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Juliet, Naked
By Nick Hornby
You don't buy a Van Morrison CD hoping to hear him do something radically different, and you shouldn't crack the latest Nick Hornby novel,�Juliet, Naked,�expecting anything more, or less, than another smart, soft-centered tale of hapless manchildren, precocious actual children and sensible women. The new novel, like Hornby's first novel,�High Fidelity,�explores the complex world of music fanaticism. Duncan, a young British man stuck in a post-collegiate mindset, is obsessed with obscure rock musician Tucker Crowe, who disappeared from the public eye decades ago. When Duncan's girlfriend, Annie, tires of Duncan's antics, she posts a message on his Tucker Crowe website that attracts the attention of the musician himself, opening the door to an unexpected triangle.
416 pages, $15, Riverhead Trade
Homer & Langley
A Novel
By E.L. Doctorow
E.L. Doctorow altered the literary landscape 35 years ago when he insinuated "real" characters like J.P. Morgan, Henry Ford and Harry Houdini into the fictional setting of�Ragtime.�He's back in the groove with Homer & Langley, his slyly inventive, uproarious 12th novel, which�uses the real-life Collyer brothers as a jumping-off point for a kaleidoscopic trip through 20th-century America. The strange hermit brothers made headlines in 1947 when their bodies were discovered in a Fifth Avenue mansion that was chockablock with more than 100 tons of junk and old newspapers related to a decades-long project to develop an "eternally current dateless newspaper."
224 pages, $15, Random House
Half Broke Horses
A True-Life Novel
By Jeannette Walls
Jeanette Walls' childhood was difficult enough to warrant a bestselling memoir, The Glass Castle, which begins with her homeless mother rummaging through the garbage. What could possibly come next? Half Broke Horses is a novelistic re-creation of the life of Walls' eccentric grandmother, Lily Casey Smith. Smith was a mustang breaker, schoolteacher, bootlegger, rancher and bush pilot in Texas and Arizona who lost everything she had in the Great Depression. The New York Times compared the book favorably to the memoirs of Laura Ingalls Wilder.
288 pages, $15, Scribner
A Memoir
By David Small
Award-winning children's book author and illustrator David Small has written a chilling, unsentimental, beautifully illustrated memoir of his childhood that's strictly for grownups. From the safe remove of adulthood, Stitches reads like a how-not-to guidebook on child-rearing. Consider: Small's father, a radiologist in the 1950s, repeatedly gave the young boy high-dose X-ray treatments for his sinus problems. When Small was 14, he awoke from what he'd been told was a routine operation to find that he could no longer speak: a cancerous vocal cord had been removed, leaving him with a scar stretching from behind his right ear to the top of his chest. This book was a finalist for the National Book Award last year — only the second graphic novel to receive that distinction.
329 pages, $15.95, W. W. Norton & Co.
The Unnamed
By Joshua Ferris
Tim Farnsworth, the main character in�Joshua Ferris' new novel, The Unnamed, is a partner in a high-powered law firm in Manhattan. He is married with a young daughter. And he cannot stop walking. Tim's condition "is more of a disease than a compulsion," Ferris tells NPR's Melissa Block. "It's not really a feeling he has to walk, but really his body overtaking him and forcing him to walk."� However, our reviewer found this exploration of the disconnect between mind and body, and the distrustful truce that exists between the individual and society, a "slimmer and considerably slighter effort" than the "substantive, complex and tonally variegated accomplishment" of Ferris' first novel, And Then We Came to the End.
320 pages, $13.99, Reagan Arthur/Back Bay Books
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Imagine you're sitting in a meeting at work, or at home eating dinner with your family, when suddenly you feel the need to walk. Not to stretch your legs or get some air, but to walk compulsively, uncontrollably and without stopping, for miles and miles until you collapse from exhaustion.
Tim Farnsworth, the main character in The Unnamed, the new novel from Joshua Ferris, is a partner in a high-powered law firm in Manhattan. He is married with a young daughter. And he cannot stop walking. According to Ferris, Tim's condition "is more of a disease than a compulsion."
"It's not really a feeling he has to walk, but really his body overtaking him and forcing him to walk," Ferris tells Melissa Block. Ferris' book delves into the question of whether Tim's condition is psychological or physical. But ultimately, the author says, "it concludes more or less that this is something he's simply not in control of."
He certainly can't control when he is struck by a need to start walking. One of the early episodes comes in the evening, when Tim is taking out the garbage, dressed for bed:
He walked past neighbors' houses, he walked barefoot down Route 22. He walked past the supermarket: empty parking lot and an eerie glow. He walked past the Korean Baptist church and the Saks-anchored mall into the dreams of late-night drivers who took home the image of some addled derelict in a cotton robe menacing the soft shoulder. He looked down at his legs. It was like watching footage of legs walking from the point of view of the walker. That was the helplessness, this was the terror: the brakes are gone, the steering wheel has locked. I am at the mercy of this wayward machine.
Tim seeks out all sorts of medical remedies for his condition, from submitting to tests at the Mayo Clinic to taking bat-wing extract. But nothing can be determined.
"It's unnamed, it's undiagnosable, it's essentially uncurable," Ferris says. "It's recurring and remitting, so he has long stretches of time in which he's not afflicted, and over the course of the book, you see one of these sections and understand one of the ways Tim and, I think, sick people in general, re-embrace life and recognize that which has been taken away from them when their sickness hits."
But the effects of the sickness are brutal. Often, Tim's episodes hit during cold weather, and to keep him from wandering off, never to be found, his wife prepares a survival backpack, complete with a GPS device and energy bars.
"He has no control over where his body is taking him," Ferris says. "And he has no control over where, eventually, his body will release him. And when it releases him, he has no energy to do anything but collapse in exhaustion. So it falls to his wife to take care of him and pick him up wherever he might be."
Dreaming Up The Disease
With any number of terrible real-life diseases to choose from, how did Ferris decide that walking would be Tim's plague?
"I wanted to talk about sickness without any of those pre-existing cures or sources of alleviation," he says. "When we think of cancer, radiation and chemotherapy come to mind. I wanted to strip down this character to the barest essentials and see what happens when sickness can't go away and it can't be answered by all of the medical technology that the country has at its disposal."
And Ferris hopes the unnameable quality of Tim's disease ensures that readers don't bring any preconceptions to the book.
"Ideally, you would look at this as the essence of sickness distilled to its purest form and discover what that really means — what it really means not only to be an individual who suffers from this completely debilitating disease, but also a family who has to struggle the uncertainties of it and all of its demands," Ferris says.
But the disease takes its toll. Tim walks away from his family and professional life, and into elements that prove merciless. He suffers from frostbite. And though he experiences moments of redemption, his life spirals downward. Ferris says he knew the end-point of Tim's grim trajectory from the start.
"I wanted to track the length of a man's life, and I also knew that this was going to be, at a certain point in time, an unremitting disease, so he would be stuck with it for life," Ferris says.
He says he realized early in the writing process that Tim's story probably wasn't "going to end happily." But Ferris hopes that elements of the book "alleviate that relentlessness for the reader. I think some grace notes that are given to each of the characters, that, while maybe not happy in a conventional sense, do bestow some sense of grace upon them."
The place where Tim's long, tiring journey would come to an end actually came to Ferris early in the writing process, he says. But he had to wait for inspiration to strike before he could actually write the book's final pages.
That inspiration arrived on a trip with his father to Home Depot.
"I wrote it on my BlackBerry because I knew exactly what I wanted to say at that point," and, Ferris says, because "I'm always completely useless in Home Depot."
Once he was finished, what was it like to leave the character behind? Ferris says that though the occasional grace notes helped him, watching Tim Farnsworth struggle through the end of the book was difficult. But he says leaving Tim the way he left him "was essential" for both the character and the writer himself.
"Whenever you work on a novel for a number of years, it's difficult to relinquish," Ferris says. "But here, in particular given the circumstances, I think that I felt a particular closeness to him because of his suffering. And I knew that I was done, but I wanted to keep going back and making sure that it was perfect. So it was tough to leave him."
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In his darkly comic 2007 debut novel, Then We Came to the End, Joshua Ferris adopted a first-person-plural narrator ("We didn't know who was stealing things from other people's workstations") to evoke the jargon-rich groupthink of office culture at the dawning of the 21st century. It could have, and perhaps should have, come off as gimmicky and self-conscious, but Ferris showed himself to be entirely in control of his gifts, deploying a series of drastic but deft tonal shifts that kept his extended narrative experiment fresh throughout. Readers of that promising, award-winning work will recall how, for example, Ferris briefly abandoned the corporate "we" to present a slim chapter from the point of view of an office worker dying from breast cancer. That sober and deeply affecting section served to color the novel around it, imbuing Ferris' showy comic gymnastics with an emotional center, a weight it would have otherwise lacked.
So it's both surprising and disappointing that Ferris would follow up such a substantive, complex and tonally variegated accomplishment with The Unnamed, a slimmer and considerably slighter effort. Also surprising: That Ferris' weighty subjects — the disconnect between mind and body, and the distrustful truce that exists between the individual and society — could produce a novel so feathery and abstract.
Tim Farnsworth is a partner at a highly successful Manhattan law firm with a wife and teenage daughter, a house in the suburbs and no money worries to speak of. The reader meets him at the onset of a mysterious condition that has beset him twice before: a sudden and overpowering compulsion to walk incessantly until he collapses from exhaustion. The nature of this illness stymies physician and psychiatrist alike, and Tim's desperate need to find someone to diagnose his condition — and thus clinically justify his physically and psychically punishing travails — provide the novel's early chapters with its recognizable human immediacy. So, too, does Tim's steely but ultimately doomed resolve that his illness will not keep him from defending an important client, or from his loving family.
Here, in the early going, Ferris lays out the stakes. We watch Tim's wife, Jane, lock into a practiced, protective mode at the news that his condition has returned: She prepares a backpack with a first-aid kit and GPS, she rubs his face with Vaseline, she dresses him in wicking socks and waterproof boots. Small, tender moments like this one fully enflesh Ferris' central conceit and make it much more than a high-minded metaphor for the modern condition. But as the novel progresses and Tim's condition takes complete control, Ferris lets what we want to say about alienation and anomie supersede his characters and the way they navigate the world.
Granted, he does it cleverly, as when he neatly captures postmodern alienation from the self with a line or two: "He looked down at his legs. It was like watching footage of legs walking from the point of view of the walker." Or when pithily describing a bout with depression: "She ... needed a new life. She needed to start over with new teeth and fresh underwear."
But like its protagonist, The Unnamed moves resolutely forward with a fixed, trancelike purposelessness. Eventually the novel resolves into a chronicle of losses, big and small — Tim sinks further into an illness that robs him of his job and his family (and more than a few digits, to frostbite.) But Ferris asserts every one of these losses, whether interpersonal or anatomic, using the same blank, affectless tone. The reader's attention isn't directed, events aren't assigned differing psychological weight, so the emotional through-line becomes obscure; a succession of moments and abstract images simply mount up. That's why, by the time we arrive at Ferris' beautifully written but ultimately unearned ending, the experience of reading The Unnamed has already begun to lift off of us, like a vivid but obtuse dream.
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Joshua Ferris ('Then We Came to the End') studies the monster within in 'The Unnamed.' Lush language limns a Soviet childhood of privation and paranoia in 'A Mountain of Crumbs.' Nobel economist Joseph Stiglitz's 'Freefall' lays blame for the financial failure. And 'Crash Course' tracks the American auto industry "from glory to disaster."
The Unnamed
By Joshua Ferris
This is the second novel by Joshua Ferris, who became a literary sensation with his funny, inventive debut novel, Then We Came To The End, a workplace comedy narrated by an unnamed office drone (or drones) who speaks (speak?) in the first person plural. His second novel is more serious and less gimmicky: Tim Farnsworth is a wealthy, accomplished lawyer who lives in a beautiful suburban home with his beautiful wife and troubled teenage daughter. The only thing in his life he can't handle is a recurring compulsion to walk away from it all — literally. When the fit releases him, he finds himself miles away, exhausted and ragged. The novel follows Tim and his family as they struggle to conquer his mysterious disorder and its consequences and then, in a final section that reads like a modern retelling of Job, accept it.
Ferris is moving on from the gaudy cleverness of his first book to a more sophisticated kind of showing off. Here, he's writing about the Affluent New York City milieu — stuff of a thousand New Yorker stories, including some written by him — but he's also engaging in a bit of dark magic. What makes Ferris' work rewarding, though, as before, is not only his affection for his characters but their own affection for their own lives. Tim and Jane love being affluent suburbanites, just as the incorporeal "we" of his first novel loved working at the ad agency. The problem isn't anomie or boredom or angst, but something terrible and external tearing them away. Ferris is most interested in disintegration, and here he makes it harrowingly physical: Tim's compulsion to walk is as threatening as the monster in a Stephen King novel. Readers will look for metaphors, but Ferris is a good-enough writer and portraitist that it's not necessary. Tim's crucible is real and compelling enough without having to figure out what it "means." — Peter Sagal, host, Wait Wait ... Don't Tell Me!
Hardcover, 320 pages, Reagan Arthur Books, list price: $24.99, publication date: Jan. 18
America, Free Markets, and the Sinking of the World Economy
By Joseph E. Stiglitz
The global economy has been through a "near-death experience" that has shattered our illusions of prosperity, writes Nobel-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz. The causes of the fiasco, as he sees them, are reckless lending, opaque corporate accounting and a mortgage sector that was allowed to grow out of control. To Stiglitz, the whole debacle should have challenged much of the free-market dogma that's dominated economic debate for three decades — and forced us to question some of our underlying assumptions about the financial markets. But so far, it's led mainly to half-measures and denial, not to mention a huge financial-sector bailout that helped no one but the banks.
Stiglitz may not always be the most entertaining of writers, but what brings this book to life is his formidable grasp of economic policy and strong sense of conviction about the blunders that have been made, especially with respect to the bank bailouts. Stiglitz sees them as a squandered opportunity at best, and says there's plenty of blame to go around: The Federal Reserve and the Bush administration were late to recognize that a massive financial crisis was brewing and then used the wrong tools to address it, he writes. President Obama chose to "muddle through" by pouring even more money into the same financial institutions that had caused the crisis in the first place. Along the way, he failed to present "an alternative vision of capitalism." Stiglitz makes a pretty convincing case that U.S. officials should have simply forced companies like Citigroup to be restructured, rather than propping them up. What happened was "ersatz capitalism, the privatizing of gains and the socializing of losses." As a result, Stiglitz says, the path to recovery will be slower than it needed to be." — Jim Zarroli, NPR business reporter
Hardcover, 361 pages, W.W. Norton, list price: $27.95, publication date: Jan. 18
A Mountain of Crumbs
A Memoir
By Elena Gorokhova
As a young, rebellious woman growing up in the Soviet Union of the 1960s, Elena Gorokhova developed a crush on the English language that turned into a lifelong passion. Her memoir opens with the narrator wishing that her mother, a Russian doctor, came from Leningrad, a city of "Pushkin, and the tsars, of granite embankments and lace ironwork, of pearly domes buttressing the low sky." Instead, her practical mother came from the "provincial town of Ivanovo ... where chickens lived in the kitchen and a pig squatted under the stairs ... where streets were unpaved ... and where they lick plates." Elena matures in a nation of privation and paranoia, of children's dentistry without Novocain. A Mountain of Crumbs is part coming of age, part political history, part sensual observations of the natural world. And it's a book that details deception and trickery. The title itself comes from a creative act of duplicity by the author's grandmother during the famine of 1920, when families went hungry on a daily basis. There is a gorgeous story about mushroom hunting that has the whiff of a dark fairy tale.
Gorokhova is a lush and beautiful writer. Her tidy, witty descriptions of characters keep the book moving along at a good clip. Here she is describing her mother, who she says "became the mirror image of my motherland: overbearing, protective, difficult to leave. Our house was the seat of the politburo, my mother its permanent chairman." I'd recommend the book because I enjoy memoirs that aren't narcissistic quests about writers trying to find themselves. And the rich political milieu of the former Soviet Union sets this book apart. You really do get the feeling of what it smelled, tasted and felt like to grow up in that particular place and time. And it's exciting to read a love story about a romance with language. That said, I'd wish the author had dug a little bit deeper into how communist ideas and culture affected her writing, politics and relationships. — Ellen Silva, senior editor, All Things Considered
Hardcover, 320 pages, Simon & Schuster, list price: $26, publication date: Jan. 12
Crash Course
The American Automobile Industry's Road from Glory to Disaster
By Paul Ingrassia
Paul Ingrassia has deftly managed to write two books in one: a sweeping history of the automotive industry in America, and an insider's account of the federal bailout that resulted in government ownership of General Motors. Ingrassia is the former Detroit bureau chief of The Wall Street Journal. Between the covers of Crash Course, he tells the tragic story of how petty struggles and shortsighted decision-making brought about the otherwise avoidable collapse of America's once-great auto industry.
For those familiar with the details of Detroit's rise and fall, Ingrassia's book may not provide startling new information. But the scattered moments are often delicious. For example, his account of how a GM executive rubbed ash from a cigarette tray on his forehead moments before entering the CEO's office; it was Ash Wednesday, and the CEO was a faithful Catholic. A few years later, the executive would become a top GM vice president. These vignettes remind the reader who the author is: one of the most experienced and connected beat reporters ever to cover the one-time Big Three. — Guy Raz, weekend host of All Things Considered


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(JACKSON, MS) - The Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality issued a temporary water contact advisory Tuesday for Richland Creek from Pearson Road in the City of Pearl to the confluence with the Pearl River near the Savanna Street Waste Water Treatment Plant due to a sewer line break.
This action expands the longstanding advisory for the Pearl River which includes that portion of the river from Lakeland Drive downstream to the bridge crossing the Pearl River in Byram, Eubanks Creek from Lakeland Drive to the Pearl River including Mayes Lakes, the drainage system formed by the old river channel along the Pearl River Levee between Fortification Street and High Street, and the drainage ditch and cypress slough south of the State Fairgrounds.
MDEQ recommends that people avoid water contact recreation such as wading or swimming in these areas. In addition, people should avoid eating fish from these waters until further notice.
The leak occurred in a gravity wastewater interceptor pipe managed by the West Rankin Utility Authority about one-quarter of a mile east of South Pearson Road in Pearl. The sewer line is being repaired and is not spilling sewage at this time.
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Completely confused with orbiting planets maths
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Oct25-13, 07:29 PM
I've been trying to make a basic animation which involves launching a spaceship from one planet to another. Both planets orbit at different rates from the star with fixed speeds.
The spaceship also has a fixed speed from start to finish.
What i don't understand is how you measure how long it takes given both the destination is moving and the spaceship has to "curve" around and not just going a completely straight line.
My animation is here if you are curious to see it in action: http://jsfiddle.net/5Mx2t/
I don't know how to actually work out the correct maths for it! I have all kinds of problems with my animation attempt, such as the ship travelling faster if the planets are closer.
Note: gravitational pull is not taken into account as im not going quite that far with realism.
So yeah some help explaining how i would work this out would be very helpful! :)
Oct26-13, 05:43 AM
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In real life one of the simplest trajectories that bring a spaceships from planet A to planet B is an elliptical orbit called a Hohmann transfer orbit [1]. If you are making animations that are supposed to be realistic to some degree (guess the square star and planets also need a bit of work then), you may want to use such an orbit if you can handle the math involved.
If this is too much math for you, you should also be able to settle for something less complicated, but I suspect that even with a fairly simple straight-line, constant-speed spaceship it is going to involve some math and equation solving in any case.
Perhaps, if you can state what your goal or purpose with this animation is, people here can better point you in the right direction?
By the way, you may also be interested in using some JS library that can handle all the drawing and animation for you, like for instance KineticJS [2] or similar.
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hohmann_transfer_orbit
[2] http://kineticjs.com/
Oct26-13, 09:51 AM
I don't like to work with JS libraries, its simple enough to animate its just working out the equation - i suck at maths ! :)
As for using Hohmann transfer orbits, what initial values must one know in order to use those equations? It seems to require gravitational parameters which i am not using, as im not going quite that deep into realism.
The only values i know are of the orbit's and the speed of rotation, and the spaceship speed is measured as radians per second.
My goal is to create a curved path for the spaceship to travel to an inner or outer orbit at a set speed and calculate the time it would take.
I don't know if my example link is easy to understand the maths but i went wrong some where, in that as the planets are closer together the ship travels faster which is obviously incorrect.
Oct26-13, 01:10 PM
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Completely confused with orbiting planets maths
If you want a simpler model for animation only, you may want to use a circular transfer orbit instead, that is, a circle that is tangent to the orbit of planet A on one side of the star and planet B on the other side. If you let the spaceship travel with fixed angular rate you can easily calculate how long it takes the spaceship to move 180 degrees and you can make the same search for a relative position of the planets as mentioned above.
If you want to make a launch at a specific time and then give it an angular speed so that it intercepts B, you can calculate the transfer time T (and hence angular speed of the spaceship) from the actual value of ΔL at time of launch.
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Charlottesville City Council is working to improve the quality of life in the city. Councilors are targeting certain areas to increase economic and residential development.
This is a fairly new plan for Charlottesville - one that focuses on small areas in the city, especially those that need the most help.
The Strategic Investment Area (SIA) is a guide City Council can use to focus and direct resources. The target area is south of the downtown mall and dips into the Belmont section of the city. The plan specifically addresses housing, crime, health issues and job opportunities.
Council and the SIA team will meet Wednesday night to gain input from the community about how to best improve life in this urban part of the city.
"The SIA is an amazing part of the city and has tremendous opportunity for bringing back a new neighborhood and new investment in an area that's one of the last areas in the city that has the opportunity to reinvent itself," said Lee Quill, Strategic Investment Area member.
The ultimate goal of this plan is to create a healthy, safe neighborhood for those that live there.
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Made for the people who buy precious scrap metals that need to know the current value of the metal they are purchasing quickly and pain-free. Just enter the amount of metal that you are about to purchase and this application will do all the work for you (get current prices from the Internet, Calculate the cost per gram, and calculate the total value of the purchase.)
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Seattle Heads Towards New Zoning Marijuana Laws
THE city of Seattle, Washington has moved one step closer to being the first city in the United States to have zoning marijuana laws on the books for recreational marijuana.
Local lawmakers and Seattle City Council members have drafted a series of regulations to determine where marijuana can be grown, delivered, sold, or baked into edible goods.
One of the more difficult issues is how to zone for recreational vs. medical marijuana, considered to be two separate types of businesses. According to Darby DuComb of the Seattle City Attorney's Office, "I think the customers are different. The products they want and enjoy are different."
Some of the new Seattle zoning regulations include:
For growing- Limit industrial, large-scale growing operations to an area south of the sports stadiums. Big growing operations will be confined to the outskirts of the city and located in industrial as opposed to residential areas. Large-scale production is limited to an area the size of 50,000 square feet.
For sales- Prohibit marijuana stores in tourist areas, historic districts, near schools, or in residential neighborhoods.
Final pot zoning decisions are expected from the Seattle Council shortly, but further modifications to the new zoning laws could be necessary as different local, state, and federal marijuana laws collide. Washington state officials have worked to build a strictly regulated marijuana system that could forestall federal concerns about how the public purchase of marijuana is handled.
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Pours black with a tan fizzy head. Low retention and spotty lacing.
Nice nose and a little different in my opinion. Underlying dark fruit with a touch of earthy smokiness.
Nice flavor. Nice earthy tones. Not too sweet by any means like the style can be sometimes and others have reviewed. In fact I don't think it's sweet at all. Very well balanced with a bit of dark fruit rind giving it more of an earthy natural flavor as opposed to a sweet fruit flavor.
Mouthfeel is around medium bodied and has medium carbonation.
Overall it's a very nice beer and cool representation of the style. Great natural and original flavor that really separates itself apart from others in the style. A must try.
03-23-2012 23:41:23 | More by MrVonzipper
Ontario (Canada)
3.8/5 rDev -5%
A nice beer, rather a pseudo-baltic porter had on tap at CC Tasting Room. A bitter rather than a sour finish which I liked though departing from baltics. Black with a small amount of lace.Chocolate and Spicy. Big chocolate spicy bite at the end. So more American porter.
01-21-2013 04:31:04 | More by Sammy
5/5 rDev +25%
02-19-2013 03:00:19 | More by MADPolo
3.75/5 rDev -6.3%
08-23-2013 02:14:13 | More by WoodBrew
3.25/5 rDev -18.8%
06-04-2012 16:04:49 | More by leschkie
3.75/5 rDev -6.3%
03-30-2012 17:14:22 | More by Deshon2688
3.88/5 rDev -3%
750 mL bottle poured into a snifter. Reviewed from notes.
Appearance - Black body with a huge mocha head. Settles to a thick layer of foam. Nice.
Smell - Very different than I imagined. Fruity. Alcoholic. Sweet. Like a brandy-soaked cake. Coffee malts behind it.
Taste - Far more intense with the dark malts. Very chocolatey. The fruitiness comes through in the finish and then the flavor drops off quickly.
Mouthfeel - Thick at first, but has a very clean finish. Well carbonated.
Overall - Rich and tasty. Well made. The drop off in flavor at the end is just a function of the style, I guess.
06-16-2014 20:11:19 | More by Alieniloquium
South Carolina
3.95/5 rDev -1.3%
Big thanks goes out to beeruser for sharing this one during a recent tasting! Served from bottle into a Boulevard tulip. Poured a deep dark red-brown with a minimal very light tan head. Maintained nice lacing throughout the glass. The aroma was comprised of sweet malt, roasted malt, smoked meat, smoke, and subtle wood. The flavor was of sweet malt, roasted malt, smoke, wood, smoked meat, and subtle vanilla. It had a medium feel on the palate with medium-high carbonaton. Overall this was a fairly good brew. This was a really nice brew for the style. My only gripe was with the mouthfeel as I am a big fan of Baltic Porters that have a thick and oily feel to them. This one lacked that. However, the flavor and aroma going on in this one were very nice and on-par with the style. Definitely glad I got the chance to try this one and I suggest you do the same if the opportunity comes up.
07-03-2012 10:48:03 | More by thagr81us
4/5 rDev 0%
03-09-2013 23:35:49 | More by cyrushire
North Carolina
4/5 rDev 0%
04-28-2014 02:49:39 | More by Boski
4/5 rDev 0%
02-26-2013 16:16:48 | More by lionssoccer13
3.75/5 rDev -6.3%
08-06-2012 03:36:32 | More by mdillon86
Ontario (Canada)
3.73/5 rDev -6.8%
Bottle to tulip.
A - Poured black with one finger of thick light brown head.
S - Big roast aroma up front with rich chocolate notes and a touch of smoke.
T - Roast up front with rick dark chocolate. The mid-palate adds big dark fruit flavours reminiscent of chocolate covered cherries. The finish has a touch of sweet molasses and a slight tart presence that amplifies with each sip.
M - Medium body; creamy. light carbonation.
09-11-2012 03:18:50 | More by TheSevenDuffs
4.25/5 rDev +6.3%
05-04-2012 17:50:03 | More by scubahood
3.25/5 rDev -18.8%
02-13-2014 05:11:14 | More by jegross2
4/5 rDev 0%
02-27-2012 01:06:48 | More by LiquidDegenerate
4.03/5 rDev +0.8%
A - black with a tan head that quickly retreats to a small edge around the rim of the glass and then nothing, some lacing
S - roasted grains dominate, some peat/smoke
T - mirrors the nose, roast malts, peat/smoke, bitter chocolate, a rather acidic bite balances the sweet, alcohol in the background
M - very lush and rich
O - a very big powerful beer, pretty much the norm for CCB, more chocolate notes than coffee
03-30-2012 23:11:59 | More by Vec2267
4/5 rDev 0%
09-02-2012 17:10:44 | More by mtbdonn
Kalevipoeg Baltic Porter from Cigar City Brewing
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Rebels Lose Heartbreaker In Five Sets To CSUN
UNLV's Ceannia Kincade notches double-double in 3-2 loss to the Matadors Saturday night.
Rebels To Play In Three Spring Tourneys
UNLV volleyball will hit the road for a pair of tournaments and host its own on April 5.
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Football leads way with 18 players on the Fall 2013 Academic All-Mountain West Team.
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UNLV had four repeat selections and three newcomers named to the conference's academic team.
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UNLV volleyball rallied for a five-set victory over Utah State with help from double-doubles from Westman and Falemaka.
UNLV: A one-time Fall Academic All-Mountain West Team member (2013).
2013: Played in 28 matches and 77 sets ... Had two double-doubles (kill-dig combinations) ... Had a total of 108 kills with four matches of 10 or more kills, including a season-high 12 on two occasions: vs. Seattle (Sept. 7) and vs. Wyoming (Oct. 19) ... Had two matches with a hitting efficiency above .300 (minimum five kills) with a season-high .400 outing (12-4-20) vs. Seattle (Sept. 7) ... Had a total of 33 assists with a season-high four on three occasions ... Had a total of four aces with a season-high one on four occasions ... Had a total of 153 digs with five matches of 10 or more digs, including a season-high 16 vs. Utah State (Nov. 21) ... Had a total of 40 blocks (one solo, 39 assisted) with a season-high five blocks (all assisted) on two occasions: vs. San Diego State (Sept. 21) and vs. Colorado State (Oct. 17) ... Had a season-high one solo block vs. Boise State (Nov. 23).
2012: Played in 13 matches and 25 sets ... Had a total of 23 kills with a season-high five on two occasions: vs. CSU Bakersfield (Aug. 24) and at Colorado State (Nov. 8) ... Had a total of five assists with a season-high two on two occasions: vs. CSU Bakersfield (Aug. 24) and vs. Idaho State (Aug. 31) ... Had a total of two aces ... Had a total of 42 digs with two matches of 10 or more digs, including a season-high 11 vs. CSU Bakersfield (Aug. 24) ... Had a total of seven blocks (all assisted) with a season-high two assisted blocks on two occasions: vs. The Citadel (Aug. 25) and vs. Idaho State (Aug. 31).
High School: A 2012 graduate of Goose Creek Memorial High School in Baytown, Texas ... Lettered all four years in volleyball and once in track for the Patriots ... Led the volleyball team to an area finalist finish and a 28-13 record in 2011 after a bi-district finalist conclusion to the '09 campaign ... Selected to the Texas Girls Coaches Association's All-State Team and LoneStarVolleyball.com's All-Texas Honorable Mention Team in 2011 ... Named the 2011 District 19-4A MVP after being chosen to the second team in '10 and honorable mention in '09 ... Tabbed to VYPE Magazine's 2011 Preseason Fab Five Stars ... Named the team's offensive player of the year in 2009 and '10 prior to earning MVP recognition as a senior ... Owns the school record in kills (1,002) and blocks (89) in a career ... In track, participated in the triple jump, 400 meters and 4x400m relay ... Set school record in each event as a sophomore ... Earned a spot on the All-Honor Roll and Academic Teams from 2009-11 ... Played club volleyball for Absolute Volleyball Academy of Texas (AVA).
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The drug control fund consists of money seized during drug arrests and investigations. Funds also are procured through the sale of drug related assets, such as vehicles, televisions and appliances.
Jackley says the patrol contributes substantially to the drug control fund.
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Council Rings Project
During spring 2010, the installation of a rain garden on the south side of the EIC building offered a unique opportunity to create a gathering place to sit and enjoy the garden and its wildlife. Jens Jensen, the famous early 20 th century landscape architect, who designed the grounds of the Henry Ford Estate, often designed and built outdoor structures called council rings. These stone or wooden circles afford a group of visitors to sit together and converse in an egalitarian setting, where all people in the community are listened to and valued.
The Environmental Interpretive Center (EIC) enlisted Daniel Bunge, a Dearborn Boy Scout interested in completing his Eagle Service Project, his family, and a crew of volunteers from BSA Troop 1147 to design and construct two concentric council rings in the midst of the newest EIC rain garden. Daniel and his volunteer crew began construction of the council rings in June. They spent many hours digging holes, setting posts, and building benches. This project was made possible with financial assistance from a Ford Motor Company MODEL "Better World" mini-grant, which provided funds to purchase lumber and other necessary building materials. The completed council rings have already become a staging area for the EIC's educational school programs, and it is common to see students and staff sitting on the benches eating lunch and enjoying the sites and sounds of the rain garden.
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Its the only way.
We have all gone back and forth. We have tossed to and fro the possibilities of bargin free agents and serviceable mid-level exception candidates. We write articles about trade possibilities and rebuilding processes, the apprehension of Doc Rivers or the options for Ainge. But in the end all this come down to the Captain.
Doc, Danny, and KG have all remained relatively quiet because they are all hoping that Paul Pierce, the face of the franchise the past decade, a perpetual starter for the most storied franchise ever since he entered the league, and the highest compensated Celtic in franchise history by a mile ($150,000,000+). They are all waiting for the "Truth" to make a leadership gesture ala Dirk Nowitzki. Pierce's legacy as one of the all-time great Celtics is not in question. But if he truly seeks to enter into an unbreakable trilogy along side Russell and Bird, he must make this sacrifice.
Paul, you could walk into Danny's office today and tell him that you are willing to take a $10 million dollar pay cut this up coming season in exchange for a 2-year extension. You could tell him that Boston has provided you the opportunity to have the career and security for your family that you could have only dreamed of as 10th overall draftee from Inglewood, California back in 1998. You could tell him that you have spoken to Doc and that you have chosen for the health of the team and growth of our possible future franchise player, Jeff Green to come off the bench and show our young players just what the most lethal 6th Man in the league should look like. You could tell him that you have spoken to Kevin and that he, the highest compensated player in the history of the league has also expressed that he would take a simular sacrifice, but only if we both are assured that Ainge utilize the money to bring in a true all-star to help us to make one more run at a ring. You could tell him that you would do this, and in exchange you want your jersey retired and hung in the rafters of the Garden within 60 seconds of the fourth quarter buzzer sounding in you final game.
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Who's ready for another interleague series at Fenway? I know I am. More of David Ortiz doing his customary DH thing, more of pitchers not hitting, and best of all, it's against a team no Red Sox fan should really have hatred towards. Seriously. It's the Padres. If you hate them, then what NL West team do you cheer for?
SAN DIEGO PADRES - 40-43, 3rd place in the NL West
You read that right. The Padres are a solid THIRD in their own division with a record below .500. Which really shows exactly how wide-open/close/weak-as-hell that division is. Still, the Padres have made huge strides from their last few seasons, getting fantastic value out of their middle infield and bullpen. None of these names – well, maybe one – will be considered "household" status. But, as the saying goes, what you don't know will kill you. And that's why I'm here.
1 – Logan Forsythe - 2B – .284/.333/.446 (in 81 PA)
- Somewhat-speedy guy who likes to keep the ball close to the ground via line drives (32.7 LD%) or grounders (38.2 GB%). Not really a base-stealer, however.
- Limits his whiffs. Hasn't had a strikeout rate below 16% in his entire major league career, but never above 20%. Holds a walk rate around 7.5%.
- Originally a bench player, but recent injuries to the Padres' middle infield has forced him into full-time service.
2 – Chris Denorfia – CF - .275/.332/.393
- Doesn't walk or strikeout all that much. Hits a ton of groundballs, however. Over 55% of hits batted balls are worm-burners.
- Little power to speak of. Hasn't hit double-digit homers in his major-league career, but also hasn't had a full-time starting job, either.
- His value through fielding fluctuates quite a bit. His UZR is fantastic some years, and is god-awful in others.
3 – Carlos Quentin – LF - .270/.373/.481
- If you want a prototypical three-hole hitter, Quentin is it. Lots of power, and hasn't had an ISO under .200 other than his '07 season.
- Good plate discipline. His OBP usually rests in the .350-.370 range, and his walk rate has been over 10% since coming to San Diego.
- Has the durability of fine china. And if he isn't getting injured, he's bull-rushing pitchers who bean him and getting suspended.
4 – Chase Headley – 3B - .221/.320/.345
- The trade target that really isn't anymore. Gained a lot of popularity after a breakout 31-homer season in 2012.
- Normally healthy, Headley's had a lackluster season so far. A thumb injury, plus some regression to the mean, hasn't helped.
- Also a good example of solid plate discipline. Walk rate has been over 10% since 2011.
5 – Kyle Blanks – DH - .271/.341/.457
- Up-and-coming power hitter for San Diego. Showed a lot of promise in the minors, but has been yo-yo'ed between the majors and AAA the last few years.
- Hadn't broken the 200 PA mark in the majors until 2013. Hits the crap outta the ball, and has a 22.9 GB% & a 16.7 HR/FB as a result.
- Average fielder & baserunner, but still has a 1.2 fWAR in just 211 PA. Not too shabby.
6 – Will Venable – RF - .221/.265/.424
- Another one from the Padres' plethora of 2.0-4.0 win outfielders. This one doesn't have much patience at the plate, though.
- Intriguing power. Hit a lot of homers in less PA earlier in his career, but then cranked out line drives when given ample playing time.
- BABIP is a low .248 on the season. Some progression is coming, and that's a "when" statement, not an "if" one.
7 – Jesus Guzman – 1B - .218/.283/.338 (in 146 PA)
- Another bench player given a shot at a full-time gig. Not really doing much of anything to keep it.
- Flashed a decent amount of power in the minors. He's shown it a few times in the majors, with lots of doubles.
- When your wOBA (.277) is lower than your OBP (.283), there's some problems with letting you start every day.
8 – Yasmani Grandal – C - .234/.375/.364 (in 96 PA)
- One of the most patient younger players in the game. With 322 PA in the majors, he owns a 14.9% walk rate.
- His BABIP is a mediocre .270, so he still has some room to get better this season and add to that fantastic OBP.
- Got suspended 50 games earlier this season for PEDs, so his PA are cut down because of that, not injury.
9 – Pedro Ciriaco – SS - .271/.300/.396 (in 50 PA)
- He's back. So you know the deal. Doesn't walk, kills Yankees pitching, plays a lot of shortstop and third base.
- Not a lot of power and lots of strikeouts, so there's something you can be happy for him to do well in.
- In any season that he's gotten over 100 PA, his wRC+ has been below 100. That's not a great sign there.
Who's hot? – Last 14 days:
- Logan Forsythe (2 HR, 7 runs, 5 RBI)
- Yasmani Grandal (.475 OBP, 9 walks, 8 runs)
Who's not? – Last 14 days:
- Will Venable (.190 OBP, no walks, 43 wRC+)
- Alexi Amarista (.214 OBP, .215 wOBA, 37 wRC+)
We've been over the ins-and-outs of John Lackey, The Greatest Starting Pitcher In The History Of Baseball(tm), so let's look at Erlin. Minor league profile says he strikes out a fair few guys while normally keeping his walk rate below 2.50 per 9 innings. FIP and xFIP like him, as they show Erlin to be at least a quarter of a run better than his ERA suggests.
Edinson Volquez vs. Jon Lester
Are you ready for Walk-A-Rama 2013? Because that's what Volquez will do. He'll walk batters, be terrible at stranding them, and then have them score. Not as terrible as his ERA shows, but with a 7.62 K/9, he's not all that great either.
Stults, the only Padres pitcher with an fWAR over 1, and it's closer to 2 than the pitcher with the second-best fWAR. Doesn't give up a ton of homers, won't walk many batters, but he'll be playing the pitch-to-contact game and see where that gets him. A 5.44 strikeout rate doesn't suggest a lot of high punch-out totals.
- San Diego
- Jedd Gyorko: 15-day DL (June 10th, strained right groin)
- Everth Cabrera: 15-day DL (June 17th, strained left hamstring)
- Cameron Maybin: 15-day DL (June 10th, torn left PCL)
- Yonder Alonso: 15-day DL (June 1st, broken right hand)
- Boston
- Jon Lester: probable for next start (June 28, jammed right hip)
- Stephen Drew: missed Sunday's game against Toronto (June 30, tightness in right hamstring)
This should be a team the Red Sox can handle. But we've seen them face inferior competition before and flounder, and the Padres have shown a tendency to win series from teams much better than them. On top of that, it's an interleague matchup, so it'll be fun to watch, regardless.
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NH Concerts & Stage Performances: Fun With Friends & Family
Wednesday, January 8, 2014
The holidays are over, but the weather outside is still frightful. Too cold temperatures can leave us battling a terrible case of cabin fever. If you're looking for some indoor events and activities, the NH Concerts & Stage Performances page, sponsored by Peacock Players. has all the tools you need for a great night out with your significant other, with friends, or with family!
NH.com/Concerts is a full guide to concerts, theatre, and other stage events in New Hampshire! Use our interactive map to find contact information for the best theatre venues in your area, or use the drop down references for quick directory lists.
The Concerts & Stage Performances page also offers two current events feeds. Browse the Concert Events List for upcoming musical performances, and the NH Stage Performance List for dramatic, magical, dance, and other performing arts events!
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2014 HD Season: Stephen Sondheim's Company
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TIBCO's Kiesanowski wins Sea Otter's Circuit Race in 2-up sprint
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After back to back second place finishes at the Sea Otter Classic, Jo Kiesanowski (Team TIBCO) broke through with a tight sprint win against Catherine Cheatley (Colavita/Sutter Home) in Saturday's Circuit Race. "Colavita riders were sitting on me,' stated Kiesanowski. "They have a couple of really good sprinters and that was their tactic. They did […]


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A review of environmental impacts of renewable electricity generation technologies from a life cycle perspective
Garvin Heath, Senior Scientist, National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)
Monday, November 4, 2013 | 04:15 PM - 05:15 PM | NVIDIA Auditorium, Jen-Hsun Huang Engineering Center | Free and Open to All
Through systematic reviews and original research, this presentation will review evidence of environmental impacts of renewable electricity generation technologies compared, where possible, to their conventional incumbents. Evidence for greenhouse gas emissions, water and land use will be reviewed mostly from the perspective of life cycle assessment. Areas of uncertainty will be highlighted as suggestions for future research.
Grid Flexibility and Research Challenges to Enhance the Integration of Variable Renewable Energy Sources
Mark O'Malley, Electrical Engineering Dept., University College Dublin
Monday, January 14, 2013 | 04:15 PM - 05:15 PM | NVIDIA Auditorium, Jen-Hsun Huang Engineering Center | Free and Open to All
Grid flexibility is a characteristic that is proposed to help the integration of variable renewable energy resources. However it has proven very difficult to quantify and this has spurred intense research efforts over the past few years. There are many sources, sinks and enablers for flexibility in the grid and these are all subject to numerous research challenges. Flexibility will be introduced, defined and a number of methods to quantify it will be described. This will be followed by an overview of research into unlocking flexibility in the power system e.g. demand side participation and power system operational strategies. There are potential hidden costs of flexibility and some of these will be highlighted, for example thermal plant cycling, and mitigation measures to reduce these will be formulated. Concluding remarks will try to give insights into how a future grid with very high penetrations of variable renewable energy may look like.
Assessing Earthquake Risks From Hydraulic Fracturing for Geothermal Power, Natural Gas and CO2 Storage
Mark McClure, PhD in Energy Resources Engineering, Stanford University; Assistant Professor (winter 2013), University of Texas
Monday, November 5, 2012 | 04:15 PM - 05:15 PM | NVIDIA Auditorium, Jen-Hsun Huang Engineering Center | Free and Open to All
Scientists have been aware of human induced seismicity for decades. But attention to the issue has increased in recent years, as concerns have been raised for wastewater disposal, hydraulic fracturing, and CO2 sequestration. The importance of credible induced seismicity hazard assessment has never been higher.
In this talk, Mark McClure will summarize the fundamental physical processes of induced seismicity, provide an overview of the history of the field, and review some of the dominant ideas in induced seismicity hazard analysis. Then he will summarize two papers he recently wrote on the topic of induced seismicity during hydraulic stimulation in geothermal energy. The first demonstrates how a single variable, the degree of brittle fault development, can explain the huge variation in induced seismicity across a range of historical enhanced geothermal projects. The second uses coupled fluid flow and seismicity modeling to explain a variety of observations of induced seismicity from enhanced geothermal projects and demonstrates how modeling could be used for hazard analysis or even optimization. Last, Mark will explain the broader implications of his work for induced seismicity hazard analysis.
National Oil Companies and the World Oil Market: Should We Be Worried?
Mark Thurber, Program on Energy and Sustainable Development, Stanford University
Monday, February 6, 2012 | 04:15 PM - 05:15 PM | NVIDIA Auditorium, Jen-Hsun Huang Engineering Center | Free and Open to All
State-owned oil and natural gas companies, such as Saudi Aramco, Petróleos de Venezuela and China National Petroleum Corp., own 73 percent of the world's oil reserves and 68 percent of its natural gas. They bankroll governments across the globe. Although national oil companies superficially resemble private-sector companies, they often behave in very different ways.
Oil and Governance: State-Owned Enterprises and the World Energy Supply (Cambridge University Press, 2012), a new book commissioned by Stanford University's Program on Energy and Sustainable Development, explains the variation in performance and strategy for such state-owned enterprises. The book, which Mark Thurber co-edited and contributed to, also provides fresh insights into the future of the oil industry and the politics of the oil-rich countries where national oil companies dominate.
Though national oil companies have often been the subject of case studies, for the first time multiple case studies followed a common research design, which aided the relative ranking of performance and the evaluation of hypotheses about such companies' performance. Interestingly, some of the worst performing of these operations belong to countries quite unfriendly to the United States. Mark will also discuss the industrial structure of the oil industry, and the politics and administration of national oil companies. One result of the dominance of this structure for oil markets is that high prices often lead to lower supplies and low prices lead to increased production -- the opposite response of private companies.
Producing Natural Gas from Shale - Opportunities and Challenges of a Major New Energy Source
Mark Zoback, Department of Geophysics, Stanford University
Monday, January 30, 2012 | 04:15 PM - 05:15 PM | NVIDIA Auditorium, Jen-Hsun Huang Engineering Center | Free and Open to All
It is now clear that enormous quantities of natural gas can be produced from organic rich shales found in many countries throughout the world. Because natural gas is both a flexible fuel and much cleaner than other fossil fuels, it has the potential to significantly transform energy use in many regions. Natural gas used for electrical power generation produces about half as much CO2 as coal.
Despite these advantages, there are also significant challenges associated natural gas development. These include minimizing the impact of shale gas development on the environment and communities. In the U.S. alone, thousands of wells will need to be drilled each year (along with construction of pipelines, compressor and distribution facilities, etc.). While a number of misleading claims have been made about the dangers associated with processes such as hydraulic fracturing, poor well construction and drilling have the potential to cause environmental damage which must be minimized.
Another challenge associated with shale gas development is to significantly improve the efficiency of drilling and production practice. This will require greatly improved understanding of shale gas production from the nano-scale pore structure and flow mechanisms in the shale to the optimal way to stimulate production using horizontal drilling and multi-stage hydraulic fracturing.
Precourt Institute for Energy at Stanford: The Grand Challenge
Lynn Orr, Keleen and Carlton Beal Professor in Petroleum Engineering, Energy Resources Engineering Department Director, Precourt Institute for Energy
- Zhi-Xun Shen, Stanford Institute for Materials & Energy Science (SIMES)
- Sally Benson, Global Climate and Eneregy Project GCEP
- Stacey Bent, TomKat Center for Sustainable Energy
- Jim Sweeney, Precourt Energy Efficiency Center (PEEC)
- Frank Wolak, Program on Energy and Sustainable Development (PESD)
- Larry Goulder, Stanford Environment and Energy Policy Analysis Center (SEEPAC)
Wednesday, October 6, 2010 | 04:15 PM - 05:15 PM | Building 420, Room 40 | Free and Open to All
Franklin M. ("Lynn") Orr, Jr. became the director of the Precourt Institute for Energy at Stanford upon its establishment in 2009. He served as director of the Global Climate and Energy Project from 2002 to 2008. Orr was the Chester Naramore Dean of the School of Earth Sciences at Stanford University from 1994 to 2002. He has been a member of the Stanford faculty since 1985 and holds the Keleen and Carlton Beal Chair of Petroleum Engineering in the Department of Energy Resources Engineering, and is a Senior Fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment. His research activities focus on how complex fluid mixtures flow in the porous rocks in the Earth's crust, the design of gas injection processes for enhanced oil recovery, and CO2 storage in subsurface formations. Orr is a member of the National Academy of Engineering. He serves as vice chair of the board of directors of the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, and he chairs the Science Advisory Committee for the David and Lucile Packard Foundation and was a foundation board member from 1999-2008.
- battery storage
- bio-fuel
- cap & trade
- carbon sequestration
- climate change
- economics
- energy and climate policy
- energy efficiency
- geothermal
- greenhouse gases
- impacts
- modeling
- nanotechnology
- natural gas
- nuclear
- ocean energy
- oil shale
- petroleum
- renewable energy
- smart grid
- solar
- tar sands
- transportation fuel
- wind
U.S. Shale Gas: From Resources and Reserves to Carbon Isotope Anomalies
John Curtis, Potential Gas Agency, Colorado School of Mines
Wednesday, January 20, 2010 | 04:15 PM - 05:15 PM | Building 420, Room 40 | Free and Open to All
Professor Curtis will discuss shale gas resource assessments, possible roadblocks to future shale gas production and the use of gas geochemistry for discovery and development of this potential resource.
Sustainable Energy Future: Scale, Tradeoffs, and Co-Benefits
Panel with Stanford Faculty: Sally Benson, Director, Global Climate and Energy Project; Pamela Matson, Chester Naramore Dean of the School of Earth Sciences; Lynn Orr, Director, Precourt Institute for Energy; Stephen Schneider, Melvin & Joan Lane Professor for Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies; Jim Sweeney, Director Precourt Energy Efficiency Center; Buzz Thompson, Co-Director Woods Institute for the Environment
Wednesday, October 14, 2009 | 04:15 PM - 05:30 PM | Building 420, Room 40 | Free and Open to All
The Stanford panelists will discuss a number of important themes and issues about energy use, impacts, and opportunities as we begin the transition to a low emission energy future. Panelists will consider economic viability, political will, resource constraints, and environmental impacts of various energy technologies at scale. They will discuss tradeoffs and how decision makers may seek co-benefits and avoid unintended consequences when making choices.
* Energy Social following the talk (Note: we do not provide venue details for social on the web)
Greenhouse gas emissions from oil substitutes: dynamics, resources, and systems behavior
Adam Brandt, Stanford University
Wednesday, September 23, 2009 | 04:15 PM - 05:15 PM | Building 420, Room 40 | Free and Open to All
The ongoing transition to oil substitutes poses economic, environmental, and political risks. In particular, the problems of oil depletion and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions are unavoidably intertwined: any shortfall in conventional oil will induce the production of oil substitutes such as unconventional hydrocarbons or biofuels, which have differing GHG emissions per unit of fuel produced. This transition could have positive or negative impacts on total GHG emissions depending on the resources used and the regulatory environment in which it takes place. Professor Brandt explores this transition using a large-scale mathematical model of future transportation fuel production. He discusses future research to improve our understanding of the environmental impacts from oil substitutes.
* Energy Social following the talk (details will be announced at the seminar)
A Strategy for Exploiting Unconventional Gas Resources and Mitigating Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Mark Zoback, Stanford University
Wednesday, May 20, 2009 | 04:15 PM - 05:15 PM | Building 420, Room 40 | Free and Open to All
In the past decade, the use of gas shales grew eight-fold, and in the past 3-5 years, $40 billion was invested in its production. However, the decline in gas prices led to a major decrease in their development. Zoback argues that the production of gas shales offers a unique opportunity for the use of coal bed methane. Even though the Energy Information Administration predicts that there will be minimal growth in unconventional gas production over the next 20 years, the gas industry expects much higher growth rates. Zoback believes that natural gas will have to be a part of the transition away from fossil fuel in the U.S. However, gas shale reservoirs still have a number of uncertainties, including the mechanical response of rocks during slick-water fracturing, the evolution of mechanical properties during production, gas adsorption and desorption, and the controls on permeability during fracturing.Related Themes:


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::Surroundings:: Guide to Decorative Living - Issue #5
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Congratulations Linda...another lovely issue....xv
Great issue. The cover looks amazing!
Love what you did with color in this issue! Beautiful cover shot by Michael (great teamwork!)
I read it all, from cover to cover. Fresh, interesting, entertaining, I really don't know how you can keep up with your business, different blogs, the magazine...not to mention your private life. Congratulations.
Love the cover design and color combination. Felt completely energized just by looking at Catherine Nolin's artwork. Look forward to seeing the next cover, and your magazine's length is just right!
Oh and thank you so much for featuring my friend Catherine Nolins art!! It is so great!
Art by Karena
Beautiful Linda. I am in awe of your publication. It must take you hours, not just in the collating and writing but the thinking and dreaming that goes into work like this. I write a small article for a shopping centre magazine and know it's the "what will I write and how will I say it?" that is the hardest part. Congratulations on another wonderful issue of Surroundings - Guide To Decorative Living.
Jennifer xx
Another beautiful issue Linda. I love Ms.Nolin's artwork...I wish I was that talented. I just began a mother nature series on our blog as well so wanted to let you know there was no "copying" involved. I am sure mother nature has enough to offer all of us.
I enjoyed it...thanks again.
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Funny contrast in this week's news. This article, How Women Can Develop Business, National Law Journal (9/29/05) bemoans that women at large firms have it tough when it comes to business development, citing obstacles like lack of effective mentoring and difficulty of striking a manageable work-life balance. (The article does offer many useful suggestions for women to build a portfolio of business)
Yet that same week, I came across this article, Building a Better Law Firm, Smart Money (9/29/05) about the fabulous success of former biglaw attorney and mom of two girls, Joanne Sternlieb. After a decade at a prominent New York firm and a part time position as an estate planner at a large trust company, Sternleib started her own firm that handles wills, trusts and other estate planning matters. What's more, Sternleib has four former biglaw associates working for her firm part time as independent contractors as well as two legal assistants and a law clerk. Right now, she's making half of what she did as a firm, but it sounds like she's working half the time – and running her own ship.
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Pay now and not only will you lock in this year's dues rate, your membership will be good through the next program year (August 31, 2015). Learn More!
In this week's snapshot, we visit longtime program supporter Burns & Levinson and learn from Lucidey Pimentel and Myntah Morris that when it comes to mentoring, two is better than one. Read more.
Are Prosecutors and Public Defenders Paid Enough? For the full post, click here.
New York Times Supreme Court Correspondent Adam Liptak will keynote 2014 Annual Meeting Luncheon on September 12th. Learn More.
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The Boston office of Morgan,
Lewis & Bockius LLP, an international law firm with more than 1,600
legal professionals, has signed on as a sponsor firm of the Boston Bar Association. The firm's Boston
office has 28 lawyers representing its Business and Finance, Insurance Recovery,
Labor and Employment, and Litigation practices. With 25 offices across the
United States, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East, Morgan Lewis provides
transactional, litigation, labor and employment, regulatory, and intellectual
property legal services to clients of all sizes across all major industries.
"Becoming a sponsor firm of the Boston Bar Association will allow us to
participate in the BBA's ongoing work to serve the Greater Boston community,"
said Jonathan Bernstein, managing partner of Morgan Lewis's Boston office. "Our
attorneys support the BBA's mission and look forward to enjoying the diverse
programming that the BBA offers."Founded in 1873 in Philadelphia, Morgan
Lewis has expanded its reach far beyond Pennsylvania to establish sixteen offices
throughout the United States – including their Boston office in 2003 – and nine
international offices. Morgan Lewis is "known for their ability to handle suits
with very high stakes," according to a report
by BTI Consulting Group, and was named to the Client Service Hall of Fame by the
same group – one of only three law firms in the U.S. to receive this honor.
About 75 percent of Morgan Lewis attorneys who practice out of the
Boston office are engaged with the firm's pro bono program; as a group, these
lawyers logged in more than 350 pro bono hours over the past year. The office
has actively participated in the firm's Pro Bono & Community Service Week,
celebrated in June, and pursues new community service opportunities each year.
Three of the partners in the Boston office serve on the boards of five different
local nonprofit organizations that address a range of issues within the
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Camarillo's Rau earns share of MVP for CIF-SS Div. II
Garrett Rau of Camarillo High was named as the co-player of the year on the 2007 CIF-Southern Section Division II baseball team.
Six Ventura County players were first-team selections by the California Baseball Coaches Association.
Rau batted .509 and led the county with 55 hits and 50 runs scored for Camarillo, the Division II runner-up. He added 12 doubles, five home runs and 37 RBIs. As a pitcher, Rau was 9-1 with a 1.48 ERA and 76 strikeouts in 75 1/3 innings.
Rio Mesa's Jordan Lindebaum and Camarillo's Jacob Mahan were Division II first-team selections.
Lindebaum was 10-4 with a 1.74 ERA and 111 strikeouts in 98 innings for Rio Mesa. Mahan had a .486 batting average with 51 hits, 33 runs, 11 doubles, six triples, 38 RBIs and 16 stolen bases.
Jonathan Erb of Camarillo and Justin Shutt were named to the second team.
Named to the Division I first team were Matt Bywater of Thousand Oaks, Newbury Park's Andrew Lambo and Brett Hale of Simi Valley.
Bywater set a school record with 12 wins and posted a 1.12 ERA. Lambo, a repeat All-CIF selection, batted .453 and had 36 runs, four triples, nine home runs and 30 RBIs. He was 8-2 with a 1.61 ERA as a pitcher. Hale averaged .400 for Simi Valley.
Division I second-team selections included Nick Barnese and Jake Reed of Simi Valley, Kyle Jones of Thousand Oaks, Alex Kurland of Calabasas and Mike Vinyard of Royal.
St. Bonaventure's Casey Serna and Martin Medina were Division IV first- and second-team selections, respectively.
Serna had a .429 batting average for the Seraphs. He had 37 runs, 11 doubles, 29 RBIs and stole 16 bases.
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WOW... Surprised no one posted anything about it. It appears as though Mayweather is scared shitless of Mosley. He was clearly very bothered by Mosley standing there. Whenevr someone brought up Mosley's name, he starts stuttering and stammering. The excuses appeared to be taking root too. When folks started bringing up Mosley's name, Floyd inject Berto as a barrier between him and Mosley.
That brings us to the story on the front page. Its great to see Mosley opening up and telling the truth. All roads for Mayweather lead to Mosley. If he doesnt fight Mosley, then its an official duck. Right now, Mayweather has no opponent lined up. Mosley is the #1 guy at WW and arguably the biggest draw available. Whats the excuse gonna be. How much more stuttering are we gonna have to listen to?? He is scared shitless of M M M.. Mosley.


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The Nature of Matter: Structure, Energy, Motion, Forces
*What measurements can we make on a sample of gas, and what factors affect these properties?
*How can we quantify chemical reactions?
*How do electric charges behave when motionless and when in motion?
*What is the structure of an atom's nucleus?
*How do subatomic particles behave in nuclear reactions?
*How can we describe motion?
*gas laws
*electrostatics & electricity
*magnetism & electromagnetic induction
*nuclear chemistry
*Setting up and using lab equipment to collect data
*Using a computer to collect and analyze data
*Representing data visually as graphs, figures, charts, etc.
*Developing a mathematical equation from the graph of data
*Working with scientific notation and significant figures and uncertainty
*Problem solving using metric system and dimensional analysis
*Thinking critically through scientific reasoning
*Learning to work collaboratively
*Experimental design
*Tests and quizzes
*Laboratory work and lab reports
*Class participation
Introduction to Chemical Principles; H.Stephen Stoker; Tenth Edition; Pearson, Prentice Hall
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Title: Cattelya Orchid in Digital Oils
Medium: Digital Oils in Corel Painter 11 & Intuos3 4x5Wacom Tablet
Size: 7″ x 7″
Year: 2010
Notes: This orchid study was a personal project. I focused on painting from a reference photo with digital oils (RealBristles brush) and a tiny 5 pixel pallet knife. The head of the pink and yellow orchid flower is in focus, drawing the viewers attention, while the leaves curve in and out of focus to blend into the background.
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The Cattleya is gorgeous! I want to see this in person!
Crouching Female shooting really projects the feel of the position, the stress of the crouch.
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Paul Robeson Galleries Celebrate 30 Years
On April 9, 1979, a small gallery opened in Paul Robeson Campus Center, part of an effort to establish Rutgers University, Newark as an arts center.
Beginning in November, Rutgers will commemorate 30 years of what is now the Paul Robeson Galleries with a series of special events - highlighted by a Nov. 18 fundraising event - centered around the theme, "Climbing Jacob's Ladder: Here We Stand." The celebration keys in on the legacy of Paul Robeson, for whom the campus center is named, as an activist, artist, scholar and humanitarian.
The galleries will premiere a major 30th anniversary exhibition at the Nov. 18 celebration, with a public opening on Nov. 19. "Exquisite Corpse" will feature 30 works by 92 regional artists who have participated in a "collaborative drawing game" that was made famous by the surrealists of the early twentieth century. The exhibit will run through April 8.
An accompanying 60-page publication will "speak to the life of the galleries and how Robeson's ideals are embodied through our activities," which include visual literacy programs for seniors and students in the Newark community, according to Director and Curator Anonda Bell. She explains, "In addition to increasing artistic literacy for our students, the galleries offer exhibitions, openings and lectures that bring together community and college, establishing a common social/aesthetic experience."
The anniversary celebration also will include several onsite and offsite public and educational programs, including a Nov. 19 concert, "The Art in Music," featuring musical works inspired by art or created by composers who were also artists.
For more information on the special events and exhibitions, please visit http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/artgallery/index.html
- Sep. 10: Intro to Entrepreneurship Q&A
- Sep. 17: Donald L. McCabe Academic Integrity Award Reception
- Sep. 22: Homecoming Week
Quick Facts
Campus Overview
Founded: 1908
Joined Rutgers: 1946
Campus Size: 38 acres, 33 buildings
Chancellor: Nancy Cantor
Provost: Todd Clear
Undergraduate Majors: 40+
Graduate Programs: 50+ (JD, MA, MBA, MFA, MPA, MS, Ph.D.)
Athletics: 14 NCAA Division III women and men's teams
Libraries: 4
Enrollment (fall 2013)
Total: 11,987
Undergraduates: 7,756
Graduates: 4,231
Full-time Faculty: 585
Faculty with Terminal Degrees: 99%
Full-time Staff: 770
Male/Female Ratio: 50:50
Student/Faculty Ratio: 13:1
Nations Represented: 100+
On-campus Residents: 1,280
Carnegie Classification
Basic Type: Research Universities (high research activity)
Special Classification: Community Engagement


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We live in a judge-y time, faithful readers. You can't love plaid and moleskines or coding the night away without someone shitting on you.
"I'm staying away from these literary people. I'm sticking to engineers—no personality is better than a shitty one."
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Fighting for our fish
When you think about multibillion dollar, transnational crime, fishing may not come to mind.
But global estimates place economic loss from fish poaching — in which vessels snatch up their catch without authorisation — at US$9 billion ($800 billion) a year.
For the Caribbean, the impact is not well documented, but it definitely costs tens of millions of US dollars annually, according to Milton Haughton.
"Illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing is among the top priority activities going back some years," said the Caribbean Regional Fisheries Mechanism (CRFM) executive director.
The catch from illegal fishers often makes it more difficult for legitimate players to compete as it is dumped in the market. But the poachers pay no attention to conservation measures.
"IUU fishing is taking out of sustainable levels of fish stock," said Haughton. "These all translate into losses."
Punishment for the offence may not be high enough to deter criminals from engaging in the activity. "In Jamaica, penalties are extremely low." Jurisdictions with higher penalties had less IUU activity, Haughton told the Jamaica Observer.
Caricom countries signed an agreement two years ago, called the Castries (St Lucia) Declaration for short, to focus on tackling the problem as a collective.
"Member states (are) to cooperate in the implementation of harmonised minimum terms and conditions of access to monitor, control and conduct surveillance of fisheries resources," the agreement said.
Nations in the trade group also commenced exchanging information on vessels registered to fly their flags in an effort to weed out those that aren't suppose to fish from regional waters.
On Tuesday, the group took a bigger step towards achieving its goal.
The CRFM brought Costa Rica, Honduras, Guatemala, Nicaragua and Panama into its fight, through an agreement signed in Belize with the Central America Fisheries and Aquaculture Organisation (Spanish acronym OSPESCA).
"It is the first time that Central America and Caricom have come together on this matter," said Haughton.
Apart from eradicating IUU through stronger monitoring and information exchange, the Belize Declaration focuses on developing aquaculture in the region. It also aims to improve conservation and management of transboundary species, such as migratory pelagic fish stocks (including tuna) and spiny lobster.
"The long-term objective of the partnership between the CRFM and OPSESCA is to secure a brighter and more prosperous future for our fishing communities that rely on the marine resources for their livelihoods," said Haughton. "It should also ensure that the fish stocks are able, through prudent management, to make enhanced contribution to the social and economic development of our countries now and in the future."
The region is far behind the rest of the world on aquaculture by his reckoning. He estimates that almost 50 per cent of total fish stock consumed outside the region is from farmed fish (marine and inland).
"Less than five per cent of fish comes from aquacultue in the region," he said.
But increased economic activity from fisheries doesn't necessarily have to come from investment in farming or protecting fishing zones.
Markets can be created for species that are edible (and tasty) but are not traditionally eaten.
For example, Belize is said to have hundreds of species in its waters, but local consumers are accustomed to only a few, such as lobster, conch, snapper and grouper.
"We know about flying fish (a delicacy in Barbados). Did you know there is flying fish in Jamaica?" asked Haughton, rhetorically.
More recently, an invasive species, the Pacific lionfish, has been ending up on more and more dinner plates in the Caribbean. It is also being targeted for control under the Belize Declaration.
"That is one specie that fishers have a licence to over fish," added Haughton.
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Football is just getting into the swing of things and teams are starting to show their true colors. Like always, there is always a plethora of story lines to appetize even the savviest football fans. See below.
- Nick Mangold's injury makes me realize how healthy the Jets have been the last 2 seasons: Besides Jenkins and Leonhard, the last two years we have been remarkably healthy. Our O-line, as of now, is nowhere near a strength.
- Tom Brady is the best QB in the league right now. Period.: I hate typing that, but it's true (No disrespect, Mr. Rodgers). Is it possible he's getting better?
- Romo shows some heart: I'll be honest, I wasn't surprised when he choked against us, it really seems to be his MO. That being said, his performance against the 49er's was just class, tough, leadership. Playing with a cracked rib takes guts, and Romo showed he had some.
- The Dolphins are not mentally tough: I'll admit the team has talent, but they can't seem to put it together. They're 1-11 in their last 12 games at home. That's pathetic and a big reason why the Phins may end up in the cellar this season.
- Cam Newton impresses again: Ok, he had three interceptions so it wasn't a brilliant performance. But don't take away the fact that he's had back to back 400+ games and this came against a good defense in GB. I think Carolina's got themselves a keeper. Poor Jimmy Clausen.
- Suck for Luck?: You're well on your way, Indianapolis and Kansas City. It's funny how a season can change things. KC went from a division championship to perhaps the worst two weeks of football ever played. Our December matchup with them seems a lot easier.
- San Diego still doesn't convert it's opportunities: There's a reason they can't make the superbowl. They make crippling mistakes at the most inopportune time and yesterday was the perfect game to example this. I still don't know how Norv Turner has his job.
- Kyle Wilson is a completely different player: There is a huge gap between Wilson's rookie and sophomore year. This year he's not only in position but making plays on the ball. I think his time with Revis may have been beneficial. On an interesting note, with the Jets committed to Cro for the next four years what will the Jets do with Wilson? Personally, I think Wilson will exceed Cro as a corner within that timespan and I'm just wondering how the Jets would play that situation.
- The Lions are a good team, as long as Matt Stafford is healthy: He may be as fragile as a china doll; but there is no denying Stafford is a massive talent. The offense can put up points in a hurry and the D-Line is a Top 5 unit in the league. I see playoffs.
- Oakland's D-Line is considered a strength, but can be run on: That's proven by the fact that Fred Jackson almost averaged 10 yards a carry running behind an awful offensive line. The game may be an anomaly but it gives me hope for a successful running game next week.