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U.S. says N.J. owes $50 million in Medicaid overpayments
According to the federal government, the state of New Jersey owes it about $50 million for Medicaid payments it never should have received.
A report publicly released Monday found hospitals in the Garden State received Medicaid payments for which they didn't qualify.
At issue are payments to five hospitals that got "disproportionate share" funds from 2003 to 2007. That is money meant to go to hospitals that provide care to people with no insurance and no way to pay. But the federal Department of Health and Human Services' Office of Inspector General found those five hospitals didn't actually qualify for that money.
"We were doing other audit work," said John Hagg, director of medicaid audits for the Office of Inspector General at HHS, "and we saw that the state made payments to hospitals that weren't eligible. And that's what caused us to want to go in and do a full audit."
A New Jersey Department of Human Services spokeswoman wrote in an email that the state believes it owes only about $3.5 million, not $50 million. She insists the Medicaid claims submitted were correct, with one
Hagg said the arm of the federal government that administers Medicaid has six months to agree or disagree with the inspector general's findings and, if it agrees, demand payment from New Jersey.


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Series 1 drops this September...
San Diego Comic-Con coverage brought to you by Collectibles Insurance, Big Bad Toy Store, Sekaido, and Monkey Depot.
Dragon Age Series 1 was on display at this year's San Diego Comic Con. The series, which includes four figures based on the fan-favorite game - Genlock, Duncan, Loghain and Morrigan - will hit shelves this September with a price point TBD.
Be sure to check out more images of this impressive video game series based on the Bioware hit HERE.

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Risers and fallers after Sunday's Sprint Cup race at Kansas Speedway:
Kansas Speedway: Repaving the 12-year-old track turned out to be a brilliant move. Whether it was intentional or not, the new, faster surface led to the type of action-packed race fans want to see—plenty of caution flags, plenty of wrecks and plenty of twists and turns.
With drivers slipping and sliding like they were on ice, some of NASCAR's very best drivers either spun out or hit the wall. And that led to plenty of drama—Jimmie Johnson's comeback, Danica Patrick's retaliation and Kyle Busch calling out Ryan Newman. On a day when most fans were expecting a fuel-mileage race, Kansas delivered an action-packed event worthy of a race in the Chase.
Jimmie Johnson's No. 48 Hendrick Motorsports crew: You can't exactly give Johnson kudos for his performance at Kansas. He did wreck, after all. But, like we've seen before, Johnson's Chad Knaus-led crew delivered a championship-like performance. By quickly repairing the damage on Johnson's car and getting him back on the track without losing a lap, the 48 team helped him salvage a top-10 finish and just might have won him a sixth championship.
Emotional Matt Kenseth: Kenseth won another Sprint Cup race on Sunday, but it's not like we haven't seen that before. It was his third of the season and the 24th of his career. But what was different was the heart-warming emotion Kenseth showed in victory lane. With his 14-year tenure with Roush Fenway Racing coming to a close, Kenseth was overcome with emotion and had to choke back tears as he thanked his team and the Roush organization.
For weeks, Kenseth had been asked about being a "lame-duck driver" and how leaving Roush would affect his performance the rest of the season. He answered that question emphatically at Kansas. And he showed some genuine emotion, which is rare for a driver who sometimes gets a bad (and inaccurate) rap for not showing much personality. Kenseth's win was one of the feel-good stories of the year, and his reaction afterward is why he is one of the sport's class acts and a fan favorite.
Danica Patrick: Danica, Danica, Danica. You know better than that. Not my words, but those of crew chief Greg Zipadelli, who admonished his driver after she intentionally spun Landon Cassill at Kansas. Patrick then suffered the ultimate insult when Cassill drove away from the accident and remarked: "Rule No. 1 in stock-car racing is to learn how to wreck someone without wrecking yourself."
While Patrick deserves some credit for standing up for herself and sending a message that she is not going to be pushed around, it's hard to be taken seriously when you wreck yourself while trying to retaliate. Just another lesson in what has become a steep, steep learning curve for Patrick.
Rick Hendrick: Oops. That's about all Hendrick could say after an embarrassing gaffe at Kansas. Hendrick met with reporters prior to the race and revealed that Dale Earnhardt Jr. was doing so well in his recovery from a concussion that he had already been cleared and would return this weekend at Martinsville. The only trouble with that is that it was just a bit premature.
A couple of hours later, Hendrick had to come to the infield media center and admit that he had spoke too soon and that Earnhardt must go through additional tests this week before being cleared to race.
It's hard to criticize Hendrick, one of the most respected men in racing and one of the most charitable and classiest individuals in all of sports, for one small, honest mistake. He just got a little excited is all. That's understandable. He does own the most popular car in the sport and employ the sport's most popular driver. He's as anxious as anyone to see them back on the track.
Phoenix Racing: Kurt Busch wrecked more than half a dozen times in his 31 races with the team this season. AJ Allmendinger wrecked Sunday in his second race with the team. Is it the drivers, or the cars they're driving? And shouldn't they be out of cars by now?
Power rankings
1. Brad Keselowski (Last week: 1)
2. Jimmie Johnson (3)
3. Clint Bowyer (4)
4. Kasey Kahne (7)
5. Denny Hamlin (2)
6. Matt Kenseth (9)
7. Tony Stewart (8)
8. Martin Truex Jr. (11)
9. Jeff Gordon (10)
10. Kyle Busch (5)
11. Greg Biffle (6)
12. Kevin Harvick (12)
13. Mark Martin (13)
14. Carl Edwards (18)
15. Paul Menard (23)
16. Regan Smith (22)
17. Ryan Newman (14)
18. Aric Almirola (16)
19. Marcos Ambrose (26)
20. Dale Earnhardt Jr. (15)
21. Joey Logano (19)
22. Jamie McMurray (20)
23. Juan Pablo Montoya (21)
24. Sam Hornish Jr. (17)
25. Jeff Burton (24)
26. Bobby Labonte (25)
27. Travis Kvapil (29)
28. Landon Cassill (NR)
29. David Ragan (NR)
30. David Gilliland (28)


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The Florida winter tomato deal — and perhaps the Florida tomato industry, period — could be at risk because of rapidly increasing volumes from Mexico, according to an industry veteran.
A Mexican industry official, meanwhile, says the tomato industry loses if any grower goes out of business, north or south of the border.
Tony DiMare, vice president of the Homestead, Fla.-based DiMare Co., one of Florida's largest shippers, said the U.S. government is not doing a good enough job cracking down on illegally low-priced Mexican tomatoes and on shipments that are not meant for export but come to the U.S. anyway.
Reggie Brown, executive vice president of the Maitland-based Florida Tomato Exchange, said there has been "some circumvention" in past years of a suspension agreement between the U.S. and Mexico that sets a price minimum, and he fears there could be more this season.
As a result, DiMare said, Florida tomato growers are struggling to weather an ever-increasing flood of Mexican product that is keeping prices below production costs for months at a time.
With rising production costs, the break-even price for Florida growers is $9 or $10 per box, DiMare said. Growers no longer enjoy the strong markets that make up for the weak ones, he said.
"It's at risk, there's no question about it," DiMare said. "We cannot continue to sustain these kinds of losses. It will eventually knock us out of the winter deal, and maybe eventually out of the entire deal."
That would hurt everyone, not just Florida, said Eric Viramontes, chief executive officer of the Mexican Association for Protected Horticulture, Culiacan.
"I can understand (DiMare's) worries," Viramontes said. "We don't want the industry to disappear in any area. We're all on the same ship."
That said, Viramontes asserts that all of the growers under his organization's umbrella are complying with the suspension agreement, though AMHPAC would welcome a greater role in the enforcement of it. That authority, he said, would have to come from the U.S. government.
"It's in our best interest that tomatoes not be dumped," Viramontes said.
AMHPAC does not, however, support changing the agreement to limit volumes, a change which DiMare said could be necessary to buoy markets.
"I see (DiMare's) point of view, but that would be opening a very dangerous door," Viramontes said. "You always have to think of the butterfly effect. You may regret it later."
The growth of the Mexican greenhouse vegetable industry has been good not only for Mexico, but for the U.S., as well, Viramontes said. An AMHPAC study found that in 2009 alone, the industry accounted for 8,000 new jobs in the U.S.
In mid-January, Mexican tomatoes were already selling at the lowest price allowed under the suspension agreement, about 21 cents per pound, DiMare said.
That was before peak volumes from south of the border even started to hit, he said. When they do, product will come into the U.S. that is below the suspension agreement floor price.
In addition, product marked "not for export" also will make it across, DiMare said.
"The U.S. Department of Agriculture is supposed to be monitoring it, but it seems like every year that kind of product finds its way into the market," he said.
Mexican field-grown tomato volumes have fallen off in recent years, but greenhouse volumes have skyrocketed, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
In the 2005-06 season, about 343 million pounds of greenhouse tomatoes were shipped from Mexico to the U.S. By 2010-11, the total had risen to 771 million pounds.
Brown compared the suspension agreement to a dike. If the water keeps rising, there's a point at which the dike can no longer do its job. And that point has been reached in the tomato industry.
"The marketplace is grossly oversupplied with capacity," Brown said. "One answer is to find a mechanism at the border to avoid overwhelming the marketplace."
Even if Mexican shippers don't dip below the floor price established by the suspension agreement, Brown says the floor price isn't high enough for anyone — definitely in the U.S., and probably in Mexico, too — to make a profit.
Lance Jungmeyer, president of the Nogales, Ariz.-based Fresh Produce Association of the Americas, which conducts workshops educating growers and importers about the suspension agreement, said it has succeeded in bringing order to the marketing of Mexican tomatoes.
"Everyone I talk to says it's good," Jungmeyer said.
Any violations of the agreement are an anomaly, he said. Shippers don't stand to gain from dumping fruit, and under the agreement they face stiff fines if they do.
"Anyone who's in it for the long haul has no interest in subverting this," he said.
As for changing the agreement to limit volumes, Jungmeyer doubts if such a change would stand up to North American Free Trade Agreement and World Trade Organization scrutiny.
The Florida winter tomato deal — and perhaps the Florida tomato industry, period — could be at risk because of rapidly increasing volumes from Mexico, according to an industry veteran.


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Cal and Stanford have combined to produce first-round picks in the past four NFL Drafts. The process of extending the streak to five begins Saturday at the NFL Scouting Combine in Indianapolis.
Early draft projections indicate Cal receiver Keenan Allen and Stanford tight end Zach Ertz could go late in the first round or early in the second. For both, the ultimate landing spot depends largely on their 40-yard dash times at the Combine and during on-campus workouts.
In all, 11 players from Bay Area schools are expected to participate in the Combine. But only Ertz and Allen are considered potential first-rounders.
"It's one word: Speed," NFL Network draft analyst Mike Mayock said of Allen. "That's the only question scouts have."
They won't get an answer this week.
Allen missed the final three games of the season with a strained knee, then aggravated the injury two weeks ago during a workout in Florida, according to ESPN.
As a result, Allen will undergo medical exams at the Combine but won't participate in drills. Instead, he'll reportedly work out for scouts in April at Cal.
His agent, J.T. Johnson, told this newspaper that Allen was examined by renown orthopedist Dr. James Andrew, who provided written confirmation that Allen's knee is stable. Johnson hopes Andrews' evaluation will "put everybody's concerns about his knee to rest."
Allen has been working out in Florida with his brother, former Cal quarterback Zach Maynard, who wasn't invited to the Combine, and cornerback Marc Anthony, who will participate.
"I'm not really limited as far as intensity," Allen said. "I feel pretty good about the knee. Talking with doctors, they don't feel too concerned."
At 6-foot-3 and 205 pounds, Allen is big enough to extricate himself from press coverage and is an adept runner after the catch. But scouts are curious about his speed.
Mayock suggested Allen as a potential target for Minnesota (No. 23) and perhaps the 49ers (No. 31).
"If you like him, he's Anquan Boldin," Mayock said of the Baltimore Ravens' star. "If you don't like him, he's speed deficient."
Ertz won't race against anyone directly at the Combine, but he will have competition. The Monte Vista High School product must separate himself from two other top tight ends: Notre Dame's Tyler Eifert and San Diego State's Gavin Escobar.
"They're what today's tight ends are all about," Mayock said. "It will be interesting to see how the three run. They're all clumped together."
Ertz's versatility as a pass receiver is unquestioned. At Stanford, he lined up in tight and out wide; he caught passes against linebackers and safeties; he ran short, middle and downfield routes; and he made a slew of clutch catches against top teams.
"There aren't a lot of questions to be answered about Zach," said Stanford coach David Shaw, a former NFL assistant.
"How fast is he, exactly? That wouldn't stop me from drafting him. I just want to know. He's one of the guys they're looking at in the first round."


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Aspen Theatre Opens Season With AVENUE Q Tonight, 6/25
Theatre Aspen begins its 29th summer season with the Tony Award-winning musical comedy Avenue Q tonight, June 25th, followed by the musical How I Became a Pirate, based on the beloved children's book by Melinda Long (July 10th – Aug 18th) and the film noir thriller The 39 Steps (July 25th – Aug 18th).
Artistic Director Paige Price said, "This year we really went for variety in our programming – from the saucy Avenue Q to the sweet How I Became a Pirate. The 39 Steps has been a hit everywhere it's played and I think it's a perfect show for our summer audience. It's both silly and smart and we have an expert cast to put it over."
Avenue Q, with music and lyrics by Robert Lopez and Jeff Marx and a book by Jeff Whitty, will star Jeffrey Correia, Julie Kavanagh, Erin Maguire, Ben Liebert, Regina Fernandez, Bradley Beahen and Danielle K Thomas. Recent Carbonell Award winner Mark Martino will direct and choreograph.
TA will also offer the family musical How I Became a Pirate (book, music and lyrics by Janet Yates Vogt & Mark Friedman), directed by Marjorie Mae Treger, returning to TA for her third season on the heels of last year's successful production of Annie. The musical features Danielle Erickson, Tom Erickson, Rodney Lizcano, Tatum Shane, Peggy Wilkie, Thadd Krueger, Kyle Dean Steffen and Jeffrey B. Duncan as "Braid Beard."
The 39 Steps, adapted by Patrick Barlow, from the novel by John Buchan, stars David Hess (Annie Get Your Gun, SweeneyTodd) and Joan Hess (Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Mamma Mia), with Patrick Richwood (Pretty Woman) and Bjorn Johnson as the clowns. David Hess will direct.
The 2012 design team includes Reuben Lucas and R. Thomas Ward (sets), Paul Black and Colin Riebel (lighting), Kevin Brainerd (costumes), David Thomas (sound). Production Stage Manager is Vernon Willet.
Theatre Aspen was awarded the "Outstanding Regional Theatre" Henry Award in Denver in 2009 and Alison Luff (Ghost) won a Best Supporting Actress Denver Post Ovation Award for her work as Olive in The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. Recent Ovation nominees included Joan Hess, Beth Malone, Aaron Rhyne, Julia Foran and Sandy Duncan.
Productions take place in the new Hurst Theatre in Rio Grande Park and will be underwritten by season sponsor ANB Bank, with the generous support of Premier Health Alliance, The City of Aspen, Hays Private Client, Soledad and Bob Hurst, Mandy Gray and Randy Work, Dan and Maureen Holman, The Aspen Club and Spa and Les Dames d'Aspen.
Theatre Aspen School summer classes and theatre workshops are underway, and registration is open for July and August programming
For further information contact Theatre Aspen at 970-925-9313 x200. www.theatreaspen.org


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The Challenge of Managing Multi-Platform Virtualization
By Alan Radding
For the past decade while virtualization has been experiencing widespread adoption it was considered an x86-VMware phenomenon. Sure there are other hypervisors, but for most organizations VMware was synonymous with virtualization. Even on the x86 platform, Microsoft Hyper-V was the also ran.
Virtualization, however, provides the foundation for cloud computing, and as cloud computing gains traction across all segments of the computing landscape virtualization increasingly is understood as a multi-platform and multi-hypervisor game. Today's enterprise is likely to be widely heterogeneous. It will run virtualized systems on x86 platforms, Windows, Linux, Power, and System z. By the end of the year, expect to see both Windows and Linux applications running virtualized on x86, Power Systems, and the zEnterprise mainframe.
Welcome to the virtualized multi-platform, multi-hypervisor enterprise. While it brings benefits—choice, flexibility, cost savings—it also comes with challenges. The biggest of which is management complexity. Growing virtualized environments have to be tightly managed or they can easily spin out of control with phantom and rogue VMs popping up everywhere and gobbling system resources. The typical platform- and hypervisor-specific tools simply won't do the trick. This will require tools to manage virtualization across the full range of platforms and hypervisors.
Not surprisingly, IBM, which probably has the most virtualized platforms and hypervisors of any vendor, also is the first with cross-platform, cross-hypervisor management in Systems Director's newest version of VMControl, version 2.4. This is truly multi everything management. From a single console you control VMs running on x86 Windows, x86 Linux, and Linux on Power. And it is agnostic as far as the hypervisor goes; it can handle VMware, Hyper V, and KVM. It also integrates with Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager and VMware vCenter.
The multi-platform VMControl 2.4 dovetails nicely with another emerging virtualization trend—open virtualization. In just a few months the Open Virtualization Alliance has grown from the initial four founders (IBM, Red Hat, Intel, and HP) to over 200 members. The open source KVM hypervisor the alliance is championing handles both Linux and Windows workloads, allowing organizations to avoid yet another element of vendor lock-in. One organization already used that flexibility to avoid higher charges by running the open source hypervisor for a test and dev situation. That kind of open virtualization requires the kind of multi-platform virtualization management VMControl 2.4 delivers.
Alan Radding is a freelance writer and analyst. He blogs about IT, Enterprise Efficiency and the mainframe.


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Hi All~~
God's blessings to you all.
My husband was diagnosed with a CC Distal Tumor in 2010. He had a Whipple in Indianapolis. Small tumor: Stage 1b...clean, no invasions, negative (but very close) margins. Due to margin being a little closer than surgeon's comfort level, my husband followed up in Goshen with radonc (5FU) and chemotherapy regimen of gemcitabine/cisplatin. His return to the new 'normal' has been gradual but, overall, pretty great. We've counted our blessings each step of the way. He finally began feeling well this past July. Running, gardening, hunting. Still, continual GI pains: burning, guts so active, some pain/cramping. It's intermittent. Doesn't seem to be related to certain types of foods, when he eats, how much, etc. He takes Creon three times a day. Recent pain has developed while lying on back...stomach pain that sort of radiates to back. Occasional.
He graduated to 6-month follow-up CT scans (at least he was supposed to.) The September scan in Inday was great. Surgeon was pleased with all. A little continued inflammation at connection site, but otherwise good. Then, in March, went to Goshen for blood work. His medical onc called and said his CA 19-9 and CEA were elevated. 3X what they were in September. Unexplained. No physical symptoms. He had a CT. Nothing too remarkable...except 2 4mm spots on right lung. Onc was not overly concerned about those...new CT machine (very sensitive) and they may have been there all along. Certainly not enough to explain spike in tumor marker. He met with his peer group and they decided to do a endoscopy on Monday. Look around the bile duct area. They were all generally perplexed about the rapid elevation...with no physical symptoms and a clear looking CT. Our doctor told us it's possible they won't see a thing on the scope. They don't initiate a new treatment plan based on tumor markers alone (not that we want them to.) So...
This is where we're at. I, of course, tend to become gripped with fear at each possibility. I wish it wasn't so. I am up and down. My husband is all about: no need to panic....we need more information. He's right. God is in control. One day at a time. This is the new normal. Wish I could plant myself there and let it go?!! I have caught myself trying to really overly control other aspects of daily life...of course because this area is so outside of my control. How do you all manage these up and down emotions?
Also, what does chronic pancreatitis look like? I've wondered if this might be the cause of his ongoing pains? And, even more so now that it radiates to his back and he occasionally feels flu-ish. The oncologist does not think this ongoing gastric upset has anything to do with spiked tumor markers at this stage....would have happened some time ago. My husband has been a 2-3 glass of wine per night person...and, if we have something stronger, he will partake. I've asked him to cease all alcohol...he has. I've wondered if that has contributed to pains and/or increased markers?
What are your experiences?
Thanks for reading and caring. My best to all of you. You are all in my prayers daily....along with my Jon.


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City Lights Parade & Festival – Wichita Falls
Additional Information
The Downtown Wichita Falls Development presents the City Lights Parade and Festival on Saturday, November 17, 2012. Kick off the Christmas Season with this annual event held in historic downtown Wichita Falls. It's a night for the entire family with a lighted parade, music, children's activities, food booths and of course, Santa Clause!
The City lights 5K starts at 4:00 pm you can sign up here.
The parade will begin at 7:00 pm
The City Lights Festival will include: Santa Land, free & low cost rides, food & specialty vendors, 2 stages of entertainment and a lighted parade.


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HARMAN's Crown Audio Showcases DSi 6000 Series Cinema Amplifier At CinemaCon 2011
11 April 2011, Northridge, CA
HARMAN's Crown Audio is showcasing its DSi 6000 Series Amplifier at CinemaCon 2011. The DSi 6000 is the latest addition to Crown's line of cinema amplifiers and is designed to work in conjunction with JBL ScreenArray® loudspeakers.
The DSi 6000 features automatic presets for JBL cinema speaker systems for quick and easy setup. An intuitive LCD front panel guides installers through the process of choosing loudspeaker signal processing presets and other system parameters. All DSi series amplifiers can be configured through the Harman HiQnet™ System Architect™ communications protocol.
"Our DSi Series amplifiers are designed to be the perfect compliment to JBL ScreenArray loudspeaker systems. We designed the DSi Series to be the perfect combination of power, performance and technology for cinema applications. The wide market adoption for these amplifiers is a testament to the sonic quality and value of these amplifiers," stated Andy Flint, marketing manager for Crown Audio.
The DSi 6000 amplifiers include Crown's extremely light and efficient switch-mode power supply, and weighs 24 pounds. The DSi 6000 has a 3-year, no-fault warranty. The power rating for the new DSi 6000 is 2100 watts per channel at 4 ohms.
The DSi Series of power amplifiers provides onboard DSP including crossovers, EQ filters, delay and output limiting. All DSi amplifiers are THX® certified.
Harman HiQnet™ is the world's first connectivity and control protocol that integrates all product categories in the signal chain for professional audio systems of all types, size, and applications. Harman HiQnet no longer requires the user to manage multiple disparate operating systems or be responsible for programming individual signal processors, speaker controllers, wireless microphone systems, and mixing consoles. HiQnet was developed by engineers from across the Harman Pro Group and is coordinated by the System Development and Integration Group (SDIG), a team of dedicated systems specialists based in Salt Lake City, Utah.
HARMAN (www.harman.com) designs, manufactures and markets a wide range of audio and infotainment solutions for the automotive, consumer and professional markets – supported by 15 leading brands including AKG®, Harman Kardon®, Infinity®, JBL®, Lexicon® and Mark Levinson®. The Company is admired by audiophiles across multiple generations and supports leading professional entertainers and the venues where they perform. More than 20 million automobiles on the road today are equipped with HARMAN audio and infotainment systems. HARMAN has a workforce of about 11,800 people across the Americas, Europe and Asia, and reported sales of $3.5 billion for the twelve months ended December 31, 2010. The Company's shares are traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol NYSE:HAR.


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Lambertville's Downtown Players Stage A CHRISTMAS CAROL and FROSTY AND RUDOLPH, Now thru 12/23
The Downtown Players, part of Lambertville's Downtown Performing Arts Center, ring in the holiday season with two special productions: A Christmas Carol and Frosty and Rudolph. Both shows, set to run this weekend, beginning today, December 21 and continuing Saturday, December 22 and Sunday, December 23, will be performed at the South Hunterdon Regional High School Theatre located at 301 Mount Airy - Harbourton Road in Lambertville, New Jersey.
A Christmas Carol ran for ten years at Madison Square Garden and in 2004, became the basis of an NBC Hallmark Entertainment special starring Kelsey Grammer as Ebenezer Scrooge.
But even without starry casts and spectacular trappings, this A Christmas Carol retains its emotional power and pure joy, thanks to the marvelously-told story by Mike Ockrent and Lynn Ahrens, and the Alan Menken and Lynn Ahrens score filled with beautiful melodies and emotional lyrics. In fact, their song "A Place Called Home" has become a holiday standard.
The cast of A Christmas Carol includes several actors known to audiences throughout the region. Lambertville resident David Whiteman reprises the role of Ebenezer Scrooge, a part he first played in 2010. David has performed extensively on Pennsylvania and New Jersey stages and appeared this past summer in numerous productions at the Washington Crossing Open Air Theatre . Louis Palena will again play Bob Cratchit. Louis has entertained audiences on both sides of the Delaware for almost two decades and is the Artistic Director for the Washington Crossing Open Air Theatre. Jenny Johnson, also of Lambertville, will again play Mrs. Fezziwig in this production. The cast of A Christmas Carol is rounded out by Suzanne Slade, Jill Palena, Jay Casale, Damian Bartolacci and many other familiar faces.
A Christmas Carol will be performed on:
Friday, December 21 at 7:30 pm
Saturday, December 22 at 3 pm and 7:30 pm
Sunday, December 23 at 3 pm
Tickets are $18.00 for adults and $13.00 for children (12 and under) and Seniors.
Especially for the kids, The Downtown Players will present the musical, Frosty and Rudolph on Saturday, December 22 at 1 pm. With a book and lyrics by Louis Palena and based on characters that have entertained generations of audiences, Frosty and Rudolph promises to be a delight for all ages.
Frosty and Rudolph will be performed on:
Saturday, December 22 at 1 pm.
Tickets are $5 for Children and Adults.
The Downtown Players productions of A Christmas Carol and Frosty and Rudolph will be performed on Friday, December 21 through Sunday, December 23 at the South Hunterdon Regional High School Theatre located at 301 Mount Airy - Harbourton Rd. in Lambertville, New Jersey. Tickets for A Christmas Carol may be purchased in advance online at www.downtownpac.com. Tickets for both productions will also be available at the door prior to any performance.
Pictured: David Whiteman (right) returns to the role of Ebenezer Scrooge in the Downtown Players production of A Christmas Carol.


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Scientific Visualization Gallery
A collection of compelling science images from past and present collaborations between TACC and scientists
Asteroid Impact
Asteroid Impact
Science Behind the Image -Shown here are two time-steps of a simulation of a 250m asteroid impacting the ocean surface. Water vapor arising from the impact is shown in light blue, asteroid fragments in orange.
Visualization Behind the Image -Volume rendering combined with calibrated opacity levels, enables visualization of the structures of both the water vapor and asteroid fragments. Enabling scientists to see multiple volumetric structures facilitates understanding of the interaction of the physical materials.
Visualization: Francesca Samsel, Greg Abram, UT Austin Science: G.Gisler, J. Patchett, LANL
BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill
BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill
Science Behind the Image -The animation depicts wind velocity, water levels, inundation, and passive particle movement obtained from a simulation of past hurricanes computed using the ADCIRC coastal circulation model coupled to the unstructured SWAN wave model. The initial particle distributions vary from simulation to simulation. Some points are hypothetical; others reflect the position of the oil on the surface and vary in date from 06/20/2010 to 06/23/2010 to 06/27/2010. Positions were derived from the NOAA/NESDIS Experimental Marine Pollution Surveillance Daily Composite Product (http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/PS/MPS/deepwater.html). Particles in the animation move with the depth-averaged water velocity and most accurately represent water movement in shallow estuarine, near shore, and continental shelf waters that were strongly mixed during the storm. Particle motion beyond the continental shelf is not reliable. During the simulation, particles do not disburse, stick, or degrade in any way. They may not accurately represent the movement of oil. These results should not be used to forecast the movement of material at the sea surface or in the water column during any future event.
Visualization Behind the Image -The visualization effort by TACC focused on the overlay of particle movement and satellite or aerial imaging data. The particles in the visualization representing the oil spill and their position is either hypothetical or reflects the position of the oil on the surface. The data was visualized using TACC's Longhorn visualization system and MINERVA, an open source geospatial software. The data was generated daily and is approximately 100 GB in size.
Univ. North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Institute of Marine Sciences; Univ. Notre Dame, Computational Hydraulics Laboratory Computational Hydraulics Group, ICES, The University of Texas at Austin; Center for Space Research, The University of Texas at Austin Seahorse Coastal Consulting. Web support provided by the Renaissance Computing Institute, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Visualization: Adam Kubach and Karla Vega, Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC). Acknowledgments: Funding provided by the National Science Foundation TeraGrid initiative and a National Science Foundation RAPID Grant, Office of Cyberinfrastructure. Also, the Department of Homeland Security Science & Technology Directorate through the Center of Excellence for Natural Disasters, Coastal Infrastructure and Emergency Management.
Breaking Waves
Breaking Waves
Science Behind the Image -The simulation of complex free-surface phenomena such as breaking waves, spray sheets, and air entrainment play a key role in the design and operation of naval combatants. As a ship progresses through water, steep breaking waves are formed; spray is shed along the crests of the breaking waves and near the ship's bow where thin sheets of water form. Air is also entrained along the turbulent face of breaking waves and along the contact line where the free surface, which is the interface between the air and water, intersects the hull. These phenomena are among the most challenging problems in computational fluid dynamics today. The image shows the resulting turbulence as water flows past a NACA 0024.
Visualization Behind the Image -The visualization was created using a Virtual Rheoscopic Fluid plot. The plot uses the fluid velocity data to create and orient virtual rheoscopic particles to obtain an image similar to those used in bench experiments. This technique enables novel vector plots in VisIt on a wide variety of data and the visual comparison of the quality of different technique variations.
Simulation by: Doug G. Dommermuth, Science Applications International Corporation. The visualization technique was published in LDAV 2013 by Paul A. Navrátil, William L. Barth, and Hank Childs: Virtual Rheoscopic Fluids for Dense Large-Scale Fluid Flow Visualizations; proceedings of IEEE Symposium on Large Data Analysis and Visualization (LDAV) 2012; and featured in the SC12 visualization showcase.
Building Affinity for Effective Drugs
Building Affinity for Effective Drugs
Science Behind the Image -Increasing the strength of binding between a molecule and a receptor is an important technique in the design of effective drugs. Binding affinity synthesizes molecules that are already in the shape that they will take when bound to a receptor. This technique works because it decreases the binding entropy, which increases the overall binding affinity. The research addresses biological and medical challenges from single molecules to the genome with high-performance computing and theory. In collaboration with other experimental groups, the researchers use computer modeling and simulations to understand these complex biomolecular systems and to discover molecules for treating disease and improving human health. Image Caption 1: Frame from the molecular dynamics (MD) simulation of constrained and unconstrained molecule bound to receptor. These calculations revealed that the origin of the constrained molecule (purple) and unconstrained molecule (pink) have similar conformations when bound to the receptor. Image Caption 2: Frame from the molecular dynamics (MD) simulation of the constrained and unconstrained molecule free in solution. In solution, the unconstrained molecule (pink) is capable of forming more compact structures that allow hydrogen bonds (green dotted line) to be formed with the phosphate group (represented by the yellow and red atoms).
Visualization Behind the Image -Yue Shi of the The Ren lab at The University of Texas at Austin probed the origin of this entropy paradox with molecular dynamics simulations run on the Lonestar and Ranger supercomputers at TACC. TACC staff used VMD to load the molecular dynamics data and to set up the model and the Tachyon Parallel Ray Tracer to render it. Their group used approximately 2 million CPU hours on Ranger and about 1 million CPU hours on Lonestar.
Simulation: Yue Shi, Biomedical Engineering, Ren Lab, The University of Texas at Austin. Visualization: Anne Bowen, Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC).
Cosmic Web
Cosmic Web
Science Behind the Image -Science is entering the era of precision cosmology, where it is becoming possible to measure cosmological parameters with less than 1% error. Large numerical simulations are used to model the main physical processes to establish a 'standard ruler' with which to measure universal phenomena. The mysterious Dark Energy component of the Universe is of particular interest, as it accounts for more than 70% of known energy density ― it is responsible for causing cosmic expansion to accelerate, and yet its nature is still completely unknown.
Visualization Behind the Image -The visualization was completed in VisIt using both point plots and direct volume ray casting to show the particle field and particle density. This visualization shows particle density from a 3072^3 (29 billion particle) N‐body simulation of dark matter in a computational volume of (1/h Gpc)^3 (100 billion cubic light years) on a computational grid of 6144^3 cells and force softening length of 16/h kpc (74 thousand light years), evolved to the present epoch (z=0).
lian T. Iliev, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Sussex; Paul R. Shapiro, Department of Astronomy, The University of Texas at Austin; Vincent Desjacques and Robert Smith, Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Zürich, Switzerland; Ue-Li Pen, Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics, University of Toronto, Canada. Paul A. Navratil, Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC). The visualization was featured in the TeraGrid 2009 visualization showcase.Advanced Computing Center (TACC). Acknowledgments: Funding provided by the National Science Foundation TeraGrid initiative and a National Science Foundation RAPID Grant, Office of Cyberinfrastructure. Also, the Department of Homeland Security Science & Technology Directorate through the Center of Excellence for Natural Disasters, Coastal Infrastructure and Emergency Management.
Drug Delivery Systems to Aid Heart Disease
Drug Delivery Systems to Aid Heart Disease
Science Behind the Image -The vast majority of heart attacks occur when there is a sudden rupture of vulnerable plaques forming clots that cause blockages in coronary arteries. The diseased arteries can be treated with drugs intravascularly injected into these rupture-prone plaques. In designing the local drug delivery devices, important issues regarding drug distribution and targeting need to be addressed to ensure therapeutic efficacy. In this case, a computational toolset was developed to support the design and analysis of a catheter-based local drug delivery system that uses nanoparticles as drug carriers to treat vulnerable plaques and diffuse atherosclerosis. Simulations were run on a 3D patient-specific diseased coronary artery segment obtained directly from CT-imaging data. The visualization depicts a cross-section of the artery taken right through the vulnerable plaque with a large lipid core and a thin fibrous cap that is formed near the coronary artery bifurcation region. Results show the drug (in red) accumulating in the lipid core of the vulnerable plaque, which is highly encouraging from a therapeutic point of view.
Visualization Behind the Image -Using TACC's HPC resources, a 3D mathematical model of coupled transport of drug and drug-encapsulated nanoparticles was developed and solved numerically using isogeometric finite element analysis. The visualization component of this project, a 13-minute animation, explains the motivation of the research, the physical mechanism of the proposed solution concept, the mathematical models used, the computational methodology applied for simulation, and the scientific visualization of the results. This tool is now poised to be used in the medical device industry.
First image: Karla Vega, Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC). Credits for animation: Ben Urick, Jo Wozniak, Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC); Shaolie Hossain, Thomas J.R. Hughes, Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences, The University of Texas at Austin. Erik Zumalt and Juan Diaz, Faculty Innovation Center, The University of Texas at Austin.
Global Seismic Wave Propagation
Global Seismic Wave Propagation
Science Behind the Image -Modeling propagation of seismic waves through the Earth helps assess seismic hazard at regional scales and aids in interpretation of the Earth's inter structure at global scales. In this simulation of global wave propagation from the 2011 Tohoku earthquake, the Earth is modeled using hexahedral elements that are adaptively sized based on the local length of seismic waves. A discontinuous Galerkin method is used for the numerical solution of the seismic wage propagation partial differential equations.
Visualization Behind the Image -The simulation was run on the TACC Lonestar IV system and produced ~3.4 terabytes of data for 330 time steps. The visualization was run on 32 nodes and 64 GPUs of the TACC Longhorn system.
Simulation by Carsten Burstedde, Omar Ghattas, James R. Martin, Georg Stadler and Lucas C. Wilcox of the Institute for computational Sciences and Engineering, Jackson School of Geosciences and the Department of Mechanical Energy at the University of Texas at Austin. The visualization was created by Greg Abram of the Texas Advanced Computing Center at the University of Texas at Austin. Support from NSF grants OCI-0749334, DMS-0724746 CMMI-102888 (CDI), OCI-0906379 (ETF) and OCU-1042124 and from AFOSR grant FA9550-09-1-0608 (Computational Math)
Going Nano: Big Innovations at Small Scales
Going Nano: Big Innovations at Small Scales
Science Behind the Image -For the next big breakthroughs, scientists are thinking small – really small. Nanotechnology offers enormous new opportunities for innovation in materials science, electronics, medicine and more. Computational resources are critical to advancing this burgeoning field. At the University of Texas at Austin, researchers are applying nanotechnology to develop new uses for molybdenum disulphide, a compound used as a lubricant and in petroleum refining. This image is a close-up view of multilayered molybdenum disulphide stacked in a diamond anvil cell. Running electric leads through the structure, researchers can trigger electronic transitions and manipulate the mechanical, electrical and optical properties of this innovative layered nanomaterial.
Visualization Behind the Image -The image has been rendered with the perspective of one of the atoms inside the environment. The complex structure of the stacked assembly is visible in the highly reflective surface of the molecules.
Research Team: Avinash P. Nayak, The University of Texas at Austin; Swastibrata Bhattacharyya, Indian Institute of Science; Jie Zhu, The University of Texas at Austin; Jin Liu, The University of Texas at Austin; Xiang Wu, The University of Texas at Austin; Tribhuwan Pandey, Indian Institute of Science; Changqing Jin, Chinese Academy of Sciences; Abhishek K. Singh, Indian Institute of Science; Deji Akinwande, The University of Texas at Austin; Jung-Fu Lin, The University of Texas at Austin; Illustration: Jo Wozniak, Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC)
Graphene and Electronics and Thermal Management
Graphene and Electronics and Thermal Management
Science Behind the Image -When graphene is placed on an amorphous substrate like SiO2, thermal conductivity of graphene is strongly suppressed. In this work, the researchers measured how thermal conductivity depends on the number of graphene layers stacked on top of each other. They developed a theoretical model, and found that phonons in graphene hit the graphene-SiO2 interface, and interaction of phonons with interface is the major reason for thickness-dependent thermal conductivity of graphene samples. The result is relevant for the application of graphene for electronics, thermal management, and other applications
Visualization Behind the Image -TACC staff created the scientific illustration in Maya
Mir Mohammad Sadeghia, Insun Joa, and Li Shi, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Texas Materials Institute, The University of Texas at Austin. Edited by Eric Pop, Stanford University. Accepted by the Editorial Board August 26, 2013. Scientific illustration: Jo Wozniak and Greg Foss, Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC).
H1N1 Epidemic
H1N1 Epidemic
Science Behind the Image -The image shows a visualization of the H1N1 (swine flu) epidemic spreading throughout North America. In this test case, the epidemic begins in Mexico City. The visualization classifies individuals into three groups: susceptible (blue), infected (red), and recovered (green). Available antivirals are shown in purple. Cities and transportation links are highlighted in red to indicate large numbers of infected individuals and infectious travelers.
Visualization Behind the Image -A custom OpenGL application was developed that combines geospatial data with epidemic simulations computed on TACC's Lonestar supercomputer to produce time-series visualization of epidemic spread across North America. Users are able to interactively explore the simulations in real-time, visualizing overall epidemic spread or focusing on spread from a single city.
Lauren Meyers, Ned Dimitrov, Sebastian Goll, Section of Integrative Biology, The University of Texas at Austin. Visualization by Greg P. Johnson, Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC).
Large Scale Distributed GPU-Based Visualization Framework
Large Scale Distributed GPU-Based Visualization Framework
Science Behind the Image -Project Summary: No high-level project summary provided.
Visualization Behind the Image -TACC staff enhanced NVIDIA's CUDA Isosurfacer to perform twice as fast by using one-third of the GPU memory, and enabling efficient overlapping of GPU operations with I/O operations and sort-last image compositing to achieve high throughput, in-core rendering. The enhanced isosurfacer achieves an approximate speedup for 4.5x over CPU-based visualization methods on a 2048^3 scalar volume. The images show enstrophy data, isosurfaced using the modified NVIDIA CUDA isosurfacer. It was created using 64 nodes of Longhorn. It took 2.5 minutes to isosurface 935M triangles, 68G cells, which correspond to 256 GB of data. Additionally, it took 9 seconds to render the images on 128 GPUs. The two frames show the assignment of data to process by color.
Greg Abram, Byungil Jeong, Greg P. Johnson, Paul Navratil, Kelly Gaither, Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC). Work in collaboration with Diego Donzis, Texas A&M University and P.K. Yeung, Georgia Tech.
Ozone Concentration in East Texas Due to Emissions in Houston
Ozone Concentration in East Texas Due to Emissions in Houston
Science Behind the Image -This visualization shows simulations of ozone concentrations in eastern Texas. Emissions in Houston cause ozone concentrations to rise in other parts of the state, particularly in central and north Texas; thus, it is apparent that emissions from one city can affect ozone levels in an entire region. These simulations use various sources of data including satellite observations and land-based measurements.
Visualization Behind the Image -TACC staff developed a custom OpenGL application to visualize the data sets. This application combines geospatial data with the simulations to produce time-series animations of the ozone concentration across Texas. Cutting planes and isosurfaces show the ozone concentration in units of parts-per-billion.
Mariana Dionisio, Elena McDonald-Buller, David Allen, Center for Energy and Environmental Sciences; Visualization by Gregory P. Johnson, TACC.
Plasma Turbulence
Plasma Turbulence
Science Behind the Image -These computer generated graphics are visualizations of data from a simulation of plasma turbulence in Earth's ionosphere. These same physics are also applied to the research team's investigations of turbulence in the tokamak, a device used in nuclear fusion experiments.
Visualization Behind the Image -Wendell Horton and Lee Leonard use TACC's Stampede computing system to run their simulation which produces the data in these visualizations. Some of the visualizations are also produced with Stampede.
Greg Foss, Anne Bowen, Greg Abram,Texas Advanced Computing Center
Spinning Star
Spinning Star
Science Behind the Image -Solar and stellar observations reveal diverse and vibrant manifestations of magnetic activity, including the dramatic eruptions known as flares and coronal mass ejections. Yet, elucidating the origins of solar and stellar magnetism is a formidable task, requiring an understanding of the subtle nonlinear interplay between turbulent convection and rotation on a vast range of spatial and temporal scales.
Visualization Behind the Image -Facing this complexity requires sophisticated modeling and visualization on high-performance computing platforms. These images were made from a simulation of a rapidly spinning star with mass similar to our sun. The images show a cross section through the turbulent convection zone where rapid rotation distorts the convection patterns, forming elongated flow structures that play an essential role in the generation of the magnetic field. Such structures exhibit intense vorticity, swirling columns of plasma that wrap up and amplify magnetic fields. These 3D views allow scientists to identify and characterize the type of structures that may exist in turbulent stellar interiors, which are important to investigating energy transport. TACC staff built the animation with VisIt on Longhorn and the Ranger supercomputer as a computation resource. Several variables were modeled and combined in different ways over the course of the project to end up with: 1) velocity, 2) radial component of velocity modeled as a scalar colored with enstrophy; and 3) the radial component velocity colored by negative and positive values showing upwelling and downwelling. Users Ben Brown (University of Wisconsin at Madison) and Mark Miesch (University Corporation for Atmospheric Research) are investigating energy transfer.
Research: Ben Brown, University of Wisconsin at Madison; Mark Miesch, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research; Juri Toomre, University of Colorado. Simulation: Anelastic Spherical Harmonic, originally developed at the University of Colorado. Visualization/Software support/Poster Design: Greg Foss, Greg Abram, Jo Wozniak, respectively, Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC).
Streamwise Vorticity in a Supercell Thunderstorm
Streamwise Vorticity in a Supercell Thunderstorm
Science Behind the Image -This wild-looking image compares variables from the dataset of a simulated hypothetical thunderstorm that spawned a tornado. The plot shows vortex lines, the gold streamlines modeled from vorticity, compared with wind velocity as grey streamlines with red representing highest speed values. The scene illustrates rotation in the updraft, the hallmark characteristic of a supercell. Featured is a vortex ring at the top of the storm, which forms as the strong updraft punches into the stable stratosphere and the air subsequently curls downward. A translucent volume rendering of cloud water combined with ice provides reference to the surrounding storm structure. In a real storm, you can see the clouds billowing upward and corkscrew striations in the rotating cloud, but the relationship between the wind and rotation isn't exactly clear. Plots like this help to illuminate this relationship giving a better sense of how the vorticity in the environment is tilted, stretched, and intensified in the updraft to make the storm rotate. The image illustrates how vorticity in the environment aligns with the winds feeding into the storm to enhance storm rotation.
Visualization Behind the Image -The visualization illustrates a structure in the dataset that the researcher wasn't aware of — the vortex ring. The meteorologist plans to incorporate this image in an upcoming seminar, and TACC will use the image in venues to promote the NSF XSEDE initiative, HPC, and visualization resources. The visualization was created with VisIt software (Lawrence Livermore National Lab) on Longhorn at the Texas Advanced Computing Center. The simulation was run on Kraken (National Institute for Computational Sciences). More specifically, TACC staff had to translate the netcdf data from the simulation into hdf to incorporate the irregular spaced Z coordinates that the user provided. The 1500x1500x50 grid is regular in x & y and the dataset includes several variables including wind velocity, reflectivity, perturbated potential temperature, cloud water mixing ratio, ice, vorticity, and others. TACC staff built several animations and stills.
Greg Foss, image, Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC); Brittany Dahl, science content/research, School of Meterology, University of Oklahoma; Amy McGovern, science content/research, School of Computer Science, University of Oklahoma; Greg Abram, software support, Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC).
TACC SuperComputer Queue Visualization
TACC SuperComputer Queue Visualization
Science Behind the Image -SupercomputingQueueVis is a Processing sketch based off of Paul Bourke's HPC queue statistics visualization. It converts the CommnQ server output into pairs of spheres and cylinders arranged in a helical pattern that represents the status of the supercomputer's queue.
Visualization Behind the Image -Our goal was to develop a visualization that could give systems administrators and users a complete understanding of the queue's state with nothing more than a quick glance. In our implementation, · Each job is represented by a cluster of same-colored, consecutive spheres · Each sphere is a node · Sphere size is proportional to the number of nodes per job · Each cylinder represents allocated time · Color along cylinder represents time used now using Hanlon's API to access Stampede queue data in realtime
Heri Nieto and Matthew Hanlon, Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC)
Visualization of NARA Record Collections
Visualization of NARA Record Collections
Science Behind the Image -The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) is responsible for ensuring continuous access to government records. To preserve and provide access to electronic records collections, archivists need to first conduct a series of analysis to discover their structure and content and to make decisions about long-term preservation needs. TACC's research examines information visualization for archival analysis and long-term preservation planning of terabyte size collections.
Visualization Behind the Image -This type of visualization work is intended to help digital archivists at NARA process their Federal Electronic Records collection for public access and long-term preservation. In response, TACC developed a program for NARA that visualized a test-bed collection of approximately 40,000 files. The visualization was rendered by a visual analytic application developed in Java. The application leveraged several existing information visualization packages, including Prefuse, JFreeChart, and OpenCloud. It includes publicly available data provided by Federal Agencies or harvested from their websites. Each record group corresponds to all the records of a small Federal Agency or some of the records of a larger Federal Agency and is represented as a node that includes child nodes. In turn, each record group may have different types of digital objects bearing different arrangements and a variety of file formats. The sample from the test-bed collection contained 1,031,118 files in 200 different formats with up to 12 levels of hierarchical nesting. Each square represents a directory within the file system with larger squares containing a higher number of files. The colors in the first image (casc_filetype) indicate the types and percentage of file formats present in those directories: green = web files; blue = images; coral = pdf files; light blue = video files; and red = word processing files. This view infers that this test-bed collection contains a majority of web pages including photographs. The color black indicates that there are file formats that current software could not identify.
The second picture (casc_datamining) presents the results of a data mining analysis showing that the files are organized by similar naming conventions (light green); in sequential order (orange); by date (brown); or by geographical location (bordeaux).
Maria Esteva, Weijia Xu, Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC); Suyog D. Jain, Department of Computer Sciences, The University of Texas at Austin. Acknowledgments: This work was supported through a NARA supplement to the National Science Foundation (NSF) Cooperative Agreement: OCI-0504077. Access to the NARA test-bed collections in the Transcontinental Persistent Archives Prototype courtesy of The Center for Advanced Systems and Technologies at NARA.


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Five Comic Book Explanations For the Extremely Creepy Mass Animal Deaths
For those of you who haven't been keeping up with the headlines lately, I've got some bad news: Since January 1st, there have been dozens of reports of mass animal deaths coming in from all over the world. From blackbirds in Arkansas to doves in Italy to over 150 tons of fish in Vietnam, critters all over the place are falling out of the sky and/or washing ashore, with no apparent reason why.
Guys. It's the friggin' apocalypse.


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I happily take credit for the topic within a topic (though not with a pic), probably my only worthwhile contribution to this site in the year and a half I have sullied it with my presence...Originally Posted by Heath
I happily take credit for the topic within a topic (though not with a pic), probably my only worthwhile contribution to this site in the year and a half I have sullied it with my presence...Originally Posted by Heath
Jessica again:
A Homer Bailey gem then debauchery thereafter, what a thread
The start that the Pirates are off to is not indicating a major league teamOriginally Posted by tbball10
Of course, some value objective performance indicators over personal anecdotal evidence that often has the problem of subjectivity, esp. when trying to evaluate the context of "dominate" from a visual perspective during a ST game of a really bad offensive team.
Why is it so wrong to set a legitimate standard of an ERA in the 2s, or at worst the low 3s, a WHIP under 1, a K rate of at least one per inning since we're talking about a power pitcher, and a walk rate around 2 per 9 for someone being touted as a future ace? Is that an unreasonable performance standard? Or is all we do is say "yea, but you gotta see his stuff," and fold our hands and start praying. It seems to me if there's stuff, there will be performance. If not, there isn't "stuff," whatever that means, at least that's going to do our favorite team any good, .
Can't win with 'em
Can't win without 'em
Appeal to authority, an authority with the Reds org. track record on developing pitching talent? That's rich. And then coupling that with a call of ignorance to those still skeptical about Bailey's chances of fulfilling the great expectations many are placing on his back? That is some funny stuff.Originally Posted by Betterread
Can't win with 'em
Can't win without 'em
TR....the past is just that....the past. The same people arent in place. You can say history this and history that, but the same people are not there. So pretty much its just a faulty statement to say it wont happen or isnt likely to happen because the past Reds havent done well with it.
So the Reds replaced each and every person in development? No holdovers? All new philosophies, both mental and mechanical? I know there hasn't been that much turnover. Hopefully, the main folks have been dumped, but to expect that the track record is suddenly wiped clean with an owner and GM that have been on the job for a few months? Come on, Doug. While there have been some pleasant changes thus far, you know there has not been enough time to churn out all the bad apples.Originally Posted by dougdirt
Can't win with 'em
Can't win without 'em
No they didnt replace everyone, but Bailey isnt working with everyone. Mental has what to do with having arm injuries? I think pitch counts are a very good idea, and well they obviously werent in place with guys like Howington, where Bailey is at a very strict 90 pitch count this year. I mean who was the last young Reds pitcher to get hurt? Gardner....a year and a half ago? Surely some of the same guys are in place along the line somewhere, but just as much as you want to believe something bad is coming, you need to see that the same chance is that nothing is going to happen.
That's a broad generalization, and a shallow one, I suspect. Do you know the names of all of these employees? If you feel that the Reds organization is that mediocre, why do you support the parent team?Originally Posted by traderumor
I don't need an answer to these questions, I just think you are unaware of how negative and pessimistic your viewpoint is.
I, too, am a little perplexed. This is a new one for me as well. What is a DOM 4 or 5 start on Shandler's scale?Originally Posted by cincyinco
My biggest knock on Bailey is that Homer's ERA shows how erratic he truly is. You can argue the validity of ERA as an indicator of a pitcher's ability all you want, but a true ace will have a low ERA because he is not allowing baserunners. Homer's ERA doesn't strike me as a true ace material.
Last year, at low A, Homer's ERA was well over 4.00. At the SAME level, a 19 year old Josh Beckett had an ERA of 2.12 (in the same league Homer pitched in). This year, Homer finally has gotten his ERA down to 3.08 at High-A. Beckett, at High-A (Florida State League - same as Bailey) in 66 innings had an ERA of 1.23. Beckett then went to AA, pitched 74 more innings and posted a 1.82 ERA at AA. When Bailey starts putting up Beckett-like numbers, and can sustain them over the length of an entire season, then I'll get excited. Felix Hernandez- the Seattle phenom - had an ERA of 2.74 in 92 innings at High A (He was 19 years old). Matt Cain of the Giants had a 1.86 ERA in 73 innings at High A (He was 19-20 at the time).
To compare to current Reds pitchers, Aaron Harang had a 3.32 ERA in 157 innings in High-A. Claussen, over a two season span, pitched 108 innings at High-A and posted a 2.92 ERA. But even Elizardo Ramirez put up a 3.78 ERA in 157 innings in the FSL. Now, to be fair those three were probably 20 or 21 when they pitched at High-A, but Bailey will be turning 20 in just a couple of weeks, and I seriously doubt that on his 20th birthday, he'll suddenly turn in to Cy Young. A true ace at High A ought to have an ERA that hovers right around the 2.25 mark
Whenever I get too giddy about Homer's performances, I remind myself that even Dave Williams posted a sub-3.00 ERA and K'd 193 in A-ball.
"I can still throw it in the 70s. And I can throw it in the 80s if I don't want to comb my hair for a week." - Bob Feller at age 66 when asked how hard he could throw.
MikeS21, I think the thing is that Bailey is not being allowed to pitch completely how he wants to pitch. His game the other day was the first time all season they told him to go out and throw his fast ball first and look what he did. That means all season prior, he had been working with his lesser pitches. Homer is still developing his secondary pitches, and they are coming along well.
I'll answer them anyhow. Honestly, my support of the Reds has nothing to do with the quality of the organization. Like many, when I first started paying attention, the BRM was in full bloom. I am a fan for life, regardless of who is in charge, but then that really has nothing to do with nothing, unless one simply chooses their sports teams like stocks.Originally Posted by Betterread
Knowing names of certain employees really has no bearing on making a rather simple evaluation of the state of the Reds org., which as I already mentioned, has not had the new regime in place long enough to make too many sweeping changes. There were several moves made after Krivsky was hired, but most of the key employees were retained in some capacity. The coaching staffs were essentially already in place. But you do have me caught in one point--I have not done an organizational chart and an evaluation of each and every employee.
I only have about five years running of a barren pitching development program to go on and consistently one of the worst major league pitching staffs for a similar amount of time. Pardon me for being unimpressed by one performance from an ever increasingly hyped prospect being developed by an organization still bragging about Tom Browning. I hope as much as anyone that Homer lives up to the expectations. But do I have to make him into something contrary to the evidence thus far to hold out that hope? Or would it be better to say something along the lines of "wow, hopefully this is a sign of dramatic improvement and not just a night where he was on"?
Can't win with 'em
Can't win without 'em
Homer Bailey stole my lunch box on tuesday.
Originally Posted by OnBaseMachine
can you say wallpaper!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
there's nothing like bowling a 300 game! 13 now and retired.
Ricky henderson has a higher OBP than C. patterson and he's retired. C. Trent 6-14-2008
Bailey Cruises Through Tigers
People have been wondering when things are going to click for Reds pitching phenom Homer Bailey, and yesterday they did.
The high Class A Sarasota righthander threw six hitless innings and had nine strikeouts but got a no-decision as Sarasota defeated Lakeland 2-0.
"One of those days that we all lay in bed and think about where everything clicks," Sarasota pitching coach Ed Hodge said. "If not for the pitch count, who knows what he would have accomplished?"
After going 8-4, 4.43 with a 125-62 strikeout-walk ratio in 104 innings last season for low Class A Dayton, Bailey has focused on improving his changeup. He has a mid-90s fastball and a 12-to-6 curveball that could be considered a 70 on the 20-to-80 scale. Last night, he had a third weapon in his arsenal.
"Best changeup I have seen him have yet. When you are going 93-97 in A-ball, you dont need a heck of a lot more to dominate," Hodge said. "He commanded the changeup, and it is something he has worked extremely hard on. He has really bought into and knows it is something he has got to have."
Bailey was a first-round pick in 2004 out of LaGrange (Texas) High and was Baseball Americas High School Player of the Year. He has been ranked as the Reds' No. 1 prospect the last two years, and has the stuff to be a front of the rotation in the big leagues.
"The biggest thing with a guy that throws that hard is to have the change near the plate," Hodge said. "A power pitcher becomes more of a power pitcher when he develops a change."
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Off the Charts
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Pretty cool
Fun to watch although as you said, it would be nice to have a bit of info about the whole thing.
Australia's flag carrier Qantas has released a video showing, in just 105 seconds, how it rips the guts out of a 747-400's passenger cabins, spruces them up, repaints the plane and then sends it back to work. We'd have liked it to run a little longer and offer more detail, but the results are still rather fine. Watch Video …
Fun to watch although as you said, it would be nice to have a bit of info about the whole thing.
Did you notice the two bolts that were left over after the refit.....
Hope they are not too importa............................
Painting the outside of a 747 - timelapse with some more detail. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmxbZpSXNvI&feature=related
And one for Virgin Atlantic's rather handsome new livery:
They've been around for a while, but jumbos are still cool in a big engineering sense.
Also it's good to see that there's some sectors of industry that are still building things to last and be renewed along the way. The aviation industry has got used to aircraft lasting decades, and so that's how they're built. The extreme example is the B52 - the US military are planning on running those to at least 2040 apparently, by which time they'll be nearly 100 years old.
Other industries (e,g, cars) seems to give the impression that they believe that that sort of business model stifles innovation and progress. Cars (especially American ones) are not built to last or be viable beyond a few years. But look at how new aircraft have changed, and look at the upgrade kits (better engines, etc) that you can get for old aircraft. There's no reason why cars shouldn't be built with that sort of life cycle in mind.
> There's no reason why cars shouldn't be built with that sort of life cycle in mind.
Yes, there is. Money and corporate greed!
The difference is the B-52 gets a lot less use than your average airliner, as do all military aircraft. It costs the military to use them whereas it costs an airline not to. If BA were operating the B-52 it would have run out of airframe life years ago!
Buffalo Airways flies 60-70 year old DC3's, DC4's, and C-46's as well as 50+ year old Electras daily in one of the harshest climates on the planet. TV show about them is pretty good too..
I took a trip to the Boeing factory while I was in Seattle last year; fascinating, not just to see the scale of the place and the planes being built but to see how the manufacturing process has evolved over 40 years from the 747 line to the Dreamliner. It's a totally different way of doing things from one end of the building to the other - the 747s are made almost from the individual component parts whilst the Dreamliner is nailed together from completed lumps shipped in from all over the world.
This video is pretty cool, but it'd be better if they ditched the synthy sonic backdrop and replaced it with the Benny Hill music
And a fat bloke with a paintbrush being chased by a lot of bare-breasted flight attendants, presumably?
(PS. The Benny Hill music is called "Yakety Sax".)
You can polish a turd!
That plane could have been run into the ground by one airline, sold to Quantas, quick tart up job and all the paying punters think its a nice shiny new plane..... until it falls out of the sky lol
Sure hope they don't refit engines/mechanicals in the same slapdash manner.
You do know that was a time lapse film, don't you?


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The most perilous intersection in Monterey for pedestrians is going to get a long-planned makeover starting Monday.
The renovations at Del Monte Avenue and Pacific Street, mostly financed by $655,000 in state traffic safety funds and other state money, will be done in three stages and should be done by July 1, city officials say.
"It is one of the most difficult intersections in Monterey to do construction on," said city traffic engineer Rich Deal on Friday.
The intersection is at the crossroads of two of Monterey's largest hotels, the city conference center and Troia's Market, a popular downtown sandwich outlet.
"We are trying to minimize the impact of the construction on the hotels and convention center," Deal said.
The market will remain open throughout and customers will be able to enter from both Pacific Street and Del Monte Avenue.
The work will include reconstruction of the intersection, new signal lights, new street lights and storm drain improvements.
Deal said the intersection has racked up the most pedestrian-vehicle accidents of any city crossroads, and its design is "highly outdated" under current codes.
The project, in the works for two years, is an "essential safety project," he said.
An elderly man died in September 2010 when he was hit by a bus while walking across a sidewalk at the intersection in the early morning fog.
At the site, Pacific Street carries about 15,000 vehicles a day, while Del Monte Avenue has about 10,000 daily vehicle trips.
The construction will force some detours and lane closures and will add "a little more congestion," Deal said.
The city said the project will:
· Close the west leg of Del Monte Avenue between Pacific Street and the Troia's driveway from Monday until March 28. One lane of traffic in each direction will remain open on Pacific Street.
· Allow westbound traffic exiting downtown on Del Monte Avenue to turn right on Pacific toward Lighthouse Avenue or left on Pacific toward Franklin Street.
· Force a detour for southbound traffic on Pacific Street Feb. 19 and 20. The detour will take vehicles from Lighthouse Curve onto Scott Street, Van Buren Street, Franklin Street and back to Pacific Street. Northbound traffic will not be detoured.
Updated project information will be on the city website at www.monterey.org/projects.
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Prospect Nicolino delivers second shutout of season
Left-hander Justin Nicolino, the Marlins' No. 5 prospect, threw a shutout Tuesday and Double-A Jacksonville defeated Montgomery, 1-0. It was his second shutout this season.
Nicolino struck out four batters, walked none and scattered seven hits. He created 16 ground-ball outs and worked efficiently, needing just 92 pitches to complete the game.
While Nicolino was shutting down Montgomery's offense, Jacksonville managed little more against left-hander Grayson Garvin, the Rays' No. 18 prospect, and the Biscuits bullpen. The Suns scored the lone run of the game in the sixth inning, when Austin Nola drove in Isaac Galloway with a one-out single.
One run proved to be all the support Nicolino needed. Though he was often pitching with runners on base, he didn't allow any Biscuits to advance past second base.
With the victory, Nicolino improved to 9-3 with a 2.95 ERA. He has struck out 60 batters and walked 17 in 134 1/3 innings this season. He leads the Southern League with a 1.06 WHIP and ranks third in ERA.
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Westwood and Avoncliff have been announced as the next communities to receive superfast broadband, as part of a multi-million pound deal.
Businesses and homes in the area will be able to receive the increased speeds from the end of summer 2014, as part of a major partnership between Wiltshire Council, BT and South Gloucestershire Council.
People in Lacock, Neston, and many of the villages around Salisbury are also set to benefit.
John Thomson, Wiltshire Council cabinet member for broadband, said: "We have invested significantly in this scheme and it's great to announce more communities that will have access to this vital service.
"Superfast broadband will also provide a huge boost to local businesses and will make Wiltshire an even more attractive county to set up business in.
"We look to forward to announcing more communities who will benefit in the very near future."
Bill Murphy, managing director of next generation networks for BT Group, said: "We are continuing to make excellent progress in Wiltshire and this is another important step forward for the partnership which is taking this game changing technology to locations where the economics and engineering challenges are that much greater.
"High-speed fibre broadband is vitally important if our businesses and homes are to make the most of the huge range of opportunities offered by the internet."
This rollout marks the continuation of the scheme that will see 91 percent of premises in Wiltshire connected to superfast broadband of 24Mpbs and above by the end of March 2016.
So far, more than 1,100 homes have been connected thanks to the scheme.
Last month Royal Wootton Bassett was the first town in the county to 'go live' as part of the scheme.
Once complete, nearly 1,500 kilometres of fibre cabling will be laid across the county, and more than 300 new fibre cabinets installed.
More than 10,000 homes and businesses in Wiltshire will be able to connect to fibre broadband by June 2014 under the project as it rolls out to other areas in the county.
The £35.6 million project was one of the first in the country to deliver broadband to communities and businesses thanks to a partnership between the two councils and BT, along with funding from the government's Broadband Delivery UK (BDUK) programme.
More information on the project can be found at www.wiltshire.gov.uk/wiltshireonline
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It isn't a secret that veteran position players, while often reporting to spring training before they have to, believe camp is too long. They have conditioned their bodies to be ready for regular season games after no more than about two weeks' worth of exhibition games.
Albert Pujols is no different.
The Los Angeles Angels' first baseman already announced he will skip the World Baseball Classic, despite wanting to play for the Dominican Republic. Pujols had minor knee surgery in October and wants to make sure he is 100 percent by opening day. Therefore, he doesn't even plan to play in Cactus League games until mid-March, he told reporters Wednesday.
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Superkombat WGP 2 *Results*
SuperKombat held their second event of the year on May 12th in Cluj Napoca, Romania. It featured a four man tournament of heavyweights to qualify for the year end World Grand Prix show and also a fight for the inaugural SuperKombat 91kg World Title.
The heavyweight tournament featured some SuperKombat veterans, Raul Catinas, Jairzinho Rozenstruik, Daniel Sam and Sam Tevette. In the first semi-final, Raul Catinas knocked Jairzinho Rozenstruik out in the second round. Daniel Sam also knocked out Sam Tevette in the second semi-final.
Catinas and Sam met in the final, where Sam was winning the fight with his kicks and size advantage up until the second round. Then in the second, Catinas just went into berserker mode and spammed vicious left hooks to the body, dropping Sam. Sam would get up and then get dropped by a right uppercut to the chin. Sam was dropped again twice in the third round and Catinas picked up the win, winning the tournament and advancing to SuperKombat's year end World Grand Prix show.
For SuperKombat's inaugural 91kg World Title, Bogdan Stoica dominated Ivan Stanic, dropping him multiple times. Stanic really had nothing for Stoica, who scored a knockdown with a flying knee/punch combo in the first, two knockdowns from punches and another knockdown from a flying knee throughout rounds two and three. Stanic was getting hurt from every clean punch Stoica landed.
I didn't get to see the whole show so I won't comment on the other fights until I've seen them. Here are the full results:
Semi-Final 1: Raul Catinas def. Jairzinho Rozenstruik by KO in Round 2.
Semi-Final 2: Daniel Sam def. Sam Tevette by KO.
Heavyweight: Benny Adegbuyi def. Patrick Liedert by KO in Round 3.
-95kg: Sebastian Ciobanu def. Redouan Cairo by TKO in Round 2.
-95kg: Andrei Stoica def. Rodney Glunder by decision.
Heavyweight: Alexandru Lungu def. Wieslaw Kwaniewski by split decision.
-91kg World Title: Bogdan Stoica def. Ivan Stanic by unanimous decision.
Final: Raul Catinas def. Daniel Sam by unanimous decision.
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A manufacturer whose vehicles are sold in the state through an authorized dealer shall provide its dealer or repairing agent with any part necessary to make a repair of a nonconformity covered under an express warranty, as soon as possible, without additional charge for freight or handling, if the part is not in the dealer's or agent's inventory when the nonconforming vehicle is brought to the dealer or repairing agent for repair.
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The sophomore scored four goals and added three assists as the Knights won three soccer matches, including a 2-0 upset of three-time defending champ SHP, to move into a tie for first in the WBAL Foothill Division.
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The junior guard scored a season-high 25 points in a 71-63 win over Menlo and added 20 points in a basketball win over Priory to help the Gators bounce back from three straight losses the previous week.
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Menlo soccer
Hashima Carothers
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Melissa Holland
Sacred Heart Prep basketball
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Gunn basketball
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Palo Alto wrestling
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Family: 'Silent victim' of Ore. mall shooting is near death
SELLWOOD, Ore. - A pregnant woman who was not injured during the mass shooting at the Clackamas Town Center last December but who became mysteriously ill afterwards is close to death, according to posts on a Facebook page dedicated to her recovery.
KATU News reached out to Vanessa Ogden's family through Facebook early Friday. A representative for the family said Vanessa was in a Beaverton hospital, "has no brain activity" and would be taken off life support on Friday while surrounded by her family and friends.
Ogden was the manager of a popular kids clothing store at the Clackamas Town Center when a gunman opened fire in the mall on Tuesday, Dec. 11.
She was seven months pregnant at the time. When the shooting started she herded her employees and customers at Justice for Girls into a backroom and kept them safe.
But in the weeks following the shooting, the normally bubbly Vanessa started to withdraw and became tired and quiet. Eventually, she stopped speaking.
Initially, she and her husband Doug thought it was a combination of the pregnancy and maybe the trauma from the shooting. She became known as the "silent victim" of the shooting incident that left three people dead, including the gunman.
But her condition deteriorated and she wound up in the hospital before Christmas. An MRI revealed she had suffered 60 to 70 mini-strokes. She hasn't spoken since Christmas.
Despite her condition, Vanessa gave birth to a daughter, Georgia, on Dec. 27. The couple also have another daughter who is 16 months old.
On Thursday, Valentine's Day, Facebook posts said Vanessa had gone into respiratory arrest and doctors could no longer detect brain activity.
She was breathing only with the help of a respirator. "Our darkest hour is near," the post read. "If ever we needed a miracle, it is now. This will be my last personal communication to you."
It appears the post was authored by her husband Doug but it was not signed.
Just after 1:30 p.m. Thursday, a post by "Geoff" appeared on the page reading:
Dearest Followers,
We had a conference with the doctors and family/close friends. The decision to take Vanessa Off the ventilator is the last decision that needs to be made. We are waiting for more family to get here to say goodbyes. We have consistently had 15 people in the room with V. Lots of tears and lots of hilarious stories being passed around in these final days. Pray for the wisdom to make the hardest decision Doug and his family will ever make. Thank you.
During the shooting at the mall, Doug said Vanessa, who stands just 5 foot 2 inches tall, clung to her usual feistiness.
"Even when SWAT came, she told them that she wouldn't open the door unless they showed identification," Doug previously told KATU. "And the SWAT guy said, 'Well, I can't slide my badge under the door.' So she said, 'OK, I'm going to be the only one coming out but you can't come in.'"
But as time went on, Doug said her feistiness faded.
"Her speech was definitely hindered - considerably, although she was able to say one-word answers: 'Hello,' tell people 'Merry Christmas,' 'Thank you.' That kind of thing," Doug said.
Doug said doctors were not certain if the shooting caused the mini-strokes, but they also haven't ruled it out.
Test were conducted but KATU News has not heard of any results of the tests.