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An ongoing series in which the Globe profiles those injured in the Boston Marathon explosions.
John and Karen Odom
Over nearly five months, through all the surgeries and throbbing pain, John and Karen Odom have longed to share a bottle of wine while watching the sun set from their house overlooking the ocean, inhale the minty air of their eucalyptus trees, and hug family, friends, and colleagues who have watered their plants, tended their garden, collected their mail, doted on them from afar.
John Odom, who required 11 operations after shrapnel severed arteries in each leg and lost so much blood that his heart stopped beating twice, will do something Friday he and his wife once worried would never happen: They are returning to California — the last of the Marathon bombing victims to go home.
"Going home is going back to reality, to our lives, getting back to the plans we had for our future," John said from the suite at the Marriott Residence Inn in Charlestown, where he and his wife have stayed for the past months after nearly three months of recovering at Boston Medical Center and learning to walk again at Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital.
While they have been literally counting the days until their return — Friday marks 143 days since they left their home south of Los Angeles to watch their daughter run the Marathon — they leave Boston with mixed emotions.
Also: With grit and determination, Odoms adjust to a new life
Celeste Corcoran
Corcoran, 47, was one of two people who lost both legs in the bombings.
Ever since the terror on Marathon Monday, Celeste Corcoran has hungered for the moment she would step out of her wheelchair and walk on new legs. And she had an idea what those legs should look like.
When a glamorous amputee strode into her hospital room for a morale-boosting visit in April, Corcoran admired the polished toenails and high-heeled sandals on her custom-crafted limb. She imagined that, once her wounds healed, her own artificial legs would seem just as lifelike.
Then the morning of her fitting finally arrived; the 47-year-old hairdresser "was off-the-charts excited,'' said her sister, Carmen Acabbo. But as the prosthetist tugged on the aluminum legs for the first time, the normally expansive Corcoran grew quiet. As her loved ones looked on, she gripped a walker, fixed her eyes on the floor, and determinedly took steps. The legs felt clunky and uncomfortable. They looked to her like silver stilts.
Back in the front seat of her sister's car, she cried softly during the drive home to Lowell. Her real legs, always her most-complimented feature, were not coming back. "When reality slaps you in the face it's really a slap,'' she said later.
Also: Marines bring hope to Marathon attack victims
Roseann Sdoia
Sdoia was injured at the site of the second blast. She lost her right leg above the knee.
Roseann Sdoia, a Boston development executive who lost her right leg above the knee, were admitted to Spaulding to learn how to walk on their new prostheses.
Because Sdoia exercised regularly before the bombing, as well as ran and skied, her insurer, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts, agreed to cover the most expensive computerized leg on the market. Insurers, including Blue Cross, said they consider these requests on a case-by-case basis.
Sdoia's prosthesis, the Genium, includes a microprocessor-controlled knee that can climb stairs and step over objects, mimicking the movement of the person's other knee. It takes less effort to operate than a less-costly mechanical leg or hydraulic leg, which means the person wearing it can walk farther and faster.
Still, Sdoia's first fitting was bittersweet. "It was just the harsh reality that it's forever,'' she said. And even with an $80,000 prosthetic limb, there were reminders that it isn't her own: Because of how the leg fits, the foot does not lie flat on the floor when she sits.
Caroline Reinsch and Christian Williams
After all the chaos and fear on Boylston Street, Caroline Reinsch wondered if she heard the question right. The blast had perforated her eardrums and punched a bloody hole in her thigh all the way to the femur, splitting the quad muscle. "Is there a possibility you are pregnant?" the X-ray technician asked, standing over her gurney.
It took 11 days until she had healed enough from the surgeries to be released, leaving with a bulky leg brace and wounds that needed constant redressing, the thigh where they harvested the skin graft hurting even more than the thigh ripped open by the blast. The first place she went was Beth Israel, for an emotional reunion with Williams — the two of them in tears, the nurses crying, too. He survived but was nowhere near release, and doctors were still working to save his right leg.
She had tamped down any thoughts of pregnancy until her iPhone rang a few days later. It was her regular doctor, going over her discharge file from the Faulkner, all of it seeming familiar. Then the doctor paused.
"Did they give you a pregnancy test?" she asked.
"Not that I know of," Reinsch said.
Well, the doctor replied, hospital records showed a "slight positive" for pregnancy. It meant there was a slight chance, but that it was too early to tell.
"You might want to take a home pregnancy test," the doctor said.
J.P. Norden
Depressed at one setback after another, Norden met people at the Walter Reed military hospital with similar injuries who had learned to thrive.
On the rain-slicked apron at Hanscom Field, almost everything seemed gray: the sky, the walker folded in J.P. Norden's lap, his sweatpants and hoodie and T-shirt underneath. What wasn't gray was black: his wheelchair, the asphalt, the 10 steps leading to the Gulfstream's cabin door.
Norden, with one leg blown off at the Marathon and the other scarred and throbbing in pain, gripped the handrails. He thought about pushing up and hopping, but his body merely twitched.
He looked up at his doctor and slackened, and the doctor, E.J. Caterson, did something they do not teach in medical school. He laced an arm under Norden's, clasped his back, and hoisted him gently, one step at a time, one minute to the top.
They had known each other across nine weeks and 11 surgeries, but it was the third week when Caterson started planning this trip. A rampant bacterial infection had sent Norden from recovery back to the ICU, plunging him into depression.
So the doctor reached out to friends at the Walter Reed military hospital, where more than 1,000 young men had been treated for injuries like Norden's. They had learned to thrive. Being with them for a day might be what Norden needed.
Erika Brannock
Brannock lost her left leg above the knee, and her right leg was also badly injured in the the Marathon blasts. She was recently reunited with the woman who came to her aid after the blast.
Erika Brannock, a 29-year-old preschool teacher from suburban Baltimore, was near the finish line with her sister and brother-in-law, waiting for their mother to finish her first Boston Marathon. In the weeks that followed, Brannock would undergo more than 10 surgeries, including the amputation of her left leg above the knee.
Her right leg was badly injured, too. "I've got a space this big missing from my fibula," she said, holding her fingers about three inches apart.
She spoke in the sixth-floor hospital room that has been her home for the past seven weeks. Wearing a green shirt that matches her eyes, Brannock talked at length about how her life changed in an instant, about her goals, her medical care and her new best friends: the trauma doctors and nurses who treated her injuries.
As crazy as it might sound, Erika Brannock has mixed feelings about leaving the hospital. Yes, she's ready to get back to her old life, but she will miss her caregivers terribly. She turned teary when she spoke of the Boston friends she would leave behind. "I'm very excited about getting home, but it's kind of bittersweet. The staff has been amazing. They joke that I've been a princess because they give me everything I want."
Mery Daniel
Daniel, 31, was injured at the site of the first blast.
The camera turns on, and from her wheelchair Mery Daniel fixes her hair and musters a smile. "I've made a tremendous amount of progress," she says, "and I couldn't be any happier."
The progress part is true. Two weeks ago, it took a team to lift Daniel from bed; now she can walk 100 yards on her own. But she is also fatigued and frustrated, six weeks after a blast at the Boston Marathon tore through her legs, shearing off her right calf and forcing doctors to amputate her left leg and massage her failing heart to keep her alive.
Six weeks of surgery and hospital rooms and the slow grind of rehabilitation, six weeks in which she saw her terrified 5-year-old daughter just three times. Six weeks since the remarkably driven Daniel — a Haitian immigrant who propelled herself from ESL to honors classes to medical school — was jolted off the course she had set for herself.
Now she has a new worry: Making up for lost time fund-raising. While other Marathon amputees and their relatives granted interviews, while millions of dollars flowed toward personal fund-raising sites that they or their relatives or coworkers created, the deeply private Daniel eschewed attention. Only later did her family think of crowd-funding. Trying to catch up with two GoFundMe pages, Daniel has raised less than $16,000.
Beth Roche
Roche, 59, was injured at the site of the first blast.
Boston Marathon bombing survivor Beth Roche says she wants to thank — and hug — a mystery man in a blue uniform who aided her after the blast that ripped into her knee.
"I felt very alone, but when he was there, I felt like there was something protecting me," said Beth Roche.
Giving an update on her recovery Tuesday at Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, Roche said the man in blue told her that everything was going to be all right and that help was on its way. The man had his back to the area where the bomb had exploded, said Roche, and he could not have known whether there would be another explosion that would come from that direction. Roche said she wanted to thank him "for being the man that he was and being as brave as he was" and she felt that if she could meet him, it would help bring her closure.
The Indiana resident was rushed to Tufts Medical Center after the blast tore into her knee. She faced a daunting recovery, including multiple surgeries, the Globe reported last month. Three people were killed and more than 260 were injured when two bombs went off near the Boston Marathon finish line on April 15.
Adrianne Haslet and Adam Davis
Haslet lost a leg, and shrapnel cut a nerve and artery in Davis's left foot.
Air Force Captain Adam Davis spent the winter in Afghanistan, returning to Boston in late March without a scratch. "I didn't even see anyone get injured in Afghanistan," says Davis.
But two weeks later, on a nice spring day in Boston, both he and his wife would be seriously injured in the Marathon bombings. Adrianne Haslet, a dance instructor, lost part of her left leg. Shrapnel cut a nerve and artery in Davis's left foot. His right foot, also peppered with shrapnel, required a skin graft from his thigh to repair torn skin and muscle. He had a perforated eardrum.
In an interview in their Seaport apartment building, the couple spoke of the day that started out so beautifully and ended so brutally. After being separated for nearly five months by his deployment, Davis and Haslet were happy to be out and about on Patriots Day, having lunch and shopping in the Back Bay. She had been to Boylston Street to watch the Marathon last year and was eager to share it with her husband.
Sarah MacKay
The Northeastern University student was hit by shrapnel and had a blown eardrum.
For many Northeastern University students, Patriots Day and the Boston Marathon are a magnet. Sarah MacKay, a Northeastern senior, has been to a few, and was there with her roommate this year, too.
After lunch on Newbury Street, they walked to the finish line on Boylston. But it was chilly, and after standing there for 10 minutes, they thought about leaving.
Then the first bomb went off. MacKay called for help for her friend, whose leg was bleeding badly, and stayed with her until an ambulance took her to Tufts Medical Center.
"Compared to people all around me, I was fine. I had all my limbs, I wasn't bleeding," says MacKay, who is from Franklin.
Then she realized that she, too, had been injured. "I had glass stuck in my pants, up and down my leg. I had big welts on the side of my right leg." She had been hit by shrapnel and had a blown eardrum.
Nicole Gross
Gross, of Charlotte, N.C., was released from the hospital after spending 3½ weeks recovering from serious injuries.
The photograph of a young woman in shock, her legs peppered with shrapnel wounds, her clothing torn, her limbs laced with blood that also drenched the Boylston Street sidewalk beneath her, made its way around the world.
The image, by John Tlumacki of the Globe, came to symbolize the carnage and terror of the Boston Marathon bombings through Nicole Gross's suffering.
On Friday, after more than a month of treatment at two Boston hospitals, Gross met the man who had brought her private pain into public view.
"Hi, how are you," Tlumacki said softly as he walked into her room at Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital in Charlestown. "How are you doing?"
"So much better," answered Gross, propped up in bed, as she extended her arms for an embrace.
'I think she represented everybody who was hurt by the blast.'
Better physically, Gross said, as she recovers from a compound fracture of one leg, a nearly severed Achilles tendon, and hearing damage. And better emotionally, Gross added, as she accepts an unsought role as the dazed and battered symbol of a terrorist attack.
"The first week was horrific," said Gross, 31, a personal trainer and endurance coach from Charlotte, N.C. "Now, I want my face to be one of strength and perseverance."
Ron, Karen, and Krystara Brassard
The family is recovering after multiple surgeries.
Ron and Karen Brassard had never been to the Boston Marathon before, and were looking forward to the outing with their longtime friends, Celeste and Kevin Corcoran. Both couples had their daughters with them: Krystara Brassard, 20, and Sydney Corcoran, 18. They were going to watch Celeste's sister, Carmen Accabo, run her first marathon.
The couples first met for lunch at Stephanie's on Newbury, then the men went to grab a beer and watch the Red Sox on TV while the women window-shopped. Eventually, they all headed over to Boylston Street with handmade signs for Accabo that read "GO CARMEN, GO!" and "Congratulations, CARMEN!"
"I had stayed up late, putting beads on them so she would see them since they sparkled," says Karen Brassard. "We were all so excited. It was such a great day."
The photos in her cellphone tell the rest of the story. The first one, taken by their daughter, shows the Brassards happily standing near the finish line, holding the signs. In the next frame — a Boston Globe photograph later sent to her by friends — Ron is on his back on the sidewalk. Shrapnel had carved a chunk out of his left leg, and he had a severed artery and nerve damage. At Tufts Medical Center, a skin graft was taken from his left thigh to help rescue his damaged left shin and calf, which he mercifully would be able to keep.
"Our first trip to the Marathon made an impression," Ron says wryly. "A permanent one." He may have lost his mobility, for now, but not his sense of humor.
Karen Rand
Rand is executive assistant to chef Jasper White.
That day on Boylston Street, the bomb tore from Karen Rand her best friend, Krystle Campbell, and her left leg. She remembers everything, every horrific detail from the sidewalk beside her friend's body. She talks about none of it. But she holds on to her sense of humor.
So when friends in the restaurant world planned a fund-raiser for Rand to be held Sunday at the Kenmore Square bar known as the Lower Depths, one suggested calling it "The Lower Leg."
"I was like, 'Oh, my God.' I wasn't sure," said Suzi Samowski, the bar's co-owner, but she asked Rand anyway. "She loved it."
Rand is 52, executive assistant to chef Jasper White and to White's partner in the Summer Shack restaurants. She went to the Marathon with Campbell, a 29-year-old former Summer Shack manager, each one beaming in the sun as they posed for a picture on the Public Garden footbridge before heading to the finish.
That Rand was old enough to be Campbell's mother and that she did not work with Campbell on the dining room floor were irrelevant. "These things just don't matter in the restaurant business," said Samowski, who also co-owns the two Bukowski Taverns, one of which sits next to a Summer Shack outpost on Boston's Dalton Street.
Rand and Campbell became fast friends seven years ago, each as effervescent and seemingly carefree as she was in command at work — Campbell orchestrating the hubbub of dining room floors, Rand holding the Summer Shack operation together.
Jeff Bauman
Bauman lost both legs at the site of the first blast.
Jeff Bauman Jr. threw out the first pitch at Fenway Park before a Phillies game in May.
He also got huge cheers when he appeared before a Bruins game earlier in the month.
Bauman, 27, lost both legs in the Boston Marathon bombings and awoke at Boston Medical Center to help authorities identify the bombers.
At the Bruins game against the Maple Leafs, Bauman was introduced with text that read, "By now you know his inspirational story. His perseverance in the face of great adversity represents all that is Boston Strong."
Seated in a wheelchair and clad in a Bruins jersey and red shorts, Bauman smiled, pumped his fist in the air, and gave a thumbs-up to the crowd. He waved a large flag with the words "Boston Strong" written in the team's colors, gold against a black background.
He did not speak publicly but issued a statement expressing his gratitude for the support he has received since the bombings.
"I want to thank everyone for their amazing support for me and all those injured and their families," Bauman said in the statement. "I'm making great progress and I thank everyone for their thoughts and prayers. Please continue to respect our space at this time. I want to thank the Bruins players and organization for the generosity and support for all those impacted."
Alvaro and Martha Galvis
The couple, who have been together since 1974, were injured by schrapnel.
The view from Martha Galvis's room at Spaulding Rehab sweeps from the Tobin Bridge to the
Prudential Building. Below the rooftops, the panorama includes the finish line of the Boston Marathon, where Martha and her husband, Alvaro, were wounded, and the Theatre District ballroom where they met, in 1974.
It was a Latin party at the old Bradford Hotel, on Tremont Street, two young Colombians united in the city where they had come to study. The outgoing Alvaro was drawn by Martha's raven-haired beauty, her down-to-earth warmth. "We started talking," he recalled, "and then Cupid did the work."
Now Alvaro Galvis, 62, is trying to visualize the joyous moments that so often occurred within that vista, in the years when he and Martha were raising their young family in Boston, and on their many return visits after moving to New Hampshire in 1986. Not what happened that Monday.
Brittany Loring
Loring's body was riddled with shrapnel, which fractured her skull, tore three large wounds into her legs, lodged a pellet in her throat, and burned her skin.
Brittany Loring needs a water break and a minute to catch her breath. She's been doing a series of leg lifts for 20 minutes. "It's burning like I was at the gym," she tells her physical therapist, Erin Saulnier.
But this isn't a gym. It's Loring's kitchen, and her session isn't quite over yet. "Try to keep your knee straight and your toe pointing forward," Saulnier says before giving her patient a quick respite. Then, it's back to work — squats using the kitchen sink for balance and practicing shifting weight from one leg to another.
Three times a week for the foreseeable future, Loring will strengthen muscles weakened after twin bombs exploded at the Boston Marathon. Her body was riddled with shrapnel, which fractured her skull, tore three large wounds into her legs, lodged a pellet in her throat, and burned her skin. Some of the metal shards are irretrievable and remain inside of her.
In homes and rehabilitation centers across the region, Loring and other bombing victims are taking their first steps toward healing. People are progressing from using walkers for halting steps, to crutches, to eventually needing nothing.
Eric and Ann Whalley
The Whalleys together have endured more than a dozen surgeries since April 15; more remain.
They met 50 years ago in England, two grammar school athletes on the way to a track meet, and married in their 20s. Empty nesters now, they love taking long walks together through their adopted hometown, like the Monday stroll that led from Charlestown to the Boston Marathon finish line.
Then, they were separated after the bombings. Eric Whalley was rushed to Brigham and Women's Hospital with a ravaged right leg and right eye pierced by a metal fragment. Ann Whalley was taken to Faulkner Hospital, her right leg badly strafed.
For three excruciating days, they were apart. Finally, Ann was brought to the Brigham. When nurses wheeled them close, Eric reached out for his wife's hand, his happiness penetrating a fog of medication and pain.
"My dad nearly leaped out of his bed," recalled Richard Whalley, 25, the younger of their two sons.
What happened next was just as incredible: Michelle Obama appeared, offering hugs, medals, and M&Ms stamped with the presidential seal. Everyone teared up.
Sarah Girouard
Girouard, a student at Northeastern University, had surgery to remove a large chunk of metal from her heel, which was fractured.
This summer was shaping up to be a busy time for Sarah Girouard.
She had signed up for the American Lung Association's 180-mile bicycle Trek Across Maine in June. In August, she was supposed to begin a study-abroad program in tropical reef ecology and conservation on the Caribbean island of Bonaire.
Sarah, 20, is a straight-A student at Northeastern University, majoring in environmental science, with a minor in marine biology.
But she may not be able to participate in either of her planned summer adventures. At the Boston Marathon, she was standing with her friends near the finish line when the first bomb went off.
Shrapnel pierced a bone in her right leg, and she had surgery at Tufts Medical Center to remove a large chunk of metal from her heel, which was fractured. She also sustained damage to her eardrum.
She is recovering at home in Falmouth, Maine, where she is using a wheelchair and crutches to get around and "getting antsy," her mother said.
David Yepez
Yepez, 15, was released from the hospital after being treated for multiple injuries
David Yepez is an athletic kid who loves wrestling and playing soccer at St. John's Prep in Danvers, where he is a freshman. He's also an honor roll student, but if there's one thing his dad is most proud of, it's his heart.
"He is a wonderful young man," says Luis Yepez of Andover.
Indeed, when David, 15, was released from the hospital after being treated for multiple injuries suffered in the Marathon bombings, he insisted on visiting his friend Aaron Hern, who was still in the intensive care unit at Boston Children's Hospital.
So David's father took him straight from the Floating Hospital for Children at Tufts Medical Center to Children's. Somehow, David felt responsible for not protecting his friend, telling his father: "I'm older, I'm bigger, and I don't think it was fair that he was more injured than I was."
At the site of the second bombing, just feet from where 8-year-old Martin Richard was killed, David suffered a torn ear drum, second-degree burns on his arm, and had a 3-inch piece of shrapnel embedded 6 inches deep in his leg. His family and Aaron's had gathered to watch Aaron's mom run her first Boston Marathon. The boys' fathers, Luis Yepez and Alan Hern, roomed together at the US Naval Academy and remain close even though the Herns live in California.
Aaron Hern
Hern, 11, was released last Wednesday from Boston Children's Hospital.
Aaron Hern's friends back home in Martinez, Calif., know him as a perpetual motion machine. His mother wonders if they will recognize a slowed-down version.
"I think his friends will be shocked because he's not the Aaron everyone knows, running and bouncing off the walls," says Katherine Hern.
He was so energetic as a toddler that Katherine and Alan Hern directed their son toward sports at an early age. They think his fitness has helped him in his recovery.
"He's got a good, strong body, and the doctors thought his legs would be worse," says Katherine, who was running her first Boston Marathon this year. They're bad enough: "Pretty torn up, from hips to ankles," she adds.
Luckily, the 11-year-old didn't break any bones or damage any arteries. He was released last Wednesday from Boston Children's Hospital.
Heather Abbott
Abbott, 38, of Newport, R.I., was injured at the site of the second blast.
It was a difficult decision, but Heather Abbott said that having her lower leg amputated a week after the Marathon bombing was her best option for resuming her active life, everything from aerobics to zumba.
Abbott's left foot and ankle were shattered by the second bomb as she stood outside the Forum bar and restaurant. Emergency personnel rushed her to Brigham and Women's Hospital, where surgeons initially saved her limb by grafting blood vessels from her healthy leg.
But over the next few days, Abbott said, it became clear that "the best case scenario seems to be going with the amputation,'' she told reporters during a press conference at the hospital Thursday. "If I had kept it, it was very badly mangled and never would be fully healed, and it would be shorter than the other leg.''
While a prosthesis "is something I will have to get used to,'' she said, it will give her a better chance of resuming running, yoga, and other aspects of her active lifestyle.
Abbott is one of 16 bombing victims known to have had legs or feet amputated.
"If someone told me I would have half a leg at age 38, I would have been devastated,'' said the Newport, R.I., resident, who works in human resources for Raytheon. She said she tried not to think about the amputation as she was wheeled into the operating room Monday, but "it's really not as bad as I thought it could have been.''
J.P. and Paul Norden
The brothers were injured at the site of the second blast.
Liz Norden, a mother of five, had just finished hauling groceries into her Wakefield home Monday afternoon when her cellphone rang.
"Ma, I'm hurt real bad," said her 31-year-old son. He was in an ambulance, he told her, being rushed to Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.
It was her second boy, who had gone with his older brother to watch a friend run in the Boston Marathon.
On the phone, her son said his legs were badly burned in an explosion. His brother had been next to him, but he didn't know where he was.
Within the next two hours, amid frantic phone calls and a panicked drive into Boston, Norden pieced together the horrific truth that will forever change her two sons' lives — and her own. Each of the brothers lost a leg, from the knee down. One was taken to Beth Israel Deaconess, while the other was at Brigham and Women's Hospital.
"I'd never imagined in my wildest dreams this would ever happen," Norden said, sitting on a bench outside the Beth Israel Deaconess emergency room Monday night.
Sydney Corcoran
Corcoran, 17, was injured, along with her mother, Celeste, at the site of the first blast.
She lies on a blood-spattered sidewalk, a makeshift tourniquet held to her leg by two strangers. The image, shot by a Boston Globe photographer and featured on the front pages of the Globe and The New York Times on Tuesday, came to symbolize the grievous wounds and sudden heroism that followed the deadly bombings at the Boston Marathon.
The girl on the ground is Sydney Corcoran, a 17-year-old Lowell High School senior. Her femoral artery was ruptured. Corcoran, near death when she reached Boston Medical Center, woke from surgery with a request: Locate the men who saved her life.
"Find Matt,'' she said, according to her aunt, Carmen Acabbo, who added, "We would all like to thank him."
Sydney Corcoran, despite massive blood loss, is expected to recover, Acabbo said. She plans to attend Middlesex Community College in the fall and wants to study psychology. She survived one major injury when she was hit by a car two years ago and fractured her skull, according to local news accounts.
Marilyn Kight
Kight, 63, was injured at the site of the first blast.
Kight, a hospice nurse from Redding, Calif., was standing near the finish line and had just cheered on her daughter, Amy Blomquist of Reno, when the second bomb exploded. When Kight arrived at Tufts Medical Center, she had a hole the size of her fist in the back of her thigh, said her husband, Carlo Jensen.
"She was just thankful she didn't lose her leg," he said. "She was happy about that, and felt sorry about everyone else."
Kight, who loves kayaking and hiking in the mountains of Northern California, has had two surgeries and will need plastic surgery to repair her thigh, Jensen said. As a hospice nurse, she is not unfamiliar with human frailty and physical struggle. "She's tough," he said.
Marc Fucarile
Fucarile, 34, of Stoneham, was injured at the site of the first blast.
Marc Fucarile opened his eyes for the first time since the Boston Marathon bombings on April 15.
He opened them to a right leg amputated above his knee, burns across half of his body, a fractured left leg, and shrapnel lodged near his heart. He opened his eyes — which last looked out on a bloody Boylston Street — and the first thing he did was tell his fiancee Jen Regan, "I am sorry for being there. I love you and Gavin," their 5-year-old son, according to a statement released by the family on Monday.
Fucarile remains in serious condition at Massachusetts General Hospital, the most severely injured of the nine bombing patients still at the hospital, spokesman Ryan Donovan said. His injuries will keep him there for the foreseeable future, the family said.
The statement described Fucarile as a caring, loving man who always put others before himself. After apologizing to his fiancee and son for attending the Marathon, Fucarile inquired about his friends, the family said.
"We know that the amount of support we have received is a true testament to the kind of person Marc is – a thoughtful and loyal friend; a loving and devoted son, brother and fiancé; and a dedicated and exceptional father," the family said in the statement.
Michelle Connolly
Connolly, 52, was injured at the site of the first blast.
Behind Michelle Connolly's right eye sat a pellet, thrust there by a bomb at Monday's Marathon. It singed nerves as it traveled through her orbital socket and came to rest on a cluster of muscles. She just wanted it out.
"I don't want any part of that evil that hurt so many people inside of me," the 52-year-old South Boston grandmother said the day before the pea-sized shrapnel was surgically removed.
About a dozen members of her family had stood near the finish line waiting for her daughter, Keryn Connolly, to stride victoriously across. "This was a big deal for our family," her mother said. "The whole community was very anxious for her to cross that finish line."
Connolly waited just to the side of Marathon Sports on Boylston Street, close to where a bomb detonated. The force knocked her sunglasses off her head and her cellphone from her hand, and something, possibly a piece of a table, hit her in the head.
She could find only three members of her group. So, disoriented, dizzy, and covered in blood, Connolly searched. One of her daughter's friends suffered two puncture wounds in her leg, requiring more than a dozen stitches.
Remy Lawler
Lawler, 25, was injured at the site of the first blast.
A Lesley University student, Lawler lives with two graduates in an apartment in Brighton. She was at the race to watch her roommate Erin Hurley. Hurley's boyfriend, Jeff Bauman, was there, too, as was a third roommate.
Lawler had just stepped away from the group to take pictures of the runners. Bauman had offered to hoist Lawler onto his shoulders, but she declined, opting to push toward the front of the line.
Then, a bomb exploded.
Lawler's parents were at their Amesbury home gardening when a neighbor stopped by to tell them what happened. Knowing her daughter was at the race, Lawler's mother went inside to check her cellphone. She had a voicemail.
"We could hear EMTs saying: 'You're not going to lose your leg,' " said Lawler's father, Arthur.
"My daughter is angry and depressed," Arthur Lawler said. "She's angry that her friends were badly wounded. She's angry that on a beautiful day somebody could have the audacity to do something like this, especially to children."
Lee Ann Yanni
Yanni was injured at the site of the first blast.
Even after her release from Tufts Medical Center, Yanni will make regular trips to the orthopedic surgeon to repair her fractured fibula. The bone burst through the skin on her left leg, requiring a series of surgeries to clean the wound, bring the muscle back together, and cover the hole with a skin graft.
Yanni, a physical therapist, and her husband, Nicholas, were watching one of her patients and friends run the Marathon. They, too, were standing near the running store when the first explosion sounded. They both looked down at her leg, saw blood and bones.
"I kind of jumped into Marathon Sports to try and get a tourniquet on my leg," she said.
Nicholas Yanni, who suffered temporary hearing loss, said he followed his wife into the store "freaking out. She was as cool as a cucumber." The couple grabbed shirts from the racks to stem the flow of blood. Then he went to check on the rest of their group, and husband and wife were separated. A friend's mother, Beth Roche, 60, suffered a shattered kneecap and other injuries as she was thrown to the pavement.
Jessica Kensky Downes and Patrick Downes
The newlyweds were injured at the site of the first blast.
She holds his hand in the photo, a step ahead, in a dazzling ruby-red dress. He leans back, easy in an untucked dress shirt, as they walk in front of a vibrant plaza in Harvard Square. The clarity and staging suggest a professional engagement shot, but the look on their faces is genuine.
Maybe it is the photo, or the equally vivid character sketches beneath it of Patrick Downes and Jessica Kensky Downes, newlyweds critically injured as they watched the Boston Marathon at the finish line Monday. Jess, an MGH nurse from the West Coast, spirited and confident; Pat, a Boston College graduate and Cambridge boy, gentle, generous, and goofy; the two together, selfless and warm, cherished by their friends.
Something about them — not just their plight, but their seemingly boundless joy and photogenic charm — leapt from thousands of screens and propelled people to donate and to write. Friends, friends of friends, BC alumni, complete strangers. Within a few hours, a fund-raising page established to defray the couple's out-of-pocket expenses had raised $23,000. By Thursday morning, it hit $150,000; by Thursday night, $300,000.
Unstated on that site, known only by some who circulated the link on social media, was that Patrick and Jessica had each lost their left leg below the knee, rushed to and operated on in different hospitals across town after Monday's devastating bombings.
Richard Donohue Jr.
Donohue, 33, was injured during the shoot-out with bombing suspects Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev in Watertown.
Dic Donohue, 33, was wounded early Friday morning, when he raced to help MIT and Cambridge police as they chased the Boston Marathon bombing suspects to the corner of Dexter and Laurel streets in Watertown. It is unclear whether Donohue knew then that his friend and MBTA academy classmate, Sean Collier, an MIT police officer, had been killed earlier, allegedly by the suspects he was now chasing.
A shootout ensued, during which a bullet ripped through Donohue's right thigh, hitting both branches of the femoral artery and the femoral vein. The wound drained him of life.
"The officer's blood volume was almost entirely lost, to the point of the heart stopping," said Russell Nauta, chairman of surgery at Mount Auburn, said at a press conference Sunday. It took 45 minutes or so of "very aggressive effort," he added, to get Donohue's heart beating again.
Still, doctors said they are cautiously optimistic that Donohue, an avid runner and father of a 6-month-old son, will recover.

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Tannenbaum: Lured by $5M in incentives from state
A $2 billion money-lending enterprise headed by a major benefactor of the Connecticut GOP is moving its headquarters from out of state to Greenwich, lured by $5 million in economic incentives approved by the administration of Democratic Gov. Dannel P. Malloy.
Malloy's office announced the deal Friday between the state and Fifth Street Finance Corp., a Nasdaq-traded company that is based in White Plains, N.Y., and employs approximately 50 people there.
Terms of the deal call for the firm to add an additional 46 positions to its Greenwich workforce over the next decade.
The firm is run by Leonard Tannenbaum, whose state and federal filings show he gave $15,000 to the state Republican Party in March of this year, earning him a seat on the dais at the party's biggest fundraiser of the year, where GOP leaders assailed Malloy.
Republicans have been highly critical of the economic incentives awarded by Malloy's administration to big business, questioning the return on investment and saying the state should lower taxes and fix the regulatory climate instead.
"If the governor uses these grants to attract businesses that have longterm staying power and peripheral benefits, I think it's good," Tannenbaum told Hearst Connecticut Newspapers. "The governor, for us, is going to make far more revenue for the state of Connecticut than the amount of money that he's giving us by many, many multiples."
Records show that Tannenbaum, 41, a Greenwich resident who last year started his own Keeping America Competitive bipartisan political action committee, donated $1,000 to the campaign of Malloy's 2010 adversary Tom Foley.
"When it comes to something as important as job creation, politics never enters the governor's mind," said Andrew Doba, a spokesman for Malloy. "He is concerned with one thing -- creating good paying jobs with good benefits for Connecticut residents."
Tannenbaum's goal is to reach 100 employees in Greenwich within three years, surpassing the benchmarks stipulated by the state.
"We'll easily be able to hit those targets," Tannenbaum said.
James Velgot, the firm's executive director of marketing and brand management, echoed Tannenbaum.
"This company of ours is on quite a trajectory," Velgot said. "Len really believes in Connecticut and wants to help create jobs."
In addition to Connecticut, Tannenbaum said New York and Florida were competing for his business, which lends money to private equity companies.
"My business is portable," Tannenbaum said. "We could actually do our business out of Miami, too. My personal view was that Connecticut was the place to go."
Tannenbaum is in the process of trying to buy the former corporate headquarters of Nestle Waters North America at 777 W. Putnam Ave. to facilitate the move, a transaction that is expected to cost some $39 million.
Fifth Street Finance will receive a 10-year, $4-million loan from the state Department of Economic and Community Development to build another 44,000 square feet of space at the site, $3 million of which is forgivable.
The state sweetened the deal with a $500,000 grant for job training and a $500,000 grant to install a fuel cell, wind or solar-powered energy system. The deal is binding for 10 years.
"So if I leave within 10 years, you just give back the money," Tannenbaum said.
State Sen. L. Scott Frantz, R-36th District, who represents Greenwich and parts of Stamford and New Canaan, embraced the deal in a statement issued by the governor's office.
"Connecticut has long been a world leader in finance and investment management," Frantz said. "We must focus on helping this important segment of our economy remain and grow in our own state."
Tannenbaum expressed his support for Malloy's efforts to attract companies in the biotech sector to Connecticut with economic incentives.
At the same time, he questioned the wisdom of giving a $20 million forgivable loan to Swiss financial services giant UBS in 2011 to maintain a presence in Stamford and at least 2,000 employees in the state until 2017. UBS previously had 3,500 employees on its payroll in Connecticut, though.
"I think a mistake he potentially made was UBS," Tannenbaum said of Malloy. "So if their strategic direction is to leave the state, does that make sense?"
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There are two main ways to achieve superlinear scalability, or to use P processors to compute an answer more than P times faster (see Figure 1):
- Do disproportionately less work.
- Harness disproportionately more resources.
Last month [1], we focused on the first point by illustrating parallel search and how it naturally achieves superlinear speedups when matches are not distributed evenly because some workers get "rich" subranges and will find a match faster, which benefits the whole search because we can stop as soon as any worker finds a match.
This month, we'll conclude examining the first point with a few more examples, and then consider how to achieve superlinear speedups by harnessing more resourcesquite literally, running on a bigger machine without any change in the hardware.
What Have We Learned?
As we saw last month, a parallel search often doesn't need to do anything special to exploit a nonuniform distribution of matches to find a match that much faster; a simple search algorithm will do, such as a linear search for arrays or a depth-first search for trees. Parallel search naturally exploits nonuniform distributions of matches:
- Without knowing where the nonuniformity is. It doesn't need any prior locality information, such as location hints for high-probability areas to try first.
- Without knowing whether there is any nonuniformity at all. Most interestingly, parallel search naturally benefits from nonuniformity without any extra knowledge at all, not even whether there is any! In this respect, we might say that parallel search is deliciously opportunistic.
Sequential search, on the other hand, cannot exploit nonuniformity at all without advance information about where the high-probability region are. Having the sequential algorithm visit nodes in a different or randomized order doesn't help by itself without additional information about where to start [2]. Even armed with a map of the high-probability match areas, the sequential algorithm would need to be made more complex to exploit the nonuniformity.
Finally, getting superlinear parallel algorithm performance typically relies on the ability to interrupt or cancel work. There are two aspects to this, one must-have and one good-to-have:
- Immediate return (necessary). When a worker finds a match, we must be able to return the result to the caller, and let the caller complete immediately without waiting for other workers to complete normally. Otherwise, parallel performance will still scale, but the scaling will usually be sublinear; the time to complete is the maximum, not the minimum, of all workers, and in our search example, we'd typically have to wait for some unsuccessful workers that take N/P time, which puts the overall search's performance in the same category.
- Stop abandoned work (highly desirable). When one worker finds a match, we want to be able to efficiently stop the other workers in order to reclaim their resources, including access to any data they may have locked and the OS and hardware threads they are running on, so that we can use those resources for other work. This is sometimes called "interruption" or "cancellation" and will be the subject of next month's column.
Other Sources of Superlinearity
Another way to achieve superlinear scalability is to exploit partial information. In some parallel algorithms, one worker can discover partial information that it can communicate to other workers to let those others do their work faster than they could do otherwise. For example, in a tree search, one worker might discover that "there are never matches under a node whose weight is over 100." Or, in computing solutions to a set of equations, one worker might discover that in any solution the value of variable x has to be between y-1 and y+4. Other workers can then use such partial information to run faster by excluding entire sections of their search spacesubtrees under heavy nodes, or regions, where x and y are too far apartwithout having to traverse those areas at all to inspect their contents for possible matches.
Still another potential path to superlinearity is to perform speculative execution. Let's say that you have two alternative algorithms available to compute a result, such as two search algorithms where one has better average-case performance and the other has better worst-case performance. Now, most of the time you're better off just picking one of the algorithms and using available hardware to run it in parallel. But sometimes you can do better by running both of them, and seeing which gets the answer first. The cost is that you're doing more work, but you can get the answer faster (including avoiding the bad worst case of one algorithm). Sometimes the extra work can be relatively "free," at least from your selfish point of view; for example, when the two operations are two database or web service queries against different servers, and one server might get the answer in a different way than the other because the servers may be experiencing different loads or may use different methods to compute the answer.
The bad news about all of the effects we've covered so far is that none of them are going to help you go superlinear with algorithms that have to visit every element in a range anyway, such as when you're calculating the sum of all nodes. The good news, however, is that there is another effect that can help: It's when using more threads lets you use a bigger machine, literally.


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Dating Shouldn't Be Stressful
Ory is also the president of Mapping Love (http://MappingLove.com), a company that provides coaching in dating and relationships. Ory personally works with couples, individuals, singles, and married couples – both in person and over-the-phone.
Late night meetings with mysterious strangers. Conversations in dimly-lit restaurants. Heart-break, passion, anticipation, and exhaustion. Sound like the plot of Hollywood's latest feature film? Guess again. It's a description of the dating world in the 21st century.
Dating, on the whole, has become more complicated than it has ever been. Sometimes it seems so complicated that many people describe it more as an adventure than a process. Many experts, however, warn that the complexity of dating in today's society is no reason to feel overwhelmed or hopeless. "I see it all the time,â€? says Annie Ory, certified relationship and dating coach. "People tell me, 'Annie I have no hope for finding the right partner,' and it's simply not true. There is hope – it just takes a little bit of assistance at times.â€?     Â
Ory is also the president of Mapping Love (http://MappingLove.com), a company that provides coaching in dating and relationships. Ory personally works with couples, individuals, singles, and married couples – both in person and over-the-phone. "There's no doubt about it. Dating, and relationships for that matter, can be very confusing,� she states. "Sometimes it just takes a person who is 'on the outside' to objectively monitor what's going on.�
Dating coaches can be somewhat of an unknown concept to many people. Most coaches describe themselves as relationship experts. They focus on what is and isn't working and they put together goals for each respective individual. Although each coach varies in their specialty, experienced coaches such as Ory usually specialize in several areas.
Coaches also vary in the amount of training they receive – some are highly trained, certified professionals while others possess little-to-no training whatsoever. It is usually the training and certifications that consumers are warned to investigate before deciding on a dating coach.
Ory also states that advice should be closely monitored in the beginning stages of working with a coach. If it's not objective, it probably isn't advice – or a coach – that should be taken seriously. "People have a tendency to want to receive advice that agrees with what they want to hear. That type of advice, however, usually isn't constructive,� warns Ory. "A qualified coach will challenge you and force you to take a hard look at the way you're approaching relationships.�
Dating coaches help clients to set up plans for their current dating/relationship status. It can be as simple as deciding upon realistic goals for meeting a new partner, or it can be as complicated as deciding on the qualities that a future partner needs to possess. Whatever the path, Ory has one ultimate goal for all her clients. "I take the fear and uncertainty out of finding a meaningful relationship. I want to make it fun again.�
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Penske says it's the first and only commercial rental operation to offer this new headlamp.
The retrofitting will take place over the next 12 months, and Penske is making the new LED lights part of its core standard specs going forward.
"We've field tested these new lights," says Art Vallely, executive vice president of operations for Penske Truck Leasing. "They provide greater nighttime visibility compared with traditional headlights, which enhances safety for commercial truck drivers operating our equipment. The high durability of these lights also provides a significant cost savings from a maintenance standpoint."
The Truck-Lite LED headlamps were initially developed for military use.
Truck-Lite's LED forward lighting headlamps offer improved driver visibility through its more natural light spectrum, leading to improved object recognition at night. Truck-Lite's LED beam pattern also reduces eye-strain for drivers and reduces harsh headlight glare to oncoming traffic. An additional benefit is a significant reduction in amperage draw on the vehicle's electrical system, freeing up power for other uses and resulting in a 50-times longer lighting system life than conventional halogen technology.


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Bruno Alex4th show that I've ever seen so far, from those Irish lads. The croud was more than an army... it was a brothery. We felt we were part of U2. I was overwhelmed by the multimedia show, by their performance... they still manage to surprise me show, after show! Went to Coimbra Stadium with my dearest cousins Maria Joao, Pina and my sweet friend Elisabete. It was their own "U2 baptism". Another EPIC night from U2 in Portugal
25 August, 2011
The ONE dayIt was a busy day - the ONE day...!!! After a rainy working day... a unexpected prize... A walk on stage!!! This was something I personally never thought it would be possible and I\'m grateful for the opportunity to give my contribute to ONE. It\'s hard to define what one can feel on a day like that - tired but thrilled, I think. Thank you.
13 February, 2011
I took My FatherMy Dad loves music. when I was little, it takes me to see several concerts in the Infante Sagres Pavilion in Oporto. Unfortunately I did not see the Vilar de Mouros concert, but he tells me about it, and I can almost feel it ... The only U2 concert in Portugal, that my father did not see was the 14/08/2005, Elevation Tour, due to shame in selling tickets, clowns. Today, it's me that take him to see several concerts, F1 MotoGP, SuperBike. Just in the last moment I tell him: "Do your bag, we go to Barcelona to see the Rolling Stones ... U2 ... F1...Super Bikes For you my dear Father ... Thank's for you being as you are. I Love You Ricardo Costa
24 January, 2011
My 5th concert in Protugal.It is undoubtedly the biggest event in the universe. I liked seeing the bono and the person who inspires me. the set list was very interesting.
19 November, 2010
ONEIt was the ONE show for me. I was there and it was a lovely and special show... working as a volunteer made me a better person. I still feel different after that amazing experience.
27 October, 2010
AMEII love all the show, everthing, i went the 2 nights, i was so close to Bono AMAZING and i saw Larry pass by car so close too i went crazy :-D he's so hot. I never gone forget this concert. I love this guys. Rapazes são os melhores do mundo amo-vos cantam muito. kiss beijos from lisboa
12 October, 2010
THANKS U2...Thanks U2 for all the joy you have been giving me throughout my life! It has been wonderful how you have the gift to make us so happy. This 2nd concert in Coimbra was absolutely MAGNIFICENT! I was almost all the concert completely euphoric! This time I brought my older son to the concert and he enjoyed it a lot, it was a complete surprise to him and the best first experience in concer! Better than a U2's concert? Impossible!!! They are the ONE… THEY ARE THE BEST ONE!!
11 October, 2010
Magnificent!! :)I went for the two nights, and the shows were... simply AMAZING!! Most memorable moment? Well I loved everything: the song alignment, the CLAW and the lights in it, Bono singing, the guitars, "I'll go crazy if I don't go crazy tonight", "Hold me, Thrill me, Kiss me, Kill me", Larry loosing his head in "Sunday Bloody Sunday", "City of Blinding Lights", "Singing in the Rain", me and my friends jumping together, the rain, 42000 people singing in one voice, Coimbra completely surrendered to U2... Thank you U2 for such memorable moments, you guys will always be in our hearts :) Angela Antunes PS - I just hope the next concert won't take too long to come!! :)
08 October, 2010
Magnificent Concert!U2 gave a spectacular show in 3 October, you're the real thing, even better than the real thing! I saw Zooropa and Pop Mart Tour (Lisbon 1993 and 1997), but 360°Tour exceed all. It was a beautiful night, walk on… Bono, Larry, Edge and Larry, your songs and sounds, inspire us! Please came back soon. We surrender 2U. See you on the road.... Thanks. Paula Queiroz (Portugal)
08 October, 2010
U2 in Portugal 03.10.2010What and incredible night! It was awesome! One doesn't forget the sound of thousands of people singing along, and the sight of thousands of lights light up in a moment. It was unforgetable. I hope the band has loved it as much as we did, and I just thank them for the amazing night. P.S: we were all day under rain, then they came and gave such show, that only in the end did it rain again....x) Singin' in the rain! U2....PORTUGAL LOVES YOU!
08 October, 2010
U2 in CoimbraI loved! It was so beautiful! The sound its only, it chill and Bono is fantastic… The stadium of the colleges student was incredible, we sang for Bono when he was in problems..... and after that it was impossible to stand and don't sing!!!! Please don't forget PORTUGAL! We love U2. You are MAGNIFICENT!
08 October, 2010
Coimbra ShowBoys... You are the BEST... In 1982 i went with my father and his friends to Vilar de Mouros to see what's happening... The concerts were not like now, the bands were mix with "Foclore", but i saw you.... Nobody knows U2 at the time but "I SURRENDER" like you surrender in Coimbra last 02 Oct. After that I saw you in Alvalade the first time you came in 93. Then i went to the show in 2005.... And now in Coimbra... Thanks for being part of my life. Thanks Bono, The Edge, Adam and Larry. See you...
08 October, 2010
ONE... magic night in CoimbraThe night of 2nd October was the prove that the music can change the World. Music can touch the people's heart. But, not every band or singer can do this kind of magic, no. This is a power – or mission – that only U2 have. Yes, 2nd October in Coimbra was a night to remember at the last day of my life. It was my fourth U2 "gig" (i saw them in London, in 2001, Lisbon, in 2005, and again in London, last year) and... it was the best... and one of the best's of the band, for sure. The atmosfere in the stadium was incredible, but the most fantastic moment was the power that the band puts in stage, the "multi-feelings" that they give to us in all night with their amazing songs. At the end Bono said that U2 are surrender to Portugal... and i say now that Portugal are surrender to U2. Was an amazing night, one of the best's of my life. Thank you U2. MIGUEL BARROS (Portugal)
08 October, 2010
Best of the worldthis is a concert to be in the memorie for ever. The vib on the elevation song, and the way that the fans react to the end with the music "With Or Without You " was unbelivabel... Concert 3 oct.
07 October, 2010
the two best nights of my life2 and 3 were without doubt the best nights of my life. What about a band that can move thousands and thousands of people around the world, a band that puts people of all ages to vibrate at each song they play, they are fantastic no words to describe all the feelings that I had those two nights was all very well indeed, PORTUGAL surrendered to them. I just have got to thank BONO, THE EDGE, LARRY ADAM Ee for all the ones that give us for all the good times that step whenever I hear your songs I LOVE YOU are the only band that can shake with my feelings, so once again thank you you guys are the greatest U2 are the fantastic 4 ... THANKS
07 October, 2010
Unforgetable!.......I have no words to describe what i felt........ The crowd (me included) singing all the songs...... FABULASTIC!!! (Fabulous + fantastic)...... MAGNIFICENT.................................. It worth every cent, the waiting, the rain, everything... U2 are the best. Come back soon.
07 October, 2010
My unborn son is already a U2 fan!Last 2nd Oct, there we were (me and my superbelly) at Coimbra Stadium to the the most expected show! I was at the first U2 concert in Alvalade Stadium 18 years ago and my expectations for this time where really high!!...and it was...muuuuuch better! My unborn son didn´t stop dancing all the show and I'm sure he's already a U2 admirer. Thank 2 for comming to Coimbra, it was perfect! And thank 2 for not forgetting that, somewhere,every sunday there's bloody sunday...
07 October, 2010
Best night of my life!How can I forget my first concert? Just can't! I close my eyes and every night, since the concert, I can only remember the musics and how excited I was. I have U2's flag on my wall and everytime I open my eyes I see Bono, The Edge, Larry and Adam! How great is that! The best moment of my life until now! I can't find the words to describe how much I loved it! Coimbra, 02 de Outubro
07 October, 2010
I Met My Husband In U2STour 92 LisbonOn October 2nd we were at a wedding when someone says has arranged tickets and so we left ... we left the wedding and went direct to Coimbra, men wearing suits and me with high heel .. We went at 9:30 and 15 min later joined...The band I most admire ... no words. They sang " Beautifull Day" the same song from my weeding day. Thanks! I loved the band, the public, friends and my best friend in the same place, great music .I loved it, my feet not. I love how the band interacts with the public!!!
07 October, 2010
Portugal in love with U2The second show in coimbra whas something unforgetable.. for 2 hours everyone forgot all the pessimism... Bono with need your voice, and not only for singing, in the rain or not. Come soon, please! We are a small country, but we have huge hearts, and no cround is like us, for no moment we stop singing with you guys! Even if someday you lost your voice, or if you get exhausted, don´t worry, we´ll sing for and with you. The best concert in my life Thank you U2
06 October, 2010
GREAT BONOFR AAAA it is an student@ Uni traditional song that symbolizes Coimbra. It is not a football song at all. Thanks Bono to behave like you did while in Coimbra ( my city)
06 October, 2010
2nd October 2010 - Coimbra - PortugalThanks U2 for an unforgettable evening. I´ve been your fan since Live Aid. I still remember you performing Bad there. Well, the concert I attended in Coimbra with my husband is a moment we´ll never forget too. I couldn´t believe I was in the same place as you!!! Everything was fantastic: the sound, the stage, the lights, YOU...!!! And Bono, please don´t get on your knees because of us. We have to get on our knees cause of you all ,not only because of your songs, but also because of all the values you work for. THANKS!!! WE LOVE U!
06 October, 2010
U2 in the academic cityTwo incredible nights with the best music band ever! It was worth singing in the rain along with U2... A bit of disappointment for Bad not being played and i missed Breathe a lot, but giving the 3 new songs we were given I guess it was a fair trade.. Come more often!!!!
06 October, 2010
Unforgettable!!I was in the October´s 3rd concert in Coimbra and it was a night i surely won´t forget. It was very emotional and I really enjoy all the moment´s. I think that U2 felt the feedback of portuguese public in a very intensive way. Thank´s for this very special moment´s...


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I know what you all are thinking.
"C'mon Michael, why are you taking another shot at Liverpool? Why are you so biased against Liverpool? Why don't you like Stevie and Carra??"
Let me clear things up for once and for all. I have NOTHING against Liverpool FC, nothing. My brother is a Liverpool fan and so yes, I'll make comments and jokes towards him but they are, for the most part, in fun. I have criticized Rafa Benitez in the past and my position that he should be fired this summer (or resign) still stands. I do, in fact, think very highly of both Steven Gerrard and Jamie Carragher. I just wrote a few days ago about how I believe Gerrard should be England's next captain and I've said on multiple occasions that I think Carragher is one of the two or three best center backs in England, and can be the best on his day.
The point of this post is actually not to take a shot at Liverpool's two local heroes. It would be very, very easy for me to criticize the captain and vice-captain for publicly throwing in the title towel.
You know what, though? I commend them for doing this.
We all know Liverpool aren't going to win the Premiership this year; they're too many points behind with not enough games to go and besides that, don't have a good enough squad. The real goal for the Reds now is to finish fourth and get back into the Champions League next year, something that wouldn't happen if they don't finish fourth unless they win the Champions League Final in Moscow this season (and Liverpool are a favorite, at least in my eyes, to do so).
I see nothing wrong with Gerrard and Carragher coming out and being realistic about this. Why should they carry on false hopes and dreams? I know that neither of these guys think Liverpool can win the league title this year, so I don't have a problem with them telling the truth and saying it in public. Their focus is finishing fourth, and whether or not that can be considered a successful season is not the point because it's what Liverpool need to do right now.
This is a different situation from that of ex-Manchester City striker Rolando Bianchi, who I did criticize for his comments in the media through an interview with an Italian newspaper. What Bianchi said portrayed his manager, his teammates, and English culture in a negative light. Nothing positive came out of his comments; it made him only look more selfish and was surely a distraction to his team. There's no place for that and City were right to loan him out to Lazio, where he'll likely stay after this season.
In this instance, Gerrard and Carragher are accepting reality and setting a goal for the rest of the squad. Their objective is to finish fourth and they have no qualms about it, so they want their teammates' and their fans' focus to be on that and to not fool themselves by thinking they can finish higher. Both players have said that the teams around them are playing very well at the moment and it's going to be a fight for that last Champions League position. Both players have said that Liverpool need to continue to get better every game if they want that spot.
What's wrong with that?
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"Do nothing from rivalry or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves." Philippians 2:3
Stop. Whatever you are doing right now, just stop. I know you are probably busy but you can spare five minutes can't you? Ask God the following question "am I doing anything out of rivalry or concept? Please show me."
What about that promotion you applied for at work? Are you thinking of the good of the company? Do you honestly feel you can contribute at that level? Or are you seeking to advance your career selfishly, oblivious to the fact you may be being promoted to your level of incompetency? Have you considered the effects on your family if, by taking on a role not made for you, you are fired in a few months? How would you feel if someone better than you got the job instead?
What about that ministry at church? Notice I didnt call it YOUR ministry. It's not. Are you serving in the way you are because your gifting meets like a glove the need of the people? Or are you serving because you somehow managed to squeeze yourself like a square peg into a round hole? How would you feel if someone else was found who could better do your role? Would you feel insecure and angry or would you be confident that there must be a more suitable role that you can serve in?
Are you on sone kind of "Christian leadership ladder" in your imagination? Do you hope for a steady rise to the so called top. Or are you perhaps longing for a meteoric climb? Are you simply serving time at the moment hoping to build your credentials for a future launch to run your own church? Do you secretly despise the leader you currently pretend to follow? Are you using him so one day you can strike out on your own?
Are you sure that your desire to church plant has been put there by God? Do you think you have all the answers or are you humbly seeking Gods help? Were you surprised when someone suggested it was time you lead? That could be good if it is a sign of humility. But it could be bad if it means that God has never stirred your heart with a godly ambition. Are you actually following the call of man or the call of God?
And Pastor, what of the growth of the church God has entrusted to your care? Are you constantly comparing yourself to others? Do you feel envious of a church growing faster or bigger? Or do you feel superior to one growing slower? Why do you want the church to grow? Is it so that you will look good or is it so God will be glorified by souls coming to know him and worship him as Lord?It is only as we spend time on our knees being examined by God that we can know the true answers to these questions. Truth be told, all of us have mixed motives at best. Many of us start out as young guns, full of a cocksure confidence that often goes with youth. Those challenging circumstances you face may be Gods way of taking the wind out of your sails. God knows I needed him to do that for me. Has he broken you in as a man might a wild horse?
The irony is, when God truly humbles a man, taking away that sense he can conquer the world with no one helping him, it is then that the man is fit for service. Do you feel weak? Then God can make you strong! Do you exclaim like Paul "who I worthy for such a task?" Then God can qualify you! Do you lack wisdom? God will give it to you. Do you feel alone? God will give you those to serve alongside or under who he has specifically designed to cover your inadequacy. Not everyone is built to plant a church as the top of some pyramid. Far more are called to serve a leader in an existing church. Or, if indeed called and equipped by God to start a new work, to do so under the direction and support of another wiser leader.
If these words have hit a raw nerve in you, they are not intended to make you give up. Though, if you are doing something God never designed you for, a change of direction may indeed be the best thing, as quickly as possible. But perhaps, as God convicts you of independence, you may be able to still do the role you have, but with a different attitude. Perhaps you can find a godly leader who can shepherd your soul. Perhaps you can find a vision bigger than your own to gladly support. Perhaps God will take a humbled, almost broken, you and use you as a tool in his hands for the advance of his kingdom and his glory.
Will you join me in praying "God, test my heart. Weigh my motives. Purge me of any wrong desires for my glory. You know my heart. You know that even tho my ugly pride rears it's head from time to time, I have determined to follow you and seek your glory. Make me a tool in your hands. May I bring honour to your name. May I serve you with true humility. And as you advance others may I rejoice that the cause is strengthened. Thank you for dying even for this most ugly of my sins. Thank you for your resurrection power that is given to me that I might be free! Help me to find my identity in you and to cease striving. "


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Toilet Paper Roll Seed Starters
Spring is in the air and I've been ready to plant my garden for at least a month. Fortunately, I remember all the times I've been burned (or really frozen) planting too early. Here in Utah there is often a crazy snow storm that shows up just after I have planted my garden, but not THIS year! I decided to harness all of that Spring fever into planting seeds INDOORS and taking them outside when the coast is clear. I started saving toilet paper rolls after I saw a bunch of beautiful art projects people had pinned on Pinterest. Well I tried making one…FAIL. Instead I thought up this little project that doesn't need to be pretty, just practical (NOTE: After a search for toilet paper rolls as seed starters, I found I wasn't the only one with this idea but I figured I'd share my version,so here goes).
Supply List:
- Empty Toilet Paper rolls or Paper Towel rolls
- Scissors
- Permanent Marker
- Soil
- Seeds
- A box or container
Fill up the rolls with soil. I took mine straight from my "Square Foot Garden" box full of Mell's Mix (if you aren't doing a square foot garden, I highly recommend it, it makes gardening really easy). Then press two seeds into each tube following the depth instructions from your seed's label. Place your container in your sink and water. Keep them moist and in a warm location. I kept mine in my kitchen window sill.
Watch them sprout! It is still so magical to watch seeds sprout
and grow into tiny plants.
Here are the peas breaking through the dirt.
This is my "time lapse" over two weeks. Amazing.
These little guys are now ready to be planted in my garden.
All I have to do now is take my little container out in the back yard, dig a hole the size of the toilet paper roll holder and plant. I may open up the bottom of each pot before planting but it is just a matter of time and water before these disintegrate and the roots burst right through.
So save up those empty toilet paper and paper towel rolls and
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Alta racers
Posted 23 January 2006 - 11:57
Posted 23 January 2006 - 12:43
It would be good to see this single seater out and about again.
Posted 23 January 2006 - 12:53
Posted 23 January 2006 - 12:59
Posted 23 January 2006 - 13:12
I've always wondered why George Abecassis rebuilt his Alta 61S after the war so that it ran without a headrest? The car certainly looked better with one.
I wonder if he had a shunt which meant making a new body?
Posted 23 January 2006 - 19:08
Do you know which car Lord Avebury raced in 1938?
Posted 23 January 2006 - 23:17
Also a correction to my current owner list, #62 is owned and raced by Martin Redman.
RAP, I believe that Lord Averbury owned #57, which was originally delivered to J.H. Bartlett. Maybe TEJ could ask Ed Arnold for verification.
Without wishing to start a new thread, there is a picture in Classic and Sports Cars May 1987 issue of a MB W154 outside a garage in Byfleet with the caption "In 1945, Rowland Motors of Byfleet swapped a new Alta for a W154 with the Czeh Automobile Club."
Since by 1945 the newest Alta was already 6 years old and the first post war Alta did not appear until 1948, is this correct.
One one of my recent trips to the Uk, I looked in the Surrey area phone books and came across a R C Rowland registered in Ewell, however I was unable to make contact and am not even sure if there was any connection.
If by chance anybody has heard about this swap?, I would be most interested to hear.
Posted 24 January 2006 - 03:27
David B
Posted 24 January 2006 - 07:51
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Posted 24 January 2006 - 23:12
The top still EOY 8, is at the Isle of Man TT race in 1950 with Peter Bolton driving.
The middle, is after the car was re registered EVG436, taken at Snetterton with Bobby Pattenden at the wheel.
The bottom(which I purchased from Ted Walker) shows the car at the Gr. Auclum Hillclimb in 1954. QUESTION any idea who the driver may be?
http://(IMG)C:documents and settingsPAPAMy DocumentsHWM Alta#54(/IMG)
Posted 24 January 2006 - 23:17
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Posted 25 January 2006 - 04:27
According to my info yes both #12 and #24 were in the Bristol area in the 50's.
#12 was sold by a D.L.Jones, of Westbury on Trym, Bristol to J.Campbell, Fernbank Road, Bristol on August 21, 1951.
The original owner of #12 was Lord Curzon, who traded in a MG and Morris Cowley coupe for it. Maybe your late father owned a third car??.
#24 was brought by the same D.L.Jones as above on November 6, 1958.
Posted 25 January 2006 - 09:22
Posted 25 January 2006 - 18:40
Hi David
Thanks for your e-mail and the ref to the blogg site. Most interesting as it is hard to believe that there are many people interested in Altas. Taylor was an interesting part of British motor racing history and Altas were surprisingly good given the few cars built.
My car is Chassis 52S originally owned by Cormack in Scotland and was used quite extensively in Europe during the '36 and '37 seasons. I have plenty bits of info from this era and when you're next in town make some time to come over and take a look.
Ed's car is #57S and belonged to a guy named Neville out of Spuzzum BC and then to a chap in W.Van - T.P. Cameron, 4726 Marine Drive, W.Van. Bewteen his ownership and Ed is a large gap for me, however, Ed probably knows it all?
I shall keep reading the threads and see what develops.
Kind regards
T.P. Cameron was Tim Cameron who owned a variety of interesting cars and motorcycles until his death about 10 years ago. He was never concerned with originality; he took a 1928 Frazer Nash Super Sport and turned it into a replica of a Model T speedster! He did, however, keep all the parts of cars he modified. Hence Ed Arnold has the original engine and blower and preselector for his car.
Posted 25 January 2006 - 23:53
Originally posted by fivestar
On another issue, D.S. Jenkinson I believe kept a very detailed diary during WWII. I have read somewhere that he rescued Cowell's #54 (EOY 8) from abondment during the war. I understand Doug Nye received all DSJs paperwork after he passed away, if this included his diaries, I would be most interested to read about this rescue.
True - this is a truly superb thread on these generally under-rated but hugely important pioneering cars. Jenks did indeed compile a copy chassis book of Altas which survived but I'm too pressed at the mo to dredge it out. Give me time and its first-hand information should emerge...
Posted 26 January 2006 - 07:02
Posted 26 January 2006 - 11:04
Posted 26 January 2006 - 22:56
...and here's the somewhat obscure Mr Rowland - mentioned previously in this thread - in the ex-Czechoslovakia you-know-what outside his tiny little garage business in Walton-on-Thames, to the west of London, with an Alta sports visible through the workshop doorway on the right... Oh, and he was Cisitalia concessionaire too.
Photos: GPL
Posted 26 January 2006 - 23:50
Loks like an offset single seater in the background.
From your knowledge, did the swap actually take place? A six year old "new Alta" for a W154 seems a little uneven. - Michael
Posted 27 January 2006 - 09:15
Originally posted by Doug Nye
...and here's the somewhat obscure Mr Rowland - ... Oh, and he was Cisitalia concessionaire too.
And Piero Dusio had obtained the Alta distributorship for Italy and his buddy Basadonna for Switzerland. I do not think that any Alta ever arrived in Italy.
Now a question. A fellow called G.W.P. Norton started in the 1949 Woodcote Cup at Goodwood a board an "early" Alta. Any idea about driver and/or car?
More about Rowland Motors. They entered Charles Mortimer's Alta at Gransden 1946 (53S I suppose) and the ex-Rayson Maserati at Gransden 1947, always for Mortimer.
Posted 27 January 2006 - 09:58
Posted 27 January 2006 - 10:19
From a letter "Raph" sent me in 1989.
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Posted 02 February 2006 - 23:55
I have a photo of the Barrett car which has been rebodied in the York Motor Museum owned by Peter Briggs, which I will look for an post.
As it is referred to as a FI car (being equipped with a two stage supercharged 1.5L engine), which chassis is this. Alta only built three true F1 cars and all seem to be accounted for. Any ideas??
Posted 04 February 2006 - 20:33
unnumbered prototype (PK4052) - David Baldock
'13' (XKD666) - allegedly ex-Le Mans
14 (GX2281) - Ian Baxter
16 (KJ8421) - Douglas Blain
Also, my records give spellings of Franz Kirtzevan and Pierre Honiger
And it should be Lord Avebury
And Martin Redmond
Posted 04 February 2006 - 23:19
Are you saying that 8 1100cc cars were exhibited at Silverstone?
According to my records
#14 was the Le Mans please alsou look at the cars for sale by COYS.
#13 was an engine supplied to R.R.Jackson for the Horton Special.
#25 is the car currently owned by G. Lowe in Australia. Do you have a picture of it at Silverstone.
Posted 05 February 2006 - 03:25
Posted 05 February 2006 - 08:55
I agree
Originally posted by fivestar
Hi David,
Are you saying that 8 1100cc cars were exhibited at Silverstone?
According to my records
#14 was the Le Mans please alsou look at the cars for sale by COYS.
#13 was an engine supplied to R.R.Jackson for the Horton Special.
#25 is the car currently owned by G. Lowe in Australia. Do you have a picture of it at Silverstone.
Which is why I put '13' and '25' in quotes ;)
Posted 05 February 2006 - 14:28
Posted 04 March 2006 - 15:34
If someone is rebuilding an Alta 1100 or 1500, or special with an Alta engine. I have an offest supercharger for one. Its not for someone for a spare or a dealer but it can go to someone who needs it for their car..
Posted 04 March 2006 - 15:43
Have you seen the most recent post in the Alta thread on the Ten Tenths forum?
I think someone was following up your offer of a supercharger there.....
Posted 05 March 2006 - 13:47
Posted 06 March 2006 - 06:42
He may have bought the Alta from Jack Ayres when he aquired another open wheeler.
Pass this on to Terry or Ray
Posted 06 March 2006 - 06:57
Posted 06 March 2006 - 07:05
I must have had "seniors pause" forgot these postings
Posted 06 March 2006 - 09:40
The 1.5 litre two-stage supercharged F1 Alta with wire wheels was the Sydney Anderson - Jim ward car, now owned by Peter Briggs via the late John Dawson-Damer.
The 2 litre naturally aspirated F2 Alta (with Holden engine, raced by David Drew) with mag wheels is a different car, now racing in UK with an Alta engine. Whitehead sold it to Australia less engine, and used the 2 litre engine in a Cooper Bristol chassis.
I took this pic of the 1.5 litre car at the Fremantle motor museum recently.
Posted 06 March 2006 - 19:17
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Posted 08 March 2006 - 22:24
According to my notes only three F1s were constructed and all are accounted for. As the Alta nose badge on this car is different to other F1 and F2 Altas, I can only assume this was a "special" made up for Barrett by Alta utilising bits and pieces in the Alta workshop.
Remember two stage supercharged 1.5 litre engines were not eligible for any known formula in 1956.
Posted 08 March 2006 - 23:51
Posted 09 March 2006 - 07:27
Peter Briggs' car was the Robert / Roberta Cowell car and there are pictures of it on my website at
Posted 09 March 2006 - 08:59
Posted 09 March 2006 - 11:08
Just to confirm: the Gib Barrett car was Chassis 101, circa 1948.
Posted 09 March 2006 - 11:28
-69IS Whereabouts unknown. Single seater with independent suspension all-around by torsion bar springs. Built for Lady Mary Grosvenor (2 ltre), but not delivered and was last Alta to be built pre-war. Post war raced by Bob Cowell and Gordon Watson. Rebodied with post war Alta-style bodywork and disappeared into limbo at end of supercharging era of racing.
Two remarks: Lady Grosvenor entered in 1946 hillclimbs with a 1500cc Alta. Was it the same car?
When rebodied did the car became numbered "101"?


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