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Get Up and GO, Haitian Style
When I was in second grade I quit Ballet and switched to West African Dance. My body appreciated the booty shaking aspect of it. And then, years later, I found Haitian Folkloric dance and it was so so good. Last year, in between jobby-jobs, I found myself dancing five days a week. I got invited to go to the National School of the Arts in Port au Prince, as a dancer and photographer. It didn't seem like the responsible thing to do, buy plane tickets and head off to the Caribbean while my husband was stuck holding down our city life. But something told me to just go, plain and simple. And so I found myself in classes for ten hours a day with 80 locals in Haiti's capital city, moving to rhythms so furiously fast that my mind had to just get out of the way or else i'd be tripping all over myself. I bonded with the locals, stayed in their homes, held their children, laughed until we were all crying as my creole blended with french blended with spanish blended with english to communicate things that no longer seemed important. As I headed to the airport to come home I felt like everything in my life had lead me to that moment. And it was a very good moment. I promised to stay in touch, to call often, and return soon. I felt like I had a new family and that everything made sense. With the earthquake, much of my "family" has perished. Dancers still have untreated, festering broken bones and nothing makes sense. Except for my gratitude, for seizing the moment when I had the chance, to see and experience a beautiful city, people and culture before a new wave of unimaginable tragedy rolled in.


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Congratulations to the Ravens and Baltimore fans everywhere!
While the game was electrifying, I thought the advertisements overall were severely lacking in energy this year. It's like the power went out on all of them even before the Superdome went dark. My favorite car ad was the Audi prom spot. The Chrysler/Ram Paul Harvey spot almost made me throw up in my mouth a little bit. The others were just mediocre.
With that out of the way, let's get back to cars rather than the outlandish, extravagant attempts to sell them. Yes, we need vehicles to serve the mundane and much-needed transportation services of daily life, and I find irony in the fact that we often buy them based on some perceived emotion or extreme experience marketing people promise they will provide.
True car enthusiasts can look past overly produced TV commercials and buy based on other, more meaningful, factors.
One of those factors might be the car's future collector value. Make it affordable and fun to drive as well, and the deal closes itself! What 2013 cars could be future collectibles?

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The Netherlands — One day after unveiling a new title sponsor and announcing a new team name, Simon Geschke scored the first podium appearance for a rider wearing the Argos-Shimano kit. The German finished second at Saturday's Volta Limburg Classic in The Netherlands.
Geschke was part of a five-man breakaway group that entered the final kilometer of the 197km race together. One of the riders in the break, Pavel Brutt, took the group by surprise when he attacked with 600 meters to go. The Russian was able to hold off the group for the win, while Geschke took the sprint for second on his Felt F1 team bike.
Geschke rides for the Felt-sponsored Project 1t4i organization, which on Friday announced Argos as its new title sponsor. It was the German rider's second podium appearance in a week. He also finished third in the Stage 2 Time Trial at the March 23-25 Critérium International stage race in France.


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Primer: Free Space OpticsBy David F. Carr | Posted 2005-03-07 Print
A wireless network that uses light beams instead of radio waves.
What is it? Free space optics technology is wireless networking that uses light beams instead of radio waves; it's laser-based optical networking without the fiber optic cable. In corporate networks, the most common application is wireless campus networking—typically, a rooftop-to-rooftop connection between buildings. Or the laser beam might be shot out one building's window into the window of a building across the street.
What are the advantages? Wavelengths for these transmissions do not require a Federal Communications Commission license. While this is true of some wireless networking schemes based on radio-frequency transmissions, free space optics is immune to the radio interference that can sometimes sabotage those systems. Jeff Orr, a senior product marketing manager at Proxim, says radio-frequency products have erased the bandwidth advantage that free space optics once enjoyed. He concedes that his high-end products cost about twice as much as a free space optics unit with the same capacity (about $75,000 for a gigabit radio link versus $40,000 for an FSO alternative).
What are the disadvantages? Transmissions fade rapidly in certain kinds of weather—fog, in particular.
Isaac Kim, director of optical transport at MRV Communications, says fog droplets scatter the wavelengths of light used in free space optics. The power of the beam can't be increased because of concerns that the lasers might be dangerous to the eyes of anyone who happens to walk through a souped-up beam. Technical innovation has focused more on lowering costs than increasing the range of the optics equipment. To maximize availability, you can use a combination of free space optics and radio-frequency gear.
What's the real range? A conservative estimate is up to 500 meters for a free space optics-only solution, or 1 to 2 kilometers (about a mile) for free space optics with a radio-frequency backup. You can stretch this in dry areas.
Any other downsides? Atmospheric effects such as scintillation (the "waves of heat" pattern you sometimes see over dark surfaces) can have an impact on free space optics transmissions. Urban rooftop-to-rooftop setups can encounter problems because tall buildings sway slightly in the wind, throwing off the aim of the tightly focused lasers.
Who are the vendors? The most recognizable name is Canon, better known for cameras and copiers. LightPointe is a specialist in this niche, where many startups have long since come and gone. MRV Communications offers free space optics gear as an adjunct to its fiber optic and Ethernet solutions.
Who will vouch for it? Fred Murphy, associate director of information technology for Jazz at Lincoln Center, says free space optics equipment proved ideal for connecting the center's new auditorium with its administrative offices. "We were so much within that range that it's ridiculous," he says. "We're literally across a New York City street."
By shooting a laser out the window of one building into the window of another, Jazz at Lincoln Center established a network link that it owns, rather than paying the phone company for the bandwidth. Establishing a fiber optic link between the two buildings would have been prohibitively expensive because of the complication of digging up a New York street.
Paul Wolf, an engineering technology manager at CDI Business Solutions, was initially a reluctant customer of LightPointe's FSO technology when his company started using it to connect two buildings in Houston. He worried about how many complaints would be waiting for him the first time fog knocked out the link. But the setup failed-over smoothly to a redundant RF link when the light beam was interrupted, and in two years the connection has had zero downtime, he says: "Now, I don't even think about it."
Any other downsides? In addition to fog, you could run into problems with atmospheric effects such as scintillation (the "waves of heat" pattern you sometimes see over dark surfaces). Also, urban rooftop-to-rooftop setups sometimes run into problems because tall buildings sway slightly in the wind, throwing off the aim of the tightly focused lasers.
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Symbolism weighs heavy at Iran nuclear talks venue
Kazakhstan, a former Soviet republic that relinquished its nukes, poised to take advantage of its nonproliferation track record
ALMATY, Kazakhstan (AP) — The venue for talks on Iran's nuclear program between world powers and Tehran carries a symbolism that Western negotiators will hope serves as a positive omen.
In the 1990s, Kazakhstan, a sprawling former Soviet republic, gave up a huge nuclear stockpile and now wants to capitalize on its nonproliferation track record by offering to host a bank of reactor fuel that would remove the need for countries, namely Iran, to enrich uranium for themselves.
That may be one proposal under consideration at this week's talks in Kazakhstan's commercial capital, Almaty, between Iran and six world powers — five permanent UN Security Council members and Germany — on Tehran's controversial nuclear program.
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Iran insists it is not working on a nuclear weapons program, but rather is enriching uranium only to make reactor fuel and for scientific and medical purposes, as allowed by international law.
But many nations are suspicious because Iran went underground after failing to get international help for its uranium enrichment program in the 1980s, working secretly until its activities were revealed a decade ago. More recent proposals for international shipments of reactor fuel in exchange for Iranian enrichment concessions have foundered, with each side blaming the other.
Kazakhstan will not be involved in the talks that start Tuesday, and are expected to last for two days.
Kazakhstan's willingness to dispense with its once formidable arsenal in large part was born out of its grim legacy as a nuclear weapon testing site in Soviet times. Some critics say, however, that Kazakhstan's vocal trumpeting of its nonproliferation record is designed to act as a smoke screen for its lack of democratic freedoms.
Amid the Soviet Union's collapse, the Central Asian nation unexpectedly found itself holding more than a thousand strategic nuclear warheads and 370 nuclear-tipped cruise missiles, becoming the world's first predominantly Muslim-populated nuclear power.
Within a day of Kazakhstan declaring independence in 1991, Palestinian Liberation Organization leader Yasser Arafat flew into Almaty in a visit that alarmed Western diplomats. Weeks later, Kazakhstan's President Nursultan Nazarbayev visited Pakistan, but officials ruled out cooperation on nuclear technology.
A former foreign minister of Kazakhstan last year claimed that Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi was yet another hopeful buyer snubbed by Kazakhstan.
Instead of responding to the overtures of Muslim partners in its neighborhood, including Iran, Kazakhstan sought help to divest itself of its powerful inheritance.
Its warheads were transferred to Russia by 1995, and the removal of highly enriched uranium stocks from a secret Soviet-built facility was done with US assistance.
That process was inspired by Kazakhstan's recent history.
From 1949 to 1989, the bare flatlands of northern Kazakhstan were the site for 456 nuclear tests — 116 of them above ground — that affected an area the size of Arizona and populated by some 1.5 million people.
"The damage on our environment has been so serious that scientists believe it will take centuries to restore to normality," Nazarbayev said in a 2009 speech marking the 20th anniversary of the final test.
But even as Kazakhstan got rid of its nuclear arsenal, suspicions lingered.
US officials investigated claims that Iran had secured components for nuclear weapons from Kazakhstan but turned up no evidence. Kazakhstan said only that it had been approached by Iran in the early 1990s for the purchase of low-enriched uranium, but not for weapons-grade material.
Since 2009, Kazakhstan has been putting itself forward as the potential host for a nuclear fuel bank to be operated under the auspices of the International Atomic Energy Agency.
Nazarbayev appealed to Tehran in a New York Times op-ed piece in March 2012 to eschew its pursuit for nuclear power status.
"Kazakhstan's experience shows that nations can reap huge benefits from turning their backs on nuclear weapons," Nazarbayev wrote.
Iranian diplomats are on record as supporting the fuel bank initiative, but little concrete progress has been made, prompting many observers to cast doubt on Tehran's insistence that it is not developing nuclear technology for military ends.
The fuel bank "should be a complete answer to Iran's concerns — the fact that it is not indicates that the Iranian interest is not fuel supply but something else," said John Carlson, an adviser to the Washington DC-based Nuclear Threat Initiative.
The oil-rich nation's strategic geographical position abutting Russia and China, while fostering warm ties with Europe and the United States, have necessitated a nuanced diplomatic approach.
Kazakhstan and its neighboring former Soviet Central Asian nations are ambivalent toward the West's pressure on Iran, which make them useful intermediaries for Tehran. Speaking to Russian reporters in 2011, Nazarbayev insisted on pursuing diplomacy to solve questions surrounding Iran's nuclear program.
"If we talk about the Iranian nuclear program, then why don't we talk about the same program in Pakistan, and why not talk about Israel, which does in fact have nuclear weapons?" he said.
In neighboring Kyrgyzstan, the government has said it will not renew the lease on a US air transit facility there used for military operations in Afghanistan when it expires in 2014 because, among other reasons, it fears that it could be subject to retaliation should Iran be attacked.
Countries in the region also have economic interests at stake. Turkmenistan, which shares a 1,000-kilometer (620-mile) land border with Iran, was delivering an average 1 billion cubic feet (30 million cubic meters) of natural gas daily to Iran between July 2011 and June 2012, according to US Energy Information Administration figures.
Cultural ties and growing investment from Iran into Persian-speaking Tajikistan have also served well to secure Tehran another potential ally.
Central Asia expert Sebastien Peyrouse said in a paper published last year that countries in region feel in any event secure that they would not be target of Iranian nuclear attacks.
"They believe that if Iran got this capability, it would not use it against them. Iran as a state and a nation is highly respected in Central Asia, and there is no feeling of distrust towards a long-term partnership with it," Peyrouse wrote.
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Wednesday, May 5, 2010
Inspiration from Elsewhere
I've been feeling a tad uninspired lately. In the blog world, at least. Luckily, several of you have been picking up my slack! Here's what I've loved the last few days ...
Stan Dixon's inspiring Atlanta office, as seen in Atlanta Homes and Lifestyles. I spotted it at Greige via Doug's twitter feed (talk about a rabbit trail).
This pretty home from Connecticut Cottage and Garden on Everything LEB. Simple, pretty, and interesting. Love it (above and below).
Rebecca posted another rockin' Atlanta office from AH&L: Suzanne Kasler's. Not that this is surprising, but, wow! Where can I send my resume?? (just kidding!)
And finally, this home from Country Home magazine circa 2005 via Greige. Anyone else notice a major color theme?
Yes, it's all pretty pictures around here, but my heart is heavy for the people of Nashville who have been affected by the weekend's floods. It's bad. Much of the city is still underwater. If you want to help, you can donate $10 by texting "RedCross" to 90999 (thanks Lindsay, for that info). Locals can find hands-on opportunities here.
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Those are some beautiful office spaces. So crisp and clean.
- May 5, 2010 at 7:02 AM
- Blueprint Bliss said...
LOVE all of this beautiful images. I have them all saved.
Yes, such devastating news out of Nashville... hard to believe it's so close by.
- May 5, 2010 at 7:19 AM
- paula said...
I haven't blogged in awhile. seems I just got the best catch up here.
Yes, it's still hard to believe the tragedy in nashville.
- May 5, 2010 at 7:29 AM
- Lacey said...
Loving all the neutrals!
- May 5, 2010 at 7:40 AM
- Hello Lover... said...
Love all these neutrals - especially those skirted desks in the first two!
- May 5, 2010 at 1:30 PM
- simply seleta said...
Love. Love. Love.
- May 5, 2010 at 1:31 PM
- charm home said...
Stan Dixon's office is to die for. I would take that office any day. I love the linen desk cover. -cristi
- May 5, 2010 at 5:37 PM
- LindsB said...
I would love to send my resume to Suzanne too- omg that office is amazing!
- May 6, 2010 at 11:09 AM
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Slight digression before my ramblings even begin, but when I was in London 5 years ago, I saw a slew of theatrical productions and one of them was "And Then There Were None". This may or may not be where I got my title, but none-the-less, it was really interesting to see a 'suspense-thriller' on stage.
Anyway, I have one final left. Woot. And, I only have one paper left to write, then it's freedom for two weeks. Well, at least freedom from course work. My psychology class shaped out to be the easiest – I have a perfect 100% in that class, and even if I hadn't turned in my final paper, I still would have received an A. But being the perfectionist that I am, I needed to get that perfect grade. After the stress of last quarter, it's nice to know that all of the extra hard work I put in for this quarter has so far turned out to be 2 A's. The other two are still up for grabs, but I'm expecting an A- and a B+. We'll see if I can pull out an A- for both.
Spring break should be nice and relaxing. I'm spending most of it in Michigan with my fiance. Friday will be an intensive "nothing but wedding planning" day with my mother who has taken the day off of work. And, after all the hard work we put in on Friday, Saturday we're getting manicures. It's a long overdue Mother's Day gift from two years ago which my mom has yet to use. I've only had one manicure in my life, so it will be good to start getting my nails in shape for the wedding.
And finally, since the picture is getting so much publicity on Facebook, I figured I would add it for a little bit of pre-finals humor to lighten everyone's day. The picture is me with a spartan helmet I made for my fiance who, since he is an MSU spartan, and loves to sword fight with his little brother (nerf swords, not real ones), loves it very much.
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Lucas Devenny played in 26 of 30 games as a freshman and averaged 1.3 points and 1.7 rebounds...Had season-highs of seven points and five rebounds at Montana State...Saw his playing time decrease significantly late in the year and played just 18 minutes in the final seven games.
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Devenny attended Piner High School in Santa Rosa, Calif....Averaged 21 points, 16 rebounds and nearly four blocked shots per game as senior...He was North Bay League co-MVP following his junior and senior season...Devenny was also named County co-Player of the Year after his junior and senior seasons...Chosen Honorable Mention All-State as Second Team All-Bay Area after his senior season...Led Piner to North Bay League title in 2009...Helped the team to postseason berths in each of his final three season...Scored a career-high 36 points against Franklin HS...Had a career-best 26 rebounds against Montgomery HS...Also had career-highs of six assists and 11 blocked shots vs. Rancho Cotate HS...Devenny is Piner's all-time leading scorer...Averaged 16 points and 12 rebounds as a junior and 15 points and 10 rebounds as a sophomore...Coached by Mike Erickson
Lucas Elliott Devenny was born December 4, 1990 in Santa Rosa, Calif...The son of Grant and Kath Devenny...Was Piner High's Scholar Athlete of the Year in 2009...Favorite authors include Charles Dickens and Dan Brow...Fittingly, A Tale of Two Cities, by Dickens, and Angels and Demons, by Brown, are his favorite novels...Roots for the Los Angeles Lakers and the Oakland Raiders...Favorite athletes are Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Dennis Rodman...Enjoys listening to music and reading...Favorite television shows are The Simpsons and South Park...Silence of the Lambs is Devenny's favorite movie...His most memorable moment in sports was a win over undefeated Cardinal Newman that gave Piner a league championship...Hopes to major in psychology.
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|Women's Soccer, Women's Ice Hockey, Softball
The greatest three-sport athlete in the history of UMass Boston, Katherine Wall '08 was named to the UMass Boston Athletics Hall of Fame in 2013.
As a member of the women's soccer, women's ice hockey, and softball programs, Wall remains as one of the most influential female athletes in the history of UMass Boston athletics. For the women's soccer team, she was the first-ever three-time Little East All-Conference selection, earning second team honors in 2006 before being named a first team selection in 2007 and 2008. On the softball diamond she was only the second player in team history to be named a three-time all-conference selection, earning a pair of second-team honors (2005 and 2006) before being named a first-team honoree in 2007.
On the ice she still owns a share of the NCAA Division III record for most short-handed goals in a single game with two. She also sits second all-time in career short-handed goals with four and is tied for fifth in career games played with 102.
While with the soccer team, she finished her career ranked 13th all-time in most appearances having stepped onto the pitch in 68 of a possible 73 games played. She also sits tied for 11th with two game-winning goals and is 12th in career points by a defenseman with 24.
To date Wall sits in the top-10 in multiple categories as a member of the softball program. She is currently ranked third with 42 career extra-base hits and 27 doubles. She is fourth in triples with 10, slugging percentage with .576, and stolen bases with 30. Wall also stands second all-time in stolen bases in a single season with 19, which she recorded in 2006. Her 34 runs scored in 2006 are third most in a season.
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Frequently Asked Questions
How is energy produced in our country?
Most energy produced today in the United States, as in the rest of the industrialized world, comes from fossil fuels--coal, natural gas, crude oil, and natural gas plant. Although U.S. energy production takes many forms, fossil fuels together far exceed all other sources of energy.
- Electricity production is the #1 source of industrial air pollution.
- Electricity production accounts for 40% of national CO2 pollution.
- Produces same CO2 as 400 million cars.
- National energy mix: coal 53%, nuclear 20%, natural gas 15%, hydroelectricity 7%, oil 3%, renewable sources 2%
U.S. power plants emit:
- 70% of the sulfur dioxide
- 34% of carbon dioxide
- 33% of nitrogen oxides
- 28% of particulate matter
- 23% of toxic heavy metals
This pollution leads to:
- Smog
- Acid Rain
- Respiratory Problems
- Climate Change
Why wind power?
- It saves our natural resources
- It creates no air pollution
- It doesn't create any other bad by-products like nuclear waste
- It's a great source of supplemental income for farmers and ranchers
- It doesn't cost very much more now, and creates a clean, non-confrontational energy future for the planet.
How does buying wind power work?
It's actually impossible to pipe wind power directly to the festival. Planet Bluegrass drains electricity from the national power grid and uses the same mix of energy as everybody else. But that doesn't mean we don't have a choice. Planet Bluegrass is purchasing renewable energy credits from wind farms around the country to offset 100% of the projected carbon emissions festival energy AND TRAVEL (based on the previous year's travel and energy use).
Why does wind power cost more?
The "fuel" is free, but there is still a lot of investment to be made in building wind farm capacity across the U.S. - which makes the current price for wind a bit more expensive than continuing to burn fossil fuels in plants that were built and paid for long ago. Our investment in wind energy credits ensures a cheap, clean, inexhaustible source of energy now, and for future generations.
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What's a REC (Renewable energy Credit)?
A certificate that represents the environmental attributes of 1 MWh of electricity from a renewable energy source. Learn more...
How many states have wind farms?
There are already wind farms in 30 states!
Is there enough wind power potential for it to be a realistic source of electricity?
We have enough wind potential in North Dakota, Kansas and Texas alone to produce enough electricity for the entire U.S.
Do wind turbines kill birds?
Once in a while, a bird hits a wind turbine - but new technology allows for longer blades that turn more slowly and there is now more sensitivity to placing turbines outside migratory paths. The Audubon society estimates that 2.2 birds died for each wind turbine last year, as compared to over 800 million birds killed by collisions with other man-made items like windows, wind shields and power lines.
What is biomass?
Biomass is organic material that releases energy as heat when burned. Examples of biomass fuels include wood, wood waste, straw, manure, and agricultural crops. Biomass obtains its energy from the sun while plants are growing. Plants convert solar energy into chemical energy during the process of photosynthesis. This energy is released as heat energy when the plant material is burned. Biomass power plants burn biomass fuels in boilers. The heat released from this process is used to heat water into steam to turn a steam turbine to create electricity.
What is low impact hydropower?
Low-impact (small) hydropower is created when the flow of water spins a turbine in a setting that has reduced environmental impacts. Eligible facilities meet criteria such as minimum impact on river flows, water quality, fish passage, and watershed protection. In the absence of information on these environmental criteria, a minimum generating capacity (30MW) determines eligibility. Eligible hydropower facilities often operate in a "run of the river" mode, in which little or no water is stored behind a dam.
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How can I sign up for wind power?
There are about three dozen companies nationally (and growing), each with different products. In Colorado, you can sign-up for wind power with Renewable Choice Energy by visiting their website, www.renewablechoice.com, or you can sign-up over the phone toll-free at 1-877-810-8670. Renewable Choice Energy will also be at all of our events throughout the summer.
Carbon Neutral
The idea of helping consumers, organizations and businesses neutralize their personal or corporate greenhouse gas emissions by offsetting emissions associated with their lives and activities.
Carbon Offset
The act of reducing or avoiding GHG emissions in one place in order to "offset" GHG emissions occurring somewhere else.
Want more information?
For more information on REC's (Renewable Energy Credits) and the mechanics of the power grid and renewable energy programs, try Googling REC's and refer to the following webpages:
- UCSUSA.org – Union of Concerned Scientists. A great resource for alternative energy
- RenewableChoice.com – Planet Bluegrass' renewable energy partner
- WindCurrent.com – nice video explaining the basics
- MyFootprint.org – what's your environmental footprint?
- CleanAir-CoolPlanet.org – resource on global warming
- AGreenerFestival.org – practical advice for sustainable festivating
- NRC-Recycle.org - National Recycling Coalition, a non-profit waste reduction advocacy group


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You've arrived at the dreaded "404, file not found" error page.
Every site has one of these error pages, and those that don't were just too lazy to make one. Eventually, something always goes wrong, and that leads you to a 404 error page. Or, you'll just get a 404 error in a blank browser window if the website in question was created by someone too lazy to create a 404 error page.
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I'll be honest with you: that's probably not happening, however, the page you were looking for can probably be found somewhere in the archives. It's a long list in there, so if you don't feel like searching... well... I can't blame ya'.
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Elmhurst Real Estate
Elmhurst is one of the many charming neighborhoods that make up East Sacramento. It's bordered by Highway 50, the U.C. Davis Medical Center, 2nd Avenue, Stockton Boulevard and 59th Street. The quiet location and lack of traffic have let it fly under the radar and is considered a gem to all those who have stumbled across it and made it their home.
Like most of East Sac and midtown, Elmhurst is lush and shaded with towering elm, oak, and ash trees, most evident along T Street, where a wide, grassy median serves as the core of the community. The houses that branch off this very distinguishable feature include bungalows, craftsman, Tudor, and ranch style homes. Most notable of these is the Julia Morgan House, a Mediterranean revival mansion designed by the famous architect.
Neighborhood amenities include the Coloma Community Center - a beautiful, tile-roofed brick building that was converted from the old Coloma Elementary School into a visual and performing arts center. It also houses Tiny Tot Time, a recreation program for preschool-aged children. The surrounding Coloma Park has a picnic area, playground, and basketball court. Freeways are close, as is the light rail, and the cozy Cottage Mart on 51st offers great sandwiches and last minute grocery items.
The feeling of community is strong here, with Elmhurst Neighborhood Association spearheading summer picnics, pancake breakfasts, tree plantings, Easter Egg hunts, and holiday tree lightings.
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The original Yanagi, over on Artesia Boulevard in what's technically Redondo Beach (though it doesn't actually seem like Redondo Beach, the ocean being so far away, and all that) is a fairly modest place — a fine destination for the whole family, when members of said family include those who want tuna tataki, and those who want chicken teriyaki; or those who want a baked blue crab hand roll, or a nice bowl of chicken udon.
In other words, there's something for everyone, Japanese style.
Though the menu seems to be largely the same at the Yanagi sibling on PCH in Torrance, the feeling is more grownup, with a fair number of diners who show up to catch a game on the big screens, knock back a draft Asahi or Kirin, tuck into a Lychee Saketini or a Sake Colada. On the other hand, there was a table near the front door on a recent Saturday night with a toddler who was exercising his tonsils at top volume.
Whatever the case, after the toddler left, the Torrance Yanagi was peopled with adults ordering drinks with names like Bunny Sparkling Sake, and Momokawa "Organic" Nigori Sake — proper izakaya drinks. And the staff was busy cranking out an impressive assortment of Japanese dishes that occasionally meandered into other parts of Asia.
There are, for instance, the classic potstickers — five deep fried pork dumplings served with a citrusy ponzu sauce made in house. There were pork bun sliders — ponzu glazed pork belly served on steamed buns; they'd be right in place at a modernist Pan-Asian eatery. And pushing the geographic boundaries further, for dessert, there's a trio of cannoli, each with a different filling — white Godiva chocolate, raspberry, and caramelized banana with honeyed rum. (Kind of a strange ending to a Japanese meal — so much sugar and dairy. I prefer the clean flavor of green tea ice cream. Always have.)
But mostly, the menu at Yanagi is Japanese, albeit bistro Japanese. Which I guess means there are salads and more salads, 10 of them on the menu, ranging from a simple cucumber and seaweed sunomono, to an albacore tataki salad, a tuna tataki salad, a poke salad, and a sashimi salad — which is essentially a plate of sashimi, served on greens.
Are the corn croquettes a bistro dish? Could be. Ditto the braised Angus short ribs, and the Wagyu steak with shimeji mushrooms. As I said, there are many noodles for those who feel the need; the mentaiko pasta, tossed with cod roe and shiso leaves, tastes like nothing else.
But mostly, there's sushi — two thirds of the menu is sushi. And two thirds of the sushi is dedicated to sushi rolls. Lots of them. I counted 59 rolls on the regular menu — and there were more of them on the specials board behind the sushi bar.
The rolls are divided into several types — Hosomaki, with the seaweed on the outside, Uramaki with the rice on the outside, "Fusion Rolls" and "Yanagi Special Rolls" — which I suspect are pretty much interchangeable.
The Hosomaki are the simplest rolls — tuna, yellowtail, salmon skin and so forth. The Uramaki get a bit more complicated, with a penchant for spicy rolls — spicy tuna, crab, salmon, scallops and yellowtail. And the Fusion Rolls and Special Rolls are all over the map.
In the great tradition of exotic rolls, the names often give little sense of what's actually inside. The "Hot Night Roll" is shrimp tempura, avocado, spicy tuna, tempura crunchies and eel sauce. The "Energy Roll" is a deep fried roll with eel, crab and avo inside, and eel sauce outside. The "Playboy Roll" is shrimp tempura and cream cheese, with salmon, avocado and mustard sauce.
Do the names matter? Of course not. The menu offers a full description of the ingredients, so you know the "Warm Springs Roll" is made with spicy tuna, crab, softshell crab, avo and shrimp tempura wrapped in rice paper and coated with eel and spicy mayo.
And the rolls, no matter what they're called, are pretty much irresistible. I inhaled an order of "Tuna Lover Roll" — spicy tuna wrapped in seared tuna, pretty much perfect.
If you happen to show up at lunchtime, you can order a Hand Roll Trio of a California hand roll, a spicy tuna hand roll and a shrimp tempura hand roll, which is as good a lunch as I can imagine. And I guess you can wash it down with a Peach Saketini. Though your afternoon will be a bit fuzzy.
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Koch brothers bombard Senate Dem
The Koch brothers have a seemingly bottomless pot of cash this election year — and no one knows it better than Sen. Kay Hagan.
Americans for Prosperity, a group co-founded by the conservative billionaires, has already dropped $8.2 million on TV, radio and digital ads in an effort to defeat the North Carolina Democrat. According to sources tracking media buys, the group has so far spent more in North Carolina than all Democratic outside groups in every Senate race in the country — combined.
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And while AFP won't predict the amount it will ultimately spend in North Carolina, if the conservative group keeps the same pace, it'll spend more than $27 million by Election Day in the Tar Heel State. That's more than twice what any outside group has spent in the past dozen years in North Carolina congressional races.
The staggering figures make North Carolina ground zero in the unprecedented TV war expected to define the 2014 midterm elections. Powerful outside groups like AFP can now raise and spend unlimited money, empowering big donors to single-handedly reshape a race and even determine which party controls the Senate for the final two years of Barack Obama's presidency.
( Also on POLITICO: AFP drops $1.4M on Hagan ad buy)
"It concerns me; it ought to concern anybody," said Sen. Michael Bennet (D-Colo.), chairman of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee in Washington. "It's just not fair to have two folks in the country potentially determine the outcomes of these Senate races in states where they don't even live."
With Republicans eyeing at least six seats to take back the Senate, North Carolina has emerged as one of their best shots, with Hagan vulnerable from the onslaught of televised attacks over her support for Obamacare and with the state showing big swings in public opinion since Obama won the state six years ago.
With Republican candidates and its main party committee still behind many of their Democratic counterparts in the money chase, AFP is filling a critical void nine months out from Election Day.
( Also on POLITICO: Koch World 2014)
The Koch-backed group, a nonprofit that does not have to disclose its donors, has no plans to let up. Through last week, AFP had spent more than $12 million in the country's six closest Senate races, amounting to two-thirds of total money spent by GOP groups nationally, according to media trackers. The Koch group's spending exceeds the $7.6 million-plus spent by all Senate Democratic groups combined in the competitive races, including less than $4 million that Democrats have so far spent in North Carolina media markets — some of the country's most expensive.
Hagan and her campaign now are trying to tie the Kochs' conservative agenda to one of her potential opponents — state House Speaker Thom Tillis, arguing he championed through the Legislature the group's controversial far-right agenda on issues ranging from slashing unemployment benefits to cutting teacher tenure.
"The people of North Carolina need to know what their agenda is," Hagan said in an interview of David and Charles Koch, the owners of the multinational manufacturing firm Koch Industries. "They want to have tax cuts for corporations and the wealthy and, at the same time, put that burden on the middle class and the poor. They want to cut Medicare, Social Security. All of these issues are so, so important to the middle class."
But in an interview, AFP President Tim Phillips said the group's agenda rests strictly on one thing: Repealing Obamacare. And already this election season, it has spent $28 million blasting both Democratic Senate and House candidates since last August for their support of the controversial law.
( Also on POLITICO Magazine: I punk'd Scott Walker)
A top priority of the group for years, North Carolina was one of the first states where it set up local chapters, helping build what Phillips says is one of its "deepest state infrastructures," with more than 130,000 activists that helped defeat a Medicaid expansion in the state Legislature last year and now is singularly focused on defeating Hagan.
"We've been engaged in the state for a decade," Phillips said. "That preceded Sen. Hagan coming into office, and I suspect Americans for Prosperity will be healthy and vibrant in North Carolina long after she is no longer in the U.S. Senate."


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William (Jock) Young, distinguished professor of criminal justice and sociology, died on November 16, 2013, after a long illness. A valued colleague and celebrated scholar, Professor Young taught classes at the GC up to his final weeks.
A native Briton, Young was a criminal theorist of global influence; before joining the Graduate Center in 2004, he was head of the Centre for Criminology and Professor of Sociology at the University of Middlesex (UK). His early work examined drug use in the UK and created the intellectual concept of "moral panics," a term now widely used. The research, published as The Drugtakers: The Social Meaning of Drug Use (1971), established his credentials as a critical criminologist. His coauthored volume The New Criminology: For a Social Theory of Deviance (1973) remains a milestone in criminology literature.
Young's interest in the intersection of culture and criminology was reflected in his coauthorship of Cultural Criminology: An Invitation (2008), which was later awarded the Distinguished Book Award from the American Society of Criminology. Most recently, he completed a trilogy concerning social life and sociological research: The Exclusive Society (1999), The Vertigo of Late Modernity (2007), and The Criminological Imagination (2011). His writing has been translated into eleven languages.
Young was honored by the American Society of Criminology (2008, 2009, and 2011) and received the 2012 Award for Outstanding Achievement from the British Society of Criminology. At the time, the British Journal of Criminology described him as a "leading light in radical criminology and the sociology of deviance."
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Common Elements and Strategies in The Profiled Magnet High Schools
The eight schools presented in this guide exemplify successful magnet programs that provide students with opportunities for rigorous learning experiences. Working with the district and community, each school has developed an innovative curriculum designed for a student body from diverse socioeconomic, racial, and ethnic backgrounds. Students and teachers are both held to high expectations for achievement and performance. Inspiring curriculum and meaningful classroom activities engage and motivate students to do their best work. Reaching out to university, business, and community partners helps these schools leverage resources so they can offer top-notch career and college preparatory programs. In their communities, they are trailblazers making a positive impact. They show what is possible when administrators, teachers, and the community work together to create an outstanding high school.


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In California, we have the choice of time of use or tiered billing (for the Investor owned utilities anyways). If you are on TOU, then the utility tracks both the retail dollar amount of NET generation plus the energy usage amount. The only time you will receive the ~.04/kWh generation credit is if you are a NET producer over the true up period. The retail amount that is tracked can only be used against energy purchases in the same true up period - if you have a credit at true up, you lose it.sub3marathonman wrote:
OK, once again, I'm not from California, but I'd appreciate a bit further explanation about this.
I understand that ttweed ended up using 600kwh over the year, so he is a NET consumer of power. I understand what has been said that much more power could have been used without any financial impact to ttweed.
So the credit of ttweed's kwh (@ $0.04/kwh) sent to the grid went to offset the minimum $120/year charge. I think I'm understanding that.
This is correct - he produced it and was not compensated for it in any way. So he could of had a smaller PV system and lowered his capital expense.sub3marathonman wrote: So why didn't ttweed get any further credit or payment for the other $550 of electricity (even @ $0.04/kwh) that was sent back? If the power company didn't get it from him, they would have had to purchase it somewhere else.
He would get a generation credit for the 97 kWh he over produced - ~$4.00sub3marathonman wrote: And what would have happened if ttweed used 700kwh less, and was not a NET consumer of power?
It is more complicated than that and depends on the time of the year.sub3marathonman wrote: I will say, from my perspective, that the power company has a sweet deal there in this situation, as there was no usage at all during peak times, and the PV sent huge amounts, 2.5MW, of power back to the grid at the most critical times. Here in Florida, it is always being stated that PV customers are somehow taking advantage of the power company because the sun doesn't shine at night, but in my opinion it only matters if the sun is shining during peak periods, where by definition somebody with PV generation will use less, or even send back to the grid, as opposed to another customer who runs his dryer, A/C, and arc-welder during peak times because TOU rates are not the norm.
In California, PV has pushed the peak into the afternoon/evenings. A lot of this has to do with utility-scale solar farms and lesser to residential rooftop PV. In fact, the grid-scale farms have to curtail production during the middle of the day at this time of the year due to over-production/low demand - yet at the same time residential NET metering customers are "selling" this power to the grid at peak rates. Residential installs do not have the capability to curtail production, so the utility "must take" the power generated from NET metering customers.
FWIW, the California IOUs have or are in the process of changing the peak times to the afternoon/evenings.
You can look at the current demand on the CA ISO page. If you scroll down to the NET demand chart, the green line shows what the traditional power plants are providing - look at the big dip in the chart in the middle of the day (for this time of year) - a lot of traditional plants have to go idle, which raises their net operating cost. Residential PV is "behind the meter" so it shows up as reduced demand on these charts. The solar shown is the utility scale plants.


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It's Hatching Men
Well, here's something you don't see every day:
[adjusting spectacles and consulting clipboard] Here we have two neanderthal males with questionable chest hair hatching from watery eggs. As you can see, the one on the right has acclimated to the process, while the one on the left is all "AAAAAUUUGGHH!!"
Which is a paraphrase, of course, since in Neanderthal it'd actually be more like "OokalockahoohooGROOOOOOONK!"
Now when I first saw that picture, I figured some lone baker somewhere had gone off the deep end. Which doesn't seem an unreasonable hypothesis when you look at that icing armpit hair.
Then I saw this next one:
So the neanderthal has evolved into a suave grey fox with well-groomed armpit hair and an outie belly button that will give mothers everywhere a coronary, but the question remains:
Why are bakeries making cakes of men hatching out of watery eggs?
Anyone know? Or will this turn into another lamb cakes smoking cigarettes mystery?
Thanks to Kathleen C. for the egg-cellent wreckporting.


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PASS SQLSaturday is a free training event for professionals who use the Microsoft data platform. These community events offer content across data management, cloud and hybrid architecture, analytics, business intelligence, AI, and more. This event will be held on Oct 19 2013 at Central Piedmont Community College (CPCC), 2800 Campus Ridge Road, Charlotte, North Carolina, 28105, United States
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The Charlotte BI Group (CBIG) is excited to bring the 2nd annual SQL Saturday, BI Edition, to Charlotte. This SQL Saturday training event is focused on Microsoft Business Intelligence, Analytics, and Data Administration topics. We'll have sessions at varying levels, on a variety of subjects such as: ETL, Data Visualization, Self-Service BI, Data Quality, Master Data Management, OLAP, Big Data, SharePoint, Data Management, as well as plenty for the SQL Server Administrators out there! Please register soon as seating is limited. Please help us by letting your friends and colleagues know about the event.
Date: Saturday, October 19, 2013 Time: 8:00 a.m. Check-In and Breakfast 8:30 a.m. Opening Remarks 9:15 a.m. Sessions Begin 11:45 p.m. Lunch 4:15 p.m. Closing Remarks and Prize RafflesLocation: Central Piedmont Community College (CPCC), Levine Campus, 2800 Campus Ridge Road, Matthews, NC 28105 (located in South Charlotte) Cost: Free! There is a lunch fee of $10, if you choose to stay and join us, so that we can provide you with a nice lunch.
Getting to SQL Saturday:If you are coming to SQL Saturday from the PASS Summit, you may want to stay in Uptown (or wherever your original accommodations were) on Friday night. The speaker dinner will be held in Uptown on Friday night. The after-event party on Sat. night will be held in Matthews (very close to the venue), so you may want to book your hotel in Matthews for Sat. evening.
On Saturday morning, we are pleased to offer the COZYROC Shuttle Service. Shuttles will run from Uptown to the SQL Saturday venue every 20 minutes from 7:15 am to 9:45 am. Shuttle pickup spot is in front of the College Street entrance to the Convention Center in Uptown. A big thank you to COZYROC, sponsor of the Saturday morning shuttle service.
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Classical guitarist Gideon Whitehead will perform at Hope College on Thursday, Nov. 1, at 7:30 p.m. in Wichers Auditorium of Nykerk Hall of Music.
The public is invited. Admission is free.
Whitehead first began playing the guitar at the age of 14, and was self-taught for about a year before receiving his first private instruction. He progressed quickly. Since presenting his first recital at age 16, he has performed a number of recitals and has competed at various international festivals. Among other honors, he was a semi-finalist at the 2009 Columbus State University Guitar Symposium and at the 2011 East Carolina University Guitar Competition, and earned top prizes at the 2011 James Stroud Guitar Competition and at the 2010 and 2011 University of Louisville International Guitar Competition.
Whitehead has also played for concert series throughout Michigan and Ohio, including the Musical Arts for Justice in the Community (MAJIC) concert series in Grand Rapids, the Grand Rapids Festival of the Arts and the Stars in the Classics series in Cleveland, Ohio. He has also performed in master classes for many internationally acclaimed concert artists, including Zoran Dukic, Jason Vieaux, Marcin Dylla and Ricardo Cobo.
In addition to being an accomplished performer, Whitehead enjoys composing for the guitar and for other instruments. His compositions have won awards in the 2008 Michigan Music Teachers Association Honors Composition Competition, and he was selected from a number of professional composers to premiere one of his works in a concert for the Grand Rapids MAJIC series.
Whitehead has been teaching privately since 2007. He has taught private and group lessons in both English and Spanish and in a variety of styles. He holds a Bachelor of Music degree in guitar performance from the Cleveland Institute of Music, and this entered into the Artist Diploma program at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, Pa., studying with renowned guitarists Jason Vieaux and David Starobin.
Nykerk Hall of Music is located in the central Hope campus at the former 127 E. 12th Street between College and Columbia avenues.


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Step back in time to explore this early 17th century house and its gardens and see how people lived 400 years ago.
This rare and beautiful house is a surviving example of a family home built in the 13th century and then modernised in 1618. The house has been home to many families over its 700 year history, but the Digby family, which included the Gunpowder plotter Sir Everard Digby, lived in the house for over two hundred years. It is towards the end of the Digby ownership that the newly refurbished house is focused, showing how people lived in late Elizabethan and early Jacobean times.
Visitors can now see restored rooms and displays, as well as talk to our volunteers about the history of the house, the families that lived here and about life in the 1620s. The house is set in beautiful 17th century style gardens with labelled plants and flowers, an orchard, herb gardens and a maze.
Visitors can also enjoy light refreshments at the Old Barn Coffee Shop where a range of merchandise is also available.
The site will continue its lively series of events that use re-enactment, crafts, hands-on activities, drama and specialist demonstrations to interpret the history of the site and life at the time.
A perfect day out for couples, friends, families and groups.
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In addition the site will be open:
Spring BH Mon, Summer BH Mon
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Nas seems to have some regrets when it comes to his part in raising his now teenage daughter Destiny. The rapper released a song called 'Daughters' that his baby's mom Carmen furious.
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Nas seems to have had a rough relationship with his daughter Destiny. Being a famous rapper who's traveling often and not around on a daily basis has surely made it difficult to raise his daughter properly, and Nas expresses this fact in his new song "Daughters".
In the song, he speaks on all sorts of things involving his relationship with his daughter and how she had to grow up faster since she had Nas as a father. Despite the fact that Nas is dropping truth in the song, his ex-girl, Carmen Bryan, Destiny's mother, is highly upset over the song.
She expressed her disapproval of the track on Twitter and ended up engaging in various verbal back and forths with Nas' fans. According to Carmen, the song will hurt Destiny when she hears it, because it is not saying anything positive about her, and it is exposing a lot of personal matters. Carmen feels as though Nas should have let his daughter hear the song before he released it to the public, to allow her the chance to give her opinion on the content of the song.
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Clearly Carmen wasn't feeling it. Check out her tweets:


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Helix wrote:Stick it in drive and let the car choose the gears. That's the whole point of an automatic! If he needs third, he can just hit the kickdown and the car will downshift. (But as he's only doing a top speed of 80km/hr, he won't be doing that too often.)
Wikipedia has a quick summary of the whole biz: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_transmission
moonmaid wrote:Would it be best to drive in 3rd gear instead of Drive?
I haven't got the manual on me but it said that you can drive up to about 100km in 3rd gear I think it was.
Even 2nd gear for this size engine? But say 3rd.
I haven't owned an automatic. He was a rotten driver and couldn't get the hang of the crappy everything in my little old car so did barely any driving then. He's much better now with the Verada.
If the 3rd gear isn't used for this .... what's it for? I can understand the lower gears for going up and down mountains but 3rd is getting a bit high for that?
Milieu intérieur wrote:I haven't had to disassembled one and had to repair them. Done a few manual boxes.


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Actress Zooey Deschanel has denied rumors she is growing close to newly-single Russell Brand, insisting she has only met him once and it was four years ago.
Reports last month suggested the British funnyman was attempting to woo the "New Girl" star weeks after his split from Katy Perry, by bombarding her with flirty text messages.
However, Deschanel is adamant she is not in Brand's sights and hasn't even given him her phone number.
The actress tells The Guardian, "That's complete fabrication! I don't even know him! I maybe met him once, in passing, four years ago. And he definitely doesn't have my phone number! That was a story made up by a single website. It's crazy how that got picked up – I mean how does that even happen?"
Brand split from Perry in December after a 14-month marriage.


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Thanks to Netflix original programming, not only are there more production opportunities, but when a Netflix show is finally ready for public viewing, we're not forced to wait a week for the next installment and can watch every single episode in a single shot. A nice bonus for folks with little patience - but in the case of the Eli Roth-produced Hemlock Grove, the show might have benefited from the standard release format.
Rather than earn longer legs by enticing audiences to hang on just one more week, a viewer can decide to turn this one off completely after just one two and a half hour viewing – but likely less.
The Roth-directed first episode opens with an introduction to Bill Skarsgård's Roman Godfrey, by showing off an odd sexual fetish during a quickie in his car. From there, we jump to episode one's main victim, Brooke Bluebell (Lorenza Izzo), a student at Hemlock Grove High who's enjoying a little fling with a female teacher. They're set to meet one night, but before Brooke can get there, she's viciously attacked and literally torn apart by a mysterious predator.
From the moment Hemlock Grove begins, there's red flags all over the place. On the technical front, the coloring often doesn't match, the shot composition isn't particularly appealing, and the action coverage is entirely disorienting. But, even worse, the first ten minutes are devastatingly poorly formatted. Why open with that strange sexual display that ultimately amounts to nothing, when you could kick things off with more of a bang? Brooke's death isn't particularly frightening or original, but her portion of the episode is one of few segments that actually has a somewhat compelling build.
Once poor Brooke's insides are on the outside, Hemlock Grove falls almost entirely flat in an effort to deliver the basics of the show's main players. Perhaps it's just that Skarsgård charm, but Roman Godfrey is intriguing enough. He very clearly has inner demons, but also a curious allure and kindness that sets him up as a winning protagonist early on.
The same goes for the show's other leading man, Landon Liboiron (Terra Nova). His character, Peter Rumancek (the poor guy who goes through that vicious werewolf transformation), first moves to town with his mother to live in the grungy trailer his deceased uncle left behind. With an assist from a notably appealing and real performance from Lili Taylor (The Conjuring) as his mother, Liboiron easily establishes Peter as a good guy with values - but also someone who's in touch with his darker side. Ultimately, we end up with two leads harboring a unique combination of good and evil, and that's intriguing enough to want to learn more.
However, beyond Roman and Peter, few characters make much of an impact by the end of the episode. The biggest letdown is Famke Janssen's (X-Men) Olivia Godfrey. She's very clearly pinned as one of the show's main sources of mystery, but the elements of her character that are revealed in round one are either too cryptic to understand, or entirely uninteresting.
Back at school we've got Christina Wendall played by Freya Tingley. There's nothing wrong with Tingley's performance, but her introductory scene is full of terribly odd banter with Peter. She goes from outright accusing Peter of being a werewolf to judging him for using the word retard. We've also got Roman's sister Shelley stalking the halls of Hemlock High. She's a ceiling-high specimen with bandaged hands and hair that covers her face - the exact character you'd hope for from a show like Hemlock Grove. Her backstory isn't particularly well woven into the main narrative, but her sub-plot is the first thing that piques interest in a manner the entire show should.
Olivia, Roman, and Shelley's extended family also make an appearance in the inaugural episode - but, yet again, their big moment amounts to nothing. The scene wastes time pointing out that Roman's cousin, Letha (Penelope Mitchell), is nixing sushi in her effort to avoid mercury, when it could be building her character before hurling her into what should have been one of the episode's more impressive set pieces: a night when Roman and Letha get to enjoy an entire amusement park to themselves. Regardless, the girl's name is still Letha, so if you can keep yourself from giggling every time a character says her name (it sounds more like Lisa with a lisp), you might get more out of her than us less mature viewers.
It's only episode one, so all of this thin character development could have been passable had the episode actually had a through line. Remember Brooke Bluebell? We don't hear another word about her until the tail-end of the episode. And that teacher she was hooking up with? She disappears entirely. Whereas that opening massacre could have functioned as a developing scenario to push the episode forward while introducing the show's leads, it's entirely abandoned and what we're left with is a set of disjointed moments desperately trying to convey the basics, while still being cryptic.
The end result is a dull and dreary display that barely scratches the surface of true horror and mystery. In fact, minus the hunk of organs that was Brooke Bluebell, the first episode of Hemlock Grove doesn't really qualify as horror material at all. It's more of a deliberately dark soap opera comprised of ominous staring and conversations that never really amount to much. For example, after first meeting Shelley, we get this great opportunity to see what life with the Godfrey family is really like when the trio sits down for dinner. However, in just about three lines of dialogue, Roman announces that there's a new gypsy kid in town, Olivia throws her fork and calls them filth, and the scene comes to an abrupt end, cutting off before getting to what could, and should have been the most interesting part of the conversation.
Fortunately, throughout episodes two and three, the material does become more engaging - but more so because you've been in the world for nearly two and a half hours and not necessarily because the show improves. The narrative details never coalesce to make you feel like you're finally understanding the Hemlock Grove universe, and the shooting style and shot selection further make the viewer feel like an outsider, as there's often a very heavy hand on the camera.
But what really puts the stake in Hemlock Grove - more so than anything - is that it's flat out boring. There are certainly moments that work and they're very easy to identify because once they come and go, the urge to take a peek at the clock returns, and that sensation certainly doesn't meld with the Netflix binge-watch release strategy.
All episodes of Hemlock Grove arrive on Netflix on April 19th.
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The 2013 Campus Master Plan Update presents a comprehensive overview and integration of physical planning initiatives for facilities, open space and circulation. It emerges from a range of a series of campus work sessions, focused conversations, and review meetings that have occurred over the Fall Semester. The goal of these campus meetings has been to understand, synthesize and position the changes to campus that have occurred since the completion of the 2010 campus master plan. Whitworth University now plans for a stable student population with modest growth over the next several years. The campus will need continued facility investments – as well as other improvements - to meet its commitment to high quality, nurturing academic and student life experiences that successfully accommodate past enrollment growth while recruiting and retaining the future students it seeks.
The Campus Master Plan Update meetings provided a forum for faculty and staff to share their future vision and current needs as well as communicate the successes and opportunities for growth at Whitworth University. Benchmarks were established for campus development goals. Three key deliverables were determined to highlight changes to the campus since 2010 and new targets for projected facility and campus improvements:


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