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Rays Pitchers and Catchers Report…The Photo Blog
Today I want to conclude the photos that I took out at the Rays Spring Training complex on Friday morning. Hopefully each and every one of you will get a chance sometimes in your life to either get out to Arizona or Florida to see this yearly migration and training exercise featuring some of the most talented and fit athletes. No matter what team, or the location, these are our "Boys of Summer", and to catch them in this energetic elementary state away from the confines of the regular season.
One of the necessary "evils" of Spring Training is the television and media requests for interviews and short sound bytes about the upcoming season. Here we have former Rays Rookie of the Year candidate pitcher Jeff Niemann being interviewed by a local television crew about his expectation for the 2010 Rays season. You can not tell by the photo, but Niemann is growing a " Abe Lincoln"-style beard that is just beginning to come into its own. He has not decided if he will keep it for the season, but combined with rookie pitcher Wade Davis, they could be the "bearded" back end of the Rays rotation this season.
One of the great things about the way the Charlotte County Sports Park is setup is the short walk across the player's parking lot before they hit the Rays clubhouse front door. It is an excellent spot to get autographs and also chat with your favorite players. Also, there are some players who are more pat to sign during Spring Training then they do during the regular season, and this is a great time to get those final pieces to your autograph collection.
Welcome to Tampa Bay Kelly Shoppach. I think he felt like a hunted man as most of the Tampa Bay media was waiting for him and the other catchers' to come in last during the days event and he was kind enough to give and every one of them a sound byte for their nightly telecast.
Shoppach is pictured here in the middle of the media throng with local sportscasters popping microphones in front of his face as they ask about the upcoming competition to see who is going to be the Rays starting catcher for the season. Most people think the competition is going to be fierce between Shoppach and incumbent Dioner Navarro for the Rays starting catching job. I actually think it might come down to game situations as Shoppach is more apt at getting on base, while Navarro can provide some power at times in the lineup. Should be a fun time watching these two go through the Spring.
I remember when I was playing sports, I used to hate hitting the "sharks" as I used to call them. The problem with some media members is they are always seeking the negative items and looking for an extreme angle on the team. People have asked me why I try and take a more positive approach to my blogs and my commentary, the proof is right above in this picture. With all the media onrush, I think a positive spin on even the worst situation can do wonders. But, I do have my own targets ( Hickey, Burrell).
It was so great to see all of the guys out there tossing the ball around and laughing and commenting to each other throughout the workouts. Every pitcher performed drills today in anticipation of the Rays Fan fest on Saturday, in which most of the Rays pitchers' will take that long trek up to Tropicana Field to participate in autograph signings and photo opportunities with Rays fans.
I was excited to head on down to the far end of the complex after the pitchers' came in for the day and see the Rays catchers in camp doing time in the hitting cages. One of the guy who caught my attention was Joe Dillon, who is trying to make this Rays roster as a multipurpose player. Last season he was Maddon's choice as an emergency third catcher, but with a great Spring, he could make the roster as a bench and infield utility man. Plus he was tagging the ball down the third baseline today with some extreme power.
I am always surprised by the new exercises and physical fitness regiment that they Rays include in their daily workouts. No matter if it is the extra large rubber bands to strengthen their calves and legs, or the flex tubing to help stretch out their arms and shoulders, each Spring there is something new in the Rays exercise arsenal.
And it was great to see the guys starting to hit drills during the first day with everyone participating but Rays new closer Rafael Soriano who has been battling some chest congestion due to a vicious cold. He might have only thrown a few long toss balls today, but he was there for Maddon's meeting and looks imposing in his Rays uniform.
But the "man of the hour" was Rays owner Stuart Sternberg who fielded a barrage of questions from the media on subjects ranging from the Hillsborough County stadium buzz to the Rays possible scenarios to keep Carl Crawford and Carlos Pena for 2011. Another issue that was on the media's mind was the payroll concerns for 2011 and the rumors of Rays Season Tickets being down for this season.
One of the true sights of Spring. Most of the Rays players came out in their game spikes, but they also brought along their running shoes for their post long toss running exercises and workout on another field. With most of their cleats not broken in yet, using these running shoes might be one of the best options to keep blisters and foot situations under control so early in the Spring Training process.
Rays reliever J P Howell and Rays starter Matt Garza are shown in these two photos " airing it out" in their long toss portion of the Friday exercises. Howell was throwing with a group that contained fellow Bullpen mates Dan Wheeler and Lance Cormier before Cormier and Garza hooked up and put on a long-toss show with both pitchers throwing consistent balls in the air from the leftfield foul line to almost centerfield before they stopped and moved onto the pitching drills segment of the daily events.
Most of the morning exercises were devoted to stretching and limbering up for the daily grind of drills and activities to see what shape each of the Rays players might be in prior to the team turning up the dial and getting more intense in the next few days. And with every pitcher basically not doing intense workout on Saturday because of their travels to Fan Fest, it was a time to push the envelope a bit.
It was a great turnout of fans both from Charlotte County, and some who came as far as Boston and Chicago for the Rays first "official" day of Spring Training camp. Just another sign that the Rays Republic is beginning to get fans from all over the country excited about Rays baseball.
One of the things I respect most about Maddon is that he leads by example. He is one of the most positive people I have ever met, and he is always preaching and showing confidence and the essence of positive thinking to his players. But something else I have noticed the last few years, he is always the last person off the Spring Training field.
Not unlike Lt. Colonel Hal Moore in the Vietnam War epic "We Were Soldiers", Maddon has lead by example and been a constant force of steady, confident leadership for his team. And just like Moore would not step off the ground and into a transport helicopter until every last solider was transported or removed from the battlefield in the Ia Drang Valley, Maddon also shows that unity daily in his activities with his team.
So this was my short and eventful day at the Rays complex as pitchers and catchers officially reported to the Rays to begin the 2010 campaign to get back to the playoffs. There will be another 10 days of extreme workouts and drills before game action begins, and less than 45 days until the Rays open their season at Tropicana field against the Baltimore Orioles. Hope you enjoyed the photos, because I enjoyed getting them for all of us to enjoy…
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LOVE your pics! That was quite a media scrum around Shoppach. And how adorable is Don Zimmer. The Rays are lucky to have him as their Yoda. Lucky you being there!
Thanks Jane.
The media is trying to push some sort of fight to the death between Navarro and Shoppach, but so far both have been wise to it and have acted fairly and balanced in their comments.
I think the world of Don Zimmer and his wife.
I do not think it is luck anymore. Someone told me yesterday my life mission might be to be a Rays fan, and that my posts are just great additions to the whole pie.
Not sure if that is true, but it makes me hungry to find out more!
Rays Renegade
You deserve to be on the payroll as the Rays number one PR guy.
I can't even get the Rays P R department to reply to a email, how could I work there (lol).
Seriously, this is what I wanted to do for a living until I got soured out.
Media has changed now…For the better, and I am trying to get on board again.
Bloggers do not rate MLB sytle credentials yet. Some get in roads, but others who are for the team are on the outside lokking in, but still get some good information without ruining the massive media's influence.
Rays Renegade
Good luck this year Sir Renegade. There's two things bout them Rays I really dig…Stuart Sternberg is a B'klynite and I love it when you guys come to Yankee Stadium and give 'em fits. I want you to know, earlier this week on ESPN talk radio here, your team was a topic about the stadium issues and what-not, Sternberg's name gets mentioned here often BTW, I called into the show armed with your very detailed, very expert information on the situation you shared with us in your recent posts. Naturally I told them it's all from a blog I'm following. Your info was a big hit!
Wow, Shoppach is a Ray now? Cool. Can't wait for this season to start. The Rays have grown into a great team, a real contender for the playoffs.
I will never be knighted by the Queen, so I will never be a "Sir" (lol).
Seriously I talked to Stuart Sternberg for a few minutes at Fan Fest yesterday and told him how I loved his quotes and comments toward the whole situation. I like both of the Rays owners past and present, but Sternberg is completing the work Vince Namoli got started.
I am glad my information was useful.
Funny, I can get great research and information, but I can't get a media job (lol).
I never should have quit working for the newspaper back in 1080's. I might be someone by now.
Such is life, and a true indicator that if you want it…….go for it and do not look back.
Rays Renegade
We got Shoppach in a trade this off season for one of our minor league pitcher who would of come to camp out of options and would of had to bump someone out of the Rays rotation.
Mitch Talbot went to an opportunity where he could play in 2010 for Cleveland.
Also Shoppach and his ability to get on-base will go a long way with the Rays.
I have felt we have been consistent contenders, but how we started and finished in 2009 crippled the Rays chances to repeat a playoff run.
Crossing fingers toes and eyes we might be able to celebrate in 2010.
Rays Renegade


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James wrote:Sun Fin wrote:I hated it when Jamie Oliver ruined school dinners. All the nice things got taken off the menu and it didn't get replaced by anything else for a couple of years as schools tried to keep up with the pressure. I suspect it is better now!
How did Jamie Oliver ruin school dinners?
Long term he probably changed things for the better really.
I don't know if everyone would know who he is (I don't know if his a big figure across the pond?) but Jamie Oliver is a celebrity chef. About 10 years ago he started a campaign about how unhealthy schools dinners were in the UK and they needed to be changed. He won a lot of support and managed to make schools (I'm not sure if the government passed any laws or whether it was just the external pressure being put on the on the schools that made them act) cut out some of the worst foods. As Dong said however the schools didn't plan properly and almost overnight took out lots of food but didn't replace them with anything. Personally I was devastated that I couldn't eat 3 x sausage rolls every day anymore .


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Tagged: Mike Sweeney
The Filibuster
Thursday night's brawl between the Rays and the Red Sox showcased, once
again, that baseball players just can't fight very well. So, here's the
question (in two parts): 1) What is the best baseball brawl you've ever
seen and 2) which 2 players would you most like to see duke it out?
— Allen
While it's true that baseball players tend to be awful at fighting on the field, there is no doubt that a bench-clearing brawl is one of the most exciting parts of the game. In every case there is some kind of 'other' energy at play as soon as a hitter decides to charge the mound and whether he lands a punch or not, most people would be lying if they said they didn't enjoy watching that kind of drama unfold. The brawls tend to be explosions of emotions that have been built up over a long period of time: clubs with histories, beanball wars, personal vendettas, et al tend to set the stage for the best fights in the game, and I totally get off on seeing those frustrations blow up. The Prince of New York wrote a great post (*click here to read*) on the dueling psychologies of baseball brawl analysis and he's absolutely correct in his conclusion that most people enjoy them (or get off on them like me) — even if they try to conceal it.
That being said, I have to admit that I often feel let down when a Coco Crisp or a James Shields wails and misses outright… or when an Iwamura throws a couple of sissy-punches that are more for show and less impacting. It's like watching softcore pOrn on Cinemax: show me the real thing or I'm better off watching reruns of Full House.
The best baseball brawl I've ever seen?
I think we all know there is only one right answer to that question, so before I reveal what everyone already knows, let me make some honorable mentions:
Big Z v. Michael Barrett; Big Z v. Gatorade Cooler
Hands down, Carlos Zambrano is the most explosive personality in the game right now. An atomic fist fight waiting to happen, Big Z showed some real hutzpah last year when he decked his own catcher, Michael Barrett, in the face after an onfield dispute regarding pitch selection or whatever… who cares… this fight was awesome. Cardinal fans always love to see internal dissension in the home dugout at Wrigley, but what made it even more awesome was the jacked up face of Michael Barrett the next day. Of course, in the end, this fight was the catalyst that got Barrett out of Chicago, setting the stage for Rookie of the Year candidate Geovany Soto to make his breakthrough as the Cubs' catcher. I'm hoping that Big Z can find a reason to hate Soto too, but I'm not putting any money on it.
What I am putting money on is that if Big Z gives up a go-ahead homerun to Matt Kemp late in an otherwise flawless pitching performance, not even the Gatorade cooler is safe. Don't believe me? Check out the pounding Zambrano gave this poor, helpless, inanimate object.
Izzy Alcantara's Foot v. Catcher's Face
Besides having a really cool name, this Pawtucket minor leaguer will go down in history as one of the smartest basebrawlers of all time. To ensure that the catcher wouldn't hold him back, he gave him a swift back kick to the face! What is sad about this fight is that when he finally reached the mound, he let everyone down by dancing around and ultimately getting mauled himself (*click here to watch*). Ah, such wasted potential.
Mike Sweeney v. Jeff Weaver
If ever there were two lameball pacifist fighters pitted against one another, these would be the two. This fight didn't even have anything to do with pitch location; it was all about something Weaver said (allegedly) behind his glove. Sweeney didn't like it and charged the mound while Weaver had his back to the plate. What does make this an awesome fight is that Weaver had no idea Sweeney was coming and by the time he turned around, it was too late. Much like Alcantara, Sweeney used a diversion tactic by first slinging his batting helmet at Weaver before taking him to the ground and landing a few solid body blows. Good times.
Good times aside, these fights are equally catatonic in comparison to the greatest basebrawl of all time:
Nolan Ryan v. Robin "Sissy-pants" Ventura
There's nothing quite like making a mannish dash for the mound to fight someone who is old enough to be your father and then getting put in a headlock only to have your skull, nose, jaw pounded on by the strikeout king. I can't say enough about how bad*ss the Ryan Express was in this matchup and I highly doubt anyone will ever come close to equaling his solidly aggressive performance — ever. This fight is as unlikely to be surpassed as is Joe Dimaggio's 56 game hit streak. It just ain't gonna happen.
But there are some fellas I'd like to see go up against one another in the near future. Albert Pujols is only one bad pitch away from knocking the snot out of Brandon Backe. As their ongoing series of differences escalates, I believe Backe realizes more and more that he has absolutely no chance against an angry A.P., but if anything, Backe has already proven to the world that he's not exactly Fulbright quality. I eagerly await his date with number 5's right hook.
But the potential ironclad matchup I deem most notable, most exciting, most entertaining would be: Milton Bradley v. Carlos Zambrano. Both of these guys are nuts! and suffer from extreme anger management issues. No one, no thing is safe when these two are on the field and that includes first base coaches, pitching hands and the aforementioned sufferings of that poor, helpless Gatorade cooler in L.A.
I'd give my left (ahem) to see Big Z pitch Bradley inside and just see what happens. If there is a god…
…but just in case there isn't, we'll always have the mysteriously entertaining rituals of Ko
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A former guitarist for Thin Lizzy, Gary Moore, was found dead in his hotel room in Spain early Sunday morning.
The 58-year-old Irish rocker, recognized to be one of the best blues-based guitarists of the 70s, died while vacationing in Costa del Sol, according to his official website. The cause of death is yet to be determined.
"I still can't believe it," ex-Lizzy guitarist Eric Bell told the Belfast Telegraph. "He was so robust, he wasn't a rock casualty; he was a healthy guy. He was a superb player and a dedicated musician."
The Belfast-born guitarist first recorded with Dublin rock band Skid Row before continuing an on-again off-again relationship with Thin Lizzy through the 70s.
He was a full time member of the band when they recorded the album, "Black Rose: A Rock Legend," which topped the charts in 1979 and debuted at #2 in the United Kingdom.
Moore also continued to have a successful solo career but will be best known for his ripping guitar riffs on Thin Lizzy hits like "The Boys are Back in Town" and "Parisienne Walkways."
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When modern buildings are left to fall apart, they can leave you with the feeling that the world has already ended, and you're staring at the ruins of our own civilization. The filmmakers behind the web series The Silent City have decided to capitalize on that eerie sensation, filming in abandoned locations throughout New York.
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THURSDAY, Oct. 13, 2011 (HealthDay News) -- Materialistic couples may have more money, but they also have more relationship problems, according to a new study.
Researchers have found that focusing on money and possessions can take a toll on couples' happiness and stability.
In conducting the study, investigators from Brigham Young University analyzed relationship evaluations completed by more than 1,700 married couples across the United States. The participants were asked how much value they placed on "having money and lots of things."
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"Couples where both spouses are materialistic were worse off on nearly every measure we looked at," lead author, Jason Carroll, a BYU professor of family life, said in a university news release. "There is a pervasive pattern in the data of eroding communication, poor conflict resolution and low responsiveness to each other."
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I was so not worthy of this! Who did I think I was, taking a chair from a real fan? And what a chair it was! Front row at the Monastery in Manchester. (Gorton, actually, so it required some travelling, but not as much as the fans who came from all over the country. For a book event. Seems I'm not the only crazy person around.)
With the fantastic – but not exactly central – Monastery as the venue for John Green's event, I had pondered how his teenage fans would get there. On the same bus as me, in fact. I lost count of the number of girls who got on, buying a ticket for the Monastery. And it was my second event in two days running where people simply 'love ice cream.'
So there we were, for the cult event of the year, the real fans, and me. Around a thousand of us? I don't know. It's a big church and it was sold out and it was packed. Not to the rafters, but that's only because the rafters were pretty high up in this case. All candle lit. Some fans had arrived hours before the event began.
John is very much a cult star, totally unheard of by the rest of us. He and his brother Hank are in Britain for several sold out events, to publicise his new book The Fault In Our Stars, about a teenager dying of cancer. (I know.) I had barely begun reading it, wanting to come to the event cold, to see what I thought.
Arriving on stage accompanied by more noise than your average popstar, John promised us he would slap his brother before the evening was out. Or vice versa. He borrowed someone's copy of the book and read to us from the first chapter.
Then this former 'bad chaplain' advocated dropping out of school, talked about his nerdfighters (no, I don't know, either) before inviting Hank to sing. The audience knew every word of every song! Which was lucky, considering how often he lost track of where he was. He sang some Harry Potter songs, and then John was back explaining about manic pixie dream girls. They don't exist, apparently.
While Hank had been entertaining us, John picked out the best of the questions fans had written for him, and the good thing about fervent fans is the high quality of their questions. He doesn't know anything about the film. The title of the book is too long for the New York Times bestseller list, and he himself doesn't think his books are good. (Obviously John is on the NYT list – no. 1 – and the books are OK too.)
After John and Hank had twerked a bit (cross between twitching and jerking, maybe?) they invited Olympic star Jennifer Pinches to ask them questions against the clock (to determine who would get to slap whom), and they swiftly covered zombies, hair softness, marmite (no, it's not food), drunken rugby fans on the tube, burning down the Monastery, and whether they thought Jesus might fall down on them where they were. As in right underneath.
John failed completely at saying Förr eller senare exploderar jag, which is something I could have assisted with. It's the Swedish title for The Fault In Our Stars, and by happy coincidence I came upon that very phrase as soon as I continued reading on the way home.
Before Hank slapped him, John took off his glasses.
Hank sang a My Little Pony Song. He seemed quite knowledgeable, for a 31-year-old boy.
This kind of huge event means there isn't time for normal signing or posing for photos. The signing was as 'for cattle, only faster' and John and Hank posed for photos on the stage, leaving room for you to photoshop yourself next to them. The signing queue was possibly made shorter by John having signed all the books (included in the ticket price) in advance, in blue and red, to cover all tastes of soccer affiliation.
Telling us we didn't actually have to stay, they said they were very grateful to us for coming, and then offered a last song about fish sex. Because this was not your average or even vaguely normal book event, we got another final song, where even John sang. A little.
After that encore, the cattle was herded out for the booksigning queue, which I joined on account of being fifth in line. When he asked, I told John I was fine. Then he moved on to the next cow.
At that point I decided that a brisk walk to a further away bus stop meant I wouldn't have to share a bus with five hundred other heads of cattle. So I did. On my subsequent train, I peered at what the girl in front of me was reading. Another of John's books. This cult person will be mainstream before he knows what hit him. Hank. We know.
(If you need to learn about the Green brothers, try their famous vlogs. Like all online successes they began six years ago. Cough.)
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Mukesh alerted me to a problem with the Perl conversion script (that converts the XML produced by the Grinder recorder into a Jython file). It wasn't parsing all the parameters in a GET request properly. I've fixed the bug and uploaded a new version of the script. You can download it here.
This project is now available on GitHub.
Before reading this tutorial (if you haven't already), please took at look at my last two tutorials (Performance Testing using The Grinder and Anatomy of a Grinder test-script). In this tutorial I'll talk about easily writing Grinder test-scripts using a framework I designed. As a disclaimer, I'd like to point out that I'm not a Python programmer and therefore certain things may not be very python-esque. If that's the case, I apologize. My personal opinion is that this framework is especially useful (of course, since I wrote it ;)) for web applications where you have a already have a lot of test data. In that case, you can simply record all your discrete tasks once and then construct different scenarios with them. But if you feel differently and have some constructive criticism, I do look forward to hearing from you! Also, if you'd like to try out the framework I've got a tarball and a zip file available for download on the very last page.
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This is my second post regarding Grinder. In this post I'll go over the anatomy of a recorder Grinder test-script. If you haven't read my previous post, please take a look at it. Otherwise this post won't make much sense!
High-level structure of a Grinder script
The high-level structure of a recorded Grinder-test-script looks like this:
[ ... import statements ... ] [ ... header definitions ... ] [ ... url definitions ... ] [ ... request and test definitions ... ] class TestRunner: [ ... method definitions - a method is defined for each recorded page ... ] def __call__(self): [ ... calls to defined methods, which actually runs the requests ... ] [ utility function (I'll go over this later) ] [ ... calls to utility function to wrap/instrument tests (I'll go over this later) ... ]
About a month ago at work, I was trying out a bunch of different performance-testing tools to figure out which one to use to performance-test our software. I ended up discovering a tool called The Grinder which uses Jython to build performance-testing scripts that you can then use to test your application. I even built a little framework in Jython to make the test scripts more modular and reusable. Over the next few days I'll be publishing three articles (this one included) that talk about Grinder.
In this article I'll go over installing and setting up Grinder. I am not going to go into too many details since my aim is to provide information that will enable you to have Grinder up and running quickly. If you want more information, you can look at the rather thorough Grinder User Guide. At the end of this guide, you'll know how to install and set up grinder, record a test, modify (and/or parameterize) it, start running it through the console, and record data from the test. Note: The instructions in this guide relate to a Linux environment. You can run Grinder in Windows; the set-up is not much different. The only differences will be in installation locations and shell scripts. If you want more information about setting up Grinder in a Windows environment, please take a look here.
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text: Previously, I reviewed one of Nihon IR's other popular English Language study tools, 出ã'‹é †. Dr. コーパス is similar in its approach in that it isolates vocabulary and allows students to select from different review methods. Both apps are geared for English study, but as I hope to show, are excellent tools for learning Japanese. While this review will be short, it will focus on how and/or if Nihon IR have managed to create a good study formula.Â


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CHAPEL HILL � So eager to stick to the lines and arrows of each diagram within the North Carolina system, so determined to run plays �exactly the right way every time,� Marcus Paige came to a realization about his first 10 games in college.
�I started to lose myself as a basketball player,� the freshman point guard said.
An informal talk with coach Roy Williams after a recent practice helped identify that particular issue and also reinforce some confidence in general.
The next day a freer Paige delivered probably his best floor game with the Tar Heels � six points, a season-high nine assists and a season-low zero turnovers in North Carolina�s 97-63 blowout of McNeese State last Saturday.
Whether that performance in North Carolina�s most recent game marks a step forward in Paige�s scrutinized development remains to be seen.
But it�s clear he considered the post-practice chat with Williams to be a meaningful conversation, especially with the Tar Heels� Atlantic Coast Conference schedule waiting on the other side of today�s visit from UNLV.
�He just reminded me that he wants me to run the system, but also, be Marcus Paige, be who you are as a player,� Paige said. �That was good for him to remind me of that. It definitely helps.
�Just play basketball. That sounds so simple, but it�s really what you have to do sometimes. So that�s what I�m going to keep trying to do.�
Last month, the left-handed Paige emerged as the eighth freshman point guard to start the first game of his North Carolina career.
He has remained in the lineup � excluding sitting out a victory against Alabama-Birmingham due to a strained shoulder � and averaged 7 points and 4.4 assists per game while shooting a disappointing 35.7 percent from the field.
Paige, in admitting �I like to get things right,� said he became too fixated on adhering to every component of every set in the Tar Heels playbook. And that X-and-O strictness hindered his instinctive ability to create and attack at the proper moments.
In a sense, his firm desire to do the right thing, while commendable, was wrong. Plays don�t always unfold in the manner they are drawn up. There has to be improvisation.
�When (Williams) gives us certain secondary options, I tried to focus too much on running those exactly all the way through,� Paige said, �instead of if I see an opening or if I see a play, just make the play, because the ultimate goal is to score a basket out of the offense.
�When he told me that, it just helped me be confident in being able to divert from the exact pattern of the play and just make a play. That�s really going to help if I�m able to be who I am as a player. You can�t lose who you are.�
Count North Carolina swingman Reggie Bullock as a believer that Paige will discover who he is within the guidelines of the team�s system.
�Marcus is going to be good for us,� Bullock said. �One of the main things is him just settling down. That comes with time and experience.�
Who: No. 20 UNLV (11-1) at North Carolina (9-3)
When: 2 p.m. today (ESPN2)
Where: Smith Center, Chapel Hill
Series: North Carolina leads 3-1. UNLV won 90-80 in the previous meeting, in November of last season at the Las Vegas Invitational.
Tip-in: It�s North Carolina�s final non-league game of the regular season


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The complexity of Medicare billing regulations can baffle even the most business-savvy family physician. So recently, when the AAFP and family physician members had questions regarding Medicare rules for billing "incident to" services, the Academy went straight to CMS Administrator Marilyn Tavenner, M.A., for answers.
According to Kent Moore, the AAFP's senior strategist for physician payment, the incident to rule allows a physician to bill for some health care services provided by practice staff members as long as those services are part of the patient care plan already established by the physician and as long as certain other requirements are met.
For example, if a patient returns to the practice for a blood pressure check following a weeklong trial on a new blood pressure medication initiated during a prior physician-patient encounter, the return visit can be handled by a nurse and potentially billed to Medicare under the physician's name as an incident to service.
Questions arose as to whether incident to rules apply to situations in which a pharmacist employed by the physician's practice also engages with patients.
In a Jan. 22 letter to Tavenner, Moore noted family medicine's increasing emphasis on team-based care and the patient-centered medical home model. "To that end … family medicine practices are employing pharmacists as part of the care team," wrote Moore. "Pursuant to a plan of care created by a physician in the practice and incidental to services provided by the physician, these pharmacists are having and documenting direct (face-to-face) encounters with patients," he noted.
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- The AAFP worked with CMS to confirm certain regulations pertaining to "incident to" services provided to Medicare patients.
- Specifically, the Academy had questions regarding whether incident to rules apply to certain situations in which a medical practice-employed pharmacist engages with patients.
- CMS agreed with the AAFP that if all of the requirements of the incident to statute and regulations were met, a physician could bill for services provided by a pharmacist as incident to services.
Those services include a review of applicable patient history and medications and counseling regarding the risks and benefits of pharmaceutical treatment options, as well as instructions for improving pharmaceutical treatment adherence and outcomes.
Moore noted that such services, if provided directly by the physician, would likely be coded and billed as an evaluation and management service.
He listed the four basic Medicare rules that qualify services as incident to along with the definition of "auxiliary personnel" as defined by in sections 60(A) and 60.1(B) of the Medicare Benefit Policy Manual.
"We (the AAFP) cannot find anything in section 60 that would exclude pharmacists from this definition," said Moore. "Accordingly, we are inclined to think that physicians may bill Medicare for a Part B covered service provided by a pharmacist in the practice as long as all of the incident to rules are otherwise met.
"However, before advising our members accordingly, we wanted to confirm this interpretation with you," he added.
In a written response to Moore, Tavenner said, "In your letter, you ask that we confirm your impression that if all the requirements of the 'incident to' statute and regulations are met, a physician may bill for services provided by a pharmacist as incident to services.
"We agree," she noted.
However, Tavenner pointed out that in conjunction with the 2014 Medicare physician fee schedule, CMS modified the sections of the regulations pertaining to the definition of auxiliary personnel and the provision of services and supplies to state that all applicable state laws also must be observed.
Lastly, Tavenner confirmed Moore's understanding that medication therapy management services -- as described by CPT codes 99605 to 99607 -- are not subject to incident to billing requirements. Such codes are excluded from Medicare Part B coverage and may only be reimbursed by a beneficiary's Medicare Part D or Medicare Advantage plan.
Related AAFP News Coverage
Release of Final 2014 Medicare Fee Schedule Elicits AAFP Summary
More From AAFP
Summary of 2014 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule(27 page PDF)
Additional Resource
CMS Medicare Learning Network: MLN Matters article: "'Incident to' Services"(www.cms.gov)
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I don't know the full story, but I can guess. According to the Sky News newspaper preview, the bomb detectors at Sharm el Sheikh airport were totally ineffective. This sounds like the totally fraudulent false "bomb detectors" sold by scammers to Iraq a few years ago.
OK, so scammers exist but how can such a pseudoscientific fraud continue or years?
I'll try to find more details about the fraud tomorrow.


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Hello! I'm so glad I could repay the favor to my friend Andrea and help her out with a little guest post this weekend. My name is Jenn and I have a little space I call Ruffled Sunshine where I share a little bit of, well, everything I guess. My husband and I own a cruiser bike/sea kayak/organics store in Washington called Greenies and we have a sweetheart of a daughter Ivy who will be four this summer. {ack! I'm kind of freaking out about that!} Oh and my most favorite thing in the world to do is ride my bike!
Lately I have been adding a bit of sea salt to all my sweets and have been loving the combination. So when I saw a salted caramel recipe on pinterest I knew what my Sunday evening treat would be. Luckily I had all of the ingredients in my house which is rare for those Sunday night treat making adventures. Isn't that the worst when you don't have everything you need to try something new? Fortunately this recipe only has three ingredients which I'm hoping you have in your house. Because if you like the whole salty/sweet thing then you will probably need to make this right away too! The original recipe was in metric measurements so I've already done the googling required for you. And I've included a printable in case you are like me and need to give away most of what you make to get the temptation out of the house! This recipe is adapted from Call Me Cupcake which by the way has the prettiest pictures of cakes you have ever seen.
Here are my kitchen notes in case you are a little intimidated, which you shouldn't be because it is super easy. {And you get to learn from my mistakes!}
+ It really is important to not to stir while melting the sugar. I missed that part the first time and you get rock hard bits of sugar that take for-ever to melt.
+The sugar doesn't all have to be melted to remove from heat. Once you see what is melted turn a rich amber then start swirling.
+The sugar doesn't all have to be melted to remove from heat. Once you see what is melted turn a rich amber then start swirling.
+When you stir in the butter it kind of curdles but just keep stirring it comes together!
+ I use 1/2 to 1 tsp of sea salt.
+ I use 1/2 to 1 tsp of sea salt.
+Be Careful! Caramel is hot! I promise!
+This is more of a spreadable caramel or a dip. Just heat to drizzle.
+This is more of a spreadable caramel or a dip. Just heat to drizzle.
+When I was googling the conversions the cream one said .63 cups or 3/4 cup. Those didn't match up but I went with the 3/4 cup of cream. The caramel ended up a lighter color and a bit runnier, more like a caramel topping. It has a milder flavor and is just as delicious. Feel free to try it that way too!
After I got my caramel in to a jar {one batch will fill one 1/2 pint jar or 2 of those itty bitty jars} I thought it would be such a cute thank you gift! So I made a flag and gussied it up all cute. As promised I've included the printable so you can make yours cute too!
I hope you like the caramel! It is super yummy on apples, ice cream, cookies, your finger....use your imagination! And if you want I'd love it if you came by to see me at Ruffled Sunshine some time!
Thanks so much for having me Andrea! Have fun on your trip!


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The windy khamasin (sandstorm) season runs late March-early May. The sandstorms are not heavy enough to bury you, but they do raise the dust and turn the air a hazy, gray-beige color.
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Summary: Mostly correspondence from friends and associates concerning Leslie's painting and his editorship of The Hasty Papers, 1960, including letters from Gregory Corso, Sam Francis, Allen Ginsberg, Sam Hunter, Norman Mailer, Marianne Moore, and Boris Pasternak. Also included are manuscript articles and galley sheets.


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During the Fall and Spring semesters, the Computational Social Science (CSS) and the Computational Sciences and Informatics (CSI) Programs have merged their seminar/colloquium series where students, faculty and guest speakers present their latest research. These seminars are free and are open to the public. This series takes place on Fridays from 3-4:30 in Center for Social Complexity Suite which is located on the third floor of Research Hall.
If you would like to join the seminar mailing list please email Karen Underwood.
Eduardo Lopez, Assistant Professor
Department of Computational and Data Sciences
George Mason University
A Network Theory of Inter-Firm Labor Flows
Monday, March 5, 4:30-5:45
Exploratory Hall, Room 3301
Abstract: Using detailed administrative microdata for two countries, we build a modeling framework that yields new explanations for the origin of firm sizes, the firm contributions to unemployment, and the job-to-job mobility of workers between firms. Firms are organized as nodes in networks where connections represent low mobility barriers for workers. These labor flow networks are determined empirically, and serve as the substrate in which workers transition between jobs. We show that highly skewed firm size distributions are a direct consequence of the connectivity of firms. Further, our model permits the reconceptualization of unemployment as a local phenomenon, induced by individual firms, leading to the notion of firm-specific unemployment, which is also highly skewed. In coupling the study of job mobility and firm dynamics the model provides a new analytical tool for industrial organization and may make it possible to synthesize more targeted policies managing job mobility.
James Glasbrenner, Assistant Professor
Department of Computational and Data Sciences
George Mason University
Using data science and materials simulations to control the corkscrew magnetism of MnAu₂
Monday, March 19, 4:30-5:45
Exploratory Hall, Room 3301
Materials occupy a foundational role in our society, from the silicon-based chips in our smartphones to the metals used to manufacture automobiles and construct buildings. The sheer variety in materials properties enables this wide range of use, and studying the atoms that bond together to form solids reveals the microscopic origin behind these properties. Remarkably, many properties can be traced to the behavior of and interaction between electrons, and computational simulations such as density functional theory calculations are used to study the features and macroscopic effects of this electronic structure. This computational approach can be further enhanced through recent advances in data science, which provide powerful tools and methods for analyzing and modeling data and for handling and storing large datasets.
In this talk, I will: 1) introduce the basic concepts of computational materials science and density functional theory in an accessible manner, and 2) present calculations on the material MnAu₂ where I use density functional theory and modeling to analyze its magnetic properties. The MnAu₂ structure is layered and its magnetic ground state forms a noncollinear corkscrew that rotates approximately 50° between neighboring manganese layers. Using the results of my calculations, I will explain the electronic origin of this corkscrew state and how to control its angle using external pressure and chemical substitution. In addition to discussing the electron physics, I will place a particular emphasis on the connection between data science and how modeling was used to analyze and interpret the density functional theory calculations. This will include a new, critical reexamination of my model fitting procedure using cross-validation and feature selection techniques, which will formally test the underlying assumptions I made in the original study.
Computational Social Science Friday Seminar
Ryan Zelnio, Ph.D.
Chief Analytics Officer
Office of Naval Research
The Creation of the Office of Naval Research's Data & Analytics Lab
Friday, March 23, 3:00-4:30 p.m.
Center for Social Complexity Suite
Research Hall, 3rd Floor
The Office of Naval Research (ONR) coordinates, executes, and promotes the science and technology programs of the United States Navy and Marine Corps. It administers the Naval Research Enterprise (NRE) investment portfolio of $2B annually in Naval relevant science and technologies (S&T) ranging from basic research to technology prototyping. This portfolio covers over 3000 grant and contract awards annually over a large variety of technologies. In FY2017 alone, the basic and applied research portfolio (which is less than 50% of its budget) funded 4,411 scientific articles, 2,732 conference papers, 343 theses, 204 books & book chapters and 88 patents. However, while this portfolio is large, it is a drop in the bucket within the global research & development (R&D) enterprise. In an attempt to understand this vast amount of data being produced both within the NRE and globally, ONR recently stood up the Data & Analytics Lab. Its mission is to support strategic decision making at the Office of Naval Research with in-depth analysis of the NRE portfolio to enhance mission effectiveness for U.S. Naval Forces. This new lab is led by Mr. Matt Poe and includes Dr. Ryan Zelnio (2013 GMU SPP grad) serving as the Chief Analytics Officer and LCDR Nick Benes serving as the Chief Data Officer. This lab seeks to harness ONR's investments in social network analysis, machine learning, natural language processing, data visualization, supervised and unsupervised clustering, and many other data science tools to support decision processes across the NRE. Their talk will cover the range of challenges facing their lab as they stand up their effort and discuss the broader move within the federal government to better apply the tools of data science to understand the complexity of the R&D enterprise. They will also discuss future partnering and internship opportunities.
Dr. Peer Kröger, Professor
Chair of Database Systems and Data Mining
Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich
Monday, March 26, 4:30-5:45
Exploratory Hall, Room 3301
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By Christopher Carroll and Jacquelyn Kazil
Christopher Carroll, Professor
Department of Economics
Johns Hopkins University
Title: Introduction to The Economics ARK (Algorithmic Repository and toolKit)
The Econ-ARK/HARK toolkit is a modular and extensible open source toolkit for solving, simulating, and estimating heterogeneous-agent (HA) models in economics and the social sciences. Although the value of models of this kind has been clear both to academics and to policymakers for a long time, the code for implementing such models has so far been handcrafted and idiosyncratic. As a result, it may take years of human capital development for a new researcher to become proficient enough in these methods to contribute to the literature. The seminar will describe how the Heterogeneous Agents Resources and toolKit (HARK) eases this burden by providing a robust framework in which canonical examples of such models are solved. The toolkit provides object-oriented tools for representing heterogeneous agents, solution methods for solving or characterizing their dynamic choice problems, and a framework for representing the environment in which agents interact. The aim of the toolkit is to become the go-to resource for heterogeneous agent modelers, by providing a well-designed, well-documented, and powerful platform in which they can develop their own work in a robust and replicable manner.
I am a professor of economics at JHU and co-chair of the National Bureau of Economic Research's working group on the Aggregate Implications of Microeconomic Consumption Behavior. Originally from Knoxville, Tennessee, I received my A.B. in Economics from Harvard University in 1986 and a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1990. After graduating from M.I.T., I worked at the Federal Reserve Board in Washington DC, where I prepared forecasts for consumer expenditure. I moved to Johns Hopkins University in 1995 and also spent 1997-98 working at the Council of Economic Advisors in Washington, where I analyzed Social Security reform proposals, tax and pension policy, and bankruptcy reform. Aside from my current work at Hopkins and the NBER, I am also an associate editor at the Review of Economics and Statistics,(ReStat) the Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, (JBES) and the Berkeley Electronic Journal of Macroeconomics (BEJM).
My research has primarily focused on consumption and saving behavior, with an emphasis on reconciling the empirical evidence from both microeconomic and macroeconomic sources with theoretical models. (In addition to articles in economic journals, I've authored Encyclopedia Britannica articles on consumption related topics.) My most recent research has focused on the dynamics of expectations formation, particularly on how expectations reflect households' learning from each other and from experts. This focus flows from a career-long interest in consumer sentiment and its determinants.
Jacquelyn Kazil
CSS PhD Student
Title: Mesa, Agent-based modeling library in Python 3
Python has grown significantly in the scientific community, but there is no tool or reusable framework to do agent-based modeling (ABM) in Python. While there are well-established frameworks in other languages, the lack of one in the Python language is at odds with the growth of Python in the scientific community. As a result, we created an ABM framework called Mesa in Python 3 with sustained contributions. Mesa is built to be modular, so the backend server, the frontend visualization and tooling, the batch runner, and the data collector are each separate components that can be upgraded independently from each other. In addition to this, Mesa is extensible and meant to be decoupled from domain specific add-ons. This empowers the community to develop features and add-ons independent of the core Mesa library. In this talk, Jackie will set the stage for her Ph.D by providing an overview Mesa's past, present, and proposed future, along with how that fits in the ABM ecosystem of other tooling.
Henry Smart, III, PhD candidate
Virginia Tech
A Proof of Concept: An Agent-Based Model of Colorism
within an Organizational Context (Local Policing)
Friday, April 20, 3:00 p.m.
Center for Social Complexity Suite
3rd Floor, Research Hall
Colorism is the allocation of privilege and disadvantage based on skin color, with a prejudice for lighter skin. This project uses agent-based modeling (computational simulation) to explore the potential effects of colorism on local policing. I argue that colorism might help to explain some of the racial disparities in the United States' criminal justice system. I use simulated scenarios to explore the plausibility of this notion in the form of two questions: 1) How might colorism function within an organization; and 2) What might occur when managers apply the typical dilemmatic responses to detected colorism? The simulated world consists of three citizen-groups (lights, mediums, and darks), five policy responses to detected colorism, and two policing behaviors (fair and biased). Using NetLogo, one hundred simulations were conducted for each policy response and analyzed using one-way ANOVA and pairwise comparison of means. When the tenets of colorism were applied to an organizational setting, only some of the tenets held true. For instance, those in the middle of the skin color spectrum experienced higher rates incarceration when aggressive steps were taken to counter colorism, which ran counter to the expectations of the thought experiment. The study identified an opportunity to expand the description of colorism to help describe the plight of those in the middle of the skin color spectrum. The major contributions from this work include a conceptual model that describes the relationship between the distinct levels of colorism and it progresses the notion of interactive colorism. The study also produced conditional statements that can be converted into hypotheses for future experiments.
Notice and Invitation
Oral Defense of Doctoral Dissertation
Doctor of Philosophy in Computational Sciences and Informatics
Department of Computational and Data Sciences
College of Science
George Mason University
John T. Rigsby
Bachelor of Science, Mississippi State University, 1999
Master of Science, George Mason University, 2005
Automated Storytelling: Generating and Evaluating Story Chains
Monday, April 30, 2018, 11:00 a.m.
Research Hall, Room 162
All are invited to attend.
Daniel Barbara, Dissertation Director
Estela Blaisten
Carlotta Domeniconi
Igor Griva
Abstract: Automated storytelling attempts to create a chain of documents linking one article to another while telling a coherent and cohesive story that explains events connecting the two article end points. The need to understand the relationship between documents is a common problem for analysts; they often have two snippets of information and want to find the other pieces that relate them. These two snippets of information form the bookends (beginning and ending) of a story chain. The story chain formed using automated storytelling provides the analyst with better situational awareness by collecting and parsing intermediary documents to form a coherent story that explains the relationships of people, places, and events.
The promise of the Data Age is that the truth really is in there, somewhere. But our age has a curse, too: apophenia, the tendency to see patterns that may or may not exist. — Daniel Conover, Post and Courier, Charleston, South Carolina, 30 Aug. 2004
The above quote expresses a common problem in all areas of pattern recognition and data mining. For text data mining, several fields of study are dedicated to solving aspects of this problem. Some of these include literature-based discovery (LBD), topic detection and tracking (TDT), and automated storytelling. Methods to pull the signal from the noise are often the first step in text data analytics. This step usually takes the form of organizing the data into groups (i.e. clustering). Another common step is understanding the vocabulary of the dataset; this could be as simple as phrase frequency analysis or as complex as topic modeling. TDT and automated storytelling come into play once the analyst has specific documents for which they want more information.
In our world of ever more numerous sources of information, which includes scientific publications, news articles, web resources, emails, blogs, tweets, etc., automated storytelling mitigates information overload by presenting readers with the clarified chain of information most pertinent to their needs. Sometimes referred to as connecting the dots, automated storytelling attempts to create a chain of documents linking one article to another that tells a coherent and cohesive story and explains the events that connect the two articles. In the crafted story, articles next to each other should have enough similarity that readers easily comprehend why the next article in the chain was chosen. However, adjacent articles should also be different enough to move the reader farther along the chain of events with each successive article making significant progress toward the destination article.
The research in this thesis concentrates on three areas:
- story chain generation
- quantitative storytelling evaluation
- focusing storytelling with signal injection.
Storytelling evaluation of the quality of the created stories is difficult and has routinely involved human judgment. Existing storytelling evaluation methodologies have been qualitative in nature, based on results from crowd sourcing and subject matter experts. Limited quantitative evaluation methods currently exist and are generally only used for filtering results before qualitative evaluation. In addition, quantitative evaluation methods become essential to discern good stories from bad when two or more story chains exist for the same bookends. The work described herein extends the state of the art by providing quantitative methods of story quality evaluation which are shown to have good agreement with human judgment. Two methods of automated storytelling evaluation are developed: dispersion and coherence, which will be used later as criterion for a storytelling algorithm. Dispersion, a measure of story flow, ascertains how well the generated story flows away from the beginning document and towards the ending document. Coherence measures how well the articles in the middle of the story provide information about the relationship of the beginning and ending document pair. Kullback-Leibler divergence (KLD) is used to measure the ability to encode the vocabulary of the beginning and ending story documents using the set of middle documents in the story. The dispersion and coherence methodologies developed here have the added benefit that they do not require parameterization or user inputs and are easily automated.
An automated storytelling algorithm is proposed as a multi-criteria optimization problem that maximizes dispersion and coherence simultaneously. The developed storytelling methodologies allow for the automated identification of information which associates disparate documents in support of literature-based discovery and link analysis tasking. In addition, the methods provide quantitative measures of the strength of these associations.
We also present a modification of our storytelling algorithm as a multi-criteria optimization problem that allows for signal injection by the analyst without sacrificing good story flow and content. This is valuable because analysts often have an understanding of the situation or prior knowledge that could be used to focus the story in a better way as compared to the story chain formed without signal injection. Storytelling with signal injection allows an analyst to create alternative stories which incorporate the domain knowledge of the analyst into the story chain generation process.
Notice and Invitation
Oral Defense of Doctoral Dissertation
Doctor of Philosophy in Computational Sciences and Informatics
Department of Computational and Data Sciences
College of Science
George Mason University
Karl Battams
Bachelor of Science – Astrophysics, University College London, 2002
Master of Science – Computational Sciences, George Mason University, 2008
Reduction and Synopses of Multi-Scale Time Series with Applications to Massive Solar Data
Monday, July 30, 2018, 11:00 a.m.
Exploratory Hall, Room 3301
All are invited to attend.
Robert Weigel, Dissertation Director/Chair
Jie Jhang
Robert Meier
Huzefa Rangwala
In this dissertation, we explore new methodologies and techniques applicable to aspects of Big Solar Data to enable new analyses of temporally long, or volumetrically large, solar physics imaging data sets. Specifically, we consider observations returned by two space-based solar physics missions – the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) and the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) – the former operating for over 7-years to date, returning around 1.5 terabytes of data daily, and the latter having been operational for more than 22-years to date. Despite ongoing improvements in desktop computing performance and storage capabilities, temporally and volumetrically massive datasets in the solar physics community continue to be challenging to manipulate and analyze. While historically popular, but more simplistic, analysis methods continue to provide new insights, the results from those studies are often driven by improved observations rather than the computational methods themselves. To fully exploit the increasingly high volumes of observations returned by current and future missions, computational methods must be developed that enable reduction, synopsis and parameterization of observations to reduce the data volume while retaining the physical meaning of those data.
In the first part of this study we consider time series of 4 – 12 hours in length extracted from the high spatial and temporal resolution data recorded by the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) instrument on the NASA Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO). We present a new methodology that enables the reduction and parameterization of full spatial and temporal resolution SDO/AIA data sets into unique components of a model that accurately describes the power spectra of these observations. Specifically, we compute the power spectra of pixel-level time series extracted from derotated AIA image sequences in several wavelength channels of the AIA instrument, and fit one of two models to their power spectra as a function of frequency. This enables us to visualize and study the spatial dependence of the individual model parameters in each AIA channel. We find that the power spectra are well-described by at least one of these models for all pixel locations, with unique model parameterizations corresponding directly to visible solar features. Computational efficiency of all aspects of this code is provided by a flexible Python-based Message Passing Interface (MPI) framework that enables distribution of all workloads across all available processing cores. Key scientific results include clear identification of numerous quasi-periodic 3- and 5-minute oscillations throughout the solar corona; identification and new characterizations of the known ~4.0-minute chromospheric oscillation, including a previously unidentified solar-cycle driven trend in these oscillations; identification of "Coronal Bullseyes", that present radially decaying periodicities over sunspots and sporadic foot-point regions, and of features we label "Penumbral Periodic Voids", that appear as annular regions surrounding sunspots in the chromosphere, bordered by 3- and 5-minute oscillations but exhibiting no periodic features.
The second part of this study considers the entire mission archive returned by the Large Angle Spectrometric Coronagraph (LASCO) C2 instrument, operating for more than 20-years on the joint ESA/NASA Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) mission. We present a technique that enables the reduction of this entire data set to a fully calibrated, spatially-located time series known as the LASCO Coronal Brightness Index (CBI). We compare these time series to a number concurrent solar activity indices via correlation analyses to indicate relationships between these indices and coronal brightness both globally across the entire corona, and locally over small spatial scales within the corona, demonstrating that the LASCO observations can be reliably used to derive proxies for a number of geophysical indices. Furthermore, via analysis of these time series in the frequency domain, we highlight the effects of long-time scale variability in long solar time series, considering sources of both solar origin (e.g., solar rotation, solar cycle) and of instrumental/operation origin (e.g., spacecraft rolls, stray light contamination), and demonstrate the impact of filtering of temporally long time series to reduce the impacts of these uncertain variables in the signals. Primary findings of this include identification of a strong correlation between coronal brightness and both Total and Spectral Solar Irradiance leading to the development of a LASCO-based proxy of solar irradiance, as well as identification of significant correlations with several other geophysical indices, with plausible driving mechanisms demonstrated via a developed correlation mapping technique. We also determine a number of new results regarding LASCO data processing and instrumental stray light that important to the calibration of the data and have important impacts on the long-term stability of the data.
Computational Social Science Research Colloquium /Colloquium in Computational and Data Sciences
Kieran Marray, Laidlaw Scholar
St. Catherine's College
University of Oxford
FORTEC: Forecasting the Development of Artificial Intelligence up to 2050 Using Agent-Based Modeling
Friday, August 31, 3:00 p.m.
Center for Social Complexity, 3rd Floor Research Hall
All are welcome to attend.
Kieran is a Laidlaw Scholar from St Catherine's College, University of Oxford. He has been visiting the Center for Social Complexity over the summer to do research in complexity economics supervised by Professor Rob Axtell.
Due to a welcome reception for new and returning CDS student, there will be no colloquium on Friday, September 7. The next one will be held on Friday, September 14. Speaker and topic to be announced later.


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A mother believes that posting a photo of her sick son on Facebook may have saved his life.
Deborah Copaken Kogan wrote about her 4-year-old son, Leo, being diagnosed with scarlet fever, his temperature rising and his face swelling on Slate. She also sent a photo to her Facebook account with the caption, "Swelling worse, especially eyes and chin. Fever still crazy high. Poor baby."
Was I consciously trying to find an answer out there in the hive mind? No, but some subconscious part of me must have been wondering whether one of my hundreds of "friends" might be privy to some expertise on the befuddling Nutty Professor syndrome that had my child in its grips.
Ten minutes later, I received a call on my cell phone from Stephanie, a film actress and former neighbor. "I hope you'll excuse me for butting in," she said, "But you have to get to the hospital. Now." Her son Max had had the exact same symptoms, and was hospitalized for Kawasaki disease, a rare and sometimes fatal auto-immune disorder that attacks the coronary arteries surrounding the heart. "The longer you wait," she said, "the worse the damage."
Two other friends, both doctors, also urged Kogan to take her son to the hospital immediately, which eventually she did -- and found out her son did have Kawasaki's disease and Kawasaki-triggered liver disease. Leo is now much improved, but likely will carry a higher risk of heart attack for the rest of his life.
We found Kogan's story moving because she realized that Facebook is, indeed, a community. While it may seem like a somewhat useless group of friends, family and acquaintances, that "hive mind" can be helpful when several brains are better than just one.


text: Guest **DONOTDELETE** Posted February 15, 2001 I have seen some refrences to the fact that we are in a "Golden Age" for bourbon. I wonder if this is true. I believe that there is a curb and that we are actually on the downward slide. Let us consider some historical perspective. About 150 years ago bourbon began to improve with the advance of technology allowing better control of the manufacture of spirits. The bourbon was made with lower entry proofs and smaller barrels and had a lot of flavor that bourbons today does not have. I admit some of these flavors might not appeal to us today, but then again I say who can really say if nobody is making the whiskey the old fashioned way anymore so there is no comparison standard. Prohibition changed the industry creating standards for manufacture that made the industry look more like what we have today. Barrels got bigger. The change would have been subtle and maybe not noticed by most people and it saved money. Entry proofs started edging the way up. The accountants have started to get involved in the manufacturing process and marketing people started telling everybody what "they should like" (exception is Linn who has very strong opinions of what he likes, damn the marketing people). As we go into the 21st century almost all of the distillers are using 125 proof as entry proof. This leaves less flavor from the grains so recipe becomes less important. Marketing people are changing the packaging taking a product that once was proudly sold as "8 Year Old" and making it "No. 8" with no age statement. The product is changing in subtle ways hoping nobody will notice and for the vast majority of the people, they won't notice.I say if we are in a "Golden Age" it is of marketing. The distillers art golden age was the 1950's and 60's. I would rather have some Old Fitzgerald made in the 1950's that is 5 years old than I would the current 12 year old product. Others have talked about the "Pre-Beam Old Grand Dad". This was a time when modern methods improved control but the Master Distiller was still in control of the manufacture of bourbon. I wish Pappy Van Winkle was still in business today. His motto of "Always Fine Bourbon" should be a standard for the industry. At the Heritage seminar at the Bourbon Festival about 5 years ago someone asked Ova Haney who would be the Master Distillers of the future and his reply was "The F*[email protected]'n accountants". I fear he may be right. What do you think?Mike Veach Share this post Link to post Share on other sites


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Forest edge out Terriers
Nottingham Forest netted just their second goal in seven opening day fixtures to start their Sky Bet Championship campaign with a closely-fought 1-0 win over Huddersfield.
Henri Lansbury struck in the 52nd minute to help Billy Davies' side claim three points from their first game for just the second time in seven seasons.
James Vaughan twice came close to netting for the visitors, but Mark Robins' side - who had scored in nine of their last 10 opening day games - could not find a way through.
Forest's team included the rejuvenated Matt Derbyshire, a striker who had started only eight games for the club in the past two seasons.
He had enjoyed a prolific pre-season, scoring four goals, to play his way back into a starting line-up that included three of Forest's eight summer additions.
Jack Hobbs, signed from Hull, and former Aston Villa defender Eric Lichaj were included in a new look back four, while Jamie Mackie, brought in from QPR, was included in a fluid Forest attack.
Huddersfield also included three of their own eight summer additions, with Martin Paterson, the former Burnley player, playing just off Vaughan, who had seen last season's loan move from Norwich made permanent. Jonathan Hogg was included in midfield after signing from Watford.
Paterson was the first to threaten for either side, pulling the trigger on the edge of the box, with his shot taking a wicked deflection off Hobbs that had keeper Karl Darlow looking on nervously as it looped over.
Initially, Forest's most notable response was a crisp, rising 20-yard shot from Adlene Guedioura that narrowly cleared the bar.
But the home side did begin to find a little momentum, with Lichaj curling in a powerful cross with the outside of his right boot which threatened to bend inside the far post before flying wide.
Vaughan almost ended the stalemate within a minute of the restart, Adam Clayton sending him striding into the box and Darlow producing a smart save at his near post, getting down quickly to push away the striker's arrowing shot.
But it was Forest who took the lead as a swift exchange of passes between Andy Reid and Chris Cohen sent the Forest skipper darting into the area from the left, where he drew the keeper before squaring for Lansbury to score into an unguarded net from close range in the 52nd minute.
Vaughan should have scored when Paul Dixon picked him out with a left wing cross, but headed wide.
Forest almost netted a second when Hobbs flicked a Reid free-kick towards the far post, where Derbyshire was agonisingly close to making contact, but in the end one was enough.
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Seniors Nikola Deiter and Jewel Robinson along with junior Tori Sousa helped lead the New England Mutiny to a nail-biting 3-2 double-overtime win in the East Conference Finals this past weekend to propel the team to its sixth Women's Premier Soccer League National Championship in 11 years this weekend, July 27-28, in Sacramento, CA.
The Mutiny suffered a 2-1 deficit into the final seconds of the game until they notched the game-tying goal with just three seconds to spare to launch the game into two overtime periods. The Mutiny clenched the 3-2 win in the 100th minute of play.
Deiter, Robinson, Sousa and the rest of the Mutiny (8-0-5) will take on the Houston Aces (11-0-0) in the semifinals of WPSL National Championship in Sacramento, CA on Saturday. Kickoff is set for 8 p.m. EDT. For more information, visit the New England Mutiny homepage.


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As Japan recovers from the devastating earthquakes and tsunami that struck on March 11, the world's top recording artists respond to the tragedy with this benefit album. The 38 tracks include some of their biggest hits, featuring an exclusive remix of Lady Gaga's "Born This Way", along with original versions of Katy Perry's "Firework", Bruno Mars' "Talking to the Moon", Adele's "Make You feel My Love" and more. All proceeds go to the Japanese Red Cross.
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