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At an event last year in Uruguay for policymakers from around the world, a few experts who have worked in the field of technology use in education for a long time commented that there was, in their opinion and in contrast to their experiences even a few years ago, a surprising amount of consensus among the people gathered together on what was really important, what wasn't, and on ways to proceed (and not to proceed). Over the past two years, I have increasingly made the same comment to myself when involved in similar discussions in other parts of the world. At one level, this has been a welcome development. People who work with the use of ICTs in education tend to be a highly connected bunch, and the diffusion of better (cheaper, faster) connectivity has helped to ensure that 'good practices and ideas' are shared with greater velocity than perhaps ever before. Even some groups and people associated with the 'give kids computers, expect magic to happen' philosophy appear to have had some of their more extreme views tempered in recent years by the reality of actually trying to put this philosophy into practice.
That said, the fact that "everyone agrees about most everything" isn't always such a good thing. Divergent opinions and voices are important, if only to help us reconsider why we believe what we believe. (They are also important because they might actually be right, of course, and all of the rest of us wrong, but that's another matter!) Even where there is an emerging consensus among leading thinkers and practitioners about what is critically important, this doesn't mean that what is actually being done reflects this consensus -- or indeed, that this consensus 'expert' opinion is relevant in all contexts.


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Notes: Market activity cited throughout this commentary is supported by data published by sources that include Barclays, Bloomberg, Municipal Bond Buyer, and Thomson Municipal Market Data (MMD).
As the first quarter drew to a close, substantial fiscal policy issues remained unresolved in Washington, D.C. We remind readers that legislative changes can happen quickly, often with ramifications for financial markets. The material in this commentary reflects legislative information available as of March 31, 2013.
On Jan. 1, 2013, an agreement was reached in Washington known as The American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012. The deal averted tax hikes for most taxpayers and delayed the effects of the sequestration cuts for two months. However, it also left many other fiscal policy decisions unresolved, with questions to be answered in the near future. The good news for municipal market demand was that the deal did not include a 28% cap on the municipal exemption, as had been proposed at one time, and that taxes were raised only for those in the highest income brackets. While most American's tax rates remained the same, individuals earning more than $400,000 and married couples earning more than $450,000 saw tax rates increase from 35% to 39.6%. In addition, a new Medicare tax commenced on Jan. 1, 2013, adding a 3.8% tax on unearned income above $250,000. The lack of a cap on the exemption combined with higher tax rates for certain investors was supportive in January of a municipal market that had posted negative returns in December. However, these supportive technical factors eventually gave way as the quarter progressed and as markets traded more on fundamental factors that resulted in rising yields.
Municipal bond yields rose during the first quarter of 2013 from 3 to 36 basis points for bonds with maturities of five years or longer, with the largest rise coming in the 15 year range. Yields on the short end of the curve were largely unchanged (Source: MMD). This was against the backdrop of rising U.S. Treasury yields and a domestic stock market that rallied approximately 10% for the quarter. As mentioned above, the deal to avert the fiscal cliff provided municipal bonds with strong technical support in January. Avoiding a cap on exemptions seemed to unleash pent up cash that had moved to the sidelines in December. The higher taxes also seemed additive to demand. As the quarter progressed, however, a combination of stronger domestic economic data, the avoidance of various fiscal deadlines and relative quiet from Europe resulted in higher interest rates and a rallying stock market. This was finally disrupted in late March when problems arose with the banking system in Cyprus.
After the technically driven rally of the first few weeks of January, municipal yields started to rise as the market digested better economic data along with news of the Federal Reserve reiterating its support for the markets. Better-than-expected payroll numbers throughout the quarter, a stronger housing market, solid auto sales and a resilient consumer contributed to expectations for higher than anticipated GDP for the first quarter. The January release of the December Federal Reserve meeting minutes did lead to some market doubts about the duration of the QE3 program (the monthly purchase of $85 billion of Treasurys and Mortgage-backed securities). However, public comments by the Federal Reserve over the remainder of the quarter gave comfort to the market that asset purchases would continue throughout 2013. Treasury bonds rallied in mid-March as the European Finance Ministers and European Central Bank threatened to not renew Cyprus's loans unless they took some dramatic banking measures to raise funds internally. This crisis continued for approximately 10 days resulting in a stronger dollar and declining Treasury rates.
The American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012 left many of the pending fiscal issues unresolved and on the docket for the first quarter of 2013. There were market concerns coming into the quarter over the debt ceiling, sequestration cuts and the continuing budget resolution. However, Congress suspended the debt ceiling for three months on January 23rd, allowed the sequestration cuts to go into effect on March 1st and passed an ongoing budget resolution for the remainder of the fiscal year in March. For the time being these were considered neutral to mildly positive for the financial markets. However, the sequestration cuts have not been fully felt by the economy yet and nothing has been done to address long-term deficit reduction, something the rating agencies are watching carefully. The ultimate goal, although perhaps not attainable, would be to achieve significant long-term deficit reduction and tax reform. At the moment, however, the issue of the 28% cap on the municipal exemption remains unresolved. While it is believed that this cap almost became part of a grand deal in December, since then, market participants have done a good job of defending the full (uncapped) tax exemption. Members of Congress seem supportive but unfortunately have remained noncommittal on the issue, leaving it on the table for the foreseeable future until deficit reduction and/or tax reform are more fully addressed.
The municipal bond market followed historical seasonal patterns in the first quarter of 2013. It was driven in January by good demand from both mutual fund flows and maturing/called bonds while experiencing light new-issue supply. In early January it rallied even while Treasury rates moved higher, resulting in lower ratios as a percentage of Treasurys. Strong demand began to trail off in February and the market followed interest rate movements more closely. In March, positive mutual fund flows turned negative as quarter end and tax time approached, while new issue supply was increasing. Due to these end-of-quarter pressures, the municipal market did not rally along with Treasurys during the Cyprus crisis. As a result, municipal bond yields rose more than Treasury yields for the quarter. The yield curve steepened as long yields rose more than short yields, but credit (BBB-rated and high yield municipal securities) outperformed bonds rated AAA. As a result of this, the Barclays Municipal Bond Index rose only 0.29% during the quarter, as income barely overcame negative price performance.
Puerto Rico related debt experienced volatility beginning late in the fourth quarter of 2012 when it was downgraded to Baa3 by Moody's. After December's sharp sell-off, Puerto Rico was the strongest performing state/territory during the first two months of 2013. However, additional downgrades to weak BBB by Fitch and Standard & Poor's left the Commonwealth one notch above a non-investment grade rating by all three rating agencies. Also, all three agencies maintained their negative outlooks on the debt. A weak economy, significant unfunded pension obligations, and an unbalanced budget leave a new administration challenged going forward. However, as Puerto Rico traded off the broader market actually rallied the last week of the quarter.
For the sake of comparison, listed below are the returns posted by major fixed income and equity indices for the first quarter of 2013:
(Data: Barclays; Bloomberg. Accessed on or about April 2, 2013. Index performance reflects past performance and does not guarantee future results.)
Treasury yields on 5-, 10-, and 30-year bonds increased by 5, 12, and 19 basis points, respectively, during the first quarter of 2013. Municipal yields also increased over the 5-, 10-, and 30-year periods by 3, 19, and 26 basis points, respectively. This resulted in underperformance of municipal securities versus U.S. Treasurys for the 10- and 30-year periods and outperformance for the 5-year period, as demonstrated by the chart below:
(Data: Thomson Municipal Market Data, accessed on or about April 2, 2013. Index performance reflects past performance and does not guarantee future results.)
For the third quarter of 2013, the total return within the Barclays Municipal Bond Index by rating, as well as the Barclays High-Yield Municipal Bond Index (representing noninvestment grade bonds) was as follows:
(Data: Barclays, accessed on or about April 2, 2013. Index performance reflects past performance and does not guarantee future results.)
Leading the investment grade sector were bonds classified as industrial development revenue bonds (IDRs) and pollution control revenue bonds (PCRs). They returned 0.90% for the period and were followed by Resource Recovery (0.87%) and Housing (0.81%). High Yield Tobacco was the strongest overall performing sector for the period, returning 2.49% for the quarter.
Supply for the first quarter of 2013 was $81 billion, representing a 2% increase as compared to the same period last year. (Source: Municipal Bond Buyer.)
We are aware that as always there are many moving parts to the market. We are closely watching the fiscal negotiations in Washington in regards to both the cap on exemptions and the effect of sequestration or any replacement budget cuts on municipal finance. We are also closely watching the domestic economy as well as the developments in Europe and other global economies. In addition, we are following the developments in Puerto Rico and we continue to be diligent on our credit surveillance.
We took a more cautious approach to the first quarter, allowing our security selection and focus on income to help drive performance. We must now evaluate the ability of these lower-rated securities to potentially outperform if yields keep rising. We believe credit can still outperform if rates rise modestly and in an orderly fashion. We also believe credit can outperform due to its income feature if rates stay range bound. We currently favor credit exposure over yield curve exposure. During the late fourth quarter of 2012 and early first quarter of 2013, we reduced some of our yield curve exposure, which was beneficial to performance. At this time, we do not anticipate adding curve exposure back to the portfolios.
(State-specific developments noted below are based on information published by each state's respective budget authorities and supplemented by sources that include Standard & Poor's, the National Conference of State Legislatures, the U.S. Labor Department, and the National Association of State Budget Officers.)
The views expressed represent the Manager's assessment of the market environment as of March 31, 2013, are subject to change, and may not reflect the manager's current views. Views should not be considered as recommendations to buy, hold, or sell any security, and should not be relied on as research or investment advice. Please see important disclosures and definitions at the end of the document.
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Unless otherwise noted, the sources of statistical information in this document are Bloomberg, Municipal Bond Buyer, Barclays, and Thomson Municipal Market Data. Data were originally accessed on or about April 2, 2013.
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All three focus on what most critics agree is an especially troubling aspect of the proposed manual -- the "wholesale medical imperialization" that eventually will label nearly every human being with one or more psychiatric pathologies. The authors of the DSM, critics assert, have appointed themselves as the arbiters of what is normal and what is not.
Wall Street Journal: Psychiatry in demise
Edward Shorter, a University of Toronto professor and preeminent scholar of the history of medicine, gives a historical overview of the DSM's development to support his verdict that the latest draft manual illustrates a discipline in demise.
To flip through the latest draft of the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, in the works for seven years now, is to see the discipline's floundering writ large. Psychiatry seems to have lost its way in a forest of poorly verified diagnoses and ineffectual medications. Patients who seek psychiatric help today for mood disorders stand a good chance of being diagnosed with a disease that doesn't exist and treated with a medication little more effective than a placebo.Los Angeles Times: Overdiagnosis gone berserk
Allen Frances, chairman of the DSM-IV task force, has been sounding the alarm over this new manual far and wide of late. This latest essay is perhaps his most eloquent to date, and of direct relevance to forensic practice in that it focuses on the proposed sexual disorders that will be used pretextually in civil commitment proceedings:
The first draft of the next edition of the DSM, posted for comment with much fanfare last month, is filled with suggestions that would multiply our mistakes and extend the reach of psychiatry dramatically deeper into the ever-shrinking domain of the normal. This wholesale medical imperialization of normality could potentially create tens of millions of innocent bystanders who would be mislabeled as having a mental disorder. The pharmaceutical industry would have a field day -- despite the lack of solid evidence of any effective treatments for these newly proposed diagnoses.Frances urges the public to pay attention and voice opposition to psychiatry's "recklessly expansive suggestions" before the juggernaut becomes unstoppable:
The sexual disorders section is particularly adventurous. "Hypersexuality disorder" would bring great comfort to philanderers wishing to hide the motivation for their exploits behind a psychiatric excuse. "Paraphilic coercive disorder" introduces the novel and dangerous idea that rapists merit a diagnosis of mental disorder if they get special sexual excitement from raping….
This is a societal issue that transcends psychiatry. It is not too late to save normality from DSM-V if the greater public interest is factored into the necessary risk/benefit analyses.Washington Post: George Will weighs in
Finally, prominent political columnist George F. Will weighed in on the moral implications of the proposed diagnostic expansions. Will expressed worries about the legal consequences of excusing amoral conduct as a symptom of uncontrollable illness.
The 16 years since the last revision evidently were prolific in producing new afflictions. The revision may aggravate the confusion of moral categories.Now that just about every major news outlet in the United States has run highly critical analyses, the question becomes: Will the American Psychiatric Association listen? Or, like an individual in the throes of a manic episode, will it continue its pell-mell rush to diagnose all human behaviors, creating an ever-broader assortment of bizarre pathologies?
Today's DSM defines "oppositional defiant disorder" as a pattern of "negativistic, defiant, disobedient and hostile behavior toward authority figures." Symptoms include "often loses temper," "often deliberately annoys people" or "is often touchy." DSM omits this symptom: "is a teenager." …
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Center for the Book
Publications | Past Events | Forthcoming Events
The Center for the Book at Mills College was established in 1989 to promote the cultural, literary, and aesthetic heritage of the book. Programs and projects encompass contemporary and historical concerns, and include the book arts, literacy, and local history. The Center for the Book involves both Mills College and the local communities, acknowledging the extraordinarily rich resources of the Bay Area.
Projects sponsored or co-sponsored by the Center for the Book include publications, lectures and workshops by visiting or local book artists, historians, and others; exhibitions; conferences; and other special events. All the center's events are free and open to the public unless otherwise specified.
Books Published by the Center For the Book
Reading the Object: Three Decades of Books by Julie Chen
Celebrating the Cultural Landscape Heritage of Mills College
Why I Read Stein by Charles Shere.
A Salon at Larkmead by Drew Sparks and Sally Kellman.
A Line Between the Word and the Way: A Celebration of the Life and Works of Lou Harrison.
Literary and Cultural Journeys: Selected Letters to Arturo Torres-Riosecoby Carlota Caulfield and Miguel Angel Zapata.
The Flying Cloud and Her First Passengers by Margaret Lyon and Flora Elizabeth Reynolds.
Forthcoming Events
Sunday, September 23, 2018
All events take place in the Heller Rare Book Room,
Call or email Janice Braun (510.430.2047) for more information.
Past Events the Center for the Book Sponsored or
Sunday, June 26th, 2016
Opening event of the Mills College Summer Institute for Book and Print Technologies. Nationally known artists Tom Killion, Inge Bruggeman, and Julie Chen will show images and speak about their work.
Sunday, November 2, 2014
Opening Event for
Conversation and Q&A featuring Ajuan Mance, Mills College professor of English, and Daphne Muse, writer, social commentator, and collector.
Tuesday, April 8, 2014
Kelsey Street Press is pleased to celebrate 40 years of publishing experimental writing by women with a Mills College exhibition and special opening night event—a reading and conversation on embodiment, gender and experimental writing featuring a diverse and dynamic panel of poets.
Embodiment, Gender and Experimental Writing: A Reading and Conversation with Kelsey Street Press Poets and Friends
Panelists: Patricia Dienstfrey, Amber DiPietra, Eleni Stecopoulos, Nico Peck Moderator: Susan Gevirtz
Co-sponsored by Mills College Center for the Book, Mills English Department Contemporary Writers' Series, and Kelsey Street Press.
Sunday, March 10, 2013
Lecture by artist and author Aimee Lee:
In this talk, Aimee will share her experience of excavating Korean papermaking traditions with first-hand images, videos, and samples of hanji and paper objects.
Thursday, February 7, 2013, 4:00-5:30 pm
Opening and reception for the exhibition with a brief talk by curator Thomas Günther:
Lecture by Margaret Stetz (Mae and Robert Carter Professor of Women's Studies and Professor of Humanities, University of Delaware) in conjunction with the exhibition, "The Angel Leaves the House: Women Bookmakers and the Aesthetic Page." Reception to follow. Co-sponsored with the Mills College Book Art Program.
Katarzyna Bazarnik & Zenon Fajfer
Johanna Drucker
"Looking Bookward: Graduate Students Explore Book Art at Mills College"
Exhibition Opening and Panel Discussion with Julie Chen, Lara Durback, Ruth McGurk, Matt Runkle, and Dorothy Yule.
Book release party for Celebrating the Cultural Landscape Heritage of Mills College: Using the Past to Inform Campus Planning and Design (March 16, 2008).
Alisa Golden presented a talk, "Where Do {Artist} Books Fit In?" on Sunday, February 10, 2008 at 2:00 p.m. in conjunction with the exhibition "never mind the press:
"Synesthesia: Selections from Granary Books, 1987–2006"
Publisher Steven Clay presented a talk on Sunday, February 11, 2007 in conjunction with the exhibit.
Conference Announcement:
Precious Playthings: Black Paper Dolls, 1885–2003. An exhibition from the collection of Arabella Grayson (MA Mills 1996). January 20–February 29, 2004. Reception: Sunday, February 8, 2004. 2:00 pm–4:00 pm.
Barbara Guest Poetry Reading. Cosponsored with the Kelsey Street Press. Sunday, February 29, 2004. 2:00 pm.
Sounding Joe Catalano. Exhibition opening, lecture, live music, and reception. Sunday, March 28, 2004. 2:00 pm. Speaker: Pauline Oliveros.
Contributed funding to the San Francisco Center for the Book's Massin Symposium.
"Works in Progress," Exhibition of new work by Book Arts Program post-baccalaureate Teaching Assistants. Reception (held in Heller Rare Book Room) and exhibition fully funded by the Center for the Book. January 21–March 7, 2003.
Charles Shere, "Why I Read Stein." Lecture, music performance, reception, and exhibition opening to commemorate the acquisition of the Charles Shere Archive. November 24, 2002. The lecture was published in book form by the Center for the Book and is still available.
Gunnar Kaldewey exhibition and lecture, "The Artist Book in a Global World." April 21, 2002.
"The Parmenides Project: The Hand & Computer in an Early Twenty-first Century Book," A Symposium, The San Francisco Public Library, June 10–11, 2001. Co-sponsored with The Bancroft Library (U.C. Berkeley), San Francisco Public Library, The Reva & David Logan Foundation, The California Center for the Book, The Book Club of California, and Stanford University Libraries.
Zapfest at Mills College—Women & Typography: Gudrun Zapf von Hesse in conversation with Gerogianna Greenwood, Anna Wolf, and Linnea Lundquist. Exhibition, lecture, reception, and keepsake consisting of five postcards designed and printed by Mills College alumna using Gudrun Zapf's typefaces (Diotima, Ariadne Roman, and Smaragd). The digital typefaces were donated by Adobe Corporation. September 9, 2001.
November 12, 2000
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The mortgage lender that put up the historic Nevele Grand Resort for auction has taken back the property for several million dollars.
Mortgage lender iStar takes back the property for $3.5 million after being the only bidder at an auction for the land that was held on Friday. It had initially been put up for sale in November with an asking price more than double what iStar paid.
According to the Times Herald-Record , Ulster County state Supreme Court Justice James Gilpatric issued a summary judgment in favor of iStar foreclosing on the Nevele and ordering it sold at an auction, which was originally scheduled for August, but was moved to Friday.
Developers had grand plans for a $313 million sports complex, complete with hotel accommodations, though the status of that financing is not clear.
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Required: login as root or use sudo.
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How to Build a Fire Pit Overview
Meet a pro
Doug Montzka, of Montkza Concrete & Masonry in St. Paul, Minn., has been in the concrete and masonry business for 23 years. He's seen the popularity of fire pits but it's possible to create a DIY fire pit. "I started getting requests for brick fire pits a few years ago. It isn't rocket science, but there are a few tricks to doing the job right."
Backyard fire pits are still all the rage, and for good reason. There's nothing like a crackling fire to draw friends and family together. Sure, you could set some stones around a hole or spend a hundred bucks on a steel fire ring. But if you spend twice that, you can build a handsome brick DIY fire pit to create a gathering space in your backyard. We spent $250 on this DIY fire pit. It's maintenance free and easy to clean out and it will last forever. We'll show you how to build a fire pit in a few steps.
If you've ever wanted to learn to lay brick, a DIY fire pit is an excellent project to start with. Even if your brickwork isn't perfect, the fire pit will still look great. We asked Doug Montzka, of Montkza Concrete & Masonry in St. Paul, Minnesota, to show us some tricks and tools of the trade on how to make a fire pit. Set aside several days to complete your fire pit: First you'll pour the footing and let it set up. Then you'll mortar the bricks into place.
Keys to a better fire pit
A well-built masonry fire pit is rock solid, safe to use, and will easily last for as long as you own your house.
Dig the fire pit
Photo 1: Mark out the fire pit
Set the larger form in position and spray paint around it. Dig a hole about 8 in. deep and 3 in. larger in diameter than the form.
Photo 2: Level the pit
Check the bottom of the hole with a level. Remove high spots by scraping off soil rather than digging. That way, you won't loosen the underlying soil. Compact the soil with a hand tamper or a 4×4 post.
Before digging, call your utility companies (dial 811; for more info, go to call811.com) to check the location of buried utility lines. Also check the fire pit code in your area. Most require a fire pit to be 25 ft. away from any structures and overhanging trees. Think about how the prevailing winds blow through your backyard. Don't locate your pit upwind of your patio or where the smoke will blow into your windows or those of your neighbors.
A 3-ft.-diameter fire pit creates enough room for a good fire, yet keeps everyone close enough to chat (and complies with most codes). To make measuring the pit and pouring the concrete footing easy, we used two cardboard concrete form tubes (purchased from a concrete supply company). You could also make your own forms by screwing together 1/8-in. hardboard. Rip a 4 x 8-ft. sheet into four 8-in.-wide strips. Carefully bend and screw two strips together to create a 36-in.-diameter circle, and use the other two to make a 48-in.-diameter circle.
Mark the outside edge of the pit (Photo 1). Then shovel out the soil to a depth of 8 in. (Photo 2). Don't disturb the underlying soil.
Pour a sturdy footing
Photo 3: Stake the forms
If the forms aren't quite level, raise one end and drive a screw through the stake. If the forms aren't completely round, reposition the stakes.
Photo 4: Add the rebar
Bend rebar into half circles and tie them together with wire to make a ring. Fill the forms halfway. Press the ring into the concrete, making sure it doesn't touch the sides of the forms.
Photo 5: Finish the footing
Shovel in the remaining concrete until the forms are filled. Recheck level, hammering the forms down if necessary, and smooth the top of the footer. Let the concrete set overnight.
The concrete footing will create a stable base for the pit walls and keep the sides of your pit from cracking as the ground moves over time. Stake the forms (Photo 3) and mix up ten 80-lb. bags of concrete mix (sold at home centers) according to the manufacturer's directions. If you're using hardboard forms, stake them so they're nice and round. Fill the forms halfway and press a rebar ring into the concrete for strength (Photo 4). Finish filling the forms to the top and tap the tubes gently with a sledgehammer until the concrete mix is level. Smooth the top of the footing (Photo 5). Let the concrete completely set up overnight and then remove the forms.
Dry-set the firebrick liner
Photo 6: Dry-set the firebrick
Adjust the spacing between bricks so you won't have to cut the last brick to fit (cutting firebrick isn't easy). Mark the position of every brick on the footing.
Because regular clay brick can crack at high temperatures, we're using firebrick (also called "refractory" brick) to line the inside of the pit walls. Firebrick is a dense brick that's kilned to withstand high temperatures. It's larger, thicker and wider than regular brick, and you can find it at most brickyards. Firebrick is more expensive, but it will stand up to nightly fires for years to come. You'll need 25 firebricks for a 3-ft. diameter pit.
Because firebrick is so dense, it's tougher to split than regular brick. "Soldiering" the brick (standing it on end) minimizes the amount of splitting and lets you easily accommodate the curve of the pit. You'll only need to split four firebricks (use the technique shown in Photo 9), which you'll place across from one another around the pit to create draw holes for oxygen for your fire. After you split your firebricks, dry-set them in place on top of the footing (Photo 6).
Mortar the firebrick
Photo 7: Mortar the firebrick
Butter a thin layer of cement on the footer and position your first brick. Butter the second brick and butt it against the first. Continue around the circle checking level side-to-side and back-to-front as you go.
Photo 8: Create air holes
Leave gaps in the firebrick in four spots and then fill them with half bricks. These gaps are "draw holes" that feed air to the fire. Prop up the half bricks until the mortar sets.
Firebrick is mortared with refractory cement, which, unlike regular masonry mortar, can withstand high heat. Refractory cement comes premixed in a bucket and has the consistency of peanut butter.
A margin trowel makes it easier to scoop cement out of the bucket and butter the bricks. A tuck pointer is useful for cleaning up the joints.
Work with four bricks at a time. The secret is to trowel the cement on thin, like you're spreading peanut butter on toast, and use the tightest joints you can (Photo 7). Continue mortaring the firebrick around the pit, placing the half bricks for the draw holes at four opposite points around the ring (Photo 8). Check for level across the DIY fire pit and the vertical level of the bricks as you go.
Complete the outside walls with face brick
Photo 9: Split 80 bricks in half
Cup the brick in your hand, keeping your fingers below the top edge of the brick. (Our mason doesn't use gloves, but we suggest you do!) Give the brick a solid tap (a very solid tap for firebrick) on the outside edge near the center hole. Avoid hitting your hand. Repeat 79 times.
Photo 10: Set the face brick
Lay a thick bed of mortar and let it harden for 15 minutes. Then lay 3/8 in. of fresh mortar and begin setting brick. Butter one side of each brick before you set it in place.
Photo 11: Work in sections
Working on one-third of the pit at a time, check the level of each course and tap down the bricks as necessary. Stagger the joints between courses for strength.
Photo 12: Strike the joints
After you finish each section of face brick, use a jointer to smooth ("strike" or "tool") the joints before the mortar dries too much. The mortar is ready to strike if you press your finger into it and the indentation remains. Striking gives the wall a uniform, polished look.
We used SW ("severe weathering") face brick (also called "common" or "building" brick) to line the outside pit walls. If your climate doesn't include freeze/thaw cycles, you can use MW ("moderate weathering") building brick. Home centers and brickyards carry a large variety of brick. You'll need 80 face bricks for a 3-ft.-diameter pit. Face brick with holes ("cored") is easy to split with a brick hammer (Photo 9). It's easier to form the curve of the pit walls with half bricks. You'll lay three courses of face brick and mortar them together with Type N mortar mix (sold in 80-lb. bag at home centers, and you'll need about five bags).
Because face brick is smaller than firebrick, you'll need to make up the size difference as you lay your three courses of face brick. The difference between the height of your firebrick and the total height of three stacked face bricks will determine the width of your mortar beds between courses. Dry-set the face brick, marking where each course of face brick has to hit the firebrick to make the third course of face brick level with the firebrick.
To keep your mortar joints between courses a reasonable width, first lay a 2- to 3-in.-thick bed of mortar right on top of the footing. Let it set up slightly (15 minutes) and smooth out the top. Then, working on one-third of the pit at a time, mortar each course of face brick into place, leaving a 1/4-in. gap between the firebrick and the face brick (Photo 10). Level the brick between courses, tapping the bricks down when necessary (Photo 11). Remember to leave the draft holes open as you mortar each section of face brick and smooth out the finished joints (Photo 12).
Finish off the top lip
Photo 13: Mortar the brick caps
Lay a 3/8-in. bed of mortar across 10 to 12 bricks at a time. Lay the bricks on edge and butter the face of each brick on the outside edge as you go.
Photo 14: Fill gaps
Add a small amount of mortar to the joints to fill any gaps. Check level frequently and tap gently with a brick hammer to adjust the spacing. Leave a 1-in. overhang on the outside to allow for rain to drip off. Once all the bricks have been mortared in place, strike the joints for a smooth, finished look.
Finish the pit with a matching "row-lock" cap using regular face brick set on edge. You'll need about 40 face bricks for this cap, which will help protect the wall joints from rain, keep sparks contained and give you a nice ledge to warm your feet on. We used brick, but you could use natural stone for a different look. Work with 10 to 12 bricks at a time. Lay a 3/8-in. bed of mortar, then butter each brick and press it into place (Photo 13). Work your way around the circle, filling any gaps with mortar and checking level and placement frequently (Photo 14). Smooth the finished joints with a concave jointer.
Give the cement and mortar a week to cure completely before lighting a fire in your pit. Pour a few inches of gravel on the pit's floor for drainage and you're ready for your first wienie roast.
Required Tools for this How to Build a Fire Pit Project
Have the necessary tools for this DIY project lined up before you start—you'll save time and frustration.
- Bucket
- Cordless drill
- Level
- Safety glasses
- Spade
- Tuckpointing tool
- Wheelbarrow
Required Materials for this Do It Yourself Fire Pit Project
Avoid last-minute shopping trips by having all your materials ready ahead of time. Here's a list.
- 120 face bricks
- 25 firebricks
- 36 in. cardboard concrete form
- 48 in. cardboard concrete form (or for less money substitute a 4x8 sheet of hardboard to make both forms)
- Five 80-lb. bags of Type N mortar mix
- One half-gallon bucket of refractory cement (sold at a brickyard)
- Ten 80-lb. bags of concrete mix
- Two 10 ft. lengths of 3/8-in. rebar


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The proposal: In the summer of 2012, Brandy and Jack went to a convention for the National Funeral Directors Association in New Mexico. On a women's outing to Santa Fe, Brandy, whose favorite color is teal, fell in love with a blue topaz ring she found in a jewelry store.
"I was like, 'If I ever get engaged, that's the ring I want,' " says Brandy.
She told Jack about the ring, and the next day, he agreed to drive over an hour from their hotel to Santa Fe to buy it. Afterward, the two celebrated with margaritas at one of Santa Fe's botanical gardens.
But when they returned to Maryland, Brandy wasn't allowed to wear the ring.
"I hadn't popped the question yet," Jack says.
During Thanksgiving weekend 2012, Brandy came home to find Jack opening boxes of Christmas lights. Jack asked Brandy to hand him the last strand of lights, and when she picked them up, the ring was at the bottom of the box.
"Four days later, we had a destination wedding planned. It was booked and ready to go," Brandy says.
The venue: Brandy says she had always envisioned having a destination wedding. She and Jack wanted an all-inclusive, family-friendly location for their 30 guests and decided on the Beaches Turks and Caicos resort. The couple arrived at the resort July 22, four days before the wedding. They spent time kayaking, swimming, relaxing at the beach and welcoming guests as they arrived.
Her dress: The bride wore a satin, strapless fit-and-flare gown with a sweetheart neckline, crystal detailing and pleated bodice by Maggie Sottero from Elegant Touch Bridal and Tuxedo in Perry Hall. She and the rest of the wedding party were barefoot for the ceremony, which took place on the beach.
Bridesmaids' dresses: The bridesmaids wore teal, knee-length halter-style chiffon dresses from David's Bridal.
Men's attire: Jack wore a white linen shirt and tan khaki pants. The groomsmen wore teal linen shirts and khakis.
Decor: Teal bows accented the chairs for the ceremony. Along with teal, Brandy chose a seahorse theme in remembrance of her late grandmother. A seahorse charm from her grandmother's necklace was sewn onto her garter. Seashells, starfish and candles decorated the reception tables, which had teal linens.
Music: A steel drum player entertained the guests during a cocktail hour. A calypso band played reggae music during the reception, along with music from Brandy and Jack's iPod. The couple's first dance was to "Into the Mystic" by Van Morrison.
Food and dessert: The resort provided island-themed cuisine, including shrimp cocktail, mahi-mahi, tropical salads and baked Alaska served in a pineapple shell. A three-tier cake was decorated with seashells and a seahorse topper.
Special touch: On Sept. 14, the couple will host a celebration at the Inner Harbor's Pier 5 Hotel for 150 friends and family who were not in attendance at the Turks and Caicos ceremony.
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text: > need to be recompiled for a given node. If all of the nodes can use > one single compile of all of the codes needed, the cluster is not > heterogenous. I guess this would mean that running a 32-bit program > (I want karma for minding my usage of code vs. program here! :) ) on a > mixture of 32-bit and 64-bit machines would be homogenous, but if on > the same cluster, the 32-bit machines ran a 32-bit program and the > 64-bit machines ran a 64-bit program then that cluster might be I typically maintain a sub-environment, if one will, where I can run my 32 bit applications within a 64 bit operating system. All my nodes could do the same simply by chrooting in first prior to execution, and thus share exactly the same operating system capable of both 64 and 32 bit operation. Does one half of them running 32 bit applications and one half of them running 64 bit applications qualify them as heterogeneous even though their hardware and software are identical? I wouldn't say so. I typically associate heterogeneous with hardware, since, unlike software, it lacks the needed mutability to assimilate into a common architecture. Just my input, obviously I've not been at this long and would enjoy any suggestions otherwise. Ellis ____________________________________________________________________________________ You rock. That's why Blockbuster's offering you one month of Blockbuster Total Access, No Cost. http://tc.deals.yahoo.com/tc/blockbuster/text5.com


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New York City Ends 30 Year Experiment With 'Don't Honk' Signs
By the end of the year, New York City will remove all of the "Don't Honk" signs from city streets. Transportation officials say the signs are contributing to visual clutter. But critics say the city is tacitly admitting defeat in the war on noise.
It's evident to anyone who's visited New York City that it is a loud place to live. Also, that much of the noise is caused by frustrated drivers.
SIEGEL: Well, when it comes to honking, New York is making a U-turn. City officials are removing hundreds of don't honk signs from the streets. They say there is no evidence the signs are working. But as NPR's Joel Rose reports, others say New York is admitting defeat in the war on noise.
JOEL ROSE, BYLINE: It's been almost 30 years since New York first posted don't honk signs on light poles across the city. And for almost 30 years, New Yorkers have been cheerfully ignoring them.
ROSE: I am standing under one of those red-white-and-blue signs that say: don't honk, $350 penalty. They're kind of an endangered species in New York, but I did manage to find one here on 39th Street, near Times Square. I have to say it does not seem to be getting a lot of respect.
MAUREEN O'SHEA: The cabs are going to honk. The trucks are going to honk. I can't imagine a quiet street in New York with nobody honking their horn.
ROSE: Maureen O'Shea(ph) works at a bar just down the street from that don't honk sign. She doesn't think it's doing much good, neither does Maritza Sim(ph) of Queens who also works nearby.
MARITZA SIM: It's what we do. We're always in a rush. Sitting in traffic, somebody is not paying attention, you know? Light turn green and you're still sitting behind him. Yeah, they're getting honked, yes.
ROSE: City officials have also concluded that the signs are not doing what they were intended to do.
JANETTE SADIK-KHAN: You know, New Yorkers don't look to a sign to decide whether or not they're going to honk.
ROSE: Janette Sadik-Khan is New York's transportation commissioner. She says complaints about honking are down more than 60 percent in the last five years even though the number of don't honk signs hasn't gone up. Worse, Sadik-Khan says, those signs contribute to visual clutter on the streets and may give drivers the wrong impression.
SADIK-KHAN: The signs seem to be up at random locations, at some where we don't see much honking or complaints and yet not at other places where there may be honking. So, you know, there was a concern that people might erroneously think that honking is banned only at those few intersections that have the signs.
ROSE: Taking the signs down does not mean that honking is now legal. The $350 penalty for excessive honking is still on the books everywhere in the city in theory. But critics say it's rarely enforced.
ARLENE BRONZAFT: You can have a wonderful code on the books. But if you don't enforce it, what good is it?
BRONZAFT: Ah. There, there's one.
ROSE: Arlene Bronzaft is an expert on noise pollution who helped write the city's current noise code. Bronzaft also helped get the don't honk signs put up in the first place when she worked for the mayor back in the 1980s. She thinks the signs have helped to reduce the din at busy intersections like this one where the Queensboro Bridge dumps onto Second Avenue.
BRONZAFT: If you want the signs just to function as a reminder, that's not wrong. In psychology, they're called prompts. If you're taking it down, then you should take it down because of results that indicate they're not needed.
ROSE: Bronzaft says she still hasn't seen or heard any hard evidence showing that the signs have failed. Transportation Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan says her department has other initiatives to fight congestion, but she thinks it's time for the city to admit what has long been apparent to New Yorkers themselves: Will you ever be able to stop New Yorkers from honking?
SADIK-KHAN: Oh. Will it disappear forever? No, I don't think honking is ever going to go away. I don't think jaywalking is going to go away, either.
ROSE: But the don't honk signs will be gone by the end of the year. Joel Rose, NPR News, New York.
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Whether you have sickle cell, know someone who does or would like to show your support, come stroll with us! Registration for the event is free, but required. And, if you donate or fundraise $25 or more ($10 for each child), you will receive a limited edition 2015 Stroll t-shirt! Prizes to be given away throughout the day including a prize for the team with most registered participants, the team/individual with the highest fundraising total and most spirited team/individual.
Proceeds from the event will allow Sickle Cell Association to bring awareness and carry out its mission to support those living with sickle cell disease while working to eliminate the disease through collaborations on education, research, and resources.
What is Sickle Cell?
- An inherited blood disorder that affects the hemoglobin of the red blood cells causing the blood cells to lose its oxygen and take on a sickled shape.
- Sickle cell disease can affect anyone, but primary affects African-Americans.
- There are approximately 100,000 living in the United States with the disease and another 2 million living with the trait.
- Two parents carrying this trait have a 25% chance of passing on this painful disease to their unborn child.


text: Hello Robert, The new released supercomputer in Netherlands, which was opened yesterday and it is at work now is 27.5 tflop and has cost 8 million euro. that's roughly 27.5 gflop / 8k euro = far over 3 gflop per 1000 euro. So your estimate is not far off. Please note this supercomputer doesn't fall under the normal organisations but falls under the lofar.nl project and RUG (university Groningen) has to do with it. In general your story is true that majority of todays software isn't vectorizable. However the counter side is that the majority of system TIME goes to just a few libraries. Usually fortran libraries that do matrix calculations. A co processor for intel processors is wishful thinking for now, they have instead made the processors very cheap to produce and have created pathetic small L1 caches in their processors with as a result that whole ranges of applications are pathetic slow at their cheap processors. Open market competition is what is going to force these manufacturers to rethink their strategy (hopefully). Until now intel has run into the opposite direction of what we would like, making only real expensive supercomputer processors instead of cheap ones :) Even more interesting than CELL would be a cell type processor that uses the same ideas but combines it with help processors that run integer applications real fast. Of course intel is not going to deliver that as their small L1 caches of P4 suck too much for serious applications that are branch dependant (such as databases). Also pentium-m's L1 cache, though very good, is too tiny for future 64 bits usage. So my personal hope is more directed onto an X-core AMD processor, or some other manufacturer that produces a great cpu. I'm a bit worried about RAMBUS being involved into cell i have to admit. When they were involved in intels P4 it sucked real bad, both in performance for my applications as well as price; only when Northwood with DDR ram came, P4 recovered quite some. Affordable RAM is more interesting than reading online paper claims about major bandwidth that we cannot afford. Yet the main point is that a CELL processor serves not only a certain market. I estimate for my own branchy integer application it to be same speed like an 8 processor Xeon MP 2.8Ghz. So even there it can kick some butt, if it has an affordable price, which a 8 processor Xeon MP never will have. At 09:47 AM 4/27/2005 -0400, Robert G. Brown wrote: >On Tue, 26 Apr 2005, Ben Mayer wrote: > >> The point of the study was teaching them parallel programming with MPI >> and UPC to see what the (dis)liked/(mis)understood to gain a better >> understanding of how we can help them learn. An observation was that >> they wrote their code in such a way that it was difficult (or >> impossible) for the compiler to vectorize the code (even with >> directives). > >This isn't terribly surprising, at least to me. Back in the old days, >when the North Carolina supercomputer center was still around and had a >Cray YMP as its centerpiece, a whole lot of the stuff run on it wasn't >particularly vectorizable. People would apply for a "supercomputer >account" and expect their ported code to run at 100's of MFLOPS >(standard at the time on the desktop was maybe 1-4 MFLOPS depending on >how expensive your Unix desktop or departmental compute server was). > >However, most code doesn't vectorize too well (even, as you say, with >directives), so people would end up getting 25 MFLOPs out of 300 MFLOPs >possible -- faster than a desktop, sure, but using a multimillion dollar >machine to get a factor of MAYBE 10 in speedup compared to (at the time) >$5-10K machines. In the meantime, I'm sure that there were people who >had code that DID vectorize well pulling their hair because of all those >100 hour accounts that basically wasted 90% of the resource. > >My own code doesn't vectorize too well because it isn't heavy on linear >algebra and the loops are over 3 dimensional lattices where >nearest-neighbor sums CANNOT be local in a single memory stream and >where a cluster methodology that makes the code's convergence SCALE >faster requires that sites be selected for cluster inclusion that are >effectively random memory accesses (the slowest possible, >cache-defeating form of memory access). Rob Peter, pay Paul. > >However, it PARALLELIZES just gangbusters fine, since accumulating >statistics on independent runs is embarrassingly parallel and produces >nearly perfect linear speedup. That (in the early 90's) was when I >realized that a cluster of 10-20 $8000 Sun workstations (all but one or >two paid for by other people or the University) could give me twice the >performance of a Cray on my code, not on a measley 100 hour "research" >account but on a 24x7 basis where every week that went by I accumulated >more than twice as many hours. And the workstations were all in use by >humans at the same time as desktops! My jobs just ran quietly in the >background and didn't noticeably slow the sunview or SGI GUI. Finally, >the code required no special structure or directives -- it was nice, >portable, serial code. > >The moral of this particular story is to NOT try to force code onto a >vector environment unless it is, really, a vector task. Indeed, don't >force code into a PARALLEL environment (e.g. into PVM or MPI) unless it >is a NON-TRIVIAL parallel task (I spent a lot of time rewriting my code >as master-slave stuff in PVM, only to finally realize that EP tasks are >more easily managed by just running the damn jobs independently via e.g. >a script and accumulating results with other scripts, because writing >ROBUST PVM (or MPI) code -- code that can survive a casual reboot or >interruption of any particular node -- is Not Easy. > >If it IS a vector (or nontrivial parallel, or both) task, then the >problem almost by definition will EITHER require extensive "computer >science" level study -- work done with Ian Foster's book, Amalsi and >Gottlieb for parallel and I don't know what for vector as it isn't my >area of need or expertise and Amazon isn't terribly helpful (most books >on vector processing deal with obsolete systems or are out of print, it >seems). > >However, the observation that in many cases using an appropriate library >in the vector case is the way to go is dead on the money. One important >example is linear algebra, which is something that generally DOES >vectorize well (almost by definition:-). ATLAS clearly demonstrates >that linear algebra subroutines can vary in speed by a factor of 3 or >more just by switching algorithms and blocking/stride in a way that is >optimal for the memory/CPU sub-architectures in use. Ordinary humans >(that is, intro students in any CPS class) aren't going to see this kind >of speedup from writing mundane loops that implement standard algorithms >in straightforward ways. The problem is obviously complicated still >further by the existence of "vector" co-processors that can do certain >operations on certain memory blocksizes very quickly, which a whole >DISTINCT set of memory latencies and bandwidths to contend with, >complicated still further by SSE instructions and on-CPU specialty >processing units. > >Clearly there is no "solution" that fits all of the possible cases; >equally clearly ANY ATTEMPT TO OPTIMIZE for a particular architecture >instance comes AT THE EXPENSE OF code portability, code readability, >code instrumentation with numerous #ifdefs and pragmas. Library calls >for "separable" components that might vectorize at least provide an API >layer that can leave the code itself portable and require that all >optimization energy go into the library (or not). > >> >From the experiences of helping instruct two parallel classes, and my >> own experiences learning (and observing), it is a very rare case that >> a scientific code (or most any large code) will be be automatically >> vectorized all of the way through, unless one has a good understanding >> of computer architecture AND significant experience producing code >> that the compiler can optimize for a given arch. > >Absolutely, dead on the money. Especially since there is no "COTS" >vector (co)processor, so that these days most vectorization involves the >limited amount available within SSE on OTS cpus or one-of-a-kind vector >units that are neither standard nor code-portable. > >It is an interesting question as to what would happen if e.g. Intel or >AMD went the co-processor route once again, and developed a dedicated >function, really really fast vector/float coprocessor for their 64 bit >lines of CPUs and standardized a machine language interface for the >architecture so that compilers could "automatically" use it. I'd guess >that the problems such an approach would face would be profound, as >memory bandwidth is likely to be a rate limiting obstacle that might >make the result no faster than memory-bound linear algebra code is >already on OTS CPUs. As Mark has somewhat wryly observed already. It >is quite probable that they HAVE thought about doing this and rejected >it, both because of a relatively limited market for the result and >because it may NOT speed things up that much compared to what they can >do with a general purpose CPU with efficient floating point pipelines >and state-of-the-art memory architecture. > >For me, I just revel in the Computer Age. A decade ago, people were >predicting all sorts of problems breaking the GHz barrier. Today CPUs >are routinely clocked at 3+ GHz, reaching for 4 and beyond. A decade >ago, 10 MFLOPS was still a respectable speed and only available on >systems that cost order of ten thousand dollars. Today a GFLOP is a >mundane speed and available on systems that cost order of one thousand >dollars. A decade ago a "supercomputer" provided a few hundred MFLOPS, >costs millions of dollars for the hardware, hundreds of thousands of >dollars in annual maintenance, hundreds of thousands more each year for >housing, cooling, and a staff of professional acolytes that had to be >propitiated in order to make anything like full use of the resource >(with the exception of the relatively few of us who had discovered >cluster computing by design or accident). Any sort of computer CAPABLE >of more than the most mundane performance was considered a >>munition<< >by Our Government and export-restricted lest Bad People design nuclear >weapons with them. > >Today, supercomputers routinely get 100's of GFLOPS on up, at a cost of >less than $1000/GFLOP. Anybody can build them. Amazingly, in spite of >the fact that my aged and obsolete laptop would have been a munition a >decade ago and that just about every country on the planet has at least >ONE cluster capable of eating any ten munitions-quality supercomputers a >decade ago, Bad People apparently are no closer or farther from nuclear >devices than they ever were (as their primary obstacle is obtaining >weapons-grade nuclear material, not coming up with or implementing an >"adequately" functional design as the latter is really pretty trivial in >terms of modern technology and a bomb doesn't have to be "perfect" to be >frighteningly usable). > >Ahh, it's good to be alive. > > rgb > >> >> CVL is a library that has to be called. This means that one has to >> explicitly make a function call to the lib for your code to have >> vectorized segments. Function calls greatly diminish a compilers >> ability to optimize. Cray's compilers (and recently gcc) will >> automatically vectorize code for you, if it can. Cray's will even make >> it run in parallel, across processors, to some extent. The >> optimization can be greatly helped by knowing how to help the >> compiler. Learning how to guide the compiler takes a good deal of time >> to learn. Unless Sony/IBM releases an awesome compiler and some great >> vectorized sub-systems (a graphics render, physics engine, etc) the >> Cell's (PS3) speed will be hindered greatly by code not vectorizing. >> This could be a great opportunity to make a large sum of money. >> >> NESL does not appear to have momentum. Started in 1991 and the last >> paper is in 1997. They talk about running on Paragon and CM5 (I >> believe that UMN had serial #1), not about Cray X1, which is what we >> were using. >> >> scandal's web site makes it look like it is a research language only. >> >> MPI is standard, UPC has compilers from many vendors (including Cray). >> MPI is installed everywhere and runs everywhere, UPC can run on >> distributed memory and SSI systems, and is currently being explored >> for strengths and weaknesses. >> >> Heck Matlab might be a good choice. Everything is a matrix AND it runs >> in parallel... now if only our large machine with matlab would be >> stable we could give some more assignments. ;) >> >> Ben >> >> On 4/26/05, Andrew Piskorski <atp at piskorski.com> wrote: >> > On Tue, Apr 26, 2005 at 10:01:25AM -0500, Ben Mayer wrote: >> > >> > > I actually just did a small study of how well students in a parallel >> > > computing class write parallel codes on X1 with MPI and UPC. One of >> > > the things that stood out is that they tended to do odd things in >> > > their loops that inhibit code from vectorizing. >> > >> > So, why were these students writing loops in the first place? If the >> > goal is to generate vectorized code, wouldn't it make more sense to >> > use a language or library which directly supports vector commands? >> > >> > E.g., although they're used for serial not parallel programming, S and >> > R are vector oriented in a pleasantly convenient way. There do exist >> > languages and libraries specifically intended for vector programming, >> > like CVL or NESL, right, so, are they not useful? >> > >> > http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs.cmu.edu/project/scandal/public/papers/cvl.html >> > http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~scandal/ >> > >> > -- >> > Andrew Piskorski <atp at piskorski.com> >> > http://www.piskorski.com/ >> > >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf at beowulf.org >> To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf >> > >-- >Robert G. Brown http://www.phy.duke.edu/~rgb/ >Duke University Dept. of Physics, Box 90305 >Durham, N.C. 27708-0305 >Phone: 1-919-660-2567 Fax: 919-660-2525 email:rgb at phy.duke.edu > > >_______________________________________________ >Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf at beowulf.org >To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf > >


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Governor Patrick Orders "File By File" Review In Mass. State Drug Lab Case
Gov. Deval Patrick has ordered a ``file by file review'' of every case handled by a Massachusetts chemist accused of faking test results at a now-closed state lab.
Annie Dookhan allegedly skirted protocols and manipulated drug samples at a former Department of Health drug lab where she worked for nine years. The alleged misconduct has threatened to unravel thousands of criminal cases.
On Tuesday, David Meier, a former prosecutor appointed by Patrick to sort through the legal mess, said the governor authorized a massive review of Dookhan's cases, estimated to number about 34,000.
Meier said his team has focused on about 2,000 defendants who are already in prison or awaiting trial.
Now, the focus will shift to Dookhan's remaining cases, mainly defendants who have already completed their sentences. (Associated Press)