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"I felt a creative spirit the first time I walked in this house. I liked the energy," says Rina Welles, speaking of the 1921 Santa Monica residence that was once home to renowned German-born playwright Bertolt Brecht.
This house was where Brecht wrote "The Caucasian Chalk Circle" and other plays during the 1940s. Today, it is one component in a multigenerational family compound for Welles and her husband, David Golubchik, their children (Leah, 10, and Alek, 6) and her mother, Joanna.
The home, which has been renovated and enlarged with a new addition by Dub Studios, represents a success story in preserving cultural landmarks.
From the outset, the couple knew they wanted to keep the character of the Brecht house while adding a wing that would look and feel modern. They also wanted living quarters for Joanna.
But adding on to the rear of the two-story home would have devoured the substantial backyard, a feature that had drawn the couple to the house in the first place.
"We wanted openness," says Golubchik, who was born in Kiev, Ukraine, but grew up in Santa Monica. "I fell in love with the property and wanted to encourage my kids to experience outdoor living, rather than indoor living."
So after architect Gabriel Sandoval and principals Natalya Kashper and Michael Piper renovated the Brecht house, they worked with the landmark commission to design and build the addition alongside it. The new building stretches from the front of the 12,000-square-foot site, on space once occupied by the garage, to the back of the property. They call the addition "the Bar" because of its long, slender shape.
To cut down traffic noise inside the house, its front was designed without windows. It is covered in smooth plaster. Kashper says. "It is eventually going to be covered in a creeping fig, which will allow the Brecht house to shine."
The addition uses a glass bridge on the second floor to connect to the Brecht house. "What is the most respectful way to add on to this beautiful home?" Kashper says. "We decided it would be the smallest architectural addition possible -- a glass bridge connected to an existing window. It feels ceremonial to go between the two spaces."
The original structure houses an office and a guest suite where Welles' mother lives on the ground floor and a bedroom and lounge for the kids on the second. Welles, who remembers reading Brecht's "The Threepenny Opera" when she was living in Poland at age 10, says she maintained Brecht's writing room, now her office, in the exact location described in his journals.
The addition houses the family's living areas downstairs and the parents' and Alek's bedrooms upstairs. With bedrooms on the second floors of both homes, natural light and privacy are enjoyed by all.
"Designers like the idea that you can live upstairs," Sandoval says. "It's a concept of the lower floors being public and integrated with the landscape. The flow between the yard (and house) is very pronounced, but it's nice to go upstairs to your more private spaces." (The unit used by Welles' mother has no direct connection to the new house, which affords her more privacy.)
Though the addition is understated in front, in back it is enlivened by glass walls that connect it to outdoor dining and living areas, lush landscaping and a pool. The floor-to-ceiling glass is a modern juxtaposition to the more traditional exterior of the Brecht house.
Inside the sun-filled first floor of the new home, the outdoors is always present. From here, the family can watch Leah swim or Alek pick blueberries in the garden.
Two years after breaking ground, the new compound is largely as envisioned -- open, sunny and surprisingly quiet, deeply in unison with the outdoors.
Brecht himself did not feel connected to Los Angeles. He famously dismissed it as "Tahiti in the form of a big city." But Welles says that the playwright's house, which received a 2014 Preservation Award from the Santa Monica Conservancy in February, has enriched their family life.
"The house, the neighbors, Alek's school -- being a part of this community has made a difference in our lives," she says.

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South Lake Tahoe outdoor photographer and videographer Corey Rich is already at the top of his field. He's told the story of legendary athletes like climber Chris Sharma and shot photos for National Geographic Adventure, The New York Times Magazine and Sports Illustrated.
But just like his profession, the accomplished visual storyteller keeps evolving.
His new company, Tectonic Media Group, is part of that evolution. The New York-based talent and management and media consulting firm might not be a household name yet, but Rich hopes that it will one day be the "Jacuzzi" of the advertising world.
"When they think adventure, we want them to say Tectonic. We're the next generation - we've honed our abilities with storytelling. It's the evolution of the craft and we have technology that allows us to push the boundaries of what's possible," he said.
Novus Select, a company Rich co-owns with CEO Jose Azel, announced in October the formation of Tectonic Media Group. The firm represents the top talent in action and adventure sports photography and filmmaking, and Rich hopes to turn it into a brand that snags the attention of high-powered clients like Nike and Apple.
In addition to Rich, Tectonic currently includes the "grandfather" of snowboarding photos, Jeff Curtes; a pioneer in military photography, Tyler Stableford; and expedition photographer Jimmy Chin.
They're all men who have worked in the field for more than 20 years and are ready to take their careers a step higher, TMG Director Jonathan Retseck said.
"These guys have all been working in the outdoor action sports world and they've all reached a point where they're moving on to the next level," he said.
As the firm's director, Retseck spends hours on the phone and the computer coordinating schedules between clients like Burton Snowboards, Canon, and The North Face and the photographers.
Outdoor adventure photography and filmmaking is starting to cross over into the mainstream, Retseck said, and there's a big demand for high-quality content from sources who have proven their capacity to deliver it.
That core group of four is just the beginning though. The group will be on the lookout for talented storytellers who excel in their particular adventure niche.
"We'll have a really fun job looking for new members. A great evolution would be looking for the men and women who can capture what we can't," Rich said.
One of those new talents might even come from Tahoe. Judging by how the sport and the community's cinematography group is growing, Rich said he wouldn't be surprised if a South Shore filmmaker or photographer joined Tectonic's ranks in the future.
The big name clients that Tectonic attracts don't live in small cities like Tahoe, but Rich said a Tectonic office could one day come to the South Shore.
"I love that this is partially born out of Tahoe. This is born partially out of the energy I get from living in such a beautiful place. I hope maybe one day we'll have our annual gathering in Lake Tahoe in an environment where we're all inspired," Rich said.


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A bus driver is accused of forcing middle school students to get off his bus...and not at their normal stop.
The problem has school board members and parents voicing their anger...and some want to see more than just this driver out of a job.
One board member is calling for accountability from the superintendent.
Tutt Middle School students were on their way home in what they thought would be just another day on the bus.
It wasn't.
According to the incident report, students say the bus driver, Robert Lynch, became agitated and started calling the students expletive names.
That's when the students claim he stopped the bus in front of the Time Saver convenience store on Boy Scout Road.
One student says the bus driver told them, "If you want to get off the bus, then get off now."
Some say they were scared of his erratic behavior and got off.
That same student tells News 12 the bus driver grabbed a student and shook his arm.
That student managed to free himself and jump out the window.
We caught up with the bus driver at his home on Saturday, April 15. He refused to make any statements on camera, but he did deny all of the allegations made against him in the incident report, saying he was having difficulty controlling the students and notified the assistant principal before he ever left the school.
Lynch also says it was his first time driving that route, so he asked the students to help.
Regardless, school board member Kenneth Echols, whose district includes Tutt Middle, said in a statement, "There's no excuse for his actions and it was irresponsible of him. If he was unsure about a stop, he should have contacted the proper authorities.
"There was a complete communication failure at the school board for not informing board members of the problems, and the superintendent will be held accountable so it doesn't happen again."
Parents planned to meet at the middle school at 9 am April 17 to discuss these problems.
Echols says the board will be discussing it at their meeting on April 18 as well.


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In the early hours of Sunday morning, August 21 life for a young Co. Down immigrant living in the Bronx drastically changed after he was savagely beaten unconscious by an unknown attacker on his way home from a night out.
Today 36-year-old Paul Caldwell is waiting to hear about a double cornea transplant so his vision can be restored. He has spent the past 13 weeks in and out of hospital undergoing painful operations to repair the damage that was done to his face that summer's night in August.
According to doctors Caldwell's lower face fell away from his face, meaning the lower half of his skull had broken away from his top half during the assault.
On August 20 Caldwell and his girlfriend Andrea had attended the New York Ladies GAA benefit night in Yonkers with friends. When that came to an end the pair continued to socialize with friends in some local bars in Yonkers. As closing time approached Caldwell left a local bar with his friend who got a taxi into the city leaving the Co. Down man to walk home, something he did every weekend because his apartment is only minutes down the road.
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Unfortunately on this particular night there was a man, described by a witness as being in his late 20's, white and wearing a white dress shirt with blue boxes, dark jeans and dark sneakers, who was waiting to prey on an innocent victim.
As Caldwell approached 241st street in the Bronx approximately 3.45 a.m. that morning he was viciously attacked by this man. Caldwell was thrown to the ground and savagely kicked in his head numerous times before a passerby came to his rescue.
The passerby chased off the attacker and immediately tended to Paul who was lying on the ground in a pool of his own blood. An Irish nurse also came on the scene seconds later. An ambulance was called and Caldwell was immediately taken to a local hospital. The nurse went with him. By this time Paul's attacker had fled into a local park not to be seen again.
Police have not been able to locate him and the Irish community is now in fear of the same thing happening to them.
Paul, from Rostrevor in Down, allowed the Irish Voice into his apartment last week to share his story and to press upon the community that "it isn't safe to walk home alone at night."
Sitting on his sofa, wearing dark glasses to prevent headaches he frequently gets from bright lights, Caldwell spoke softly about the attack, his recovery and how his life has changed so dramatically.
"I still can't believe it happened," said Paul shaking his head.
"I haven't an enemy in the world and can't understand how this could happen to me."
Although no money or personal belongings were taken from the Irish man he believes that the attacker hadn't time to carry out a robbery because the passerby interrupted him.
"I have no idea what he wanted or why he would do such a cruel thing but I'm glad this Good Samaritan came along to save my life," admitted Caldwell, who lived in Queens for many years before moving to Woodlawn.
Paul, a bricklayer by trade, woke up in St. Barnabas hospital in the Bronx to a face he didn't recognize. His attacker broke every bone in his face leaving him unrecognizable.
"My skull was cracked into pieces," he said.
"It was very scary to be honest."
Caldwell's cousin, Niall Rice from Co. Dublin, told the Irish Voice he was only able to identify him by his shoes.
"When Paul got to the hospital his injuries were so bad that they initially thought he must have been hit by a car, they were that bad," shared Rice.
Caldwell suffered broken eye sockets, broken cheeks, a broken nose and jaw and received multiple head fractures.
He has undergone numerous operations to rectify the broken bones, has five titanium plates keeping his face together and faces many more procedures to bring him back to the person he was before the attack.
Paul's eyes were removed for repair but when they were put back in his vision was affected. He is now waiting on news about the double cornea transplant.
"I can't see anything from my right eye and only about ten to 20 percent on my left, depending on the day. It's like looking out a frosted window," he said.
"And then I have to wait a year or two to see if my body doesn't reject them so it's going to be a long road to recovery."
The young man will also need a lot of dental work, cheek and nose repairs down the road.
Paul doesn't have medical insurance and the medical bills are already making a large pile on his kitchen table.


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ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (November 10, 2012)--Four days after the election, President Barack Obama can finally claim victory in Florida, as the state finished counting its votes Saturday.
Mr. Obama was declared the winner, giving him a 332 to 206 final margin in the Electoral College.
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A Pulaski County man has been charged in an incident where a 91-year-old World War II veteran was beaten while his home was burglarized earlier this year in Pulaski County.
On Aug. 30, an arrest warrant was issued for Graves R. King II, 35, for four felony criminal charges — first-degree assault and first-degree robbery, which are both class A felonies; first-degree burglary, a class B felony; and armed criminal action.
His bond was set at $1 million for the above charges.
The Pulaski County Sheriff's Department conducted an investigation into the incident which occurred June 11 at the home of the veteran, James Dunham.
According to a press release from Pulaski County Sheriff Ron Long, Dunham was "brutally beaten after walking in on several suspects who were burglarizing his home."
Long said King was an immediate suspect but was initially arrested for the charge of unlawful possession of a firearm in a separate offense by Pulaski County sheriff's deputies a few days after Dunham's robbery. King had been held in the Pulaski County Jail since June on a $100,000 bond for that charge.
As the investigation continued into Dunham's case, further evidence was gathered and analyzed, which led to King's arrest warrant being issued.
The Pulaski County prosecutor's office was also instrumental with this investigation, Long stated in the news release.
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Situated in a rural location, this hotel is within 9 mi (15 km) of Erdigg Hall, Racecourse Ground, and Pontcysyllte Aquaduct. Chirk Castle is 11.6 mi (18.6 km) away.
Hotel Features
This smoke-free hotel features a restaurant, a bar/lounge, and coffee/tea in a common area. Free WiFi in public areas and free self parking are also provided. Other amenities include meeting rooms, dry cleaning, and laundry facilities.
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The hotel offers a restaurant. A bar/lounge is on site where guests can unwind with a drink. High-speed wireless Internet access is complimentary. Event facilities measuring 100 square feet (9 square meters) include meeting rooms. This Victorian hotel also offers a garden, coffee/tea in a common area, and laundry facilities. Limited complimentary onsite parking is available on a first-come, first-served basis.
Cross Lanes Hotel is a smoke-free property.
- Total number of rooms - 16
- Bar/lounge
- Breakfast available (surcharge)
- Number of floors - 2
- Meeting rooms
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- Garden
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- Free self parking
- Conference space size (meters) - 9
- Number of meeting rooms - 3
- Conference space size (feet) - 100
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Full breakfasts are available for a surcharge between 7:30 AM and 9:00 AM on weekdays.
The Lanes - Overlooking the garden, this restaurant specializes in British cuisine and serves breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Guests can enjoy drinks at the bar. A children's menu is available.
Room service (during limited hours) is available.
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Check-in time starts at 2:00 PM
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- Breakfast fee: between GBP 7.95 and GBP 10.95 for adults, GBP 5.00 and GBP 7.95 for children (approximately)
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OAKLAND -- After more ups and downs than a world class rollercoaster, California's most expensive public works project in history opened Monday night at 10:15 and capped an afternoon of lengthy celebratory opening speeches, chain-cutting and a VIP procession on the Bay Bridge.
The historic opening marks the end of 11 years of construction -- more than twice as long as anticipated -- and costs that soared fivefold to $6.4 billion. It also comes after years of political battles and one controversy after another -- false allegations about bad welds, questions about concrete tests and then the worst of the lot, the high-strength steel bolts that snapped in March and threatened to jettison the timetable for months or weeks.
Christen Grey and Anthony Thomas, of San Leandro, were the first "recognized' drivers to enter toll lane Number 1. As Grey tried to explain the couple's excitement, Thomas blurted out, "It's shiny!"
Grey said, "We're very honored to be one of the first folks to cross the bridge," before noting that Thomas would be "texting and tweeting" while she was focused on driving. They paid with a $10 bill.
The 2.2-mile replacement span is also the last project in the state's toll bridge seismic safety upgrade program. The state replaced the 1927 Carquinez Bridge and finished seismic retrofits on the Dumbarton, Antioch, western half of the Bay Bridge and the Richmond-San Rafael.
As word trickled out that the new span would open hours before originally announced, cars and motorcycles began lining up around 5:30 p.m. at the West Grand Avenue entrance to the bridge, growing to about 15 cars and 10 motorcycles by 8:30 p.m.
Rich Gibbon of Oakland and a member of motorcycle club Mad Dog MC-Oakland said he waited at the Grand Avenue entrance for two hours.
"They start scurrying around like something is about to happen and they whip out the coffee," he said.
Gibbon said a man named Hap Jones had been the first motorcyclist to cross the Golden Gate Bridge and he wants to be one of the first over the new Bay Bridge.
"If you come here on a fast bike, you should be able to get to the front (of the line)," he said.
Gabe Ets-Hokin, an Oakland resident, said he was waiting because his grandmother had walked across the Golden Gate Bridge when it first opened.
"I've lived my whole life here. I didn't want to be like 'I'm going to go to bed early and miss this historic event.'"
Surj Gish, waiting with his wife, Angelica Rubalcaba, said he was excited as a motorcyclist because the new span will be open air from San Francisco to Oakland.
"From what I can see, that wide openness will be really cool," he said.
Speaking about the private chain-cutting ceremony held earlier Monday, he said, "It would have been cooler to have a bunch of regular people walking across. The idea that it was invite-only was kind of offensive."
The hundreds of smiling transportation officials, engineers, contractors and family members that gathered Monday afternoon in the muggy and hot but beautifully refurbished transportation museum near the toll plaza might object to the suggestion they weren't "regular" people.
After more than a decade of sweat and lost sleep, they were ready to fete each other and the new span.
One by one, they praised the new bridge's superior seismic safety and its graceful signature white tower and claimed bragging rights as home to the world's largest self-anchored suspension span.
"It's a great day," said Amy Worth, Metropolitan Transportation Commission chairwoman and Orinda mayor during her speech. "Some people will look at this bridge and see a road. Others will see art. Others will see science. I will forever look at the bridge and see how people combined the road, art and science and made them soar."
Out in the audience, "Just think, we could have had a freeway on stilts," said her commission colleague and Marin County supervisor Steve Kinsey. "Instead, the Bay Area held out for a world-class bridge. History will thank us."
Among the many people singled out for their work on the bridge during the speeches, only Caltrans bridge engineer Brian Maroney earned a standing ovation. Maroney has worked on the Bay Bridge since the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake shook loose a piece of the old bridge's upper deck and sent Caltrans a serious seismic wake-up call.
What the bridge team also had Monday was a long list of people who wanted to be a part of history.
Event organizers had to lengthen the chain used for the cutting ceremony to 80 feet just to accommodate the 43 elected officials, contractors, consultants and others who wanted to hold it.
Flanked by Oakland Mayor Jean Quan and San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee, Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom wielded the welding torch -- iron workers schooled him on its operation and stood behind him on the ready -- and cut the chain to huge cheers and without setting himself or anyone else ablaze.
The dignitaries then piled into vintage automobiles and spanking new Teslas -- a mix of the old and the new -- and rolled across the bridge parade style behind a motorcycle escort from San Francisco and Oakland police and the California Highway Patrol.
Recently removed from the old 1936 bridge and polished, the normally shy Bay Bridge troll -- placed by ironworkers after the Loma Prieta earthquake -- made a surprise public appearance during the festivities and even posed for photos with its delighted fans. The new bridge reportedly already has its own troll.
Strong hints of an early opening came first from California Transportation Secretary Brian Kelly, who told the audience earlier, "Tonight, we will reward the Bay Area for its patience."
Caltrans Director Malcolm Dougherty followed with a more direct declaration: "We will open the bridge tonight!"
Worried about zealous motorists lining up behind the barriers at the 15 closed onramps to the bridge in Oakland and San Francisco, Caltrans and the CHP refused all afternoon and into the evening to say precisely when the span would open.
Using the shoulders for nonemergencies will earn you a nasty ticket and a moving violation point on your record, CHP spokesman Daniel Hill reminded drivers.
He also urged motorists to resist the temptation to pull over on the span's new shoulders -- the old span had no shoulders -- to take pictures or enjoy the view.
Wait until the bike and pedestrian path opens or take those snaps from a safe location on Treasure Island, he said.
Staff writer Daniel Jimenez contributed to this report. Follow Lisa Vorderbrueggen on Twitter at twitter.com/lvorderbrueggen.


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Congressional Black Caucus Foundation's National Minority Quality Forum and Health
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John Castellani, PhRMA's President and CEO, was honored to be one of the keynote speakers at last night's Congressional Black Caucus Foundation's National Minority Quality Forum and Health Braintrust Awards Dinner.
In his remarks, Castellani spoke about the long-term healthcare challenges all Americans face. Citing diabetes, a condition with particular impact on many minority communities, Castellani also spoke of how medicines are increasingly change how we treat disease and how they improve patient outcomes and help control healthcare costs:
"…uncontrolled it (diabetes) can lead to dangerous complications including amputations, kidney failure, heart attack and stroke.
"The average cost of amputation surgery is $40,000.
"A single year of dialysis for kidney failure runs about $83,000.
"But, a year's supply of medicines that can help control diabetes averages around $2,400.
"More than the cost, however, it is unquestionably better for patients to treat and control their diabetes, than to amputate or endure endless dialysis. "
He also spoke of how there is a real awaking taking place when it comes to the positive value of medicines – both to patients and the overall economy. Specifically he noted that:
"The U.S. Congressional Budget Office (CBO) recently updated its methodology for calculating the costs of Medicare policies. It now reflects the positive effect of prescription medicines on total medical costs. CBO will for the first time account for the savings from medicines that reduce the need for other costly medical services, like hospitalizations, acute care and long-term care."
Castellani concluded by urging all healthcare stakeholders to work closer together and cooperatively in promoting long-term policies that help solve patient problems and meet economic challenges, rather than expedient short-term solutions that only move the problem down the road.
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A new state historical marker will be unveiled at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday on state Highway 58 near the Wheat Church.
The marker will call to attention the historical significance of the Poplar Creek Seminary, founded in 1877, which later became Roane College and subsequently Wheat High School — which was the center of higher education for area children at that time. The school was closed in 1942 when the community was taken over by the government for the Manhattan Project.
Oak Ridge Heritage & Preservation Association representatives will be in attendance at the unveiling, as well as other representatives from the community, the Department of Energy, UT-Battelle, and the Wheat Alumnae Association.
The annual Wheat Homecoming is this Sunday. More information on the Homecoming will be published in Friday's edition of The Oak Ridger.
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Man arrested at Main Street Garden tells Dallas officer 'I'm going to stab you in the heart'
A man arrested on suspicion of public intoxication at Main Street Garden on Thursday night told a Dallas police officer that when he gets out of jail, "I'm going to stab you in the heart," according to police documents.
For that and a few other colorful threats and acts of resistance, Adam Majeski, 46, earned himself a third-degree felony charge of obstruction/retaliation, the documents said. Majeski, whose listed address is The Bridge homeless shelter, is in the Dallas County Jail this afternoon on $5,000 bail.
I suspect Dallas City Council member Angela Hunt wouldn't be too pleased to hear about this little incident. As you may recall, she has expressed her displeasure at "bums" causing trouble at Downtown parks.
Dallas bicycle officers were patrolling near the park in the 1900 block of Main Street about 6:15 p.m., when they spotted Majeski in a "verbal disturbance" with a downtown safety patrol worker. The officers, Kenneth Wester and Mark Mason, intervened and determined Majeski was drunk, the documents said.
The officers arrested Majeski for public intoxication and he turned to Wester and said "I'm going to smash your face into the ground," according to the officers.
He also told the officer "When I get out, I'm going to stab you in the heart."
Majeski was also resisting the officers and so the man was "placed onto the ground face down," the report said.
The officers had to use some force to keep the polite man down and he apparently suffered a cut to his forehead, which Dallas Fire-Rescue personnel treated at the scene.
As he waited for his ride to the Dallas County Jail, Majeski again became combative, police said. He told the officers "You better hide. When I get out, I'm going to smash your head into the ground and make your eyeballs pop out."
He added, "I'm going to kill you, [expletive]."
There was some more resistance, another scuffle and a fresh forehead abrasion for Majeski before he got to jail, where he was treated by a nurse. As he was being booked in at the jail, the threats continued, according to police.
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Achilles Tendon Rupture (cont.)
William C. Shiel Jr., MD, FACP, FACR
Dr. Shiel received a Bachelor of Science degree with honors from the University of Notre Dame. There he was involved in research in radiation biology and received the Huisking Scholarship. After graduating from St. Louis University School of Medicine, he completed his Internal Medicine residency and Rheumatology fellowship at the University of California, Irvine. He is board-certified in Internal Medicine and Rheumatology.
In this Article
- Achilles tendon rupture facts
- Function of Achilles tendon
- Blood supply of Achilles tendon
- What is an Achilles tendon rupture?
- What causes an Achilles tendon rupture?
- What are Achilles tendon rupture symptoms and signs?
- How is a ruptured Achilles tendon diagnosed?
- What are treatment options for an Achilles tendon rupture?
- What are possible complications of an Achilles tendon rupture?
- What is the recovery time for an Achilles tendon rupture?
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Blood supply of Achilles tendon
The Achilles tendon receives its blood supply from only one blood vessel (the posterior tibial artery). This blood vessel has many small branches, which supply the entire tendon. However, the blood vessels just above the heel do become narrow with age, and this increases the risk of rupture. The Achilles tendon in young people has adequate blood supply, leading to a strong and flexible tendon, which is less prone to rupture. With advanced age, the Achilles tendon is easily irritated and inflamed and thus prone to rupture.
What is an Achilles tendon rupture?
Rupture of the Achilles tendon is a common injury in healthy, young, active individuals. The rupture is typically spontaneous and most commonly observed in individuals in between 24-45 years of age. The majority have had no prior history of pain or previous injury to the heel. In the majority of cases, rupture of the Achilles tendon occurs just a few centimeters above the heel bone. Common causes of Achilles tendinitis or rupture include advanced age, poor conditioning, and overexertion during exercise. In most cases, the individual rapidly performs activity like running or standing on the toes, which generates intense force on the tendon, leading to rupture. Achilles tendon rupture is often described as an abrupt break with instantaneous pain that is felt in the foot or heel area. The pain may radiate along the back of the leg and is often intense.
Generally, walking may be difficult and the foot may drag. Most individuals claim that they felt like they were kicked in that area or even shot at. These symptoms lead to a suspicion of rupture of the Achilles tendon.
Sometimes the tendon does not fully rupture but only a partial tear develops. The partial tear can also present with pain, and if not recognized, can rapidly develop into a full-blown rupture. In the majority of cases, the Achilles tendon rupture occurs just above the heel, but it may occur anywhere along the length of the tendon. (See picture 2.)
It is important to know that pain at the back of the heel is not always due to Achilles tendon rupture. It may be due to bursitis (fluid accumulation in the heel due to repeated irritation) and tendonitis (pain along the Achilles tendon due to constant friction and irritation). The above disorders tend to improve with use of pain medications and rest, whereas Achilles tendon rupture requires surgery and/or a cast.
The exact number of people who develop Achilles tendon injury is not known, because many people with mild tendonitis or partial tear do not seek medical help. It is believed to be more common in men but with the recent participation of women in athletics, the incidence of Achilles tendon injury is also increasing in this population. Overall, injury to the Achilles tendon is by far most common in the athlete/active individual.
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The westernmost country in the Arab World, Morocco is known as al-Maghrib (the west, or the place of sunset) in Arabic. Centuries before the arrival of Arab culture and Islam to Morocco, the Amazigh peoples of North Africa populated the region and continue today to express their distinct cultural identity. In the 6th century BC, the land that is now Morocco came under the control of the expansive Roman empire. Similarly, since antiquity and especially after the Spanish Inquisition, Mizrahi and Sephardic Jewish culture has co-existed in Morocco. Coupled with this diversity, the infusion of French and Spanish cultures in the early twentieth century makes Morocco a multi-cultural, Mediterranean mosaic.
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Hagel Weighs In on Santa's Travel Plans
So what is it with the Pentagon's fascination with Santa's flight plans?
Last week came the news that fighter jets from North American Air Command would escort Santa—in part because of the various Air Defense Identification Zones that St. Nick would have to negotiate.
And on Sunday, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel weighed in with his two cents on Santa's Christmas Day plans.
"I hope Santa stops in Afghanistan," Mr. Hagel told about 150 assembled service members at Camp Leatherneck in southern Afghanistan. "I know you all have been good. And you deserve to have him stop."
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Landrum man charged with assault using ax handle
Published: Monday, August 19, 2013 at 8:57 p.m.
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A Landrum man is accused of assaulting a man with an ax handle, officers say.
Kim Allan Fitch, 48, of 211 Peach Ave., is charged with first-degree assault and battery, according to an arrest warrant.
An incident report states that the victim and his mother were walking when they encountered Fitch, who began hitting the victim with the ax handle. The victim went to St. Luke's Hospital in Columbus, N.C., for his injuries, according to the report.
Fitch told the victim that he better watch his back, the report states. Fitch's ex-girlfriend is staying with the victim's mother and that may have led to the assault, according to the report.
Fitch remained at the Spartanburg County Detention Facility Monday on a $10,000 bond.
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(WOMENSENEWS)-- In response to entrenched inequalities in the post–World War II United States, Americans who supported gender equality built on political opportunities to find each other and create the country's largest social movement.
By the 1970s, the proliferation of feminist organizations in Los Angeles was representative of the nation's largest cities. Southern California feminists built on previous leftist education experiments to plan Califia Community in 1975. They drew on their social networks to bring women (and their children) together for a week or long weekend to learn from each other's experiences, imagine and live an alternative to mainstream society, frame issues and organize to change the social order. For a decade of summers, Califia Community collective members facilitated conferences at campsites that alleviated mainstream pressures. The experience strengthened many women's sense of shared culture and collective identity as "Califia women."
Califia Community, which dissolved in 1987, is significant both in its own right and as a lens on its times. There has been little study of sustained grassroots feminist educational activism outside of the formation of college courses, even though the feminists who considered themselves "second wave" were dedicated to community-based consciousness raising, leadership training, organizing and revision of knowledge about women and gender. Grassroots groups that did community education tended to be significantly smaller than Califia Community and usually lasted fewer than five years, while women-only trade programs outside established vocational training venues have received scant scholarly attention.
Local-Level Dynamics
This book extends beyond most previous scholarship's focus on the late 1960s and early 1970s, widely acknowledged leaders and the East Coast or Midwest. Scholarship on feminism of the 1960s to 1980s continues to need case studies that correct generalizations based on national overviews. Local-level dynamics confirm the multiplicity of competing views that feminists generated. Analyzing Califia Community helps to explain how New Left political and countercultural concerns influenced multi-issue feminists to blend tactics and goals in practices that they and later scholars have classified separately as "radical feminism," "cultural feminism" and "separatism."
Early participants at Califia had a range of gender expressions, sexual orientations, class backgrounds and races/ethnicities. Leaders built on that diversity and were especially concerned to advance antiracism and coalition work among races and ethnicities. Over their decade of conferences, Califia women developed their training on identity variation in ways that help clarify issues of feminists' differing sexual orientations, classes and races.
The Califia experiment illustrates that 1970s feminists often mobilized women from overlapping social networks, built institutions with volunteer-based resources and sustained interest through strong social relationships, a shared sense of culture and the powerful emotions feminists felt when working together against injustices. Califia women adapted their priorities over time in response to their participation in feminist debates and to external pressures from right-wing organizing.
Going Beyond the Local
Looking at Califia in relation to nationwide developments reveals how feminists expanded their content and tactics, the strengths and weaknesses of lenses like identity politics and methods like consciousness-raising and consensus and ways in which members of the Right repeatedly attacked feminism. Many of these issues remain salient.
Across the United States, the number of participants in feminist groups and the movement's visibility to mainstream Americans expanded enormously over the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s.
Betty Brooks, who helped establish and run Califia Community, spoke to the ways in which many women felt swept up in a collective movement that altered the course of their lives. She said:
"There was a giant wave that was happening. And I guess I could say that that wave picked me up, although I was already in the ocean of women's liberation. You know there's two aspects of all this -- women's rights work and women's liberation. And so I would say . . . that the most important thing that Califia did was really to raise women's consciousness about their own individual liberation and the connection to the big 'isms' . . . which surround us like smog, which are sexism, racism and class. And it was that younger generation of women, the second wave of feminists, the people who had been in the political liberation movements of the '60s, that focused in. . . . They walked out of mainstream politics and said that the 'personal is political.' So that Califia was picking that up. We were really the only radical group of people [in Southern California] trying to do that kind of work--to try to raise people's consciousness in a different way than just keeping it in a small group. I mean, we really want to pick up the big stuff."
-- Betty Brooks (Califia Community founder and collective member, 1975–1983)
Excerpt from "Califia Women: Feminist Education Against Sexism, Classism, and Racism" by Clark A. Pomerleau (Copyright © 2013 by the University of Texas Press). Used by permission of the University of Texas Press. For more information visit www.utexaspress.com.
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What to Watch For: Pens vs. Islanders
Sunday, 03.10.2013 / 12:40 AM
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PENGUINS (17-8-0) vs. ISLANDERS (11-11-3)
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The Islanders come to Pittsburgh on Sunday for their third meeting of the season with the Penguins having won three of their last four games and earning at least one point in five straight contests.
The Islanders are right there in the battle for a playoff spot and it's due in large part to the play of John Tavares. Tavares is coming off a two-goal performance – the 99th and 100th tallies of his young career, both on the power play – Saturday in a 5-2 win over Washington. That gives him a whopping 16 goals on the season, tying him with James Neal and Jeff Carter for second in the NHL. Tavares and longtime linemate Matt Moulson continue to be one of the league's deadliest duos. They're both vital parts of the Islanders' fifth-ranked power play, with Tavares and Moulson tied for second in the NHL with seven power-play goals each.
Tavares and Moulson are familiar foes, but a few new faces have been added to the Islanders lineup since the last time the Penguins played them. Veteran defenseman Lubomir Visnovsky finally joined the team last month after being acquired from Anaheim at the 2012 draft. The puck-moving defenseman is averaging over 3-and-a-half minutes per game on the power play and has been on the ice for 22-of-37 Islanders goals since joining the club. In addition, forward Josh Bailey is healthy again after missing the first 10 games of the season and has slotted in on the second line with Frans Nielsen and Kyle Okposo. Bailey, the ninth overall pick of the 2008 NHL Draft, tends to do well against Pittsburgh with six goals and 18 points in 21 career games against.
The Rick DiPietro saga took a big turn when the Islanders placed the struggling injury-prone goaltender, in the middle of a 15-year contract, on waivers in February. They brought up Kevin Poulin from the American Hockey League to back up veteran Evgeni Nabokov. Nabokov has been a workhorse to say the least, starting 21 of 25 games for the Islanders. He's been a rock back there for them, with a respectable 11-7-3 record despite facing the second-most shots against in the league.
Matt Moulson - John Tavares - Brad Boyes
Josh Bailey - Frans Nielsen - Kyle Okposo
Michael Grabner - Marty Reasoner - David Ullstrom
Matt Martin - Casey Cizikas - Colin McDonald
Andrew MacDonald - Travis Hamonic
Thomas Hickey - Lubomir Visnovsky
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For a while there, it seemed like Visnovsky would never join the Islanders after being traded to Long Island by Anaheim at the 2012 NHL Draft. Visnovsky initially sought to void the deal because he believed his no-trade clause with the Ducks remained intact, which an arbitrator told him he could not do. He then did not report to training camp after playing in the Kontinental Hockey League during the lockout, citing "personal medical reasons within his immediate family." Visnovsky finally played his first game in an Islanders uniform on Feb. 9 and has bolstered the team's blue line in a big way. He's made his biggest impact on the power play, with five of his seven points coming on the man-advantage. Considering the Penguins' struggles on the penalty kill recently, they must be aware of Visnovsky and his abilities to distribute the puck.
After experiencing a seven-game goalless drought, Dupuis has since scored in two straight games. Dupuis can be a streaky player, so look for him to continue finding the back of the net for the foreseeable future. His line with Sidney Crosby and Chris Kunitz is arguably the NHL's best; they've been absolutely dominant the last few games and have been grinding down their opponents something fierce. Give Dupuis credit for working so well with those two and finding the right spots to be on the ice, and look for that harmony to continue Sunday.
Pittsburgh is looking to win five-straight games for the second time this season (Jan. 31-Feb. 7).
The Penguins are looking to improve their home winning streak to four games.
Despite losses in each of their last two home games against the Islanders, the Penguins have gone 13-2 in their last 15 home games versus New York.
Overall, the Penguins have gone 13-4-1 in their last 18 meetings with the Islanders.
Pittsburgh has posted a 7-3 record in its last 10 games dating back to Feb. 17. In those 10 games the Penguins have outscored opponents 42-40 for a combined goals-per-game average of 8.2.
The Penguins have played four-straight one-goal games – all victories. Pittsburgh is 6-1 in one-goal games this season.
This season the Penguins have gone 5-1 on Sundays.
Pittsburgh has posted an 11-3 record in weekend games (Friday-Sunday), versus a 6-5 mark in games played on Monday-Thursday.
On Sunday the Penguins conclude their fourth set of back-to-back games. They have posted a 5-2 overall record in such situations, including a 3-1 mark the first night and a 2-1 record in the second game.
Both Marc-Andre Fleury and Tomas Vokoun have posted strong career numbers against the Islanders during their careers. Fleury is 18-7-4 with four shutouts in 29 career starts against New York. At home, Fleury is 12-3-2 with a 2.35 goals-against average and a .920 save percentage in 17 career starts. Vokoun, who is looking to win three straight decisions today for the first time since Jan. 11-15, 2012 when he played with Washington, has a 14-7-1 career record, 2.08 goals-against average and .933 save percentage in 23 games against the Islanders. At home, Vokoun is 10-1 with a 1.63 goals-against average, .946 save percentage and 4 shutouts. His four shutouts against the Islanders are his most against any team.
Kris Letang leads all NHL D-men in points (24) and assists (21), while fellow blueliner Paul Martin places fourth (tied) with 17 points. Their 41 combined points are the most among any two defensive teammates. Letang, who leads all NHL players with nine assists in the month of March, has a four-game assist streak entering Sunday. With an assist against the Islanders, Letang will equal his career-long five-game assist streak – which he posted between Feb. 15-24 of this season. Letang has notched 20 points (2G-18A) over his last 16 games entering Sunday.
The dynamic duo of James Neal (16 goals) and Chris Kunitz (14 goals) has combined for 30 goals – most between any two teammates this season. The Islanders' duo of John Tavares (16 goals) and Matt Moulson (11 goals) place second with 27. Neal, Kunitz and Sidney Crosby (12 goals) have combined for 42 goals – the most between any three teammates.
After absorbing a hit from big Leafs winger James van Riemsdyk in the third period of Saturday's game against Toronto, Evgeni Malkin took one shift before sitting out final few minutes of regulation, overtime and the shootout.
"He wasn't sitting out because of his play," coach Dan Bylsma said after the game. "Just an upper-body injury. Just kept him out the rest of the game there and overtime and shootout."
When asked if there was a prognosis, Bylsma replied, "Don't have one (right now). He'll certainly be re-evaluated. In the game, it was more precautionary than anything at that point in time."
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Rare among books on weapon systems technologies, this work traces China's development from a coastal defense force of obsolete ships with crude weapons to its current complex missile catamarans and Aegis-like destroyers with vertical launch weapons and long-range cruise missiles. As the only book devoted solely to all combat systems on Chinese warships, it is a convenient one-stop reference filled with tables that break down specifications and parameters into specific areas, such as sensors and weapons for specific hulls.
The book is divided into sections on frigates, destroyers, submarines, patrol craft, and aircraft. Antisubmarine, anti-air, anti-surface, and mine warfare are covered separately. For war gamers, there are tables with frequencies, load outs, and ranges. The authors prompt readers to discern areas of weakness and strength in the Chinese combat systems.
James C. Bussert, a retired USN Master Chief Sonarman, is an ASW fire control safety deputy. He lives in Dalghren, VA. Bruce A. Elleman, a research professor at the Naval War College, is the author of Modern Chinese Warfare among other books.
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"…This work on China's naval combat systems technology is strongly recommended because of the research and fine analysis the authors have put into this book. It is a worthy companion to the more general works on the PLAN. James Bussert and Bruce Elleman have written an important, seminal book about China's naval development. It is an indispensable addition to our all-too-limited library on the PLAN."
— International Journal of Maritime History, June 2012
"...Absolutely essential reading for military, diplomatic and academic communities here and abroad, and for those who simply harbour an interest in the growth of Chinese power and ambition...The supreme achievement of this comparatively short book is that [it] stimulates such ruminations and leads inevitably to futher thought and debate. Neither authors nor readers could ask for anything more."
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"[This] new book is a detailed study of the technologies employed and developed (or acquired) by PLAN, as well as an understanding and cataloging of the ship yards and how they slot into the maritime planning of the PRC. So it is a true professional reference book, with many tables and illustrations. It is safe to say that no appreciation can be made, professionally, of PLAN capabilities — and PRC maritime intentions — unless this book is consulted. Bussert's and Elleman's book may not be light reading, but it is essential and insightful. Great work."
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"This is an important work by James Bussert and Bruce Elleman. They have significantly increased our knowledge of China's new navy by examining and explaining that force's technological advantages—and shortcomings. Bussert's unsurpassed naval technical experience and Elleman's well-deserved reputation as historian and writer have combined to produce an indispensable addition to our library on China's growing military prowess."
—Bernard D. Cole, author of The Great Wall at Sea: China's Navy in the Twenty-First Century, 2nd ed.
"James Bussert and Bruce Elleman provide a superb and in-depth analysis of the impact of technical changes in the Chinese naval forces in the last six decades and their possible impact on military operational capabilities. As China prepares to fight 'informationized warfare' and is making rapid advances in technology diffusion, this work on the Chinese navy is indispensable for understanding the emerging military operations of China in its neighborhood and on the high seas. With detailed analyses of hardware and software of the naval systems, the authors highlight the strengths and weaknesses of China in future combat operations. What distinguishes this work with other works on the subject in the past is its assessment on command, control, and communication systems and the process and effectiveness of their integration in military operations. This book is an essential reading for military planners, policymakers, researchers, journalists, and the lay alike."
—Srikanth Kondapalli, professor of Chinese studies at Jawaharlal Nehru University, author of China's Naval Power
"Bussert and Elleman have produced a first-rate survey of the People's Liberation Army Navy. The authors furnish an exhaustive, bottom-up appraisal of Chinese strengths and weaknesses at sea while rendering evenhanded judgments about the prospects of China's naval modernization. This all-in-one reference volume will be an invaluable resource for practitioners and scholars alike."
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Nicholls State University will dedicate an auditorium in honor of longtime business school dean the late Ridley Gros Jr.
"He built the foundation for the great things that we're doing now," said Shawn Mauldin, the university's current business dean, said Thursday.
The auditorium, renovated in 2012, will be named the Ridley J. Gros Auditorium at Nicholls State University.
The ceremony will be Thursday on the Thibodaux campus. The dedication is not open to the public.
Gros, a longtime college administrator and community leader, is remembered as a generous and dutiful man who friends said "never met a stranger."
He died Aug. 16 at the age of 72.
A native of Donaldsonville and resident of Thibodaux, Gros had a lengthy track record of dedicated service to his job and his community.
Gros worked at Nicholls for 36 years, serving as the dean of the College of Business — twice — and also as vice president.
"We always laugh because he tried to leave a few times, but he was always called back," said Laynie Barrilleaux, vice president for academic affairs.
Gros retired as the business dean in 2002 but returned to that same role until 2005. "He was an icon for the college of business."
He helped the school earn accreditation by the prestigious Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business and served on the association's national accreditation team.
"He knew that for us to be competitive that we had to have an accredited business school, if we were going to serve the students properly in the region, that was one of the things that need to be accomplished," Mauldin said.
Gros was also active in the community, achieving 42 consecutive years of perfect attendance with the Thibodaux Rotary Club and serving as president of that organization, along with the Thibodaux Chamber of Commerce and the Southwestern Deans Association. He was named dean emeritus at Nicholls and boasted numerous awards from both campus and community groups.
If Gros could see Nicholls today, Mauldin said, he would be optimistic.
"Anytime we have new leadership and new ideas there is reason for optimism," Mauldin said. "I think he would be optimistic that we're moving in a positive direction."
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They say you should begin a critique on a positive note for it to be effective. I'm not sure who "they" are, but my guess is that "they" work in a complaint department in some large corporation that makes such obscene profits that it can afford an entire division whose mission is to placate and shut up the customers who are on to its scam. Perhaps you work with some of "them."
So, here's the nice thing I want to say about your company: Caffeine is good, and I like it.
Now, the real reason I am writing: I have a problem with your Vanilla Coffee With Other Natural Flavors. Henceforth, I will refer to this steaming swill as VCWONF. My problem with VCWONF might not be on par with the disappearance of the polar ice caps, but it certainly has had a greater impact on my life lately.
I don't want to hurt your feelings, so I will state my complaint succinctly to avoid the prolonged agony of you being beaten around the bush by me. Here it is in one solid punch: VCWONF tastes as nauseating as it smells while brewing and leaves me with the most splitting headache I have endured since the time we were kids and found a motorcycle helmet in the ditch next to the road and then took turns wearing it while the others whacked at it with a board we found in a vacant lot.
Maybe it will be easier to understand this kind of pain if I describe a common adult experience that results in similar cranial damage. You know that febrile state that occurs after sweeping out your garage a few days after a snowstorm when all the slush saturated with magnesium chloride ice-melting compound from the highways that fell off the cars has evaporated and left a coating of dirt the consistency of used baby powder over the entire floor that makes your nose run brown after breathing it resulting in boogers that resemble lava rocks and the inside of your entire nasal cavity feels like the Mohave desert looks in July during an extraordinarily hot and dry summer? Well that's how I felt after drinking just one cup of VCWONF.
I admit that I am partially to blame. I forgot what Christmas is about. One day in the grocery store I went completely off the list because of a yearning to make this Christmas the best ever. My oldest daughter was coming home from her first semester at college and it snowed, so it certainly had all the makings of a unique holiday already. Why I thought I needed to enhance what was so beautiful naturally, I don't know.
Maybe it was the enticing holiday packaging you put around that vile concoction. I'm not blaming you; I'm only explaining a possibility. The next thing I knew that stuff was in my basket heading for the check-out stand.
This next part should make you cry. I woke up an hour early in the pitch-black December morning excited beyond reason to fill the house with the rich aroma of VCWONF, hoping that the rest of my family would awaken to the sweet smell of holiday cheer and get in the mood for shopping. I sat in the breakfast nook Googling for another hour before anyone stirred. Looking back, I suppose I should be thankful that the fire alarms didn't go off. My son came rushing down the stairs thinking there was a gas leak. Nobody loitered casually around the kitchen that morning trying to preserve the moment.
Don't worry. This is between us. Although I think you would agree that I have sufficient grounds to do so, I have no intention of taking this case to the FDA. That would serve no purpose other than to save mankind from this misery I've suffered, and I think a better lesson will be learned if they actually buy some of this stuff and find out for themselves.
Believe it or not, I am thankful for what I have learned from this near-death experience. Christmas is not special because you brew a pot of flavored coffee; different certainly, but not special. The magic of Christmas is built in. It is the day our Savior was born, and I've discovered you can ponder that more profoundly over a cup of regular old Cafe Verona.
Just out of curiosity, though, what do you hear back from customers about the caramel-flavored stuff? I was just thinking, with New Year's coming and everything...
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SAN JOSE -- After deliberating for two days, a jury found engineer Jing Hua Wu was sane when he gunned down three of his colleagues at Santa Clara startup SiPort.
Wu, 52, sat expressionless as the clerk read the verdicts and as Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Sharon A. Chatman polled each of the five men and seven women jurors on each of the three counts in a case that sent shock waves throughout Silicon Valley.
When the court proceeding was over, his attorney Tony Serra displayed a paper on which Wu had written, "Life or death, the soul remains unconquered," with Wu's name signed below in English and in Chinese characters.
The same jury had previously convicted Wu on three counts of first-degree murder in the killing of SiPort CEO Sid Agrawal, office manager Marilyn Lewis and supervisor Brian Pugh -- shootings sparked by revenge after Wu was fired. As a result of the convictions and sanity finding, Wu faces a maximum of life in prison without the possibility of parole when sentenced on May 24.
"It is the right decision," said Tye Lewis, one of Marilyn Lewis's three children, who, along with his sisters had taken time off work to attend the trial. "We are thrilled with it being finally over with. We can put this behind us."
Prosecutor Tim McInerny, too, was satisfied.
"We are very pleased they saw this as the planned premeditated murder that it was and that they saw through any excuses of insanity."
Serra said that Wu will appeal the verdict because of "significant" constitutional issues raised during the trial. Among them was the reliance on testimony of a psychiatrist, called by the prosecution, who interviewed Wu without his attorneys present. That procedure was enabled by a new state law that changed previous procedures of allowing psychiatric experts chosen by both the defense and prosecution.
Wu's defense had argued that he was too mentally ill to form the intent to kill.
But a psychiatrist called by the prosecution disputed that claim. Expert Kris Mohandie testified that there was no evidence that Wu suffered a psychotic episode. Mohandie, instead, described Wu's contention that just before shooting his co-workers he had a flashback of persecution during China's Cultural Revolution "retrospective embellishment." Wu also testified he blacked out and cannot remember any details about the November 2008 incident before finding himself driving his SUV out of the parking lot.
Shortly after the shooting, however, Wu told a different story to Santa Clara detectives without mentioning the flashback.
"These three people were just trying to do their jobs and they were taken down because this defendant couldn't do what most people do when they are fired -- accept it and move on,'' co-prosecutor Angela Bernhard said in a statement. "We all get up every day, go to work and believe we will be safe. His brutal conduct shattered three families, a company and that sense of security we all deserve at work."
Wu had worked for two years at the high-tech company, when he was fired Nov. 14, 2008, following instances of bizarre behavior, according to prosecutors. After leaving the company, he bought bullets for his semi-automatic handgun and candy for his son's birthday party, scheduled for later that day.
When he returned to the company, he entered the office of Siport's CEO Agrawal, and after an argument, pulled out his weapon and opened fire. In one of Silicon Valley's worst workplace killing sprees, Wu gunned down Agrawal, Pugh and Lewis.
In thanking the 12 jurors and three alternates for their service Chatman praised their attentiveness. In her years as an attorney and judge, "this jury stands out," she said, and called their attention to the trial "exceptional."
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BBC host Myleene Klaas farted audibly on the live National Lottery TV show on Wednesday evening. Immediately after ripping ass (unless it was a loud belly rumble?) she breaks into a wide grin and giggles. Off camera, another host chortles.
Later in the broadcast, the six-months pregnant Myleene joked about her pregnancy cravings. The British Broadcasting Corporation has yet to issue a statement on Klaas' gas, but we'll take this tweet about Myleene eating "squid n chips" for lunch as her official excuse. [BBC1 via Sun]


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Pictures from the US, Canda, UK, EU, AU & NZ Tours 2010
I just posted select photos & commentary from my final US/Canada tour.
I'm posting these in preparation for a massive end-of-year wrap up.
All the US/Canada photos can be seen at
Here's a taste of a few:
"When our flux capacitor broke, I knew we were fucked. But I tried convincing everyone things would be OK."
"Best use of a mic cord evar?"
"This is what it looks like being detained at the Canadian border for 6 hours. Supa fun!"
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I had a day off in Perth so I took a train to the beach. I pretend that's me sitting on the bench. If it makes you feel better, you can pretend it's you.
Scroobius Pip joined us on stage for 3 dates of the UK leg of the tour.
The promoter in Lyon said he had to get drunk to cook us all these pies.
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- Era: World War II
- Number of Pages: 288
- Subject: History
- Date Available: September 2011
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Contributors to this alternative WWII history include the noted military historians William Bartsch, John Lundstrom, Douglas Smith, Barrett Tillman, and H. P. Willmott, among others. In a roundtable discussion format, more than thirty veterans and historians address "what if" questions about the war in the Pacific. Their differing views on possible outcomes of various campaigns and the implications of those changes on the course of history are certain to provoke debate. All major naval campaigns and key battles are discussed along with such questions as whether Japan could have inflicted even greater damage at Pearl Harbor, how Admiral Yamamoto might have won at Midway, and the impact of that victory on the direction of the war. The book also explores whether the war was inevitable and whether the conflict could have ended without the use of the atomic bomb.
Jim Bresnahan, a broadcast journalist in Lexington, VA, is also the author of Revisioning the Civil War and Play It Again, an alternative history of baseball.
For more information click here to view the author's website: http://ww2db.com/refightingthepacificwar/
Praise for Refighting the Pacific War
"Initially skeptical, I found that the more I read the more I began to enjoy the contributors' varying opinions, especially when they disagreed in their interpretations and answers. Many of the contributions are genuinely interesting and thought-provoking, and may inspire or challenge readers' own opinions on key issues…The book has much in its favor, and is inexpensive enough to recommend to anyone wishing to extend their library of books on the war in the Pacific."
— Naval Books of the Year column in Warship, 2013
"Enthusiasts in the general public will likely find Refighting the Pacific War to be a very intriguing read, but it is of limited value to scholars of the Second World War."
— The Historian, Volume 74, No. 4
"An altogether enlightening fun read that supposes different beginnings and finales to many aspects of the prolonged near four-year battle to correct Japan's often distorted vision of an Asian utopia…A great, very unusual read difficult to put down once started."
— Sea Classics, June 2012
"Thought-provoking collection…"
— Air and Space Magazine, April/May 2012
"This volume — like all else produced by the Naval Institute Press—is excellently well-proofed, edited and printed....A worthy addition to the warrior's bookshelf."
— Roanoke Times, February 5, 2012
"This would make a stimulating reader for courses on World War II."
— The Journal of Military History, January 2012
"An extraordinary round table of essays by learned authors."
— The Midwest Book Review, Library Bookwatch, October 2011
"The introduction by retired Vice Adm. Yoji Koda of the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force is well worth the price of the book. Seldom before, if ever, has the pre-World War II Japanese thinking, planning and equipping been so clearly and so well detailed."
— The Washington Times, September 13, 2011
"Jim Bresnahan's book is a bold and refreshing alternative discussion by prominent Pacific War historians by the use of the spellbinding 'what if?' This volume is a terrific read and will have the 'armchair historians' and the casual reader furnished with a deeper understanding of the magnitude of the war in the Pacific with the extraordinary use of multiple perspectives and opinions."
—DANIEL A. MARTINEZ, host of Discovery Channel's Unsolved History, co-author of Kimmel, Short & Pearl Harbor: The Final Report Revealed
"An outstanding approach that confounds expectations. Respected historians and veterans discuss how the Pacific War was fought through the lens of what might have happened. The result is a treasure chest of insights that shine new light on what really happened. This is an important and valuable work and a delight to read."
—VINCENT P. O'HARA, author of Struggle for the Middle Sea: The Great Navies at War in the Mediterranean Theater, 1940–1945
"The most intriguing two words in the study of history are 'what if?' Nowhere is this truer than in military and naval history. Bresnahan has assembled a large group of experts on the war in the Pacific to field just that question for key points in that conflict. The resulting 'informed speculation' offers not only a great read, but is very valuable for a better understanding of the actual events themselves."
—JOHN B. LUNDSTROM, author of Black Shoe Carrier Admiral: Frank Jack Fletcher at Coral Sea, Midway and Guadalcanal
"This book will fascinate and stimulate anyone interested in the Pacific War of 1941–1945. A wide range of authors—from well-known professional historians to participants in the fight—give close consideration to how crucial battles, and the war as a whole, might have turned out differently. Though some old-fashioned historians may cringe at 'what-ifs,' it is salutary for sailors and citizens to be reminded that choices made by human beings count for a lot in wartime."
—BRADFORD A. LEE, Philip A. Crowl Chair of Comparative Strategy, U.S. Naval War College
"In Refighting the Pacific War, editor Jim Bresnahan presents summaries of key events in the naval war, then poses 'what if' questions about each. These are followed by short, informative, and thought-provoking yet often contradictory answers by some of the three dozen naval historians assisting in this project. Scholars and students of the Pacific theater of World War II will find much in this book of interest and no doubt will want to own it for future reference."
—SPENCER C. TUCKER, editor of Naval Warfare: An International Encyclopedia and The Encyclopedia of World War II
Most of us just assume that the outcome of World War II was a sure thing, that a U.S. triumph over Japan and Nazi Germany was inevitable.
Not so. Historians and veterans of that era know that a fortunate combination of actions, command decisions and pure luck gave us victory after a four-year slog through Europe and the vast Pacific.
Author/editor Jim Bresnahan has pulled some of those veterans and historians together in this book to talk about what might have happened - and what might have gone wrong - in the war against Japan. The results are scary, to say the least.
If the Imperial Japanese Navy had thrown a third wave of planes against Pearl Harbor, if one defiant American pilot had not disobeyed his superior, if one admiral had been in command rather than another - the stories of the Day of Infamy, the decisive battle of Midway and several other actions would have ended differently.
This book is just as long as it needs to be, with enough information and careful speculation to satisfy the inquisitive reader, but not so much it becomes boring. All the contributors, whether they agree or disagree, get a chance to make their cases in answer to the editor's fascinating "what if?" questions.