and resisting arrest.
After Coke's body was discovered Aug. 9, Alana was declared a "person of interest" by police. He stood to be held on the parole violation at Santa Rita Jail until Nov. 1, but a parole revocation hearing was scheduled for Friday morning. He is also slated to be arraigned on the murder charge Friday afternoon, jail records show.
Police have said Alana was the last person seen with Coke on Aug. 4 after she told family she was picking up a prescription and meeting someone with information about her missing dog.
Neighbors have confirmed Alana had resurfaced at Coke's home in the 600 block of Aileen Street in North Oakland three months before she disappeared. He told Bay Area News Group in a jailhouse interview in mid-August that he had not harmed Coke, but that the two planned to marry.
According to sources with knowledge of the investigation, Coke's Mini Cooper can be seen on video being driven across the Carquinez Bridge not long before her body was allegedly dumped near Vacaville's Lagoon Valley Park. Coke's car was later discovered in a West Oakland parking lot, and one of her cellphones was later found in Richmond.
Oakland police detectives are investigating the killing, signaling that police believe that Coke was killed within city limits and her body dumped in Solano County.
Alana has spent decades in and out of jail and is considered a high-risk sex offender, according to a state-run sex offender registry, which lists undated convictions for two counts of rape, kidnapping with intent to commit a sex offense and oral copulation.
In 1983, Alana was charged with the beating death of Marilyn Pigott, 23, a woman he had known since elementary school. Alana was eventually acquitted.
While in custody awaiting trial for Pigott's slaying, Alana and a fellow inmate were accused of fatally stabbing 40-year-old Al Ingram. Alana pleaded no contest to the killing in March 1988 and received a six-year prison sentence.
The link between Alana and Coke dates back more than 20 years when she worked for the federal public defender's office in Sacramento as an investigator working on mandatory death penalty appeals. The pair met when Coke interviewed Alana while he was incarcerated as part of a death penalty investigation.
Alana claims, and her family has confirmed, that the two had a brief relationship shortly thereafter, but her family said it stopped there.
While Alana continued his life of crime, only out of jail and prison for brief stints in the late 1990s, Coke built her career and went on with her life. On Feb. 2, 1998 -- a time when Alana was out of prison -- delivered a daughter at Alta Bates Hospital in Berkeley. The birth certificate on record is signed by Coke, but no father is listed.
During the jailhouse interview, Alana said the pair occasionally attended Harmony Missionary Baptist Church in Oakland together on Sundays, including the morning of her disappearance. Interim Harmony pastor Germaine Anderson has confirmed both Coke and Alana were "visitors" but not "members" of the church. He did not recall seeing them on Aug. 4.
Also during the interview, Alana talked of his love for Coke and their life together, but he declined to speak about what happened after Coke was last seen by her 15-year-old daughter about 8:30 p.m. Aug. 4 after leaving her home.
Coke's younger sister, Tanya Coke, who did not return calls or emails for comment Thursday, has disputed all of Alana's claims.
"This is a man with convictions for murder and kidnapping. He was the last person seen with my sister, but claims he has nothing to do with her disappearance and killing," she said in a written statement following the Aug. 17 interview. "He is clearly someone who thinks nothing of lying and manipulating to serve his purposes. Why would we or anyone else believe what he has to say?"
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In 1992, hurricane Andrew taught Florida a nasty lesson. Now every year since then, a hurricane drill is conducted to test the response of emergency agencies across the state. This year's hurricane is a nasty, unpredictable storm called Zeke.
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I knew that he was talented, I followed the mentioned 'Sloan' story.
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Dec. 7, 2011 (San Antonio) -- Women with advanced breast cancer may soon have two new treatment options.
Among women whose breast cancer continued to spread (metastasize) after treatment, adding the cancer drug Afinitor to a hormone drug called Aromasin more than doubled the time before the disease got worse.
Among women with untreated metastatic breast cancer, adding the experimental drug pertuzumab to the breast cancer drug Herceptin and chemotherapy increased the time before the cancer progressed.
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The most common serious side effects of Afinitor were mouth ulcers, shortness of breath, and anemia. Still, the side effects are not as severe as those associated with traditional chemo, he tells WebMD.
"This is the first study to ever show a benefit in these women," Edith Perez, MD, of the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Fla., tells WebMD. She was not involved with the work.
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Under first-year coach Tim Murphy, the top-seeded Eagles celebrated the first North Coast Section title in the school's 54-year history by beating Rancho Cotate-Rohnert Park 35-7 in the Division II final at Diablo Valley College.
"It feels amazing, I've never felt anything like it," said senior Curtis Grant, who had an interception and caught a touchdown pass in the victory. "All of our hard work from summer, everything we've been through from running, summer practices, weight training, it just feels amazing."
The top-seeded Eagles (12-1) made the No. 2 Cougars (12-1) pay for five turnovers while not committing any of their own in rainy conditions.
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Standout running back Joe Protheroe, who has owned the Clayton Valley's single-season rushing record for several weeks now, was held to a season-low 116 rushing yards, but returned the second-half kickoff 94 yards for a score and scored three total TDs.
On the season, Protheroe has 2,895 yards and 34 touchdowns. There's a good chance that number could grow. In all likelihood, the Eagles' spectacular season isn't over yet.
Clayton Valley is expected to receive heavy consideration for a berth to the Northern California Division II regional game next week.
Other teams in the mix for the NorCal Division II game include Sac-Joaquin Section Division III champion Oakdale and Enterprise-Redding of the Northern Section.
Matchups for the regional games will be determined and announced Sunday. The Eagles feel confident they'll receive good news.
Regional game winners then advance to the state bowl games in Carson the weekend of Dec. 14-15 to face the Southern California regional champions.
Though it's the first section title for Clayton Valley, it's the fourth for Murphy. He also earned an NCS title with Ygnacio Valley in 1999 then won two Central Section crowns with Clovis East.
"Coach Murphy is an amazing coach," Grant said. "He turned this whole program around."
Clayton Valley had reached section title games four other times, but fell short in all of them. Most recently, the Eagles lost to Cardinal Newman-Santa Rosa 17-7 in the 2008 Division II championship game.
Rancho Cotate's Jalon Luque rushed for a game-high 138 yards, putting him a over 2,000 over the season, but the Eagles defense didn't allow him to score. Clayton Valley held a 35-0 lead before Tanoa Pelei scored on a 1-yard run midway through the third quarter.
Quarterback Mike Protheroe, Joe's younger brother, accounted for two Clayton Valley touchdowns.


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Ian McKellen supposedly told Britain's The Daily Mirror about his diagnosis, saying that in addition to his hearing problems and cataract, he's been living with prostate cancer "for six or seven years."
However, the actor's agent disputes the report, according to ABC News.
Chris Andrews told ABCNews.com today that the actor, 73, does not have prostate cancer, as reported by the U.K. tabloid The Sun.
"No, he does not have prostate cancer. That was taken out of context and from an interview from years ago," Andrews said.
Andrews pointed to McKellen's appearance at the premiere of "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey" in New Zealand on Nov. 28 as evidence of the actor's health.
CLD Communications, which represents McKellen in the U.K., also confirmed that the story "was taken out of context."
McKellen is expected to attend the premiere of "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey" Wednesday night in London's Leicester Square.
The story supposedly quoted McKellen saying "You are going to write 'Ian McKellen is decrepit. He can't see, he can't hear he can't pee, he's having his teeth done,'" he told the UK paper, joking about his afflictions, which is fitting since he doesn't seem too worried about his health problems.
"When you have got (cancer) you monitor it and you have to be careful it doesn't spread. But if it is contained in the prostate it's no big deal," he explained.
"Many, many men die from it but it's one of the cancers that is totally treatable so I have 'waitful watching.' I am examined regularly and it's just contained, it's not spreading. I've not had any treatment."
Someone may be in trouble over this.
The actor looked quite healthy at the premiere of "The Hobbit," and McKellen recently told the Huffington Post that despite his age, he didn't feel it would have been easier to film the movie 10 years ago.
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crash wrote: but how can you legally discriminate between state secrets that should be released and those that shouldn't? this is one of those difficult situations where you need to apply the same standard to everyone and hope that those who realize that they have to buck the system do so with the knowledge that they might pay the price.
crash wrote: i don't think you can retroactively apply laws.


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From the Madone Premier Event.
Ok, the oft-asked, much debated, and a bit confusing question on brake pads came up for me this weekend at a hilly race when a set of Kool Stop carbons squealed like Lindsay Lohan at a Hollywood coke party.
I had run just regular Dura Ace pads on my Hed Stinger 50s with no problem, but understand with the heat and descents they'll melt with disastrous results. So I switched to the Kool Stop and they were fine for the first hour, then the horrible squeal started.
So what do you do? Live with the squeal, use a different pad, what?
Trek launches the 2008 Madones with a brochure site and lots of new technology, including a oversized 90mm wide bottom bracket shell, no headsets, seatmast, new carbon designations, and a fuselage approach. Responding to their competitors, like Specialized, Trek is coming out firing with a "we invented carbon bikes" approach and a frame that's a half-pound lighter
By de-emphasizing specific materials and instead focusing the discussion on our OCLV Carbon process " a process we invented 16 years ago and have been refining ever since - Trek can leverage our manufacturing, engineering, and design expertise to underscore the unique nature of our carbon fiber frames: a difference we're confident makes for the best carbon fiber frames on the planet.
A NYTimes.com media feature on the fixed-gear phenomena, includes the King Kog shop, the Kissena Track, scenes from the streets, and how to make $500 a week riding your bike.
A bike just waiting to be restored …


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For some people with colorectal cancer, treatment may remove or destroy the cancer. It can feel good to be done with treatment, but it can also be stressful. You may find that you now worry about the cancer coming back. This is a very common concern among those who have had cancer. (When cancer comes back, it is called a recurrence.)
It may take a while before your recovery begins to feel real and your fears are somewhat relieved. You can learn more about what to look for and how to learn to live with the chance of cancer coming back in Living With Uncertainty: The Fear of Cancer Recurrence.
For other people, the cancer may never go away completely. These people may get regular treatments to try to help keep the cancer in check. Learning to live with cancer that does not go away can be hard and stressful. It has its own type of uncertainty. See When Cancer Doesn't Go Away for more about this.
Follow-up care
Even if your treatment ends, your doctors will still want to watch you closely. During these visits, your doctor will ask about symptoms, do physical exams, and may order blood tests or imaging studies (like CT scans or MRIs). Follow-up is needed to watch for treatment side effects and to check for cancer that has come back or spread.
Almost any cancer treatment can have side effects. Some may last for a few weeks or months, but others can be permanent. To some extent, how often you have follow up visits and tests will depend on the stage of your cancer and the chance of it coming back. Please tell your cancer care team about any symptoms or side effects that bother you so they can help you manage them. Use this time to ask your health care team questions and discuss any concerns you might have.
It is also important to keep health insurance. While you hope your cancer won't come back, it could happen. If it does, you don't want to have to worry about paying for treatment. Should your cancer come back, see When Your Cancer Comes Back: Cancer Recurrence for information to help you manage and cope with this phase of your treatment.
For patients with a colostomy or ileostomy
If you have a colostomy or ileostomy, you may feel worried or isolated from normal activities. Whether your colostomy or ileostomy is temporary or permanent, an enterostomal therapist (a health care professional trained to help people with ostomies) can teach you about the care of your colostomy or ileostomy. You can also ask the American Cancer Society about programs offering information and support in your area. For more information, see Colostomy: A Guide and Ileostomy: A Guide.
Seeing a new doctor
At some point after your cancer is found and treated, you may find yourself in the office of a new doctor. It is important that you be able to give your new doctor the exact details of your diagnosis and treatment. Make sure you have this information handy and always keep copies for yourself:
- A copy of your pathology report from any biopsy or surgery
- If you had surgery, a copy of your operative report
- If you were in the hospital, a copy of the discharge summary that the doctor wrote when you were sent home from the hospital
- If you had radiation treatment, a copy of your treatment summary.
- If you had chemo or targeted therapies, a list of your drugs, drug doses, and when you took them
- Copies of imaging studies such as CT scans, MRI scans, or PET scans. Often these can be placed on a DVD
The doctor may want copies of this information for his records, but always keep copies for yourself.
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I received a CR Parks and Recreation survey in the mail yesterday.
They are looking for our opinions and needs of the park system.
To my surprise, discgolf was mentioned as an activity.
For those who feel that their voice is not heard concerning discgolf matters, I urge you to take 15 minutes like I did and fill this out.
Hopefully we can give the city some positive feedback from this.
Don't hesitate as I believe the survey has to be returned within 10 days of receipt.


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Fraud and Corruption
To report suspected fraud, please visit:
Anti Fraud and Corruption Policy
Birmingham Audit has a layered approach to prevent, detect and deter fraud.
Work to enforce and promote our policy is reported annually to the council's Audit Committee.
Fraud Prevention
Our fraud investigation team undertakes extensive work to drive down fraud. Procedures and guidance materials are well established to outline what constitutes fraud, how it occurs, and examples of behaviour or indicators that might suggest fraud.
These materials state:
- The roles and responsibilities of officers.
- How to report suspicions.
- How the investigation process works.
- The actions that will be taken following an investigation.
- How employee fraud is dealt with.
Policies and Procedures
The council's Whistleblowing policy is adopted to help people that have concerns over any wrong-doing in the council, i.e. unlawful conduct, financial malpractice or dangers to the public or the environment.


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4.1-13 Irrevocable Offers - Option Contracts
Revised to January 1, 2008
The (offeree: defendant /
plaintiff)1 claims
that (he/she/it) had an option contract from the (offeror: defendant /
plaintiff). An option contract is a continuing offer to sell. It may not
be revoked until after the time period fixed by the agreement of the
parties. If, for example, I give you an option to purchase my bicycle for
$200 for a period of two weeks, then I cannot revoke the offer to sell the
bicycle during that two week period, and at any time during those two weeks
you can accept the offer and purchase the bicycle for $200.
1 The
term "offeror" and "offeree" have been inserted above as a guide. The
charge should be given in terms of the "plaintiff" or the "defendant,"
depending on which one is the offeror and which one the offeree.
Smith v. Hevro Realty Corp., 199
Conn. 330, 336 (1986); 1 A. Corbin, Contracts (Rev. Ed. 1996) § 2.23, pp.
235-39; 1 S. Williston, Contracts (4th Ed. 1990) § 5:15, p. 707.
This instruction assumes there
is a valid option contract.
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Temescal's newest entry in the restaurant game offers an entirely new take on the Indian theme. It's all about flavor, whimsy and sheer playfulness at Preeti Mistry's new Juhu Beach Club.
You may recall Mistry from season six of "Top Chef," or from the now-legendary dining halls at Google, where she was executive chef, or from her San Francisco pop-up restaurants. But these days, you'll find her at Oakland's Juhu Beach Club, serving up a Bay Area-meets-Bollywood riff on Indian street food.
The name is a nod to Mumbai's famous Juhu Beach, splashed by the Arabian Sea, in an area known for chaat stands, airborne kites and movie celeb sightings. Here that beachy, Indian vibe is conveyed by an extravaganza of color: The walls are painted in hot pink and sunny mango shades; one wall is papered in a colorful Indian print peppered with monkeys.
There's a bicycle tucked in a high alcove and stacks of tiffin boxes adorn another. And the plates look like the scalloped paper plates of a thousand childhood picnics -- but they're not paper.
It's a dramatic change from the venue's previous incarnation as the short-lived, dimly lit SR24 -- and a welcome one. You're grinning from the moment you walk in, as if Mistry, who was cooking behind the counter the night we were there, had winked at you.
The food -- made from sustainably sourced, mostly local and organic ingredients -- echoes the creative, whimsical theme. Days later, we're still craving the pavs, curries and masala fries, and we're anxious to go back and try everything we didn't get to, including the colorful coolers -- cilantro lemonade, anyone? -- and Thums Up Indian cola.
The small wine and craft beer list, which includes Linden Street, Speakeasy and Drake's, are all on tap, with wines available by the glass or carafe.
Your only problem will be choosing what to pair with those libations, because everything looks tempting. The starter menu ranges from Desi Jacks ($4), an Indian riff on the Cracker Jack theme, to Vindaloo Chicken Wings ($8) with a Point Reyes blue cheese raita.
We sampled the Paneer Puffs ($6), small balls of fried paneer, a house-made farmer's-style cheese, served with a tamarind chutney and salad. It wasn't an unsuccessful dish, but everything that followed was so colorful and brightly flavored, it paled by comparison. The puffs were a bit bland and the salad overdressed. Eating them meant less room for pavs -- and trust me, you want room for pavs.
These slider-sized sandwiches ($5 each or three for $13) are Juhu Beach's claim to fame. Little buns, made by Oakland's Starter Bakery, hold chicken, beef or a vegetarian option, topped with brightly hued slaws and sauces.
Grilled green chili chicken and a tangy, vividly yellow slaw made the Chowpatty Chicken my absolute favorite, although the Vada Pav -- a fried potato puff with bright pink pickled onions and ghost pepper chutney -- ran a close second.
No wait, the Holy Cow -- cardamom-braised short ribs with raita -- was the close second.
Actually, this business of choosing favorites is going to need more research. Much more research and many more pavs. There is a second vegetarian option, as well, a vegetarian riff on sloppy joes, dubbed Sloppy Lil'P. The pavs go down especially well with spicy Masala Fries ($5) dipped in a highly addictive tamarind ketchup.
There are other dinner options, too, of course, including soups, salads and curries, served with lemon rice and condiments. We tried the Curryleaf Coriander Shrimp ($15): prawns served in a tomato-based sauce with fresh peas and whole curry leaves. It was lovely, not too spicy, and made even more interesting by the addition of the various condiments, which included raita, pickled cubes of green apple and a sprightly watermelon radish mixture.
There is a Garam Masala Chickpea curry ($12) -- half the menu is vegetarian-friendly -- and a classic turmeric chicken curry ($14) as well.
But tempting as it was to continue noshing our way through the entire California-meets-Bollywood menu all at once, we saved room for dessert, because there are few things more beach-appropriate than ice cream.
Here, it's Straus soft-serve vanilla sundaes ($4) with toppings (75 cents each) such as anise and fennel candy sprinkles, chai-spiced candied pecans and rosewater and pomegranate syrups.
We went with sea salt-curried peanuts and passion fruit syrup -- and two spoons. And started planning how soon we could come back.
Juhu Beach Club
* * *
WHERE: 5179 Telegraph Ave., Oakland
HOURS: 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. and 5:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. Tuesdays through Saturdays
CUISINE: Indian
VEGETARIAN: Several options, including two kinds of vegetarian pavs ($5 each) and garam masala chickpeas ($12).
BEVERAGES: Craft beer and wine on tap, lassis, coolers and chai
RESERVATIONS: No
NOISE LEVEL: Medium
PARKING: Small parking lot
KIDS: The children's "tiffin" menu ($7) includes butter chicken curry or grilled cheese pav, fries or rice, and a kachumber salad with radishes, carrots and celery.
PLUSES: A beachy Bollywood vibe mixed with colorful, flavorful fare make this a winner. Don't miss the Chowpatty Pav and Masala Fries.
MINUSES: This place is tough to find. Despite its street address, Juhu Beach Club is not on Telegraph Avenue; it's in a small parking lot behind it, with driveways on 51st and 52nd streets.
DATE OPENED: March.
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Medtronic Launches SEEQ Wearable Cardiac Monitoring System in United States, Announces Acquition of Corventis
September 15th, 2014
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June 19th, 2014
WorkFusion, the leading enterprise crowd computing platform, today released the first crowd-powered automation system for the financial services industry.
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Adamas Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Adamas), a specialty pharmaceutical company, today announced the pricing of its initial public offering.
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Late Thursday, San Bernardino Sheriff's Department confirm that charred remains found in cabin in Seven Oaks has been positively identified as that of Christopher Dorner. During the autopsy, postive ID was made through dental examination.
Meanwhile, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and Los Angeles Police Department Chief Charlie Beck have issued a joint statement saying officials from various jurisdictions are considering whether anyone will be eligible to collect the $1 million reward that had been offered in the manhunt for rogue cop Christopher Jordan Dorner.
"Now that the search for Christopher Dorner appears to have concluded, we are addressing the issue of the $1 million reward," the statement reads. "More than 20 jurisdictions and entities are involved in this reward, so all of them will be coming together to collectively determine whether any individual or individuals qualify for it. Our personal hope is that the reward will be distributed, but we must follow the rules and respect for the procedures of each entity."
The six-day manhunt for a fired Los Angeles police officer suspected in the slayings of two people in Irvine and a Riverside police officer came to a head Tuesday near Big Bear, where he allegedly stole a car then shot and killed a sheriff's deputy in a raging gun battle while barricaded in a cabin that later burned to the ground. Dorner's charred remains were later found inside and removed for investigation.
That fiery scene culminated a wild day of violence in the normally tranquil mountain community, which has been the focus of the Dorner manhunt since his pickup truck was found burning in the area last Thursday.
But on Tuesday at 12:20 p.m., San Bernardino County sheriff's deputies received a report of a man matching Dorner's description stealing a car from a cabin in the 1200 block of Club View Drive in Big Bear.
During the battle, two San Bernardino County sheriff's deputies were shot. Both were airlifted to Loma Linda University Medical Center, where one was pronounced dead, according to Sheriff John McMahon. Bachman said the other deputy was expected to survive.
Meanwhile, the standoff at the cabin continued, but shortly after 4 p.m., tear gas canisters were fired into the building. By about 4:20 p.m., the cabin was engulfed in flames. Some reports indicated that a single gunshot was heard emanating from the cabin. KCAL9, which had a reporter close to the cabin during the firefight, reported that the sound of exploding ammunition could be heard inside the cabin as the fire raged.
On Feb. 3, Dorner -- also a former Navy lieutenant -- allegedly gunned down the daughter and future son-in-law of an ex-police captain who represented him at a hearing that resulted in his dismissal from the LAPD. The bodies of 28-year-old Cal State Fullerton assistant women's basketball coach Monica Quan and her fiance, 27-year-old USC public safety officer Keith Lawrence, were found in Lawrence's car in the parking structure of their Irvine condominium building.
The next day, Dorner, 33, allegedly posted a 6,000-word manifesto on Facebook, vowing to kill named LAPD officers and their families. About 50 Los Angeles police officers and their families were being protected during the manhunt, authorities said.
On Thursday, Dorner was allegedly involved in a shootout with Los Angeles police guarding an officer's home in Corona, leaving one officer with a graze wound to the head, police said. About 20 minutes later, he allegedly fired on a pair of Riverside police officers stopped at a red light, killing Officer Michael Crain, 34, and wounding the other. The wounded officer was expected to recover. Crain's funeral held Wednesday drew thousands of law enforcement officers from across the state. Crain, an 11-year department veteran, was a former Marine. He is survived by his wife, Regina, and two children, Ian, 10, and Kaitlyn, 4.


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01 June 2009
Up the Walls of the World by James Tiptree, Jr.
This was the problem for me in reading James Tiptree, Jr.'s first novel, Up Walls of the World, a book full of visionary potential that never communicated as visionary actuality to me because I could not get myself to buy into its basic premises about cognition or language. (This may have been exacerbated by my knowledge that Tiptree, who was Dr. Alice Sheldon, had a Ph.D. in experimental psychology, and so I expected more nuanced presentations of consciousness.) I was interested in the novel partly because I've read and enjoyed much of Tiptree's short fiction (and think a handful of her stories are among the true gems of the science fictional jewelry shop), and partly because I've been reading Istvan Csicsery-Ronay's thoughtful new book The Seven Beauties of Science Fiction, wherein Up the Walls of the World is called "an inexplicably neglected masterpiece of recent sf" that is "unparalleled in its use of the sublime mode" described by Patricia Yeager ("Toward a Female Sublime" in Kaufman, ed. Gender and Theory: Dialogues on Feminist Criticism).
Beware critics wielding inexplicably neglected masterpieces! I read John Brunner's Total Eclipse a few years ago because Fredric Jameson, whose criticism I often find interestingly provocative, proclaimed it unjustly neglected. Like Up the Walls of the World, it offered some good stuff to think about, but ... masterpiece? Oh dear no.
I can see why Csicsery-Ronay sees Up the Walls of the World as an exemplar of certain types of what he calls "the sf sublime", a concept I do not have time to get into here because it would take a lot of words (to touch on some of what Csicsery-Ronay means by the concept, see Adam Roberts's excellent review of the book at Strange Horizons). Think vastness and sense of wonder. Tiptree's tale tells of two worlds: a late-'70s/early-'80s U.S. and a planet of ever-blowing winds and people composed partly of energy, who live in the winds and not on the surface of the planet. There's also a planet-destroying space monster looming. The protagonists in the late-'70s/early-'80s U.S. are all involved with a military-funded psionics research project. The protagonists on the wind planet are trying to figure out how to escape the planet-destroying space monster. The two worlds connect via a beam the partly-energy people send through space into the brains of the people involved with the psi project, and their consciousnesses are exchanged. Then, eventually, all their consciousnesses are uploaded into the planet-destroying space monster, which has become a sort of interstellar lifeboat for minds.
From this reductive summary, you can perhaps begin to see why if you have doubts about Tiptree's assumptions about cognition and consciousness the novel might not be able to make you suspend your disbelief. My problem was that once beings started exchanging consciousnesses, I couldn't repress some doubts, and once those consciousnesses were uploaded into the space-monster lifeboat my entire reading experience became one of doubt. Sensory words no longer made, well, sense to me, and yet Tiptree employs them (mostly) unproblematically -- beings without any corporeal body are still receiving sensory information. That was a minor doubt, though; my major ones centered around emotion. How, I wondered, could beings that have been divorced from their bodies be governed by the same emotions they would have in their bodies -- love and fear, for instance, which are preserved in exactly the same form (according to the narrative) as they take in the embodied beings. This makes no sense. Removed from a nervous system and an endocrine system, emotions would, surely, at least be less predictable, stable, and familiar, wouldn't they? I mean, if an iron rod shot into the frontal lobe can cause a personality to become nearly unrecognizable, surely a consciousness beamed across thousands of light-years into a giant space-monster lifeboat wouldn't be exactly the same as it was back when it was in a body in a familiar environment...
And that's not to mention the entrenched ideas about gender roles each of the characters brings with them -- but those are challenged, at least, though the challenges seemed to me simplistic and, again, less imaginative than they needed to be to be convincing.
More significantly, the language of the book in the second half of the novel seemed inadequate. Tiptree ignored a problem many science fiction writers, quite understandably, ignore: by definition, the indescribable is indescribable. (As annoying as some of Lovecraft's narrators' pleas of the limits of language to describe horror can be, at least those narrators rarely, if ever, seem to think they've described the indescribable ... they just go on and on about how indescribable it is.) A science fiction writer who wants to describe something that is beyond or alien to human conception is stuck, because the tool the writer has to do such a thing is the tool of language -- human language, rife with human assumptions and limitations. The writer must create metaphors and images based on what the reader (presumably a human) knows, but therein lies the paradox: the indescribably alien is not describable in familiar language. Somewhere I read that Tiptree said she would have liked to revise the novel to make the space monster's consciousness seem more intelligent, since she understood what someone (I think Gardner Dozois) was getting at when he said the sections of the book devoted to that consciousness reminded him of, as much as anything, Cookie Monster. This is, yes, a problem. But it's only the most obvious iteration of a problem that plagues the entire book -- many theorists would say that consciousness and language are inextricable, but even if you don't go that far, it is, I would posit, self-evident that language and consciousness are deeply related, having at least the ability to reflect and influence each other. (Unless you view language and consciousness as utterly [and unutterably] separate ... but if this is your deepest belief, writing and reading novels is probably not the best activity for you...)
Up the Walls of the World is written in a mix of direct, indirect, and (occasionally) free indirect discourse, but this approach is too simplistic and clunky (not to mention familiar) to help a reader like me, plagued by doubts about the novel's representation of consciousness, suspend disbelief. Virginia Woolf needed a complex representation of consciousness just to represent a day of Mrs. Dalloway's life in London, but representing consciousnesses traveling thousands of light years into utterly unfamiliar circumstances doesn't cause language to bend, burst, or bust?
One facet of the problem here is that the story is presented so rationally. Rational presentations encourage readers to read rationally. It's an obvious statement, but sometimes needs to be stated nonetheless. Part of the brilliance of Philip K. Dick was his ability to add enough irrationality into otherwise rational story structures to prevent readers from being able to reason with the narrative -- you cannot read Eye in the Sky or The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch or Ubik or A Maze Death and connect all the dots to plausibility. Such novels make problems of perception a part of their entire raison d'etre. Tiptree seems to have learned a bit from Dick -- at different points of Up the Walls of the World, I thought of all four of those PKD novels -- but she wasn't able to reach his heights because she clung too tightly to a narrative structure that encouraged a kind of reading that the book has trouble satisfying.
Until the last 100 pages or so, I was actually enjoying my argument with the book, but another of the problems with the novel is that it is too long; some of Tiptree's best work is at the novella length, and it is not difficult to imagine that Up the Walls of the World would have been more powerful and effective if she had cut it down by a third or half. Certainly, a doubtful and disbelieving reader such as I probably finds the novel more tedious than a reader willing to doubt less and believe more, but "A Momentary Taste of Being" this is not.
I noted above the paradox of a tremendously imaginative book suffering from a failure of imagination, and as I was wrestling with questions of why I found it impossible to suspend disbelief for this particular narrative, when I have happily entered into other narratives that are equally or less plausible, I began to think about familiarity and formulas -- for instance, in reading a basic space opera, I am perfectly willing to suspend disbelief about the possibility of faster-than-light travel, about the simplicity of the cultural representations, the implausibility of the economics, etc. and simply go along for the ride. Partly, this is because there are certain SF tropes that, handled in familiar ways, become almost as invisible as repeated speech tags in dialogue. But there's something else, too -- something having to do with the ways a writer manipulates expectations and, partly, how the writer guides our perception of plausibilities -- Csicsery-Ronay notes, for instance, that "[Hal] Clement's Mission of Gravity is so famous for the plausibility of its heavy planet Mesklin that few readers remark on the absurdity of its centipede-like alien protagonists behaving like buccaneer capitalists communicating with human beings with no information loss." The emphases within Mission of Gravity make clear that the book is very much about its speculations and science rather than the plausibility of its characters' behaviors. Up the Walls of the World, though, seemed to me to be about its character's psychological and emotional states as they encounter (and merge with) what is alien to them, and so no amount of imaginative power in other elements of the novel allowed me to overcome my perception of the book's psychological and emotional imaginings as faulty.
I also want to note one other curious element of the book -- one of the main protagonists (the one, in fact, who basically saves everyone's lives*), Margaret Omali, is the daughter of a Kenyan man who "went crazy" and performed genital mutilation on her when he brought her and her mother back to Kenya. The viewpoint protagonist, Dr. Daniel Dann, fell in love with Margaret the moment he saw her, idealizing her as an Egyptian princess with "Nefertiti lips" and "a long blue-black arm of aching elegance" that "when he wraps the [blood pressure] cuff onto it he feels he is touching the limb of some uncanny wild thing." (One could speculate about the influence of Alice Sheldon's childhood on these items, but I won't.) It's entirely plausible for a 50ish white guy in late-'70s/early-'80s America to exoticize a woman in this way -- heck, it's unfortunately still plausible today -- and it's also plausible that a certain sort of Kenyan father might want his daughter to be "circumcised" in the traditional way -- but I am a little bit queasy about the reason Tiptree seems to have chosen to include these details. For the plot, she needed to make Margaret "cold" so that her greatest desire would be for her consciousness to emulate a computer program, and she needed Daniel Dann to find her astoundingly attractive and also a bit alien. This unfortunately just strengthens the stereotype of Africans as "wild", "alien", and either hypersexual or frigid -- themselves problematic concepts, regardless of geographic stereotypes. These choices, too, seem to me to be failures of imagination. Imagine, for instance, an alternative: What if Margaret's mother had been made "crazy" by her allegiance to the patriarchal idea that a wife should do anything to live up to her husband's expectations. Also, because of received stereotypes of Africa she'd had no motivation to question, what if she decided that her husband wanted her to perform a traditional ritual on her daughter -- and so what if she was the one to mutilate (or have mutilated) her daughter -- and, furthermore, when she presented him to her husband, her husband (a modern man with a complex relationship to the traditions of his ancestors) was aghast and deeply, irrevocably saddened. It wouldn't have solved all the problems, but it would have preserved the necessary plot points and added some complexity to the situation and to the characters.
We could say that the limitations of Up the Walls of the World are limitations of its era and genre, but even recognizing that, it's important to imagine other possibilities than the ones Tiptree chose, or else we will accept the limitations when we should challenge them and let them spur us toward deeper imaginings of our own.
*or, rather, consciousnesses, because what meaning is there to the word "life" without some sort of embodiment
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Coincidentally, I recently tried to read Total Eclipse, and after forty or so pages of all tell, no show I gave up. Maybe I should have persevered.ReplyDelete
It's probably been thirty years since I read Walls, but I remember being as disappointed as you.
Matt, wonderful post. But… aren't you assuming that there's some sort of ideal sf-reading filter that cleans out all the "insufficiently imaginative" claims on a reader's suspensions of disbelief, leaving only the ones really worthy of an ideal reader? I read Snow Crash as a cynical, romping comic book with no heart, but my students adore it and believe it. I believed Neuromancer enough to have nightmares from it, but many intelligent reviewers considered it to be a quilt of clichés. How can there be one standard for what engages a reader? For me, SF is unusual as a genre because folks come to it for many different reasons, and they are open to entertaining many different "angles." I have no trouble seeing Up the Walls of the World from your perspective. But Tiptree's novel is a "masterpiece" (a really bad term, but what else are you going to say when you want the novel to be regarded really highly?) for me, because I'm fascinated by her premises. Folks are so used to her misanthropy and pinpointed pain, that it's easy to miss that she wanted to do something that would truly ease that pain. She wanted to write a dynamic utopia of struggling difference. It was an ambitious goal, especially for someone who had become the definer of pessimism in sf. If you want the normal Tiptree, Up the Walls will seem shallow. She wanted to create an abnormal Tiptree.ReplyDelete
I also don't get some of your critical points. There aren't any disembodied beings in the novel, except when they are in the beam. (Is that what you are referring to?) The Tyrenneians have fleshy mantles; the Destroyer is thick in the middle, and gradually thins out at the edges into void. The point of making Omali the victim of a real infibulation is to have her suffering physical suffering that drives her nearly (?) into autism. Tiptree is fascinated with autism as defense against cruel social reality. As for language, isn't the language of Fire Upon the Deep, one of the best recent space-operas, also lame at times? (The tynes talk as if they are in a medieval canine fantasy novel.) Language that captures what it's like to be conscious at the limits of consciousness either has to be nearly incomprehensible (maybe like McElroy's Plus) or a simulation. Is the Omega-goo's language in Blood Music "realistic?" For that matter, if you're praising Dick, doesn't his language lapse into painful banality and/or pretentiousness sometimes precisely when his characters achieve their highest illuminations.
Even after reading your post, I still think Up the Walls is a spectacular sf book. Maybe if it had appeared under another pseudonym, we wouldn't make inappropriate demands on it.
Oh, you're right Istvan -- I was trying hard through the post to somehow wheedle my way around exactly the assumption you mention, but decided it was more or less futile, so I should just make sure my own subjectivity was absolutely clear (the problem of any sort of review, although I'd say this is more a "reading report" than a review proper, but...) I absolutely wouldn't say there's one standard, and I hope that such an idea didn't come across in the post as a whole -- a failure on my part if it did, because what I was trying to get at was why the book's particular way of imagining failed for me; I found much of that failure interesting, so wrote about it, but I'm more than aware that it is a failure only for readers of my particular prejudices, and that, in fact, "failure" is perhaps too strong a word, though I haven't come up with a better one.ReplyDelete
And I would feel terribly guilty if what I had written ruined the novel for you -- I don't want that power! -- so I'm glad you still read it with pleasure despite my assault!
I just came across this debate while looking for something else Tiptree related and I want to thank all the participants; I'm rather in between Matthew and Istvan myself in my attachment to, or suspension of disbelief on behalf of, Walls. (In Matthew's defense, I find it impossible to think about the last section of Walls without considering the consciousnesses as paradoxically disembodied [and thus quite hard to represent] at the end. I don't think Matthew was talking about the flying Tyrenneians, who are great, and whose aerial lives represent without actually being the freedom that the consciousness later get-- their bodies are like the leaves in Shelley's "West Wind."ReplyDelete
But what I really want to know is what you both think about Brightness Falls from the Air. I fear I'm the only person on Earth who considers it superior to Up the Walls... It's her most sustained attempt to deal with the conventions of sf as conventions-- and it's another attempt to do something that can't come across as grimly fatalist, while staying true to her tragic sense, and to her sense (inextricable from tragedy) of the nature and purpose of art. (But of course you have to get through all the Star Trek stuff in the middle in order to see those attempts, clear only near the end.)Replies
It's been too long since I read Brightness for me to say really much about it -- my memory is that I thought it was fine, but a bit overwritten. That was quite a while ago, though, so I don't trust that I'd have the same reaction were I to read it today. I remember somebody writing positively about it (which is, indeed, relatively rare, as most people seem to think it shows the falling off in quality that much of Tiptree's post-pseudonym-revealed work does), but I haven't the faintest idea where it was that I encountered that positivity! So I'm pretty useless to you, alas!Delete


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9.2-1 Burglary in the First Degree -- § 53a-101 (a) (1) and (2)
Revised to April 23, 2010
The defendant is charged [in count __] with burglary in the first degree. The statute defining this offense reads in pertinent part as follows:
a person is guilty of burglary in the first degree when (he/she) unlawfully (enters / remains in)1 a building with intent to commit a crime therein and <insert appropriate subsection:>
§ 53a-101 (a) (1): (he/she) is armed with explosives or a deadly weapon or dangerous instrument.
§ 53a-101 (a) (2): in the course of committing the offense, (he/she) intentionally, knowingly or recklessly inflicts or attempts to inflict bodily injury on anyone.
For you to find the defendant guilty of this charge, the state must prove the following elements beyond a reasonable doubt:
Element 1 - Entered/Remained in
The first element is that the defendant knowingly and unlawfully (entered / remained in) a building. A person acts "knowingly" with respect to conduct or circumstances when (he/she) is aware that (his/her) conduct is of such nature or that such circumstances exist. <See Knowledge, Instruction 2.3-3>.
Ordinarily, "building" implies a structure that may be entered and used by people as a residence or for business or for other purposes involving occupancy by people, whether or not it is actually entered and used as such. <Insert one or both of the following parts of the definition as appropriate:>
The statutory definition expands this definition to include, in addition to what we ordinarily know as a building, any watercraft, aircraft, trailer, sleeping car, railroad car, other structure or vehicle or any building with a valid certificate of occupancy.
The statutory definition also provides that where a building consists of separate units, such as, but not limited to separate apartments, offices or rented rooms, any unit not occupied by the defendant is, in addition to being a part of such building, a separate building. In other words, any one of these separate units, separately secured or occupied, when intruded upon, may be considered a "building," plus the whole building is considered a "building" for purposes of any unlawful intrusion into any part of it.
You must also determine whether the defendant unlawfully (entered / remained in) the building. A person unlawfully (enters / remains in) a building when the building, at the time, is not open to the public and the defendant is not licensed or privileged to do so. To be "licensed or privileged," the defendant must either have consent from the person in possession of the building or have some other right to be in the building.
[To "enter" a building the intruder need not necessarily place (his/her) entire body inside the building. Inserting any part of (his/her) body, or an implement or weapon held by (him/her), within the building is sufficient to constitute an entry as long as it is done without license or privilege. It does not matter how an intruder may actually have entered; if (he/she) did so without license or privilege, (he/she) has entered unlawfully.]
[A person may have entered a building lawfully, that is, (he/she) had the right or had been given permission, but that right is terminated or the permission withdrawn by someone who had a right to terminate or withdraw it. You may find that the defendant "unlawfully remained" in the building under these circumstances.]
Element 2 - Intent to commit
The second element is that the defendant unlawfully (entered / remained in) the building with the intent to commit a crime in the building. A person acts "intentionally" with respect to a result when (his/her) conscious objective is to cause such result. <See Intent: Specific, Instruction 2.3-1.>
Even if the defendant never actually committed a crime in the building, if the evidence establishes beyond a reasonable doubt that (he/she) was there with such intention, this is sufficient to prove that the defendant unlawfully (entered / remained in) the building with the intent to commit a crime therein. Furthermore, the necessary intent to commit a crime must be an intent to commit either a felony or a misdemeanor in addition to the unlawful (entering / remaining in) the building.
In this case, the state claims that the defendant intended to commit <insert crime>. <Refer to the count in which this crime is charged or, if uncharged, give the elements of the crime.>
Element 3 - Weapon or injury
The third element is that <insert as appropriate:>
the defendant was armed with (explosives / a deadly weapon / a dangerous instrument) This means that the defendant at some point of (entering / remaining in)2 the building had actual physical possession of (explosives / a deadly weapon / a dangerous instrument). [<If explosives or a deadly weapon are alleged:> It is not necessary that the defendant actually use or even show it, or that any participant even know that the other has it in (his/her) possession. It does not matter how long a period of time any participant was so armed, or how quickly (he/she) came into possession of or disposed of such arms.] <Insert appropriate definitions:>
"Deadly weapon" is defined by statute as any weapon, whether loaded or unloaded, from which a shot may be discharged, or a switchblade knife, gravity knife, billy, blackjack, bludgeon, or metal knuckles.
"Dangerous instrument" means any instrument, article or substance which, under the circumstances in which it is used or attempted or threatened to be used, is capable of causing death or serious physical injury. "Serious physical injury" means physical injury which creates a substantial risk of death, or which causes serious disfigurement, serious impairment of health or serious loss or impairment of the function of any bodily organ. It is important to note that the article need not be inherently dangerous; all that is required is that the article was capable of causing death or serious physical injury under the circumstances in which it was used. Any article or substance, without limitation and even though harmless under normal use, may be found by you to be a dangerous instrument if, under the circumstances of its use or threatened or attempted use, it is capable of producing serious physical injury or death. The state need not prove that in fact death or serious physical injury resulted, only that the instrument had that potential under the circumstances.
"Explosive" is any chemical compound, mixture, or device that functions by explosion.3
in the course of committing the offense,4 the defendant (intentionally / knowingly / recklessly)5 inflicted or attempted to inflict bodily injury on someone. "Bodily injury" means impairment of physical condition or pain.6 The defendant need not actually have inflicted bodily injury on anyone as long as (he/she) attempted to inflict an injury on someone in the course of committing the burglary. An act is deemed to be "in the course of committing the offense," if it occurs in an attempt to commit the offense or flight after the attempt or commission.
In summary, the state must prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant 1) unlawfully (entered / remained in) a building, 2) (he/she) had the intent to commit a crime, and 3) <describe the allegations concerning weapons or injuries>.
If you unanimously find that the state
has proved beyond a reasonable doubt each of the elements of the crime of
burglary in the first degree, then you shall find the defendant guilty. On the
other hand, if you unanimously find that the state has failed to prove beyond a
reasonable doubt any of the elements, you shall then find the defendant not
1 Do not instruct on both "unlawful entering" and "unlawful remaining" if the information and the evidence could support a conceptual distinction between the two. See "enters or remains unlawfully" in the glossary.
2 The person must be armed while entering the building or while in the building. It does not include "while in immediate flight from." State v. Belton, 190 Conn. 496, 509-510 (1983); State v. Owens, 39 Conn. App. 45, 53, cert. denied, 235 Conn. 927 (1995) (reversed for improperly charging so). In State v. Grant, 177 Conn. 140, 146 (1979), there was evidence that a tire iron was used to break the window to gain entry to the building, but not that it was used against the person. "Whether a person arms himself with a dangerous instrument after entering the dwelling or enters the dwelling already armed is irrelevant with respect to his culpability under the statute." State v. Rozmyslowicz, 52 Conn. App. 149, 153 (1999); State v. Brooks, 88 Conn. App. 204, 210-11, cert. denied, 273 Conn. 933 (2005).
3 Also see definition in General Statutes § 29-343.
4 Note that one cannot "recklessly" attempt to inflict injury.
5 "In the course of" includes flight from. General Statutes § 53a-101 (b). See also State v. Maxwell, 29 Conn. App. 704, 712 (1992), cert. denied, 225 Conn. 904, cert. denied, 509 U.S. 930, 113 S.Ct. 3057, 125 L.Ed.2d 740 (1993) (rejecting defendant's claim that the injury occurred during a later altercation after he had fled the scene).
6 See State v. Coleman, 48 Conn. App. 260, 270-71 (1998) ("bodily injury" need not exclude "pain"); State v. Phillips, 17 Conn. App. 391, 393-94 (1989) (defining bodily injury with reference to pain did not mislead jury into thinking it could convict based on the victim's mental pain).
The elements of § 53a-101 (a) (1) are outlined in State v. Weaver, 85 Conn. App. 329, 342, cert. denied, 271 Conn. 942 (2004).
Burglary in the first degree
pursuant to § 53a-101 (a) (1) and § 53a-101 (a) (2) are separate offenses,
requiring proof of different elements. State v. Peay, 96 Conn. App. 421,
428-29, cert. denied, 280 Conn. 909 (2006).


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