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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - Nationally-ranked No. 11 MIT hung on to defeat Johnson & Wales University, 26-30, 30-25, 30-22, 30-28, in a non-conference men's volleyball match on Tuesday. The Engineers improved to 25-5 in their last home match of the season while the Wildcats fell to 8-15 on the year.
With a career-high 20 digs, Ryan Dean set a new Institute standard in career digs as he eclipsed the previous mark of 803. Entering the match, Michael Demyttenaere needed only one block to break the record for total blocks in season. His team-high five stops raised his total to 140 in his rookie season. Dean and Scott Pollom each posted four blocks while Kenneth Rosche tallied a season-high 14 kills to go along with a .428 hitting percentage. Praveen Pamidimukkala finished with 24 kills and a .431 hitting performance, 18 digs, and two aces as Philip Rogoz registered 49 assists and 12 digs.
Sean Lauro led Johnson & Wales with 21 kills while Albert Trevino dished out 44 assists. Hapaki Kaululaau paced the defense with a match-high 26 digs.
Both teams will continue action on the road on Thursday, March 22. MIT will travel to Mount Ida College while Johnson & Wales will make the trip to Elms College.


text: On Tuesday 18 January 2005 11:31 am, Rajesh Bhairampally wrote: > i am wondering when we have something like mosix (distributed OS available > at www.mosix.org ), why we should still develop parallel programs and > strugle with PVM/MPI etc. Because Mosix does not work? This of course is not really true, for some applications Mosix might be appropriate, but what it really does is transparently move processes around in a cluster, not have them become suddenly parallelized. Let's have an example: Generally your application is solving a certain problem, like say taking an image and apply a certain filter to it. You can write a program for it that is not parallel-aware, and does not use MPI and just solves the problem of creating one filtered image from one original image. This serial program might take one hour to run (assuming really large image and really complicated filter). Mosix can help you now run this on a cluster with 4 nodes, which is cool if you have 4 images and still want to wait 1 hour until you see the first result. Now if you want to really filter only one image, but in about 15 minutes, you can program your application differently so that it only works on a quarter of the image. Mosix could still help you run your code with different input data in your cluster, but then you have to collect the four pieces and stitch them together and would be unpleasently surprised because the borders of the filter will show - there was information missing because you did not have the full image available but just a quarter of it. Now when you adjust your code to exchange that border-information, you are actually already on the path to become an MPI programmer, and might as well just run it on a beowulf cluster. So the mpi aware solution to this would be a program that splits up the image into the four quadrants, forks into four pieces that will be placed on four available nodes, communicates the border-data between the pieces and finally collects the result and writes it out as one final image, all in not much more than the 15 minutes expected. Thats why you want to learn how to do real parallel programming instead of relying on some transparent mechanism to guess how to solve your problem. Michael > Tough i never used either mosix or PVM/MPI, I am > genunely puzzled about it. Can someone kindly educate me? > > thanks, > rajesh > > _______________________________________________ > Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf at beowulf.org > To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf > -- Michael Will, Linux Sales Engineer Tel: 415-954-2822 Toll Free: 888-PENGUIN Fax: 415-954-2899 www.penguincomputing.com Visit us at LinuxWorld 2005! Hynes Convention Center, Boston, MA February 15th-17th, 2005 Booth 609

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Mumbai: Singer-composer Adnan Sami plans to invite Bollywood megastar Amitabh Bachchan and beauties like Priyanka Chopra and Deepika Padukone to feature in the music videos of songs from his new album 'Press Play'.
The album, which was released ahead of schedule to beat piracy, is doing well.
Each of the songs is now expected to get a music video. Each of the tracks in the album will feature one Bollywood diva dancing with Adnan in the music videos.
The names on the list include Deepika Padukone, Priyanka Chopra, Sonakshi Sinha, Sonam Kapoor and Asin. Talks are on with several actresses for what promises to be Adnan`s personal multi-starrer, said a source.
"Years ago when Adnan did the album `Tera Chehra`, he got Rani Mukerji, Ameesha Patel and many other screen queens of that phase to do music videos. Now when Adnan`s new album, which is his most personal and autobiographical album to date, has received such a warm reception, Adnan and his music company Universal have decided to carry the eleven tracks of `Press Play` forward with top notch music videos, directed by the biggest names in the business," said a source very close to the project.
While the Bollywood divas are being pressed into action for romantic tracks like 'Kudi tight', 'Main tere paas hoon' and 'Karun na yaad', Adnan plans to persuade his wife Roya to make an appearance in the video of the song dedicated to her.
For another song, 'Baba', dedicated to Adnan`s deceased father, he intends to invite the Big B.
Years ago, Amitabh featured in Adnan`s song 'Lift kara de'. While the earlier song was fun all the way, this time it would be a far more meditative and sombre coming together of the two artistes.
Questioned about his lofty plans for the music videos to support his new album, Adnan said: "I do have plans, major plans. The response to the album has taken all of us by surprise. We never expected it would conquer the premature internet exposure so gloriously. Now I plan to take the songs forward and would be roping in my friends from the film fraternity."


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Uni-President Enterprises Co (統一企業) chairman Kao Ching-yuan (高清愿) yesterday tendered his resignation, handing over the reins to his son-in-law after decades at the top of the country's food sector.
The 84-year-old Kao, who spent 46 years with the nation's largest food company conglomerate, will still sit on the company's board after resigning from the chairmanship, the company said in a statement.
Uni-President president Alex Lo (羅智先), 57, will assume the chairmanship as well as his current position at the company, which his father-in-law founded in 1967 in Greater Tainan's Yongkang (永康).
Lo, who entered the company in 1985, took his current position in 2007 and is likely to keep the title of president until his tenure ends in 2016, he said at the company's shareholders' meeting earlier this year.
"We do not consider the management change as surprising but believe the new position will further empower Lo in enhancing the group's operational efficiency and synergy among different group entities," Deutsche Bank analyst Joelian Tseng (曾慧瓊) said in a client note yesterday.
Uni-President's chairmanship change, which took effect yesterday following a board meeting, came amid the latest food safety scare in Taiwan.
Several food manufacturers — including Ting Hsin International Group (頂新集團) and Namchow Group (南僑集團) — have been questioned and inspected to determine whether their products contain the food additive copper chlorophyllin, which is banned from use in edible oil and noodle products because it results in oil oxidation upon heating, which can lead to liver and kidney damage if ingested.
Uni-President's retailing subsidiaries Santa Cruz Organic Food (聖德科斯) and President Chain Store Corp (統一超商) have been ordered by local health regulators to take some of their products — including energy soup, green milk tea and cold noodles — off the shelves this week after they were found to contain copper chlorophyllin, rather than the natural chlorophyll listed on their packaging.
Uni-President yesterday said it expected the incident to have limited impact on its business and shareholders' interests. It did not comment on whether there was a connection between its chairmanship change and the food safety issue.
Tseng said the incident would have limited impact on the company, given the small earnings contribution from those subsidiaries and the affected products.
With a portfolio ranging from instant noodle and beverage products, retailing and pharmaceuticals to property development and securities brokerage, Uni-President is one of the nation's largest conglomerates.
In China, the company also has exposure in instant noodle and ready-to-drink tea and juice businesses through Uni-President China Holdings Ltd (統一中國控股) and Uni-President Southeast Asia Holdings Ltd.
Lo faces challenges to restructure the company and improve its profitability amid a tougher environment in its home market and in China, where competition is increasing, but consumption weakening.
Analysts say that the company needs to continue strengthening its brand image and enhancing product differentiation to adapt to the tougher environment.
Last year, Uni-President reported consolidated revenue of NT$427.52 billion (US$14.43 billion), up 10.2 percent from 2011, while net profit grew 31.3 percent year-on-year to NT$12.41 billion, or earnings per share of NT$2.41.


text: The Theodore A. Havemeyer Estate Collection (from 1879 to 1904) contains the business and estate records of Theodore A. Havemeyer, investor and part owner of Havemeyer and Elders Sugar Refinery, New York, New York. The collection contains records and correspondence among family members concerning the settlement of his estate.Havemeyer died intestate in 1897, during a business downturn that had eroded the value of many of his investments. His complex, multi-million dollar estate was divided among his widow, Emilie deLoosey Havemeyer, and their nine children, including five daughters. Emilie Havemeyer was executrix of the estate, although most financial transactions appear to have been handled by her two oldest sons, Charles and Theodore, Jr. Black-bordered letters in the "Family Letters" folder in this collection record discussions between sisters Marie H. Tiffany and Emily C. Potter and the brothers who were settling the estate.


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"Farewell, Fred Voodoo"
By Amy Wilentz
Simon & Schuster; 329 pages
Fred Voodoo, we learn from Amy Wilentz's candid new book, is not a person but an epithet — the Haitian equivalent, more or less, of Joe Average. Wilentz spent years in Haiti as a foreign correspondent, and she picked up the term from fellow journalists who used it to describe their interview subjects. Watching those news reports, she grew to see the name as a form of packaging. "The objectification of the Haitians' victimization — that's one aspect of the Fred Voodoo syndrome," she writes.
It's telling that Wilentz, a UC Irvine professor, chose to call her book "Farewell, Fred Voodoo." The title, on its own, sounds like a parting to a friend; in the context of the book, it implies a shattering of ideals. Is Wilentz declaring her distance from those who view Haiti's plight as a hot new byline? Or is she voicing the abandonment that she often observes there — the speed with which foreign benefactors touch down to offer a quick fix, then retreat to their air-conditioned homes?
The answer, probably, is both. Throughout this rambling, but provocative, collection of essays, Wilentz depicts Haiti as a country that, like one of its shacks left standing after the 2010 earthquake, offers hope for renewal but seems perpetually on the verge of collapse. Wilentz has lived there long enough to have a sense of what remedies work best (if low-paying manufacturers move in, they should at least create products, like cell phones, that Haitians can use), but amid the morass of corrupt politicians, clung-to traditions and naive benefactors, change always seems like a tentative notion.
That 2010 disaster serves as the book's narrative thrust, as the destruction snaps the world's attention to a place that seldom held it before. Into the chaos comes an array of would-be helpers: Sean Penn, American doctors, young missionaries who advertise the Haiti trip as "an awesome adventure" on their website. Wilentz doesn't hold those idealistic foreigners in contempt, exactly; she merely explains, like a patient but exasperated parent, that the adventure may not be as awesome as planned.
Wilentz doesn't spare herself from criticism, either. Throughout the book, too many times, she ponders her role as a journalist in a blighted country and wonders if her work will make a difference. In the book's second-to-last chapter, she describes her hopeless feeling as she sits in America typing her manuscript in the wee hours, and her disillusionment is genuinely moving — but it would be more so if she hadn't made the same point multiple times over the previous pages. (Also tiresome is Wilentz's constant labeling of Haiti's foreign meddlers as "white"; surely those eager masses who flew in after the earthquake included at least a few Asians, Latinos or blacks?)
That tendency toward repetition is the chief weakness of "Farewell, Fred Voodoo," but Wilentz makes up for it with the strength of her prose, which runs the gamut, from slang to images of almost poetic intensity. At one point, she describes walking through Port-au-Prince after the earthquake and observing the rubble — everything from a collapsed presidential palace to a "leg sticking out of that pancaked school." Which one will weather the quake more intact: politics, or the young generation? In a land so full of farewells, it's anyone's guess.
—Michael Miller
"In the Footsteps of the Silver King"
By Paul Kareem Tayyar
Spout Hill Press; 159 pages
Between the pages of "In the Footsteps of the Silver King" is an enchanting place to be. Golden West College professor Paul Kareem Tayyar writes about protagonist Patrick Karimi's hunt for his late father's silver World Games medal — proof of a goalkeeping stint on the Iran National Team.
The 159-page novella tells a tale that is at once incongruous and at home amid its surroundings — a story within an assortment of stories. Opening with a series of references to icons including Sinbad the Sailor, Odysseus, Robin Hood and Beowulf, Karimi asserts, "My father mopped the floor with those legends, plan and simple." Thus ensues a comical yet oddly humane portrayal of Hassan, Karimi's all-or-nothing sort of father, who walked away, both literally and figuratively, from a litany of mishaps.
According to a lengthy prologue, "If there were a casting call for a real-life equivalent of Sylvester Stallone's Rocky Balboa, a man with both the strange, if not pathological, desire to continue placing himself in the most obviously, immediately violent of circumstances, long past when even the most believing of his fans had ceased being willing to cheer on such near-suicidal tendencies, and the clearly unexplainable talent for then emerging from such multi-round trauma not only unscathed but triumphant, I would certainly be inclined to nominate my father."
A call from Hassan's second wife, Nazim, with the news of Karimi's father's peaceful passing in his sleep, first leaves Karimi "downright stunned" and then triggers his journey across the world. In peeling back the layers of his father's life, Karimi uncovers added value to his own.
First stop: the Los Angeles County Fair. In trying to get information from Crazy Dave Grushecky, his father's closest friend and a one-woman man, Karimi ends up an accomplice to releasing a captive horse from poor conditions.
Next, in San Francisco, the city that represents the union of his parents right off Haight and Stanyon streets, Karimi befittingly meets and falls in love with Gemma. Her younger, chatterbox sister Dorothy is wise beyond her years about sports, pop culture, literature, music and politics, references to which pack and uplift the book.
Father Jim O'Leary, Karimi's subsequent lead and the man whose benevolence helped Hassan garner food and shelter for a week in the early '70s, guides him to Penelope Ruth, a.k.a. the Cloud Queen. Before heading to Portland for this meeting, however, the author directs Karimi into a twilight zone of baseball where the Giants stare down the Yankees, thanks to Barry Zito who pitches a perfect game.
Deeply moved by this encounter and the acquisition of his father's medal, which had been dunked in the trash under the influence of heightened emotions, Tayyar sums up the experience by saying, "Some things are best left to silence, I guess."
Sometimes serious, partly romantic and always grounded in an astounding knowledge of the world at large, this is a simple story that branches out as the protagonist takes a trip down memory lane or steps into quagmires that life throws his way. Sprinkling extra charm is the illustrative, almost lyrical, language, which transports the reader directly onto the scene of each page.
Per Tayyar, "Everything in life is a mystery…the best we can do is embrace it."
—Rhea Mahbubani


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|(NAPSI)—The housing market is roaring back in many areas, as increased demand and decreased inventory combine with very low interest rates to boost real estate sales. If you're considering buying a home, a few tips can help.
• Know the market. Stay on top of new home listings by frequently checking real estate listings using online search engines. In a market where a home can have multiple offers, buyers must be ready to make an offer quickly. Think through the "must haves" of your future home instead of chasing features that might be nice to have but are optional.
• Show you are serious. Demonstrating that you're prepared to close a purchase quickly can be an advantage in a competitive housing market. First, get a prequalification letter from your lender to show you qualify for financing. Second, when making an offer, don't "lowball" the seller. Make your bid competitive and keep contingencies to a minimum, particularly if there are additional purchase offers. Sellers are looking for a worry-free, uncomplicated sale. Try to be flexible on closing costs and dates.
• Consider all financing options. Consider putting 5 percent down so you have more equity and then continue building equity faster. Borrowers who have a down payment of less than 20 percent must also budget for mortgage insurance. Recent changes have made government-sponsored Federal Housing Administration (FHA) mortgage insurance more expensive, so private mortgage insurance may be the more affordable option. In most cases, borrowers can save more than $100 per month with private mortgage insurance instead of FHA's.
Another consideration is policy cancellation. FHA no longer allows cancellation of mortgage insurance premiums for borrowers with less than 10 percent down, requiring them instead to pay premiums for the life of the loan. In contrast, private mortgage insurance can be cancelled once you've established 20 percent equity and loan payments are current, among other conditions. According to Mortgage Insurance Companies of
A strengthening housing market means today's buyers are facing new realities. Before you buy, make sure you understand and address these challenges, so you can greatly increase your chances of getting into the home of your dreams.
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Dove Men+Care Partners with Gays with Kids for Paternity Leave
This Father's Day, Dove Men+Care partners with Gays With Kids to champion paternity leave for all dads in their new Father's Day campaign.
To celebrate Father's Day this year, the brand released a new film called "Dear Future Dads," featuring real dads -- including two gay dads Marion and Carl -- from around the world who have taken the time to care and what their respective paternity leave experiences mean to them. These dads share their personal stories and challenges they face becoming a new dad, like the lack of paid leave. Access to paid paternity leave is a challenge many dads face in the United States, with only 15 percent of U.S. men having access to them (and of those new dads, most don't take their full time off) despite 89 percent of dads believing it's important that companies provide paid paternity leave benefits.
To further amplify awareness around paid paternity leave, Dove Men+Care crowdfunded 27 new and expecting dads by contributing to their paternity leave requests on various crowdfunding sites including Take12. Of the dads crowdfunded, Mikey Levy and his husband are a same-sex couple who were pregnant via surrogacy. To ensure that all dads are represented, they are working with the Gays With Kids network to highlight the positive impacts taking paternity leave has on the gay community.


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When scoping out places to retire, general affordability is key. But look beyond how much it will cost to rent or buy a home or order a three-course meal. Take the matter of taxes, for example.
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Experiments on starting complex lazy
For some experiments
Add zeroed copy
Some reorganisation of EscriptParams and related changes. We now distinguish between modifiable parameters and build features. To interrogate the latter use: escript::hasFeature() [ python: escript.hasFeature() ] and escript::listFeatures() [ python: escript.listFeatures() ] I have decided to add specific getters for the remaining few parameters to avoid the penalty of string comparisons and to remove the wealth of friend declarations with Data* classes. Also made some changes in SConstruct to make sure we set *all* preprocessor directives *before* building anything. Still to do is dealing with checks for direct solver and gmsh. The latter needs to be a runtime check rather than a compile time check.
Making Lazy and the rest of escript use the same operator enumeration
last round of namespacing defines.
Fix incorrect behaviour of anti-symmetric for scalars. Also add hermitian and antihermitian. Very quick check looks ok but really not tested yet.
symmetric and antisymmetric now support complex Also a number of methods are renamed from nonsymmetric
Relicense all the things!
Rename nonsymetric to antisymmetric. nonsymmetric is now an alias to antisymmetric. At some stage later, we can try to remove nonsymmetric
Removing old shared tracking
Renaming headers for (hopefully) easier understanding
Removing the DataMaths namespace
More cleanup Moving some includes around. The plan is to rename some includes to better reflect their purpose. Removing inheritance from std::binary_function (since that is deprecated). Replacing some doubles with real_t.
Starting to remove dead code. DataAlgorithmAdapter is only used by the code which tests it.
Remove horrible debug output
Code path conversions. TestDomain can now return a JMPI. Some tests now use TestDomain (didn't want to undo all that work from before I found the ASSERT fix). Moving more code to new path. Commenting out a bunch of old ops.
Well it passes my tests
Small fix - hard to find
Preliminary to lazy cleanup Lazy is not templated for complex as yet but hopefully we can relieve the dependency on the briarpatch of the current methods.
Bye bye esysUtils. Also removed first.h as escript/DataTypes.h is now required everywhere and fulfills that role by including a boost python header first.
moved esys MPI to escript.
Adding #define for namespace on dynamic_pointer_cast<> Also for static_pointer_cast<> The plan is to make it easy to switch between boost:: and std:: for shared_ptr This will be important if we start to rely on more recent share_ptr features (guaranteed to be in c++11 not necessarily in boost)
Major rework of our exceptions. We now have specific AssertException NotImplementedError ValueError which translate to the corresponding python exception type. I have gone through a few places and replaced things but not everywhere.
Merging from 5937 on the complex branch Some parts of complex work but all of it is not unit tested and it is certainly not feature complete (I haven't put any time into dealing with subworld for complex). The other important aspect of this merge is that c++11 is now required to build escript.
Copyright dates updated. \version for doxygen to read
Fixing institution name to comply with policy
Fix for python compile warnings
Updating all the dates
I changed some files. Updated copyright notices, added GeoComp.
Fixes to keep clang happy
getSampleDataRO is now const
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Assorted spelling fixes.
Round 1 of copyright fixes
First pass of updating copyright notices
Fixing a bug in lazy reduction operations. Will add extra test to prevent regression once I can find out why the test is crashing
Copyright changes
More gcc-4.6 fixes (mostly initialized-but-unused-var warnings)
Removed bogus mpi.h includes, replaced others by our esysUtils wrapper and rearranged so that the wrapper always comes before netcdf which fixes linking problems when disabling mpi on systems with netCDF 4.x.
Merging dudley and scons updates from branches
Lazy node support for conditional evaluation. It should be a complete operation now.
Don't panic. Updating copyright stamps
More fixes to resolveGroup
ResolveGroup fixed so it actually resolves groups. Children, when you iterate backwards remember its i>=0 not i>0
resolveGroup function added to python. Unit tests for resolveGroup, resolve and delay.
Removed node limit on lazy expressions. The parameter LAZY_STR_FMT {0,1,2} controls how lazy expressions are printed. 0 gives default output 1 gives a tree form. 2 just prints depth
Added expression depth to toString for LazyData.
Added missing var declaration.
Fixed more instances of garbage=cstring+integer errors (d'oh!)
Added the LAZY_STACK_PROF #define for Lazy. If enabled lazy will print the (roughly) maximum stack used by any openmp thread over the course of this session.
Removed buffer implementation of Lazy. Removed supporting Alloc/Free Sample buffer calls.
icc will now record compiler options in libraries. escriptParams now has a pretty printer option for lazy expressions.
Fixed bug in lazy maxval and minval
minval and maxval are now lazy operations (they weren't before). Whether or not Lsup, sup and inf resolve their arguments before computing answers is controlled by the escriptParam 'RESOLVE_COLLECTIVE'. Note: integrate() still forces a resolve. Added some unit tests for operations which weren't tested before. Added deepcopy implementations for lazy operations which got missed somehow.
Add unit tests for saveDataCSV which should be ready for use now. Keyword args are now output in sorted order. Removed some unneeded functions.
A bunch of changes related to saveDataCSV. [Not completed or unit tested yet] Added saveDataCSV to util.py AbstractDomain (and MeshAdapter) have a commonFunctionSpace method to take a group of FunctionSpaces and return something they can all be interpolated to. Added pointToStream() in DataTypes to help print points. added actsConstant() to data - required because DataConstant doesn't store samples the same way other Data do.
Updating copyright notices
Modified Lazy so that resolving a single sample uses the node cache method. Fixed some doxygen problems.
Fixed compile warning on Mac
Caching now works. Number of levels and nodes permitted in a lazy expression has increased to 70 and 15000.
Experimental per node cache for lazy evaluation is now available via the LAZY_NODE_STORAGE #define It's a bit slower and larger for small problems but a bit faster and smaller for large (drucker prager) problems.
Calling resolve now replaces resolved expression with an identity node.
Added lazy version of swapaxes operation.
Added new params to control auto resolving for lazy data
Merging version 2269 to trunk
Misc fixes: Added some svn:ignore properties for output files that were cluttering things up. Lazy fixes: Fixed shape calculations for TRACE and TRANSPOSE for rank>2. Adjusted unit test accordingly. As a Temporary change to DataC.cpp to test for lazy data in DataC's expanded check. This is wrong but would only affect people using lazy data. The proper fix will come when the numarray removal code moves over from the branch. Made tensor product AUTOLAZY capable. Fixed some bugs resolving tensor products (incorrect offsets in buffers). Macro'd some stray couts. - It appears that AUTOLAZY now passes all unit tests. - It will not be _really_ safe for general use until I can add COW. - (Everything's better with COW)
Fixed a bug in lazy evaluation of Tensor Products. Added / to end of boost path
used unused variable. Added support for limiting the size of lazy expression trees. 500,000 seems a bit high
Unitary minus applied to unsigned returns unsigned error fixed lines 1124 & 1142. Probably not what was intended......
Fixed a bug related to lazy trace
Some lazy fixes to the symmetric operation.
Fixed a bug related to lazy tensor product.
Fixed some errors related to lazy processing of scalars. AutoLazy passes more unit tests before failing.
Made some changes to c++ unit tests to accomodate AUTOLAZY. whereZero and whereNonZero can now work with lazy data. There are some double frees if AUTOLAZY is turned on so don't use it yet.
Added macro to disable debug output from Lazy Data.
Added checks in C_GeneralTensorProduct (Data:: and Delayed forms) as well as the DataAbstract Constructor to prevent Objects with Rank>4 being created. Moved the relevant #define into systemdep. Removed some comments.
Added c++ unit tests for new operations. Added resolve to some operations in Data
Fixed a warning in cpp unit tests under dodebug Pointed the url for python doco at shake200 rather than iservo. Added support for trace and transpose to LazyData. Fixed bug in trace to initialise running totals.
Removed unused variable.
Fixed Data::toString to look at the amount of data actually stored rather than the number of points in the domain. Added support for GeneralTensorProduct to LazyData
OK, I have to include this file in the experiment to use the intelc math library on windows.
Fixed some warnings in the unit tests. Added support for symmetric and nonsymmetric operations on LazyData.
Use the NO_ARG trick on the PROC_OP macro expansions.
Bringing all changes across from schroedinger. (Note this does not mean development is done, just that it will happen on the trunk for now). If anyone notices any problems please contact me.
Merging from trunk again
Revert to assuming template_function<>(arg,....) is allowed calling syntax when the template arg type is well defined.
Remove duplicate declaration of opToString.
Test checkin to see if other compilers' macro preprocessors can sustain this abuse. Added a TYPE argument to PROC_OP so that the user can optionally disambiguate the type of the second argument. Needed for ::pow on windows.
Branch commit. Fixed to help windows determine template params.
Branch commit Brought schroedinger merge upto trunk@1946.
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Branch commit Added interpolation.
Branch commit More cleanup of DataTestCase - still don't have all the LazyTests in there yet. Added tests to make sure the resolve() operation does what it is supposed to. Added non-constant versions of getPointOffset to DataAbstract classes. Fixed a bug in deepCopy on DataLazy. Changed setToZero to not check the type of the data.
Branch commit. Changed some text so it doesn't mention DataArrayView. Added some tests for DataLazy. Factored common code in the Data tests (will add tests against lazy later).
Branch commit. Support for ** added.
Branch commit. Fixed to support scalar op non-scalar operations.
Improved the api_doxygen target a bit. Added some documentation. Added FORCERESOLVE macro to a number of operations.
Branch commit. Added some doco to DataLazy. Made Data::integrate aware of DataLazy.
Branch commit. Now can add Tagged and Constant as well as Expanded. Other operations to follow.
Branch commit Rewrote resolve to take into account Tagged and Constant Data. Mixing expanded and Tagged does not work yet.
Branch commit. Added more binary ops.
Branch commit. Added unary ops up to pos. toString now prints expression. Added inlines to UnaryFuncs.h. Still only supporting DataExpanded.
memory management for basic ops done.
Branch commit Not crashing.
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Branch commit. Bulk resolve for + - * /
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Good morning, children. If you took the February LSAT several weeks ago, this is going to be an important week because LSAC should be releasing your LSAT score sometime between now (right now! go check your email! not there? damn!) and Wednesday. The actual LSAC-estimated release date is on Wednesday itself, but they often send 'em out early (assuming it's not hurricane season).
How will you know when your February LSAT score's ready? Well, LSAC actually emails you as soon as it's available, so there's no need to constantly refresh your LSAC homepage. Those of you on the east coast who had your February LSAT postponed due to inclement weather should also be getting an email along with everyone else, but only time will tell for sure. At any rate, it'll be a very Spartan correspondence that matter-of-factly tells you what your February LSAT score was, along with its percentile. Normally, people click over to LSAC's website to see exactly what they missed, but since the February LSAT is non-disclosed, you'll never know which questions were the ones that got away. No matter; an LSAT score's an LSAT score, and those three little numbers are all that matter.
Now here's the fun part: LSAT scores are all released on the same day, but not at the same time. It's normal for some people to get their LSAT scores early in the morning, while others find themselves waiting late into the night. So just because your friend got his score back and you didn't doesn't mean that the system's broken. Be patient.
For those of you applying to law school this cycle, apply now! You're already late in the process, so the sooner you get your stuff in, the better. As for you folks who aren't applying to law school until later this year to go in 2014, you've got plenty of time to write those personal statements and get those letters of rec. But you may as well get as much of that out of the way now as you can, and the whole process will be behind you forever.
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Brad Paisley vs. Zac Brown Band – The Showdown
Today's Showdown competitors will be glad to know they won't have to face Darius Rucker and his new song 'True Believers.' The hit was retired after winning five Showdowns in a row. This means he'll be placed in the Hall of Fame, along with a select group of country hits. It's two new competitors today and tonight Taste of Country Nights radio.
Two country superstars face off on Wednesday's Showdown. Brad Paisley gives fans a taste of what his new album will sound like with 'Southern Comfort Zone,' a tribute to the south, while Zac Brown Band release what they call their most important song ever in 'Goodbye in Her Eyes.' The ballad was written over a decade ago, but they say the time wasn't right to include it on a record. It's up to Taste of Country readers and fans of both of these artists to decide which song is better, and who will move on to Thursday's song battle.
Listen to clips of both Paisley's and Zac Brown Band's songs and vote for your favorite here. You can vote once every hour online, so come back and vote often to be sure your artist wins. Hear the full versions of the songs tonight after 10PM on Taste of Country Nights. Help your favorite song win by placing additional votes at (888) 678-9995. Call as many times as you like! You can listen to the show online through any of the 41 radio stations that carry it. Voting will end tonight at 10:40PM CT.
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Watch An 'Amazing' Recorder Cover of 'My Heart Will Go On' [VIDEO]
In preparation for the 3D re-release of Titanic, which is scheduled for April, here's a one-of-kind cover version of the film's polarizing theme song 'My Heart Will Go On' performed by YouTube comedian and recorder player Matt Mulholland.
While Mulholland's recorder playing is shaky at times, his (ironically) earnest embrace of the song's message of eternal love will touch your heart and your funny bone.
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Every Valentine's Day since 1999, the walls of Mount Abraham Union Middle and High School have resonated with love songs. In her then-second year teaching at Mount Abe, chorus teacher Megan LaRose urged the school's a cappella group to spice up the day of love with "singing valentines," as she calls them. Since then, the act of endearment, or embarrassment, has become a school tradition. Check out the sound slideshow, and look for the complete story in Thursday's edition.
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BRISTOL — Every Valentine's Day since 1999, the halls of Mount Abraham Union Middle and High School have resonated with love songs. The Mount Abe a cappella singing group has turned the day of love into a playful tradition of surprising, embarrassing and tickling their fellow students with tunes from the heart.
VERGENNES — Vergennes Police Chief George Merkel disagreed on Wednesday with a statement released through the U.S. Department of Labor that Northlands Job Corps officials notified his department in a timely manner of a Feb. 7 assault that sent a Northlands student to Porter Hospital.
Meanwhile, Northlands officials this week declined to comment directly on the on-campus assault that left a 17-year-old Northlands student with a broken neck and nose.
BRISTOL — The restructuring of the state's mental health system post-Irene was the hot topic at Monday's legislative breakfast in Bristol, a timely discussion that gave lawmakers some food for thought as they weigh options on how to replace the Vermont State Hospital.
MIDDLEBURY — The Addison Central Supervisory Union (ACSU) is in the market for yet another senior administrator. Associate Superintendent Jan Willey has tendered her resignation in a move she said was fueled by what she described as ongoing "turmoil" in the ACSU central office.
Willey's departure, effective at the end of this academic year, is one of several administrative positions within the district that will be, or already have been, vacated during the past year under some strained circumstances.
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A winner was selected from 171 designs submitted by 28 freelance designers.
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At the recent National Society of Professional Engineers (NSPE) Annual Conference in Detroit, I presented a seminar with Donn Zang, P.E., entitled "Satisfying the Owner: Knowing What to Do and What to Avoid." As you can guess from the title, we discussed current problem areas in the construction industry and recommended possible solutions. While speaking about how business relationships and attitudes can negatively impact a construction project, I discussed some unfair generalizations several segments of the construction industry have created for one another, and I was unprepared for the response I received: Audience members began asking pointed questions that suggested they thought I was protecting the installer. It was obvious I had touched a nerve.
After I declared my impartiality and stated my objective intent (in other words, "Don't shoot the messenger"), the tension eased. Nonetheless, I got the attendees' point. These engineers are tired of "getting it from both sides." They are tired of being hammered by owners, end-users, and architects to do more for less. They are tired of being the scapegoat for poor working drawings and the lightning rod for installer criticism. And they are tired of having their services treated as a price-sensitive commodity. I learned some valuable lessons from this experience: Don't dwell on negative aspects to increase attention, and don't assume problems will diminish or everyone will make a reasonable profit when the construction market is strong.
Obviously, the poor working drawing problem still exists. Owners and end-users still need to be educated on the value of investing the required funds for a good design. The same goes for the architect who searches for the lowest bidder to be a member of the design team. We need to develop a grass-roots approach to solve this problem. As a member of the construction industry, you can emphasize the importance of a good design by pointing to the cost savings resulting from fewer extras and reduced claim litigation. Why pay a lawyer to sort through the mire when an upfront investment in a good design eliminates so many more problems? It's a tough, uphill struggle, but one that will benefit us all.


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As major airlines move to fare-based rewards for their frequent flier programs, consumers are left earning fewer rewards miles, according to a new study.
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In the past four months, both United Airlines (NYSE:UAL) and Delta (NYSE:DAL) announced plans to switch over from a loyalty-based rewards program that relies on total distance flown to a new model that is tied to how much consumers spend on airfare.
Flight research website Hopper.com finds United MileagePlus members will earn on average 11% fewer rewards miles flying on the most popular routes. The airline announced the changes on June 10, and the new program will kick in on March 1, 2015.
Delta's change takes effect on Jan. 1, 2015, and according to the study, fliers will earn 22% fewer miles per flight.
The only major U.S. carrier that still offers a distance-based loyalty system is American Airlines (NASDAQ:AAL).
Hopper compiled its data from its Global Distribution Service data sources, which draws on 10 million queries and 1 billion trips per day.
Virginia Nicholson, data analyst at Hopper, says the trend allows airlines to target business-class travelers and dole out fewer rewards miles overall.
"Routes that benefit consumers the most in the new program are typically short and expensive—they're targeted toward the business buyer," Nicholson says. "It's in the airline's best interest to get consumers to pay more. There's extra incentive to have a slightly-higher fare."
For consumers traveling for leisure, the move is certainly a negative, she says.
"For both Delta and United, it's a significant drop in the number of miles they can accrue," she says. "For United's most popular routes, members will see a 16% decline in the number of miles earned on average. For Delta, it's an 18% decline for the most popular routes."
For now, customers looking to save should take advantage of low dollar-per-mile flights and rack up their miles until these changes kick in, Nicholson advises.
"One thing to keep in mind is that neither program changes how you can spend your miles," she says. "The biggest thing is to consolidate your points to get higher membership tiers, which will be more beneficial for you in the end. This gives you a larger multiplier on how much you can spend versus how much you earn."


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Friday July 26th Update. To see How Maggie and Lucas are doing as of Thursday, July 25th Day +1, Click here
I want you to meet my new hero... Lucas Rudnicki from Levant! Lucas is 7 years old, and most children that age are afraid of needles and doctors. Heck, I really don't like doctors, and despite, or maybe because of numerous surgeries, I don't like needles.
You see, Lucas is a bone marrow donor for his sister, Maggie.
Maggie's story started at 8:49 am on Tuesday August 19th, 2008. After a long 9 months full of ups and downs (including a cystic hygroma, a CVS test, and tons of ultrasounds and fetal echocardiograms) we welcomed our little girl into our lives and fell completely in love. She seemed perfectly healthy at birth, weighing in at 6 lbs, 5 oz and pink as could be. She was given a clean bill of health and 3 days later we came home to settle into a routine with Maggie and her 2 big brothers.
4 weeks later Maggie came down with a cold, I decided to call our pediatrician when almost a week had gone by and she still wasn't better. I figured I was being overly paranoid, but better safe than sorry. We got to the doctor's and realized she had hardly gained any weight, she had a heart murmor and her doctor thought she looked pretty pale. He decided to send us for bloodwork that night to be sure everything was okay and 2 hours later I got a phone call that changed everything. Her doctor told us that Maggie's labs were pretty alarming and we needed to get her to the ER, we knew it was bad when he told us we needed to call 911 as she needed to go via ambulance. When we got to the hospital we found out she had a hemoglobin level of 3 (a normal hemoglobin starts around 11, a 3 is an extremely critical blood count). She was admitted to the PICU and a couple hours later received her first blood transfusion. She ended up getting 3 transfusions during her first stay in the hospital and now receives a blood transfusion about every 2-3 weeks.
Maggie was officially diagnosed with Diamond Blackfan Anemia after a bone marrow biopsy showed no red cells being made in her marrow. She also has tested positive for the RPS 19 gene mutation that is the most common gene mutation found thus far in DBA patients.
Diamond Blackfan Anemia is a rare life threatening disorder, affecting only about 750 people in the world. People with Diamond Blackfan can not make enough red blood cells needed to survive. It is usually diagnosed in infancy and has no cure.
Lucas told his Mom "Mommy I'm so happy that my blood will help Maggie not need needles anymore, because I don't like when she cries." What a brave boy! Here he is the night before he went to donate his bone marrow, Tuesday, July 23, 2013
This is Lucas, yesterday, as he was waiting to go into the OR, for the donation
And this my friends is what a hero looks like, as Lucas recovers from his donation
At 1:06 PM, July 24th Lucas' cells entered Maggie's body. It will take about 2 hours for them all to infuse. The nurses and doctors are counting the drips. Amazing. Witnessing a miracle today!
And this is what's going to give new life to little Maggie
Maggie and Lucas, a bond that will never be broken
The Rudnicki family has given me permission to use these pictures, and I'll keep you updated on the story. Needless to say, prayers are most welcome! If you want to follow the story, you can visit this website


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It seems the race is over.... according to some tweets it could have ended in Rio.Cee-ya in September.
Ana Paula & Renata - Friends from Brasilia.Ana Paula Jacques - from Brasilia. and Renata Faria - Firefighter from Brasilia
Hmm, I wish they were my amigas.
Ferds & Fer somewhat remind me of Vinícius & Guilherme from Season 2, but I really, really hope the two teams aren't anything alike.
PD. A possible team (both balded) was spotted at Vale do Anhangabaú, and one of them could be named Fuzzeti....
Tudo, só assistindo no canal Space em outubro...foi incrível!!!!
Everyone, watching Space channel on October.... it was amazing!!!!
This is the application video of Ricardo & Eduardo. They have an interesting story so i'm glad they were casted.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=toLLnKznwpE
Great job!... i was watching Cintia's twitter and she did not tweett since July 23 until August 7. If this is corrcet they could have been eliminated somewhere in the middle.
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Audiences most certainly will be "Tickled Pink" when they catch the new comedy by that title now in its world premiere run at the Laguna Playhouse.
It's the brainchild of popular comedienne — and Monarch Bay resident — Rita Rudner and her husband, Martin Bergman, who also directs. It's based on Rudner's early showbiz career and some (though certainly not all) of it may be true.
Rudner's tale is told through the superbly talented Emma Fassler who, when she finally breaks through as a standup comic, playgoers could close their eyes and imagine Rudner speaking this ironic, self-deprecating dialogue. It's sort of like watching Owen Wilson do a pitch-perfect Woody Allen in the movie "Midnight in Paris."
"Tickled Pink" is an ensemble effort and, yes, Rudner herself appears, though merely as a cog in her show's 13-performer wheel. But when she's on — costumed and bewigged beyond recognition — audiences will spot her brilliant comedic talent.
It's Fassler, however, around whom the show revolves, and Rudner could not have chosen a better surrogate to illustrate her mostly comic but occasionally deadly serious pseudo-biography.
As Mindy Solomon from Miami, who ventures to New York to seek a dancing career, but who switches to standup — as Rudner did — Fassler hits all the right notes in an exemplary performance.
Mindy aligns with a lovely blonde roommate, Ursula, beautifully interpreted by Annie Abrams, who becomes her best friend and, accidentally, her arch-rival, scoring the leading role in a TV sitcom originally meant for Fassler's character. Their tenuous relationship thereafter is skillfully enacted.
Michael Kirby exhibits understated charm as Mitch, the show's co-creator whose romance with Mindy suffers as well. Nick Massouh takes on the deliciously slimy character of Tommy, Ursula's husband who puts the moves on Mindy.
Moving the story onto more serious turf is Betsy Reisz as Penelope, Mindy's friend and fellow writer who suffers an unkind twist of fate. Floyd van Buskirk has a neat little cameo as Mindy's uncultured father, left to his own devices in a cluttered apartment he cleans once a year.
Other ensemble members — Greg Bryan, Eileen Galindo, Brett Glazer, Eric Curtis Johnson, Brian Lohmann, Robert Yacko — spin in and out of the episodic show in various guises, wheeling scenic elements on and off stage in the process.
As for Rudner, she's a genuine hoot as Ursula's viciously Teutonic mother, but she's most impressive during an exercise segment when she twists her limber body every which way but loose. She's not even given a special spot during the ensemble curtain call, though she certainly deserves one.
The setting, by D. Martyn Bookwalter, is minimalist, but David Mickey's rear-projection scenic elements set the location of the various scenes perfectly. Dwight Richard Odle's 1970s-era costumes fill the bill quite nicely.
There's a little cleanup work to be done as this project moves along, hopefully to a Broadway or off-Broadway production. The ensemble probably will be shortened and tightened, if only for economic reasons, but there's little room for improvement at its core.
You'll likely be "Tickled Pink" when you catch this world premiere, a labor of love by a terrific husband and wife team who have chosen the Laguna Playhouse as their launching pad.
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For so many years, I referred to Girls Aloud as my 'guilty pleasure'. Then something changed - I began to accept my love, no matter how many times people around me smirked. Because really, pop is a medium as valid and wonderful (and equally as cynical and flawed) as anything else in the ecosystem of music. That doesn't necessarily mean that people should like it: not everyone likes metal, minimalist electronica, folk or classical music. But pop shouldn't necessarily have to be a dirty word either. When done right, it can be as spectacular as any other genre.
And this is precisely what transpired with Girls Aloud. Five ordinary girls knitted together by a reality show. Should have fallen away…should have dropped like a stone after a couple of mediocre singles. But no. What happened was this: Brian Higgins and Xenomania. Who crafted songs for the group – wondrous and weird, dirty and daunting, sexy and sublime songs. And the rest is history. Ten years on, where Hear'Say are a footnote, Gareth Gates a speech therapist and One True Voice (t'was a contest back in 2002, remember?) a source of ill-recalled mirth, Girls Aloud are selling out the arenas. It's not just because they're aesthetically pleasing, or that they possess a good marketing team. It's because for most of their career, they delivered blindingly good pop music. Certainly between 2004 and 2007, their musical output was near flawless.
Hence why Ten proves something of a disappointment. See, Girls Aloud never necessarily had the smartest choice of singles, upon which this retrospective focuses. Which is an error, as one of their laudable factors was that rather than following the tired trend of releasing albums that were singles and sawdust, Xenomania took care to create coherent records, on which many of the general album tracks were superior to their singles bedfellows. Which is why it's galling to see the dreary 'I'll Stand By You' included at the expense of Chemistry's magnificent 'Whole Lotta History' and the sheer adrenaline-shot audacity of Tangled Up's 'Close To Love' usurped by the eminently inferior 'Sexy! No, No, No' from the same record. And they never could do covers: 'Jump' being a particular lowpoint here.
As for the new songs, lead-off 'Something New' does at least build to a full-throttle climax but is persistently interrupted by that unwieldy rap section. 'On The Metro' admirably attempts to marry J-Pop with trance synths and sub-bass in their typically OTT manner, but never quite delivers the knockout punch. And 'Every Now and Again' is simply an identikit Hi-NRG pop disco track. Oddly enough considering their poor track record on ballads, the sweet and heartfelt 'Beautiful 'Cause You Love Me' comes across remarkably well amongst the new tracks – its Nineties power ballad vibe (specifically Maria McKee's 'Show Me Heaven') spun deftly around a strong central vocal. But none of the new additions can hold a scented candle to their previous highs.
But like a teacher getting the initial failings out the way at a particularly precocious student's open evening, the great vastly outweighs the adequate and there remains enough stunning pop alchemy here to thrill beyond requirement. The dirty guitar-twang knee-tremblers of 'Sound of the Underground', 'No Good Advice' and 'Love Machine' still sound fresh and uniquely innovative, but when they began to fully embrace electronica and dance rhythms, they became peerless. 'Call The Shots' is an impeccable piece of melodic layering and dynamic majesty – as elegant, sad and seductive as a torn designer evening dress. 'The Show' swapped DNA with the electroclash and mash-up era and evolved its own giddy electronic niche. 'The Promise' drips with effortless doo-wap glamour and 'Can't Speak French' carries a striking and ethereal beauty that simply defies explanation. And then there's their absolute masterpiece – 'Biology'. An improbable three-way car crash between blues-rock, pop and electronica - with the sheer songwriting genius to combine such disparate elements – it still stands as a beautiful Frankenstein's monster of modern pop. You can admire its multiple levels and structure; you can nod at the intelligent twists and about-turns. Or you can just dance like crazy. For me, that is the epitome of great pop. And as far as the last decade goes, pop attained some degree of perfection in November 2005. It still sounds like nothing that came before or since, and the astonishing switch of gear at the pre-chorus still makes me want to applaud with sheer unadulterated joy.
To put your finger on the moment when Girls Aloud first bucked the trend, listen to the point at 0.30 on 'No Good Advice' when Nadine Coyle sings a deliberately jarring dropped note to convey a dirty and rebellious affectation. That was the point where convention headed off at a tangent and a wonderfully diverse pop band was born. There's a lesson here too. Manufactured pop (from reality TV or otherwise) is not the enemy per se. The enemy is in not understanding the value and role of the song itself within pop and the magic it can convey. The proof is here to see.
The collection and especially the new songs have the feeling of a last hurrah and it's almost certain that next year's tour will be their swansong. But I'll miss them. As will many others, regardless of whether they openly choose to admit it or not. Simply put: the greatest British pop band of the past ten years.
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The featured op-ed column in today's Star Tribune is our friend Katherine Kersten's "State poised to enter a legal danger zone." In a preview of coming attractions, Kathy observes that Minnesota's liberal establishment has effectively set the state up for an educational adequacy lawsuit of the kind that has done such wonders for schools and kids elsewhere. Based on her own first-hand experience and related Center of the American Experiment report "Our immense achievement gap" (summary here, full report here), Kathy writes:
Minnesota is heading straight toward a legal buzz saw. Our state faces a looming "educational adequacy" lawsuit that threatens both the quality of our public schools and our cherished tradition of school choice — and may bankrupt the state treasury in the process.
Though the suit will be brought in the name of improving education, it will have the opposite effect. If successful, it will likely burden our teachers with impossible mandates and lower our academic standards, while astronomically increasing the cost of K-12 education.
Here's the kicker: Below the radar, our own Minnesota Department of Education and other taxpayer-funded educational institutions are working to lay the legal groundwork for a court victory by plaintiffs that will usher in this educational and fiscal debacle.
In December 2011, a phalanx of lawyers emphasized the threat of such a suit to the Integration Revenue Replacement Advisory Task Force, of which I was a member. The task force's mission was to develop recommendations to repurpose state funds now used to promote interracial contacts in many school districts.
One well-known attorney — Dan Shulman of the Minneapolis firm of Gray Plant Mooty — told the Star Tribune then that he is already "prepared" to sue the state of Minnesota." I just need clients," he declared.
Kathy may well be Minnesota's most valuable citizen. She is sounding an alarm. Please read the whole thing.


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A drug trafficker who placed a pipe bomb in a gift-wrapped microwave oven in a plot to kill two potential murder witnesses was executed Wednesday for the 1992 death of a Florida highway trooper who became the unintended victim.
Paul Augustus Howell, 48, was pronounced dead at 6:32 p.m. following a lethal injection at the Florida State Prison in Starke.
Howell was condemned for the killing of Florida Highway Patrol Trooper Jimmy Fulford on Feb. 1, 1992, when the package exploded during a traffic stop.
When the curtain opened revealing the witnesses Wednesday evening, Howell opened his eyes wide and lifted his head to stare at those gathered. He then began praying.
When asked if he had any words, he apologized to Fulford's family. He then gave a 2-minute statement detailing the events of the crime and placing blame on a friend for letting the bomb go off.
Howell built the bomb in his Fort Lauderdale home and placed it in the microwave oven, court documents stated. He then paid another man, Lester Watson, $200 to deliver the box across-state to a woman in Marianna who, along with a friend, could tie Howell to a drug-related murder, according to the records.
But Fulford pulled Watson over for speeding about an hour from his Florida Panhandle destination and the bomb never was delivered to the intended target. Instead, Watson was arrested after giving Fulford a false name and birthdate. Watson also gave Fulford permission to search the car rented in Howell's name.
Before Fulford opened the package, a police dispatcher called Howell to let him know what was going on. Instead of mentioning the bomb, Howell said he had given Watson permission to drive the car, but didn't think Watson was leaving the Fort Lauderdale area.
Howell said Wednesday that he had told Watson to make sure police didn't get the bomb if he got pulled over along the way.
"I'm sorry," Howell said. "When the cops called, I thought Lester wasn't going to let them go in there."
Two deputies took Watson and a passenger to a jail while Fulford took inventory of the car's contents. When the 35-year-old trooper opened the package and looked to see what was in the microwave oven, a powerful explosion took his life.
The blast — so strong that it left a depression in the roadway — occurred along Interstate 10 just east of Tallahassee.
Had the blast occurred in Tammie Bailey's apartment — the woman who was supposed to have received the bomb — it would have been powerful enough to blow out doors and walls, potentially killing anyone in the apartment as well as neighbors, according to court documents. Authorities said Bailey's friend Yolanda McAllister also was an intended target. Bailey had previously told Howell she needed a microwave oven to heat her baby's bottles.
Once the execution began at 6:19 p.m., the microphone was turned off, but Howell spoke rapidly for about a minute. His words then started to slow, and he lost consciousness. Department of Corrections spokeswoman Jessica Cary later said Howell was praying.
Madison County Sheriff Ben Stewart, who grew up with Fulford, remembers his old friend as a hero.
"He saved a bunch of people's lives and I feel if he had to do it over again, he would have done the same thing because that's just the kind of person he was," Stewart said.
Florida Highway Patrol Major Mark Welch said after the execution that the patrol lost one of its most courageous officers 22 years ago this month.
"Rather than reflect on the incident that happened this night, we prefer to use this opportunity to honor Trooper Fulford," Welch said. "Let this serve as a reminder of the danger that law enforcement officers face each and every day they put on their uniforms and leave their homes and families behind."
No one from Fulford's family witnessed the execution, and the family gave no statement after it was finished.
Fulford's death prompted a state and federal investigation that broke apart a drug ring and led to the indictment of 28 people.
Howell, a native of Jamaica, was sentenced to life on federal drug charges. He was later convicted and sentenced to death on state charges of murder and making, possessing, placing and discharging an explosive device.
His lawyers had filed an unsuccessful appeal Tuesday to the U.S. Supreme Court, arguing that a new drug Florida uses for executions wasn't tested for that purpose. This was the fifth execution in the state using the new drug, midazolam hydrochloride, as part of a three-drug mix.
Watson testified that while he saw Howell wrapping the box that contained the microwave oven, he never knew it was a bomb, thinking instead it held drugs. Watson was convicted of second-degree murder and is serving a 40-year sentence.
Howell's brother Patrick, who helped him build the bomb, was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to life.
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Man executed for killing trooper with pipe bomb
A drug trafficker who placed a pipe bomb in a gift-wrapped microwave oven in a plot to kill two potential murder witnesses was executed Wednesday for the 1992 death of a Florida highway trooper who became the unintended victim.


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