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Kurt WEILL (1900-1950)
Zaubernacht (1922) [58.47]
Ania Vegry (soprano), Arte Ensemble
rec. Main Studio, NDR Hanover, 13-17 February 2012
This is a self-recommending issue for all lovers
of the music of Kurt Weill, a first recording of his early 'pantomime'
Zaubernacht. But wait, the Weill aficionados will exclaim:
we have already had a recording of the complete work in 2002 on Capriccio
C67011, which may no longer be available but which was certainly in
the catalogue at one time. Well, no. The earlier recording was not of
Weill's own score, but of a reconstruction of the score undertaken
by Meirion Bowen, and thereby hangs a tale.
The business of reconstructing lost scores - I do not refer here to
the completion of unfinished works, which opens up a wholly different
can of worms - is fraught with dangers. Where the original orchestral
parts exist, an exact version of the full score can be assembled without
problems apart from sheer physical and mental labour - Rachmaninov's
First Symphony is an example - but where the full score and parts
are both lost, any reconstruction has to be based on materials such
as vocal scores or piano reductions which may not totally reflect what
the composer originally had in mind and will certainly be simplified
to bring the orchestral scoring within the compass of two or four hands.
This is true even when the composer himself or herself undertakes the
task, as for example Alfano did with his opera Sakuntala. I speak
from personal experience, having once attempted to reconstruct the mislaid
full score of a thankfully short choral piece from the vocal score which
I had prepared; when eventually I did run my original full score to
earth in the National Library of Wales, I was more than a little disconcerted
to find that it differed in considerable respects from my 'reconstruction'
- and I had the advantage of remembering what I had originally intended.
If a scholar or friend of the composer is attempting the task, the results
may be quite a long way removed from what the composer had originally
composed; but nevertheless it is a worthwhile exercise if it brings
back into the light of day a score that would otherwise have been lost.
Imagine then, the fate of someone who spends time and energy reconstructing
a score, only for the composer's original subsequently to turn
up in some archive or other. That was the fate of Eric Fenby, whose
orchestration of Delius's opera Margot la Rouge was recorded
by Norman del Mar (on a long-deleted BBC Artium set CD3004X) only for
the original to surface a couple of years later. It has also been the
fate of Meirion Bowen's reconstruction of Weill's Zaubernacht,
the basis for the only previous complete recording of the score now
inevitably overtaken by the 2006 rediscovery in the library at Yale
University of Weill's original which forms the basis for this
performance. I have not heard Meirion Bowen's version, but it
was well received when the aforementioned recording was released although
I am sure it differs in many points of detail even though Bowen will
have had the advantage of having some parts of the original score to
hand in the shape of the 'quodlibet' which Weill himself
extracted for concert performance - as Fenby did in the case of the
passages of Margot la Rouge which Delius reworked as his Idyll
- Once I Passed Through a Populous City.
It nevertheless is clearly true that lovers of the music of Kurt Weill
will want the original version rather than any speculative reconstruction,
however well the work has been done; and this new release is therefore
hors concours, although the booklet does not make as much of
the fact as it might have done - possibly out of consideration for Meirion
Bowen's endeavours. Bowen did apparently make some changes to
Weill's scoring, adding a clarinet (not employed here), asking
the flute to double on piccolo, and had to plug some holes in the score
by adding additional material from a 1918 string quartet as Weill himself
originally did. What we have here does have some substantial differences
from what was on offer on the Capriccio disc. The booklet notes, as
is usual with CPO, are very comprehensive; and (as is unfortunately
less invariably the case) they are very readable and informative, giving
us plentiful detail on the music itself without going off into cloudy
and speculative realms of academicism.
In view of its chequered history and its relative unfamiliarity, a few
words about the history of the 'pantomime' itself might
be in order. The work was indeed originally written as a children's
entertainment, conceived by an obscure refugee from Bolshevik Russia
who commissioned the young and totally unknown Weill to write a score
for a chamber ensemble of nine players plus an operatic soprano whose
sole role was to supply the voice of a toy fairy - she appears on only
one track of this disc. The work was given a few times in Berlin, and
then in New York in 1925 under the title The magic night - where
the score was drastically altered to eliminate the vocal part altogether.
It then totally vanished. When the materials were subsequently donated
to Yale University they were mis-catalogued and forgotten. It appears
that the material cut for the New York performances continues to be
missing, and has had to be reconstructed from a short score which was
published in 2008 and finally performed in 2010. The booklet notes that
this short score differs in a number of respects from the piano version
on which Meirion Bowen based his reconstruction. C'est la vie.
This lack of any performing tradition may possibly be of advantage -
at least we are spared the commercial editions of the music which distorted
Weill's intentions so comprehensively in many recordings of his
later works. It must be said that the performers here do the work proud
although it doesn't really sound like the familiar Weill of the
Threepenny Opera or the later Broadway musicals. The clean-cut
instrumental lines have none of the immediately jazzy feel that informed
the later music; the sounds remind one more of the music that was being
produced in Paris by Les Six or even, somewhat disconcertingly,
the style of Britten's early chamber operas such as Albert
Herring. Indeed the whole piece is very much in the lingua franca
of the period, and the influence of Stravinsky's Soldier's
Tale is very apparent as well as that of Satie's orchestral
scores. Would we be interested in the work if it were not by Weill?
Well, yes, I think we would, because the score is always buoyant and
personable, even if Weill's later flair for melodic invention
is nowhere conspicuously apparent. The early works of composers are
always interesting for the sidelights they shed on the later compositional
developments of the individual writer. Weill's fingerprints are
everywhere in evidence throughout. The work goes on rather too long
for its material - Weill's extraction of numbers for his 'quodlibet'
was obviously well-advised - but the score remains interesting in its
own right. It is marvellous to be able, at last, to hear it in its original
form, and in such a good performance and recording.
Paul Corfield Godfrey


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Bogotá's Christmas lights went on today in its parks, plazas and avenues, and the streets filled with gawkers and gazers.
|Iglesia la Tercera.
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|Leon de Greiff Park in northern Bogotá.
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Our ETF chart to watch for the day is the State Street Consumer Discretionary Select Sector SPDR (XLY, A), which may experience volatile trading as investors digest a number of data releases about the health of the U.S. consumer. Analysts are expecting for personal income to post an increase of 0.4% compared to last month's reading of 0.1%, while the consumer spending figure is expected to post an increase of 0.3% compared to last month's reading of 0.1%.
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Sunday, January 20, 2013
Wednesday, January 02, 2013
Little Sweaters For My Feet
It's January in Wisconsin. That means it's cold and I dress in many layers. But my feet were making do with only one, and even a pair of thick wool socks can use some reinforcement on bare wood floors. So I made slippers.
They aren't fancy knitting, but are very cozy, so I'm happy.
The pattern, which is super easy, came from Drops Design. I didn't have any suitable DK/worsted weight yarn in the stash, so I used two strands of regular sock yarn held together, one a self-patterning stripe and the other a subtly multi tonal.
The only thing I didn't like about the process was sewing the bottom seam - edge to edge garter is kind of a PITA. So I decided to fiddle with the pattern a little so I could work the foot portion in the round. Instead of working toe to top, I started at the top and worked the heel portion flat in garter. Then I joined the round and worked down to to the toe. Since I don't much like working garter stitch in the round, I changed the foot to a garter rib.
I give the final product mixed reviews. I like the way it looks, but it is less stretchy and cushion-y than the all garter version. And I could have made it just a teeny bit longer. But it's wearable, and will be warm.
Posted by Cindy G at 10:57 AM 0 comments
Tuesday, October 16, 2012
Well, tidying up the computer, anyway.
My photo file collection had grown rather huge and chaotic, so I've spent a couple of hours deleting and rearranging. Here are a couple I had forgotten that I like.
Posted by Cindy G at 1:28 PM 2 comments
Mitts, Muffattees, Wristers, Handwarmers
Whatever you want to call them...
Much as I love mittens, there are times when it is more practical to have my fingertips free.
Posted by Cindy G at 12:23 PM 0 comments
Saturday, October 06, 2012
Saturday, September 29, 2012
Water, Salt, Yeast, Flour,
(and in this case, some dehydrated chopped onion and sage). It smells very, very good. It's going to taste even better.
I hadn't baked bread in years and years, but I've taken it up again recently, thanks to Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day. The title is a bit of an overstatement, but the basic recipe is easy, is easy to play around with, and so far has always given good results. Good enough that I really haven't pushed on to try the other variations in the book, but one of these days.....
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Jun 17, 2013 11:44 AM PT
Google announced over the weekend it is spearheading an initiative to build a picture-sharing database aimed at ridding the Web of child pornography.
The company's new database will rely on "hashing" technology; once an image has been flagged as offensive, it uses an algorithm to identify that photo elsewhere on the Web. While Google has been using hashing technology since 2008, the updated program will include encrypted "fingerprints" of photos that display child abuse or pornography on a cross-industry platform.
That shared database is designed to enable greater collaboration among law enforcement, nonprofit organizations and tech companies like Google. The aim is to speed up the process of identifying and eliminating the exploitative images, as well as help law enforcement take action against the offenders.
In addition, Google will give around US$5 million to organizations and initiatives, including the Internet Watch Foundation and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, that work to fight child exploitation.
About $2 million of that donation will go toward the Child Protection Technology Fund, a Google initiative to develop the technological tools needed to rid the Internet of abusive images.
Google did not respond to our request for further details.
Growing Problem
Despite widespread efforts by law enforcement and nonprofit organizations, child pornography online is only growing. The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children reported about four times the number of images and videos of suspected child abuse in 2011 as it did in 2007.
It's unrealistic to think that Google could abolish such activity entirely, but its latest initiative is definitely a step in the right direction, said Michael Bachmann, assistant professor of criminal justice at Texas Christian University.
"It is unlikely that such efforts will ever be able to effectively eliminate the distribution of child pornography on the Internet, but Google's recent initiative is laudable, not only because it constitutes Google's ongoing effort to combat the distribution of such crime scene photos, but especially because it represents the technically most promising effort to date," he told TechNewsWorld.
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Burial Data
Click here to go to our local Memorial Inscription Index
John Latimer1 suggests that by the 1830's the population of Bristol was about twelve times greater than it had been in the mediaeval times. However, the land available for burial had not increased significantly. The parish churchyards together with a few small private and denominational burial grounds were insufficient and many of them were no longer fit for purpose and clearly a health hazard. In 1848 the Public Health Act required the closure of most of the inner city churchyards by 1854 and alternative provision became necessary.
1 Annals of Bristol by John Latimer
The 1848 act discontinued burials at the following locations in Bristol:-
All Saints church and passage
Christchurch in the crypt, churchyard and Pithay burial ground
St Augustine-the-less churchyard
St Michael's churchyard
St James's churchyard
St John-the-Baptist churchyard
St Mary Redcliffe churchyard
St Nicholas, in the crypt and before the church
St Peter's churchyard
SS Philip & Jacob's churchyard
St Stephen's churchyard
St Thomas's chancel churchyard and new burial ground
St Werburgh's churchyard
Temple churchyard
Dolman's burial ground, Pennywell Street
Francis's burial ground, West Street
Howland's burial ground Newfoundland Street
Rackhay burial ground
Thomas's burial ground near Clarence Place
Welch burial ground
William's burial ground, West Street
The Infirmary burial ground
Broadmead chapel yard
St Joseph's Roman Catholic chapel
St Paul, Trenchard Street
Counterslip Baptist chapel
In addition, the 1848 act placed the following restrictions on burials at the following locations in Bristol:-
Quaker's Friars burial ground
only one body in each grave
Quaker's burial ground, Redcliffe
only one body in each grave
Quakers burial ground, near workhouse
only one body in each grave
Jews burial ground, St Philips Marsh
(Known as Barton Road, St Philips (see below*) only one body in each grave
Jews burial ground, Temple Parish
(Known as Great Garden, Rose Street (see below*) only one body in each grave
St Georges, Brandon Hill
only one body in each grave and no burials within five yards of a building
Zion Chapel, Bedminster
only one body in each grave and no burials within five yards of a building
only one body in each grave, and no burials within five yards of a building plus restrictions in certain areas
Portland Street Weslyan Chapel
no burials within five yards of a building
St Pauls
Burials discontinued except of member of the families of those already interred there
Redcross Street Baptist burial ground
Burials discontinued except to members of the congregation and only one body in each grave
Redcross Street Wesleyan Chapel yard
Burials discontinued except to members of the congregation and only one body in each grave
"Bunhill Fields", Redcross Street
Burials discontinued except to members of the tabernacle congregation and only one body in each grave and no burials with five yards of a building
In 2018 we published an index of two recently rediscovered registers of burials in this burial ground 1805 - 1880
Background notes on individual Burial Grounds.
The Infirmary Burial Ground - was granted to the Infirmary in 1737 by the Bristol Corporation for the burial of pauper patients who died at the hospital. It soon became crowded partly because some of the ground was so rocky it was unusable so in 1770 it was quarried to make more room. In 1815 th Council complained to the hospital authorities because they were not burying the dead deeply enough, placing several coffins in one grave on top of each other. A decision was subsequently made to increase grave depth by 6 inches, to 9 feet 6 inches so that six coffins could be put in each grave with room for "a bit of earth over the top coffin". It was estimated that this would make room for another 1924 bodies in the remaining available space. One old reference to the burial ground in the Council's plan books describes it as "Soldiers Burial Ground" suggesting that it may have already been in use as a burial ground before it was granted to the Infirmary.
Prior to 1848 there were a few private burial companies in Bristol:
Howland's Burial Ground: was founded by Thomas Howland, a house painter, in the early 1800's on land in Newfoundland Road which he had owned since 1786. At the time of it's closure in 1854 (see above), John Howland of 10 Wilson Street was the manager. The Bristol Records Office has the burial register 1804 - 1854.
Arnos Vale Cemetery: was set up in 1836 when the Bristol General Cemetery Company bought 28 acres of land adjacent to the Bath Road and employed Charles Underwood as architect to lay out a cemetery using about half of the land initially. The first burial took place in July 1839 but business was slow at first and only about 100 burials took place each year in its early years. The 1848 act changed all that and from about 1860 the rest of the 28 acres were brought into use. Further expansions took place in the 1890's and in the early 20th century so that the cemetery extended to 45 acres. The first crematorium in the South West of England was opened at Arnos Vale in 1928 - it was the only facility in the South west until a crematorium was opened in Plymouth in the mid 30's and the only facility in Bristol until 1956 when the Crematorium at Canford opened. Arnos Vale was the subject of a compulsory purchase order in 2002 and is now owned by Bristol City Council who delegate day-to-day management to The Arnos Vale Cemetery Trust.
In due course local burial boards opened a number of cemeteries which were eventually acquired by the Bristol City council:
The links below take you to our website 'shop' where you can purchase various buria indexes on CD. They are also available for purchase as a download at: BAFHS GENfair Stall
Avonview Cemetery: was opened in 1883. Volume two of the above registers index was publised in 2017 and includes Avonview Cemetery 1883-1991
Ridgeway Park Cemetery: at Fishponds was set up by a private company in 1888. This company was wound up in 1949 and the corporation was obliged to take it over in 1954 due to its deterioration; from that time burials only took place in existing graves. Unfortunately, we have not been able to find a plan of the areas in this cemetery. Volume two of index also includes Ridgeway Park Cemetery 1888 - 1991
Shirehampton Cemetery: was opened in 1898. We have a monumental listing for Shirehampton cemetery burials up to 1980, on this website. Volume two of the index also includes Shirehampton Cemetery 1878 - 1991
Canford Cemetery: was opened in 1903 and the crematorium was opened in 1956. Volume two of the index also includes Canford Cemetery 1903 - 1991
Brislington Cemetery: was opened in 1905. Volume two of the index also includes Brislington Cemetery 1905 - 1991
South Bristol Crematorium: at Bedminster Down was opened by the council in 1971 and a Cemetery was also laid out with the first interments taking place in 1974.
Henbury Cemetery: was opened in 1923. Volume two of the index also includes Henbury Cemetery 1923 - 1991
Jewish Cemeteries:* - all the information below comes from the following website where you can look up burial details including, in many cases, pictures of the tomb stones:-
Barton Road, St Philips: was established in the 1740's and the earliest identified tombstone is dated 1762. It continued in use (subject to the restrictions indicated above) until the 1900's and the last burial took place there in 1944.
Great Gardens Rose Street: was established in 1811 when a Jewish businessman set aside part of his land for use as a burial ground. The land was purchased by the Great Western Railway in 1913. In 1924 27 remaining tombstones were removed and erected in the Jewish Ridgeway cemetery (see below).
Ridgeway, Eastville: was established in the 1890's and the first burial there was in 1898. The cemetery continues in use today.
Catholic Cemeteries:
Holy Souls: adjacent to Arnos Vale Cemetery was established in the 1860's when it was acquired by the Catholic church due to generosity of a Liverpudlian businessman. Within the last few years, a decision was made to limit burials at the cemetery to existing graves only. The first burial was in 1867 and the first register covers the period 1867 to June 1886. The entries in theis register are in Latin. There are six further registers, in English, covering the period 27th June 1886 to the presesent day. Unfortunately, the second register, covering the period January 1904 to February 1922 is missing. The original old registers are held in the Diocesan archives in Alexandra House, Pennywell Road, Bristol.
To find out more about making enquiries see the Diocese website:-
(Thanks to Tom Page for the information on Holy Souls Cemetery)
Rosemary Green Burial Ground
This ground was attached to the workhouse at Eastville which was opened in 1847 as 'The Clifton Union Workhouse'. The burial ground was used for common interments of deceased inmates from sometime in the 1850's until 1895. The records are in the Brisol Record Offie but full details and lists of names are being published by the Bristol Radical History Group on their website.
Other burial resources on this website:-
Monumental Inscription Enquiries
They Lived in Bristol - Bristol Burials Index 1813-1837 - CD available from our 'shop'.
Arnos Vale Cemetery - information about the cemetery and its restoration
Shirehampton Cemetery MIs - a free online index
Arnos Vale
Arnos Vale Cemetery stands in 45 acres between the A4 Bath Road and the streets of Knowle in Bristol. A campaign started in the 1980's to stop the then owner's plans to develop part of the cemetery for housing. With massive local support including the Evening Post newspaper and the Bristol Council, the campaign succeeded. A restoration programme was completed in 2010 with the aid of a grant of £4.8m from the Heritage Lottery Fund. 'The Friends of Arnos Vale Cemetery' work hard to support the Arnos Vale Cemetery Trust which now manages the cemetery.
The Trust is taking various initiatives to support the cemtery into the future. Although it has been 'saved' it is not 'safe', because significant funds are needed to maintain its 45 acres and the buildings. Arnos Vale still operates as a working cemetery, in addition to scatterings and interment of ashes new plots have been identified for burials at the cemetery. More recently, natural woodland burial plots have become available in the old woods in the cemetery. The Atrium Cafe (open every day) is in the Non-Conformist Chapel - where you can also visit a free exhibition about cremation. There are numerous events held on the site (see: www.arnosvale.org.uk) including regular tours.
Regular Tours
In addition to private tours and all those advertised, there are regular 'heritage' tours starting at 1.30pm most Saturdays. These tours last about an hour and start from the Gate Lodges at the Bath Road entrance - there is a small charge. Useful for family historians who would like to learn a little about the cemetery and how to find their way around.
Burials: The Burial Registers contain the records of an estimated 170,000+ burials in around 50,000 graves from 1839 when the Cemetery opened. The Burial Registers are not available to the public but they are held for safe-keeping in the Bristol Archives. The Arnos Vale Cemetery Trust (which manages the cemetery) will carry out family history searches of these records. A fee is always charged and full details are available on the Trust website: Arnos Vale Cemetery Family Record Searches .
Cremations: The Registers also contain the records of over 123,000 cremations which took place at Arnos Vale between 1928 and 1998. Once again a search of these records can be ordered for a fee (follow the above link). However, the Crematorium Books of Remembrance contain memorial texts for many of the cremations from about 1951 and these books are on display to the public in the West Gate Lodge at the Cemetery. Please apply by visiting reception in East Gate Lodge at the Bath Road entrance. All the historical entries are also freely available to view via the Trust website (follow the link below, scroll to the botttom of the page and click on the white box which should take you to a 'google archive' containing scanned images of the books pages): https://arnosvale.org.uk/cemetery/.


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Seven ways for modern cities to innovate.
Be it the burden placed on them by shrinking federal support, or the opportunity presented by modern technology, 21st-century cities are finding new ways to do things. For four years, Code for America has worked with dozens of cities, each finding creative ways to solve neighborhood problems, build local capacity and steward a national network. These aren't one-offs. Cities are championing fundamental, institutional reforms to commit to an ongoing innovation agenda.
Here are a few of the ways how:
Cities should commit to innovation by creating offices or departments dedicated to trying things differently and making it safe for others to do so. Such risk aggregators are the first step toward reinvigorating a culture of experimentation within city hall.
Action item: Create an office of new urban mechanics or appoint a chief innovation officer.
Governments — especially cities — steward much data, and government officials can use it to make better decisions on resource allocation, performance improvement and even policies. But remember that not all data is created equally, and data gains meaning with context.
Action item: Appoint a chief data officer or create an office of performance management/enhancement.
In many ways, governments are like any other business: They need tools for customers (citizens) to interact with them. But governments can't slice their customers into demographic groups, targeting some and excluding others: Government serves us all. Through user-driven design, ongoing feedback, and rigorous testing and iterations, government websites can continually connect with more citizens, more effectively.
Action item: Adopt the Gov.UK Design Principles, and require plain, human language on every interface.
Our 21st-century public institutions were created with an 18th-century notion of technology. With no national communication infrastructure, we built cities as silos, each operating within a geographical proximity of its own as an autonomous, distinct unit, though they were tasked with essentially the same mandate. Things have changed. Cities can now work together to pool resources and share best practices.
Action item: Share open source technology with a sister city or change procurement rules to make it easier to redeploy civic tech.
Technologists are helping write websites and build new tools in their free time; teenagers are texting in their input to city plans as they walk down the street; volunteers are coordinating emergency response with smartphones; and neighbors are hosting Meetups for community watch groups and cleanups.
Action item: Work with the local civic tech community and engage citizens for their feedback on city policy through events, tech and existing forums.
Closed systems tend toward control, while open ones tend toward innovation. Open systems begin with the belief that the best idea won't always come from the people in the room, or in this case, city hall. Instead, as the Internet has evidenced time and time again, opening up access to data and opportunities leads to wildly emergent, amazing and valuable outcomes.
Action item: Create an open data policy and adopt open data specifications.
Technology no longer lives in the IT department. Each element of a government — trucks, buildings, pipes, services — has a technology component, and more often, Web-based and citizen-facing apps. That demands rethinking of how each of those very services could be delivered via technology. Thus, new skills and perspective must seep into city hall via fellowships, volunteers, trainings or hiring.
Action item: Attract tech talent into city leadership, and create training opportunities citywide to level up the tech literacy for city staff.
Abhi Nemani is co-director of Code for America.


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4235 E Madison St
Seattle, WA 98112
(206) 860-6110
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|[Photograph: Adam Lindsley]
Gave this place a try and have a rather harsh review. First I love the location and the intimacy. Really a nice feel on a dark, typical Seattle December night. Staff was very nice. The pizza? Much to my disappointment was really bland. I make pizza's myself. And I love trying to take really cheap ingredients and make a za out of them that creates a mouthful of excitement. This place seemed like cheap ingredients with zero flavor. The crust, looked right, but was flavorless. The sauce? Couldn't taste it. Overwhelmed by the poor quality mozzarella. The pepperoni, ok, but washed out. The sausage, flavorless. Tutta Bella is one of my least favorite Neapolitan pie makers, but this thing didn't hold a candle to them. And to even say the word Delancey on the same page is just wrong. Very glad I went though. I recommend this place spends some time experimenting with fermentation times, perhaps invest in a good sourdough starter, and really start experimenting with ingredients and spices to make something that leaves you wanting more.ReplyDelete
@Anonymous: Thanks for checking out the site! I am surprised you found the pizza here bland, but to be honest I no longer live in Seattle and haven't been back to The Independent in at least two years, so perhaps they have declined in quality lately. On my last visit, however, they were using anything but cheap ingredients and there was lots of flavor in just about every pie. I'll have to make a return visit on a future trip to Seattle. Out of curiosity, which pizza(s) did you try?ReplyDelete
Great site Adam! Just found it the other day. My sister and I were there and tried the State Fair and the Pepperoni. It surprised me as well Adam. I was really hoping to have found another great pizza joint. In fact I choose it over the Serious Pie based on reviews. (hadn't been to either place yet). Always possible I caught them on an off night. I feel bad being so harsh, thus why I offered some possible fixes. I'm looking forward to trying some places down in Portland. My daughter has some cheer comps coming up in the first half of 2013 and so looking forward to indulging in a few of the top places on your list. Oh, and tonight is pizza night in my house! Making my wife a white pizza tonight. She's tried to build one in the past, but no luck. So I'm challenging myself to make hers tonight. Wish me luck, I'll need it ;-).ReplyDelete


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Happy Sunday everyone!
I finished this hat last week but was so busy to take photos and post, well, how time flies, it's weekend again and I'm happy to have something to share with you all!
It was made with the same pattern as the one I made before for my Mom (pattern can be found here). I wanted to try it with another type of yarn and hook size, so I used Lion Brand Cotton Ease, Seaspray color and size G-6 4.25mm, bigger than the one I used in my original pattern. I adjusted stitches and shells a bit as I used a larger hook: 6 rounds for top and 8 shells for hat body. The brim was done exactly what the pattern says. It turned out as lovely as I expected!
Such a nice idea to make a sun hat for this summer, I love this hat, the color is so lovely! It also has a softy touch and so comfy to wear under the sun!
Have a happy Sunday everyone, I wish your summer is gorgeous and enjoyable!
~ Thank you for stopping by and see you soon


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Warning: For those with a weak stomach or a sensitive nature, this is one of the most grotesque stories I've ever read about, even worse than what we all know of Jeffrey Dahmer.
This post started off an expose of how low is the view of European women in the eyes of radical Muslims (and their own women for that matter). I set out to unmask a time honored method of "jihad" being waged against us; violating the "enemy's" women. The Muslim outlook on rape is one of the "right of conquerer, of warrior". In previous eras, European cultures were guilty of the same.
It is true, the statistics do prove out that many, many immigrant Muslims, particularly in Europe, seem to feel it fitting to rape European women. I have posted on this elsewhere at this site, where previously tolerant Europeans are tracking the rise of rapes in their respective countries, and report their findings. While the West has made notable attempts at legislating some minimal levels of morality into the milieu of warfare, rape continues to be viewed by radical Muslims as an acceptable form of "jihad".
The men who stood accused in the case of Charlene Downs are immigrants to the UK, and at least two of the three are Muslim. Anti-Western, Islamic nationalistic motives may have been behind the disappearance and apparent murder of Charlene Downes. Time will tell.
I hod a specific purpose in mind when writing this post. However, it has developed into a desire to help this family either find their missing daughter, or find out who is responsible for her murder. With that end in mind, I've included all tags I could find in relation to the case, mostly, but not exclusively, gleaned from articles as they appeared in The Blackpool Gazette UK. Thus the tags are related to this post, but are not only from my post, and there's a lot of them. I've tried to summarize and condense lots of information gleaned from other articles I've read, that may help someone who knows something about the tragedy of Charlene Downes. — Ellie Katz
Charlene Downes was a 14 year old English school girl who went missing on Saturday November 1st 2003. After searching for her whereabouts for several years, the police thought they may have pieced together the horrible end that came to this 14 year old girl. Alas, now the trial has collapsed, apparently due to lack of solid evidence. The distraught parents feel they are back at square one.
Two men have been accused of murdering Charlene, Mr Albattikhi, a Jordanian immigrant, and his business partner 50-year-old Mohammed Reveshi. It is alleged that she was drugged, perhaps subsequently developing an addiction, coerced into a child-prostitution ring, murdered, and then very possibly, her remains were disposed of by one or two methods;
- She may have been cut up and served as burgers and kebabs at the suspects' take-out restaurant, Funny Boyz fast food shop,
- her bones may have been ground up and used for grout.
This sort of thing may sound other-worldy, but it has some precedents, one case being reported by The Accrington Observer.
Details and how the allegations in the case developed follow. This text below is lifted, probably from a Blackpool Gazzette article. I'm sorry, I forgot to link it so you can read the original. It's misplaced somewhayeres…
"In 2004, Mr Albattikhi fell out with his brother, Tariq, who told a witness – David Cassidy – that Charlene 'had been killed and chopped up and there had been a lot of blood,' Mr Holroyde said.
Mr Cassidy was allegedly warned by Mr Albattikhi that 'he would be dealt with' if he told anyone, and was later offered £20,000 by Mr Reveshi, the jury heard.
He went to police in December 2004 and detectives bugged their flats, as well as Mr Reveshi's Fiat people carrier.
In one of the resulting tapes Mr Reveshi is heard saying the words 'eat the body' in a joking tone, Mr Holroyde told the court.
Mr Albattikhi is heard on one tape saying that if "anything" was found he had 'had it'."
There are problems with the tapes, questions of interpretation, as well as quality issues (it's hard to hear). Other witnesses, under-aged girls, have claimed that the Mr. Reveshi was guilty of sexual advances towards them. One witness, Kirsty Fletcher testifies to implicating conversations she overheard (as reported by Times Online):
"Mr Holroyde said that a witness, Kirsty Fletcher, who worked at another fast food restaurant, went to see her employer about her wages and heard a group of men, including Mr Albattikhi, talking about sex with white girls and mentioning Charlene.
"Kirsty says Albattikhi laughed and said she was kinky and she was very small – the plainest possible indication that he was lying to police when he said he did not know her.
"And, says Kirsty Fletcher, he and the others present were then laughingly saying that Charlene had gone into the kebabs."
A person of interest who may go by the name of "Ronnie" is reported to have met Charlene regularly and given her money. Here is a brief description of the man as reported in this Gazette article:
"Ronnie is believed to have given cash to Charlene and met her at around 3pm in Talbot Road on the day she disappeared. He may live in the Thornton area and has been described by several people as aged between 30 and 60, although police believe he falls in the older end of the age bracket.
He rides a white bike with racing-cycle handlebars and a white basket, or basket holder on the back. He is between 5ft 2in and 5ft 5in tall, slim with grey hair and a grey moustache and beard. He has a 'messy' crewcut hairstyle and is said to be of scruffy appearance.
Det Supt Buschini said: 'Anybody who knows this individual or his whereabouts should contact the police immediately as repeated appeals for him to come forward have not been acted upon.'
Another unnamed man is mentioned in this article: "Detectives revealed details of the men as new pictures of Charlene were released, which show her in the Carousel Bar on North Pier on October 31 – the evening before she disappeared.
"'The first man they want to speak to bought Charlene and a friend a vodka and coke on the evening she disappeared. He was in the Carousel Bar and is described as being in his late 30s to early 40s, 5ft 4in tall and with short dark hair."
There were allegations of police incompetence, or worse, dishonesty in building their case against the charged suspects. The family feels their daughter's tragedy hasn't received the attention it deserves.
I have included just a few links for the convenience of the reader. Googling "Charlene Downes" is another effective means in updating oneself. In regards to some of the links, I must issue a few caveats:
First, many articles are outdated, but for background information, they are still valuable. As I've mentioned, the case has since gone to trial, that having failed, was tried and again and the accused were cleared, due to lack of evidence. Well, if one grinds up the body of the murdered child, feeds her to the customers and uses her bones for grout, that does tend to complicate the search for evidence. I think that the grout idea is a bit risky myself.
""More than 200 police officers have been involved in the inquiry since it was launched in November 2003, and Detective Sergeant Jan Beasant spent 2,400 hours over two years transcribing 52 tapes, that police said proved the guilt of both men." — A Tangled Web
Also, one or two of the sites I have linked are very "nationalistic" to put it mildly. This in no way indicates an endorsement by this site of their views. Nevertheless, even British racists may have some legitimate gripes regarding the unfair treatment of indigenous Brits vs. the immigration population. I try not to throw the baby out with the bathwater.
One commentator at The Nationalist News Blogspot speculated on possible motives, should it turn out that Charlene was indeed murdered:
"Let's speculate. That she was murdered isn't in doubt, but there are a couple of extra questions to be answered:
- WHY was she murdered?
- Why was her body so thorougly disposed of?
I think the two questions are linked.
It doesn't seem to make sense that she be murdered; she was a sexual resource for the local Pakis, so why kill her? It's not as if they will have suddenly gone off sex with underage white girls. It doesn't seem to make sense.
I think she was pregnant, and had just told him that, and that he was daddy (she may have tried to put a squeeze on him? Who knows? the fact of the pregnancy itself will have been enough, with her being underage and him facing jail if the whole story came out).
Suppose he'd just murdered her and made the usual murderers' incompetent job of hiding the body – well the police would sooner or later have found the body, and the post-mortem would soon enough have shown that she was pregnant.
Foetuses reveal a dna sample that will pin daddy down to one man.
So she had to die to keep him out of jail. And the body had to be thoroughly disposed of to keep a foetal dna sample from being obtained … which would again lead to jail for him, only this time for murder in addition to rape.
Why did the social worker get involved? Maybe he was one of the possibilities as daddy.
Just pondering on the matter."
There is more discussion at that site, and bigoted views notwithstanding.
Association of British Investigators
Nationalist News Blogspot – Warning: A number of links are broken, but there is still a lot of good information.
The Blackpool Gazette (many of the Nationalist News Blogspots links go to this site.)
Missing Girl; Men Hunted (another Blackpool Gazette article)
If one combs through the comments at one site (and I can't locate the site I"m thinking of right now, but when I do, I will insert it HERE) I read some surprising things. Some of the commentators claim to be young women who either —
- knew Charlene, such as her sister Donna, and a young woman named Kirsty Fletcher, later a witness
- Some snide comments passing between girls, pointing fingers at each other about illicit goings on at "Funny Boyz"
- comments indicating these girls knew the men who ran Funny Boyz
- comments indicating who exactly was involved with the questionable activities going on at the restaurant
- comments indicating that Charlene was indeed involved with these risky activities
- who else knew of those same activities.
According to "The Guardian" this seaside city has a considerable problem with child-sex rings, that the problem being a barely covered up "secret". The suspects, of course, feel their lives have been destroyed by allegations when, in fact, they never even knew Charlene. And that would be a tragedy, if indeed these men are innocent of all charges. We will see. The truth always has a way of bubbling up.
Heartbreaking. I just can't imagine what the family must be enduring.
Parents, please do teach your daughters some safety tips, and keep close tabs on them. There are many excellent books, courses and other resources available that teach our children — girls and boys of all ages — good safety tips without making them overly fearful. Our children don't always understand what the real world is like. They are counting on us to protect them.
One of the faults of Western culture is that we often granted our children too much freedom, without giving them to tools to handle that freedom responsibly. The courts often aid and abet this, taking parents to task, even taking children away when the more defiant of our adolescents go to the "authorities" (and I use that term advisedly) with gripes against their too strict of parents, over petty things like not being able to have whatever friends they choose or not being able to watch whatever filth and gore they may want to on television or at the movies. This has to stop. We cannot exercise the proper responsibility over our children if we are not allowed authority over them.
Tragedies such as that of Charlene are often the sad result. I am not, by any means, blaming the parents here. I do not know them or what their family life was like. Some reports say their home-life was chaotic, and others say they were a very loving family. Both conditions can no doubt exist concurrently. It's not for us to say. In any case, family life has always been varied, but the pandemic of missing and exploited children has not always been the norm in our peaceful Western cultures.
We have enjoyed a peaceful and law-abiding society for so long, now that things are changing, we have allowed ourselves to live with a false sense of security. Our minds haven't caught up with the reality of how sinister things have gotten. Again, this is due, in large part to the incompetence and corruption of our justice systems, who are often more concerned with interfering in the petty affairs of normal families than in dealing with the sex-slave traffiking industry, one good example among many. Thus the criminals know they can often do what they like with impunity.
Our collective permissiveness with our children makes them feel we don't value them, and so, their sense of not being valued puts them at great risk to make foolish and dangerous choices.
Freedom does not equal irresponsibility, especially not with our kids. On the contrary, freedom safeguarded properly is a huge responsibility.
Contact information if you have information about Charlene:
- Blackpool Police on (01253) 293933
- Nat'l Missing Persons Helpline Freephone 0500 700 700
- Crimestoppers: 0800 555111
Charlene is 5ft 1in and has straight shoulder length brown hair and was last seen wearing a black jumper with a white diamond pattern, black jeans with gold eagles on the front and black boots. She may also have been wearing a white hooded top or cardigan.
From Schmoozing with Elya & Ellie Katz
Hat Tip goes to Avid Editor's Insights for sending me the following link, Religion of Peace Subject Index which got me started and threatens to do so repeatedly, as it is an excellent source for information. Cross posted at same.


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Meet the Deans: Teresa Dahlberg
POSTED ON: November 15, 2013
Dr. Teresa Dahlberg, the Dean of the Albert Nerken School of Engineering as of August, has all the bona fides that you could ask for in a leader of one of the most selective engineering schools in the U.S. She has experience in the private sector and academia, the vision to create a national engineering student program and the ability to procure millions in funding, among other demonstrable attributes. But there is one thing you will not find on her C.V. that may be her most valuable asset: her sunny, infectious optimism. For her, pivoting a "hidden gem" of a school to one that is more "outward facing" while also shepherding it from a grim financial future to a sustainable model are less challenges than opportunities with a "high risk high reward." In this latest installment the Meet the Deans series we sat down with Dean Dahlberg to discuss her past, how she finds the school now and where she wishes to steer it into the future.
Dean Dahlberg, 52, born Teresa Abi-Nader in a family of six children, grew up fifty miles from Pittsburgh in a tightly knit Lebanese-American community based around Uniontown, Pennsylvania. She graduated from the University of Pittsburgh with a degree in electrical engineering and went to work for IBM in North Carolina, first in Research Triangle Park and then Charlotte. Ten years later she changed careers and ended up at UNC Charlotte as an Assistant Professor. Over eighteen years there she eventually became Associate Dean of the College of Computing and Informatics. She now lives in the Lower East Side with her husband, Brian Dahlberg, who currently oversees the development of the world's largest aluminum smelting plant, and their daughter Kristen, 15, who attends high school as a sophomore in New York City.
How did you become interested in engineering?
I started college as a music therapy major. I liked to play piano and I liked the idea of using music as a therapeutic means. But I always loved math. During my freshman year I missed math and I wanted to be in a more math-based major. I was also worried that the projected starting salary of a music therapist was lower than what I paid for tuition. I worked my way through college. It was hard. At the advice of a friend's dad who suggested engineering as a math-based career I changed majors.
What did you work on at IBM?
In Research Triangle Park I was in the Display Products division. This was the middle 80s when replacing analog electronics with a programmed microprocessor was the trend. One of the things we did was a point of sale terminal; a kiosk where under the covers was a PC. And we overlaid a touch screen. I worked on the hardware and software related to that. In Charlotte I was in the Banking Systems division. At that time the law required that banks take a picture, on microfilm, of the front and back of each check and store it away. We created a module that would capture a digital image of the front and back of the checks. Now you can deposit your check by taking an image with your phone. It's amazing how far we've come.
Why did you switch careers to higher education?
I loved being a student from the time I was a freshman in college. I thought that was the most exciting thing in the world. IBM had programs where after I took classes for a while I got a whole semester off to finish my masters degree; and then to finish my Ph.D. after my coursework I got two years off with a full engineering salary to work on my dissertation. I continued on with IBM and then decided I really wanted to be in higher ed. There was a low point for IBM. They were laying people off, and the work was not technically stimulating because of cut-backs. Winthrop University is very close to Charlotte, where I was living at the time. They needed a visiting assistant professor in computer science, and I decided to make the change. I thought, "I don't really know where this is going to go. It's a one-year position, but I'll just go."
How did you end up at UNC Charlotte?
I got lucky. Over the next year UNC Charlotte started their first three PhD programs, one of which was in electrical engineering. They hired six assistant professors at once, and I applied and got the job. It was just being in the right place at the right time. I didn't have to move!
Does your background in the private sector influence your work in higher education?
It completely influences it. I think having been in industry has made me a much better teacher and researcher because I know what kind of environment the students will be going into. Knowing your job from a technical point of view is important but you also need to know how to work as part of team, how to meet deadlines and get the job done. And as a researcher, doing research tends to be an open-ended pursuit of a problem but I tend to be driven towards what's going to come out of this because I was in product development. So I have done a lot of research, but I am always thinking about technology transfer.
What do you consider your most important accomplishment at UNC Charlotte?
I am most proud of the fact that in the 2000s, while I was a professor in the College of Computing and Informatics, I created the STARS alliance [Students in Technology, Academia, Research and Service], which is now a non-profit called the STARS Computing Corps. The overarching goal of STARS is to help the United States have a larger and more diverse computing workforce. U.S. student enrollment in computing as college freshman started declining in 2000 right after the dot-com bust and continued to decline until 2010. The problem extends back to K through 12 STEM [Science, Technology, Engineering & Math] education. Students' interest in math and science has been declining steadily in the last two decades while overseas it's been increasing steadily. So we are losing our global leadership in science and technology. STARS is about having college students charged with doing a community-based project that leverages their technical skills and increases interest among K through 12 students in computing.
How does it work?
Students undertake their own projects. A typical such project is to develop a program to teach game design or building and programming robots. Robots and games are easy things to make exciting to kids. STARS students are charged with developing the technology and the curriculum and then delivering it to younger students, usually high school or middle school students. This deepens the technical skills of the college students because if you have to teach something you have to learn it in a different way. Also, having to explain technical concepts to a kid helps you to learn how to explain technical concepts to non-technical people, which is an important skill for an adult engineer. It helps build interpersonal skills. And lastly it puts young, vibrant role models in front of younger students.
What is the current status of the STARS alliance?
In 2005, we put it together. Since 2006 I have received $9M from the National Science Foundation to spread it across the country. We started in the southeast and then we spread it nationally. We have 50 colleges and universities that have adopted the program.
Will you be bringing it to Cooper?
It's already here. We have an annual conference called the STARS Celebration to celebrate the prior year's success and to kick off students' projects for the next year. Students come with their faculty and they like being around all these other students from different universities. I came here right before the August STARS Celebration and I brought Dr. Robert Dell to it. He started collaborating right away with a faculty member from Carnegie Mellon University who does a lot of robotics work. So now Robert is leading a group of STARS students here at the Cooper Union trying to use Robert's thermoelectric generator to power and remotely control robots and integrate that into an outreach project.
Tell us how you ended up at The Cooper Union.
I was looking for a Dean's position last year. I had gone through lots of different milestones in my career and felt like being a Dean was the next challenge that I wanted. A search firm contacted me, and I applied. I wasn't originally thinking about a small private college because I came from a large research university. But I came and was very impressed. I found a unique environment here.
What did you know about The Cooper Union prior to applying?
I had never heard of The Cooper Union before the search firm contacted me. I was pleasantly surprised. I was surprised by how passionate the faculty on the search committee were about their students. I was surprised at the breadth of projects that the students do. And I was really impressed with the quality of the students and what they could achieve.
You must have known about the financial challenges faced by the institution. Was that a factor in your decision to take the job?
That was something I had to think about. Once the school checked my references, which meant that people I knew were aware I was applying here, I had lots of people saying, "Are you crazy? Why would you go there? Have you not seen what's online?" But I felt like this is a hidden gem. This is an amazing institution. And yes there is this huge hurdle to get through now that it has changed from 100% tuition scholarships to 50%. But I have been through dramatic institutional changes and seen very good things come out the other side. So I won't say it didn't bother me, but I felt like it wasn't an insurmountable problem. I felt like it's a high-risk / high-reward situation. So yes, it might not work out. But I felt more confident that it would work out. And then the gain is that this a fantastic place to be and this is a good time to be part of a pivotal change at this institution. I remain very, very optimistic. I just looked at this as the ultimate challenge.
What other "dramatic institutional changes" have you witnessed?
The first year I was at Winthrop University as a visiting assistant professor there was a big uproar in the faculty and they gave their president a vote of no confidence. That president just recently retired happily and the school moved on and they ended up loving him. At UNC Charlotte I joined the institution when it was 16,000 students, undergraduate only and then made the metamorphic change to be a national research university. Today there are over 26,000 students. Cooper Union isn't making that particular change but it's making a dramatic change that makes a lot of people uncomfortable. That's the environment we had at UNC Charlotte. I've seen how painful making changes can be, but if you do it right you come out stronger.
You've been asked to present your vision of the future for the School of Engineering before the Board of Trustees. Can you give us a sense of that?
What's really exciting is that my image of what engineering education should be is already here at the Nerken school. The phrase that has been said to me by a lot of students is that there is a competitive / collaborative environment here. The Nerken school has the same rigorous, high-achieving competitive atmosphere as the top national research universities but then it has the collaborative, peer environment and the close faculty-student relationships that are more common among small, private colleges. We have the combination of those, and I think that is a key, unique attribute of the Nerken school. Furthermore, I see that there is already a lot of interdisciplinary work, and I think there is an opportunity to be more interdisciplinary. I was particularly attracted to Cooper Union because I thought it would be really neat to have a curriculum where art, engineering and architecture students are involved across those disciplines. There is not enough of that yet. There is an opportunity for that to be another unique identifier of the Cooper Union.
What are some of your more short-term goals?
I identified a set of eight key initiatives for us to work on this year with the overarching goal of working to preserve and enhance our academic excellence while moving towards financial sustainability. That's my tag line for this year. We absolutely have to move toward financial sustainability, but we need to keep our academic mission front and center. So I created a list of eight initiatives, which is too many (first I listed closer to fifty, but had to narrow it down), that rally around this core concept.
Can you share one or two?
The first one is identifying and promoting our academic identity. Basically we have some amazing attributes but they don't show.
Is that exemplified by your total ignorance of the Cooper Union prior to coming here?
Absolutely. The fact that I had never heard of the Cooper Union was one thing. But in addition to that, the whole atmosphere of The Cooper Union, I didn't get it until I started here. I had some version of it in my mind that made me want to come here but it wasn't until I got here that the strengths of this school became apparent. For example I started out saying, '"Why don't they have computer science? There's not a lot of computing here." But there's actually a lot of computing here. But it's in different courses and there's not a banner on top of it. Another example is that the math and science foundation that the students get here is more rigorous than is typical. That enables the Cooper graduates to go into fields beyond whatever their designated degree is in. My favorite example is that I have met civil engineering graduates who work on Wall Street. I would never have thought of that. Other graduates end up in M.D. Ph.D. programs. These things aren't anomalies. They are common here. But that doesn't get discovered until you are talking to people.
So what's the solution?
Finding ways of making our curriculum visibly distinctive. It's distinctive right now but it is not visibly distinctive. As a specific example, students take more credits than bachelor's candidates at other schools and do graduate-level work during their undergraduate studies and yet they might still just graduate with a bachelor's degree. If we can direct the students' efforts so they have completed a bachelor's degree and maybe a minor or a graduate certificate, they will have done the same amount of work but what they have done will be visible to the outside world. So we are looking at ways that a student gets credit and it shows.
What's another goal for this year?
The one gap I think we need to fill is being more New York City relevant. Our curriculum is strong but it is not outward facing. There are some leading edge areas that we should be focused on. We are going to do that through graduate programs. I am not going to give examples because right now we have to do some fact-finding to see what makes sense.
As a former Associate Dean of a College of Computing and Informatics, is a computer science degree something you would be interested in developing here?
Yes, at the right time. Computer science is a booming field, and students with computer science degrees are getting jobs like crazy. But engineers with computational skills are also very much in demand. Increasing our emphasis on computational science and computational engineering is a goal and we can do that through the existing degree programs.
Where do you see the school in five years?
In five years I see the school continuing to have the strong four undergraduate degree programs that it has right now but with more interdisciplinary options through tracks or minors. I see a very strong Masters degree program with a number of tracks that are industry facing, including a Masters non-thesis option and a Masters thesis option to prepare students to go into Ph.D. programs. I think the school would have a lot more collaboration with Art and Architecture whether that is through curriculum or centers or institutes. I think the school would continue to have the competitive / collaborative environment that it has and would continue to attract really, really high quality students and faculty. And that more faculty would have ongoing research programs that would involve the undergraduate students.
Any concluding thoughts?
Of all the years I've been working in engineering I happen to think that now is the most exciting time to be an engineer. Engineers are being called upon to solve some of the most critical global and societal problems. The National Academy of Engineering calls these the Grand Challenges - where engineers are being called upon to solve problems such as providing clean water, renewable sources of energy, sustainability, urban infrastructures, advancing medicine and engineering tools that will advance innovation in science. In other words engineering is now a part of solving problems that enhance our collective quality of life. I see The Albert Nerken School of Engineering and The Cooper Union as being at the forefront of this important shift.


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What's become increasingly clear to me is that the stock market could continue to be range bound for quite some time. Although no one can foretell the future here are a few thoughts to ponder. The balance sheets of U.S. corporations, excluding some banks and other financial institutions, seems to be strong—lots of cash and not much debt.
However, with the backdrop of our nation's fiscal policy, the European debt crisis, the slowdown in the emerging markets, the nagging uncertainty among corporate CEOs and the lack of confidence among American consumers, I wouldn't expect stocks to embark on any sustained upward trend for a while. In fact, I believe the more likely scenario is to the downside, though I would not venture a guess as to how far. With this paradigm, I've found that increasing the number of alternative investments is a much more pragmatic approach.
In my blog last week, I wrote about five of my favorite alternative investments. This week I'd like to finish the list of alternatives vehicles that I use.
Absolute Strategies (ASFIX)
This is one of my favorite funds, although it is currently closed to new advisors (a soft close). This fund is sub-advised by a collection of well seasoned managers. Some of the asset classes in ASFIX include: distressed equity; long short; global long-short; dollar neutral long-short; convertible arbitrage; and others. I have been using this fund for over three years and have been very pleased. Again, unless you have a position with this fund (as an advisor), it is not available.
Greenhaven Commodity Index (GCC)
This ETF has been a top-tier performer within its peer group. I exited all commodities a few weeks ago based on my belief that a global slowdown is bad for demand and for commodities. However, GCC is worth considering.
Hussman Strategic Growth (HSGFX)
This fund invests primarily in U.S. stocks, with the objective of long-term capital appreciation, and places added emphasis on defending capital during unfavorable market conditions. HSGFX is included in Morningstar's Long-Short category.
Rydex Managed Futures (RYMFX)
This fund is designed to track the S&P Diversified Trends Indicator. This index had a period of impressive performance in the aftermath of the tech bust. However, it has been down over the past few years. That said, I believe it will reemerge and so I will continue to allocate a small portion to RYMFX.
To summarize, out of 21 total funds in an average client portfolio, nine are in the alternative category.
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'Sons of Anarchy' Season 5: Kurt Sutter Explains Last Night's Shocking "Warrior" Death
Fans of 'Sons of Anarchy' well know that the FX biker drama is famous for its shocking, often brutal violence, and last night's "Laying Pipe" was no exception. Though series creator Kurt Sutter himself warned fans in advance of an impending tragedy, last night viewers said goodby to a fan-favorite character, one who it seems has long been destined for nothing but heartbreak at the hands of SAMCRO. So, why does Sutter say the character had to go?
As much as it still hurts to type, 'Sons of Anarchy' fans were forced to - SPOILER ALERT - say goodbye to series staple Ryan Hurst, as last night's "Laying Pipe" saw Hurst's character Harry "Opie" Winston nobly offering himself up as a sacrifice over best friend Jax, when Damon Pope arranged to have one of the Sons beaten to death in prison. With a final crack of the lead pipe, Opie was no more, but 'Sons of Anarchy' creator Kurt Sutter wants you to know Opie's death wasn't without meaning.
Sutter spoke to reporters Wednesday, elaborating on the death's role in Jax's journey, and how he felt Opie's life came to a fitting end:
This is really the first season I've had to think about the end game, and knowing where I want to take my hero, and knowing how I wanted to get there, the road I wanted to travel, Jax needed that emotional upheaval – that one event that happens in a man's life that can change the course of his destiny.
I don't do things arbitrarily, or for shock value. Yes, it's incredibly sad, but the death of Opie will color the rest of the episodes for the rest of the series. It's not a death that will happen in vain.
More than that, Sutter wanted to make sure that if Opie had to go, he'd die a meaningful death as opposed to some of the other more random acts of violence the series has featured over 5 seasons. "I wanted Opie to go out a warrior," says Sutter. "I really wanted him to go out with nobility and a sense of feeling like, 'I may not have a lot to live for, but at the very least, I am going to go out doing something noble and protecting the people I still love.' "
One thing's for sure: three episodes in, and "Sons of Anarchy' season 5 has featured some of the most shocking, tragic deaths to date, showing no signs of stopping as the series continues with next week's "Stolen Huffy." Watch your back, SAMCRO.
What say you? Were you sad to see Opie's death, or had the character run his course? Do you agree with Sutter that his death still had meaning? Give us your reactions, and pour one out for Opie in the comments below!


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SHIP BOTTOM, N.J. (AP) — With much of the Eastern Seaboard in the path of a rare behemoth storm, residents of the nation's most densely populated corridor contemplated whether to heed dire warnings of torrential rain, high winds and up to 2 feet of snow.
"You know how many times they tell you, `This is it, it's really coming and it's really the big one,' and then it turns out not to be?" said Alice Stockton-Rossini as she packed up to leave her home a few hundred yards from the ocean in Ship Bottom, N.J.
"I'm afraid people will tune it out because of all the false alarms before, and the one time you need to take it seriously, you won't. This one might be the one."
Hurricane Sandy _ upgraded again Saturday just hours after forecasters said it had weakened to a tropical storm _ was barreling north from the Caribbean and was expected to make landfall early Tuesday near the Delaware coast, then hit two winter weather systems as it moves inland, creating a hybrid monster storm.
Even if Sandy loses strength and makes landfall as something less than a hurricane, the combined storm was expected to bring misery to a huge section of the East. An 800-mile wide swath of the country could see 50 mph winds regardless of Sandy's strength.
Experts said the storm could be wider and stronger than Irene, which caused more than $15 billion in damage, and could rival the worst East Coast storm on record. On Saturday morning, forecasters said hurricane-force winds of 75 mph could be felt 100 miles away from the storm's center.
Up and down the coast, people were cautioned to be prepared for days without electricity. Jersey Shore beach towns began issuing voluntary evacuations and protecting boardwalks. Atlantic City casinos made contingency plans to close, and officials advised residents of flood-prone areas to stay with family or be ready to leave. Several governors declared states of emergency. Airlines said to expect cancellations and waived change fees for passengers who want to reschedule.
"Be forewarned," Connecticut Gov. Dannel P. Malloy. "Assume that you will be in the midst of flooding conditions, the likes of which you may not have seen at any of the major storms that have occurred over the last 30 years."
In North Carolina's Outer Banks, light rain was falling Saturday and winds were building up to a predicted 30 to 50 mph. A steady stream of campers and other vehicles hauling boats were leaving the low-lying islands for the mainland. Residents feared a temporary bridge built after Irene last year poked a new inlet through the island could be washed out again, severing the only road off Hatteras Island.
In Ship Bottom, N.J., Russ Linke was taking no chances Saturday. He and his wife secured the patio furniture, packed the bicycles into the pickup truck and headed off the island.
"I've been here since 1997, and I never even put my barbecue grill away during a storm, but I am taking this one seriously," he said. "They say it might hit here; that's about as serious as it can get."
At a Home Depot in Freeport, on New York's Long Island, Bob Notheis bought sawhorses to get his furniture off the floor inside his home.
"I'm just worried about how bad it's going to be with the tidal surge," he said. "Irene was kind of rough on me and I'm just trying to prepare."
After Irene left millions without power, utilities were taking no chances and were lining up extra crews and tree-trimmers. Wind threatened to topple power lines, and trees that still have leaves could be weighed down by snow and fall over if the weight becomes too much.
New York City began precautions for an ominous but still uncertain forecast. No decision had been made on whether any of the city's public transportation outlets would be shut, despite predictions that a sudden shift of the storm's path could cause a surge of 3 to 6 feet in the subways.
The subway system was completely shuttered during Irene, the first such shutdown ever for weather-related reasons. Irene largely missed the city, but struck other areas hard.
In upstate New York, Richard Ball was plucking carrots, potatoes, beets and other crops from the ground as quickly as possible Friday. Ball was still shaky from Irene, which scoured away soil, ruined crops and killed livestock.
Farmers were moving tractors and other equipment to high ground, and some families pondered moving furniture to upper stories in their homes.
"The fear we have a similar recipe to Irene has really intensified anxieties in town," Ball said.
The storm loomed a little more than a week before Election Day, while several states were heavily involved in campaigning, canvassing and get-out-the-vote efforts. Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney and Vice President Joe Biden both canceled weekend campaign events in coastal Virginia Beach, Va., though their events in other parts of the states were going on as planned. In Rhode Island, politicians asked supporters to take down yard signs for fear they might turn into projectiles in the storm.
Sandy killed more than 40 people in the Caribbean, wrecked homes and knocked down trees and power lines.
Early Saturday, the storm was about 355 miles (571 kilometers) southeast of Charleston, S.C. Its sustained wind speed was about 75 mph (121 kph).
Sandy was projected to hit the Atlantic Coast early Tuesday. As it turns back to the north and northwest and merges with colder air from a winter system, West Virginia and further west into eastern Ohio and southern Pennsylvania are expected to get snow. Forecasters were looking at the Delaware shore as the spot the storm will turn inland, bringing 10 inches of rain and extreme storm surges, said Louis Uccellini, environmental prediction director for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
Up to 2 feet of snow was predicted to fall on West Virginia, with lighter snow in parts of Ohio and Pennsylvania. A wide swath of the East, measuring several hundreds of miles, will get persistent gale-force 50 mph winds, with some areas closer to storm landfall getting closer to 70 mph, said James Franklin, forecast chief for the National Hurricane Center in Miami.
`It's going to be a long-lasting event, two to three days of impact for a lot of people," Franklin said. "Wind damage, widespread power outages, heavy rainfall, inland flooding and somebody is going to get a significant surge event."
Jeff Masters, meteorology director of the forecasting service Weather Underground, said this could be as big, perhaps bigger, than the worst East Coast storm on record, a 1938 New England hurricane that is sometimes known as the Long Island Express, which killed nearly 800 people.
Nonetheless, some residents were still shrugging off the impending storm.
On the Outer Banks, Marilyn McCluster made the four-hour drive from her home in Chase City, Va., to her family's beach house in Nags Head anticipating a relaxing weekend by the shore.
"It's just wind and rain; I'm hoping that's it," she said Friday as she filled her SUV at the Duck Thru, a gas station.
Inside the station, clerks had a busy day, with daytime sales bringing in about 75 percent of the revenue typically seen during the mid-summer tourist high season, said Jamicthon Howard, 56, of Manteo. Gasoline demand came from tourists leaving Hatteras Island to the south to avoid being stranded if low-lying NC Highway 12 is buried under saltwater and sand as often happens during storms, Howard said, but also locals making sure they're ready for anything.
"They're preparing for lockdown or to make a move," Howard said.
No evacuations had been ordered and ferries hadn't yet been closed. Plenty of stores remained open and houses still featured Halloween decorations outside, as rain started to roll in.
"I'll never evacuate again," said Lori Hilby, manager of a natural foods market in Duck, who left her home before Hurricane Irene struck last August. "— Whenever I evacuate, I always end up somewhere and they lose power and my house is fine. So I'm always wishing I was home."
Retirees Larry and Jean Collier, of Brantford, Ontario, were leaving their beachfront hotel in Kill Devil Hills, N.C., early Saturday and trying to plot their route home knowing they risked driving into a mess.
"I'll try to split (the trip) right down the middle, not too close to Washington, not too far west," Larry Collier said. "The storm has kind of put a wrench in it."
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CNN's Lou Dobbs offered his own "facts" on evolution
During a debate on "the origin of life," CNN host Lou Dobbs stated on his own authority: "The fact is that evolution, Darwinism, is not a fully explained or completely rigorous and defined science that has testable results within it." The National Academy of Sciences (NAS), which advises the federal government on "scientific and technical matters," disagrees with Dobbs' "facts" about evolution.
The NAS considers evolution "the central unifying concept of biology" and "one of the strongest and most useful scientific theories we have." The academy's 1999 book Science and Creationism (National Academies Press, 1999) further states:
Progress in science consists of the development of better explanations for the causes of natural phenomena. Scientists never can be sure that a given explanation is complete and final. Some of the hypotheses advanced by scientists turn out to be incorrect when tested by further observations or experiments. Yet many scientific explanations have been so thoroughly tested and confirmed that they are held with great confidence.
The theory of evolution is one of these well-established explanations. An enormous amount of scientific investigation since the mid-19th century has converted early ideas about evolution proposed by Darwin and others into a strong and well-supported theory. Today, evolution is an extremely active field of research, with an abundance of new discoveries that are continually increasing our understanding of how evolution occurs.
NAS is comprised of 2,000 members and 350 foreign associates, including more than 190 Nobel Prize winners.
With Dobbs expressing skepticism on the scientific validity of evolution, the debate on the May 12 edition of CNN's Lou Dobbs Tonight appeared to be stacked 3 to 1 against those embracing "the central unifying concept of biology." The discussion featured "intelligent design" proponent Jonathan Wells, a senior fellow at the Discovery Institute; creationism proponent John Morris, president of the Institute for Creation Research; and Florida State University philosophy of science professor Michael Ruse, who is critical of allowing intelligent design and creationism to be taught alongside of, or in place of, evolution. From the May 12 edition of Lou Dobbs Tonight:
DOBBS: The fact is that evolution, Darwinism, is not a fully explained or completely rigorous and defined science that has testable results within it. Like a --
RUSE: Now, who says that? Is that you?
DOBBS: I do. I do.
DOBBS: And, in that degree, if one moves aside from the issue and suggests that creationism be taught within a religious class, within the schools, and one looks at the prospect of intelligent design and evolution, with critical thought -- because you say life was 4-and-a-half billion years ago, the planet began 4-and-a-half billion years ago -- we continue to change our views scientifically on when what occurred, that is, in terms of missing links within the family tree of life on this planet. Is there anything wrong with criticizing evolution in your minds?


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With their town devastated by titanic hurricanes, the citizens of the spiral-haunted town of Kurôzu-cho--including Shuichi, Kirie and her family--find themselves cut off from the outside world. Reporters and rescue teams cross the mountain range into Kurôzu-cho only to find themselves unable to leave. Trapped inside the cursed ruins, the desperate survivors struggle and huddle together, waiting to run into giant snails or worse. The very laws of nature are changed as the spiral sucks them in. And to fight it, or to escape, the last survivors must go to the heart of the horror to witness what may be their eventual fate...


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No offense meant to richard, but if wobnam wants to be FL, I'd rather have him in the position just because I've gotten to know him really well through the development process, I know I can trust him, and we talk off-list pretty much every day. He also is an extremely competent web and graphic designer, and I know that together we can make Garheim the sharpest-looking faction in the LCC. People from other factions will be insanely jealous of all of the features I'm sure we'll be able to come up with exclusively for Garheim.
So basically what it boils down to is, If I'm chosen as FO, I'd like to have wob be my FL, and I'm sure we can figure out a way for richard to be involved as well. Again, no offense meant at all. I'd just prefer to work with a friend


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One of the world's biggest tech shows has plugged in their inner prude.
The Mrs. Grundys at the Consumer Electronics Show torpedoed a revolutionary sex toy designed for women.
Inventor Lora Haddock said the CES originally invited her company — Lora DiCarlo — to display its hands-free new robotic Ose vibrator.
The invite was extended because the company won a tech innovation award.
But threatened tech bros soon changed their minds. Haddock says the boy's club has a penchant for putting the kibosh on female-driven innovations.
"Two robotic vacuum cleaners, one robotic skateboard, four children's toys, one shopping companion robot — looks like all of women's interests are covered, right?" she said in a statement.
"Ose clearly fits the robotics and drone category — and CTA's own expert judges agree."
But the peeved prudes at the Consumer Technology Association — which organizes the show — claim the invite was all a mistake.
CTA also said they could withdraw any "immoral" or "obscene" entry at any time.
"The product does not fit into any of our existing product categories and should not have been accepted. We have apologized to the company for our mistake."
The Ose was designed in partnership with the robotics laboratory at Oregon State University and had eight patents pending for "robotics, biomimicry, and engineering feats," Haddock said.
"We firmly believe that women, non-binary, gender non-conforming, and LGBTQI folks should be vocally claiming our space in pleasure and tech," she said.
She also charged there was a double-standard at work when it comes to sexual health products.
"Men's sexuality is allowed to be explicit, with a literal sex robot in the shape of an unrealistically proportioned woman and VR porn in point of pride along the aisle," she said.
She was referring to the RealDoll sex robot Harmony, which debuted at last year's event, and a room showcasing virtual reality porn off the main conference in 2017.


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