SAN DIEGO – A Tierrasanta teenager severely beat her 60-year-old mother after she refused to take her surfing, and doctors give the woman a 50 percent chance of survival, a prosecutor told a Superior Court judge Wednesday.

The details came to light during the arraignment of Jillian Alisha Stokes, 18, on felony charges of aggravated mayhem, torture and battery causing great bodily injury.

About 1 p.m. Monday, Stokes and her mother, Bonnie Lynn Spector, got into a shoving match and the mother fell onto the driveway of their home on Zorita Court, near Rueda Drive, authorities previously said.

Stokes then repeatedly kicked her mother in the head and upper body, rendering her unconscious, prosecutor Rick Clabby told Judge David Szumowski.

A neighbor spotted Spector lying on the ground and the daughter inside the open garage. Paramedics eventually arrived and transported the woman to the hospital, Clabby said.

An exposed portion of the woman’s torso was sunburned, indicating she may have been lying in the driveway for a while, the prosecutor told the court.

Spector remains hospitalized and unconscious as doctors treat her for a swollen brain, the prosecutor said. If the mother dies, Stokes may face a murder charge, Clabby said.

“We are waiting to see what happens to her,” Clabby said in an interview.

Stokes has no criminal record and investigators have begun checking to see if she has a history of mental illness.

The teenager remains held on $500,000 bail at the women’s jail in Santee. If convicted, she faces a sentence of 16 years to life in prison, Clabby said.

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Five decades of champions join the Walk of Fame Honor Roll

Against the backdrop of the golden anniversary celebration of competitive surfing at the Huntington Beach Pier, the Surfing Walk of Fame will honor its 16th class of inductees on Thursday, July 23 at 10:00 a.m.  Joining more than 100 individuals who have made significant contributions to the sport and culture of surfing are Fred Hemmings, Duke Boyd, Wendy Botha, Mark Martinson and Jackie Baxter.

The open-to-the-public ceremony takes place in front of Jack’s Surfboards located on the corner of PCH and Main.  More information is available at surfingwalkoffame.com

This year’s honorees include:

Local Hero: Jackie Baxter
A fearless regular footer from Huntington Beach, Jackie earned his reputation by tackling Pipeline and Sunset Beach in the late ‘60s.  Baxter grew up in Venice in the ‘50s.  By age 12 he was hitchhiking for rides to Malibu with his “wood” Velzy or Jacobs surfboards in hand.  By the mid ‘60s Jackie was riding for Dewey Weber and, in 1967, Sonny Vardeman introduced a Jackie Baxter Model—the same year he moved to Hawaii.  In 1971, he was an invitee to the prestigious 1971 Duke Kahanamoku Classic.  His son Josh is a world-class longboarder.

Surf Culture: Duke Boyd
Hang Ten founder Duke Boyd was born in Kansas City in 1934 and began surfing at age 12 in Waikiki.  In 1960 Boyd asked seamstress Doris Boeck to stitch together a durable pair of surf trunks he designed.  The first-ever “board-shorts” to be capable of withstanding the rigors of surfing were an instant success with surfers and beach-goers along the California coast and the Hang Ten brand was born.  For the next decade, the company’s trademark horizontal stripes and personality-filled ad campaign took the surf world by storm.  Boyd sold Hang Ten in 1970 and later played a roll in the success of Lightning Bolt.

Woman of the Year: Wendy Botha
A prolific South African surfer, Wendy won four world titles (1987, 1989, 1991 & 1992) and three Surfer Poll Awards (1990, 1991 & 1993).  Born in 1963, Botha began surfing at age 13 and won four consecutive South African National Championship titles from 1981 to 1984.  She turned pro in 1985 and finished the season ranked seventh in the world, earning rookie-of-the-year honors.  Wendy became an Australian citizen in 1989 and would go on to win a record seven World Tour events that year.  She retired from competitive surfing after the 1993 season and moved to New Zealand.

Surfing Champion: Mark Martinson
Born in 1947 and raised in Long Beach, Mark’s signature moment came in 1965 when he won the U.S. Championships.  Martinson started surfing at age 10 and six years later was runner-up in the 1962 West Coast Championships.  In the mid to late ‘60s Mark crisscrossed the globe with the MacGillivray/Freeman team filming Free and Easy and Waves of Change.  Although 1965 was Martinson’s “competition” peak, he’s recognized for being among the first California surfers to convert to the new, shorter boards.

Surf Pioneer: Fred Hemmings
Prolific Hawaiian surfer, event promoter and politician, Fred Hemmings was born in 1946 and raised in Honolulu.  He won the Makaha International contest in 1964 and 1966 then captured the World Surfing Championships in 1968.  Fred then turned his attention to promoting professional surfing, founding the Pipeline Masters in 1971 and in 1976 co-founded International Professional Surfers (IPS), forerunner to the ASP.  In 1983 he created Hawaii’s Triple Crown of Surfing.  Hemmings would later focus on business and politics.  In 1984 he accepted a seat on the Denver Broncos’ NFL Board of Directors and was elected to Hawaii’s House of Representatives.  In 2000 he was elected to the state senate.

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American Wave Machines Inc. Uses PTC® CoCreate® To Design The World’s First Standing Wave Surf Machine

Explicit 3D CAD Modeling Software Enables Company to Design Breakthrough Hydraulics Technology to Replicate Ocean Surfing

NEEDHAM, MA. April 14, 2009 – PTC® (Nasdaq: PMTC), The Product Development Company®, announced today that American Wave Machines Inc. (AWM), an innovator in artificial wave technology, is using PTC® CoCreate® to design SurfStream®, the world’s first standing wave surf machine, a technology breakthrough for the water park industry. AWM’s patented SurfStream^® delivers real surfing and wave riding capabilities for hotels, resorts, water parks, and sports exhibitions. CoCreate is the explicit 3D CAD modeling software that provides companies with a lightweight and flexible approach to designing products.

In 2006, SurfStream burst onto the water park scene revolutionizing the wave machine. Since then, AWM has acquired contracts to design hydraulics wave machines using SurfStream technology for clients around the world. With this rapid growth came a demand for presenting concepts and designs to prospective clients in 3D. Many projects require some degree of design customization and as a result, clients want the ability to see how a custom-built wave machine would fit into their establishment. AWM is using CoCreate’s explicit 3D modeling tools to provide customers with the virtual 3D prototyping and visualizations they require while giving AWM the flexibility to scale custom SurfStream models to fit the unique dimensions of each hotel, resort, water park and sports exhibition.

“Almost everything we create must be built by people who use 2D prints as the reference information,” said Bruce McFarland, president of AWM. “CoCreate is used to design the system in 3D solids models from our parts and from the water park designer’s desired layout. One of the best things about CoCreate is in the reduction of design to manufacture time it affords. Constraint-free design is my absolute number one favorite feature. I can modify a design and reissue prints in a matter of hours.” In addition, the use of CoCreate 3D explicit modeling offers AWM clients 3D visual confirmation, which provides images that can be incorporated in marketing, manuals, and design reviews.

“PTC CoCreate Modeling software delivers the flexibility for ‘engineered-to-order’ products that American Wave Machines produces for its customers,” said Martin Neumueller, CoCreate^® product management director, PTC. “CoCreate’s explicit approach to 3D design delivers faster design cycles in the design process for companies like American Wave Machines.  We look forward to continue working with them.”

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