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Texas company bilked Medicare out of millions: Attorney

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HBT: McCutchen leads Pirates in everything

No, really, everything.

Andrew McCutchen leads the Pirates in average, on-base percentage, slugging percentage, home runs, runs batted in, runs scored, walks (tied with Neil Walker), doubles, triples and stolen bases.

Root Sports Pittsburgh points out that he?s the first player to lead a team in all of those categories this late into the season since the Astros? Jose Cruz in 1984.

With a .342/.397/.586 line, McCutchen currently ranks sixth in the NL in OPS. He?s a big reason the Pirates are just two games back of the Reds in the NL Central, and he?d have to be in the top five in NL MVP balloting at the moment. Personally, I?d probably put him third behind Joey Votto and R.A. Dickey.

There is one word of warning here, though: McCutchen also appeared to be in the midst of a breakthrough season at this time last year, only to disappoint in the second half. He?s performing better now than he was then, but he needs to keep it going for a full year to truly establish himself as a superstar.

Source: http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/06/28/andrew-mccutchen-leads-the-pirates-in-everything/related/

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New? No thanks! 14 things you should always buy used

Would you like to be $5,000 to $50,000 richer by this time next year? It might be as simple as thinking "pre-owned" rather than new. Here's a list of things you should never buy new -- see if you can add to it.

By Brandon Ballenger,?Contributor / June 27, 2012

There?s no good reason to buy a new book. Pick up a copy online or at a local store for pennies on the dollar. Students at University of California, San Diego are protesting the price of text books that now average over $100 per book. The high price of college textbooks makes buying used especially attractive.

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We recently shared a list of 20 things you should never buy used. Because it?s often true: You get what you pay for. When it comes to safety, hygiene, and warranties, there?s no substitute for buying some things new.

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But for the most part, you can save a lot of money without sacrificing quality by purchasing many things used. In fact, it can change your life.

1. Cars

The biggest way to?save on car ownership?is to?avoid paying the sticker price. A properly maintained year-old vehicle looks and functions like a new car ? but costs 20 percent less. If you can save just $4,000 by buying used, then earn 10 percent on it for 20 years, you?ll be $26,000 ahead. And if you can avoid interest by paying cash rather than financing your ride, you?ll be richer still.

You can find a reliable used car for $5,000. The older the car the greater the risk, but having a car inspected by a mechanic can reduce it. The important thing when it comes to cars: Ignore the commercials. Cars are transportation, not status symbols.

2. Houses

With new homes, you don?t have to worry about repairs. But even factoring in fix-up costs ? which you?ll know prior to purchase because you?ve had a professional inspection done ? a pre-owned house will normally save thousands over new.

According to the latest data from the National Association of Home Builders, the average price for a new home in April ($282,600) was about 25 percent higher than the average price for an existing home ($226,400). Save $50,000 by buying used and you?ll have a lower mortgage payment, freeing up cash to do other more important things ? like saving for retirement.

Pre-owned also means more flexible negotiations and mature landscaping.

3. Books

There?s no good reason to buy a new book. Pick up a copy online or at a local store for pennies on the dollar. Or rediscover the library, which these days may even offer free e-book downloads.

The high price of college textbooks makes buying used especially attractive. But you can save even more by checking the library (before your classmates), finding a textbook exchange, or buying an older edition for less. Do some searching and you?ll find lots of ways to get textbooks cheaper, or even free.

Depending on demand and when a new edition is released, you may also be able to recoup much of your cost by reselling them in the right places. Money Talks News writer Ricky Michalski recently bought one of his chemistry texts online for $75 ? and resold it for $72 four months later. That means he?s $72 richer than the student who paid full price, then threw that book in a box, never to be read again.

4. Timeshares

A new timeshare is a terrible buy. Reuters recently reported owners are so desperate to ditch the annual maintenance fees that many timeshares are selling for $1. If you can buy a timeshare for basically nothing, avoiding a developer?s high-pressure sales pitch will make you tens of thousands of dollars richer. Check out articles like How to Buy and Sell Timeshares.

5. Recreational toys

From boats to RVs to bikes, buying used makes sense: They?re terrifically expensive new, they depreciate rapidly, and if someone is selling, they may not have had the free time to use it very much.

6. Sports and exercise gear

Everybody wants to lose weight, but few make the time to do it. That means many people have exercise gear they want to unload cheap or even free on sites like eBay and Freecycle. There are also stores that specialize in used gear, like Play It Again Sports.

Weights can?t go bad, although you?ll want to test things like treadmills and other more complex equipment. As we mentioned in our Best Bought New post, bicycle helmets are one thing you should buy new for safety reasons.?But otherwise, why not buy used?

7.?Furniture

Used furniture from garage sales and consignment stores is often a great bargain ? just ask Money Talks News writer Angela Colley, who refurnished her home for under $720. Look around your house and mentally add up the amount you?ve spent on new furniture. Had you bought used, you could easily have saved 50 percent, which means that money would be in your pocket instead of a furniture retailer?s.

Moving sales are great places to save on furniture, since moving furniture is expensive, and sellers have a deadline to dump it. Snap up bargains when college dorms and apartments start emptying in the Spring.

Added bonus of buying used: you might find stuff that?s better built than today?s.

8. Jewelry

Jewelry depreciates faster than cars. And unlike cars, used jewelry isn?t going to break down, and nobody can tell a ring made this year from one made in 1950. In fact, vintage styles can be highly sought after. Best sources include pawn shops, online at places like eBay, and government and other auctions. Obviously, if you?re buying something expensive, be knowledgeable or enlist the help of someone who is.

9. Baby gear

Baby stuff doesn?t get much use ? they outgrow everything in months. So baby clothes, toys, and nursery furniture can be smart used buys.

But there are definitely used baby items to avoid. Car seats and cribs have safety risks, and everything should be checked for product recalls. If you?re not sure, say no. But if you are, you can easily save 50 percent or more.

10. Clothes

Clean out your closet and get a tax deduction by donating the clothes you don?t want to a thrift store. Better yet, take them to a resale shop and make some money. And while you?re there, shop around.

The problem with buying clothes this way ? as with many things you buy used ? is that it might be hard to find exactly what you?re looking for. But if you?re not in a hurry, buying used can cut your clothing budget by 90 percent. For nicer clothes, head to the thrift and resale stores closest to upscale neighborhoods.

11. Dishware

Dishes don?t go bad with time, and buying used can save 80 percent or more. Got a friend getting married? Odds are good they?re going to be getting rid of old stuff to make room for wedding gifts. Thrift shops, yard sales and online sites like Freecycle are also good bets.

12. Electronics

Used electronics are a mixed bag: Things a few years old might be obsolete or incompatible with the latest technology, and it?s often hard to tell whether there are hardware issues.

However, buying used a few months after a product?s release (or even getting last year?s model) can be a great way to save. Purchasing from someone you know personally is a good way to avoid lemons, and factory-refurbished items have been professionally examined and repaired, and may even come with a warranty.

Electronics are a great place to save because so many people foolishly feel the need to buy the latest edition of everything. Not being one of those people will make you richer.

13. Video games and movies

These media are a lot like books. Many buy them new, enjoy them once, then toss them on a shelf. If that?s you, recycle your entertainment money and trade them in.

Online-only stores such as Amazon and Newegg sometimes feature sales with new copies cheaper than the used ones at brick-and-mortar stores, so be sure and check. But used prices are typically 10 to 70 percent less than new, with the best deals on the older stuff.

As with electronics, patience pays.

14. Tools

Most people don?t use tools regularly, so it may make sense to borrow or rent them. But well-maintained tools last a long time, and are easy to find at yard sales. It can be hard to tell how much life power tools have left ? so only buy them used from people you trust.

Bottom line? You can be thousands of dollars richer simply by letting other people take the depreciation hit that accompanies virtually all consumer purchases. While it?s convenient to go into a local store and walk out with something new, there?s a high price to pay for that convenience. If you can save $10,000 every year by buying used, then compound that money at 10 percent, in 30 years you?ll be $1,809,434 richer than someone who buys the same things new. And what have you sacrificed? Nothing. After all, those new items become used the minute you bring them home.

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What should you know about copyright to ... - My Legal Briefcase

As producers of creative work, artists, writers and designers alike, often do not consider the importance of business transactions. Often too preoccupied with the idea of producing a piece of expression, or designing a solution, creators ?fail to follow the right steps in order to ensure that they are fairly compensated fairly for what their work is really worth.

If the number seems fair, there is a big chance that you are signing away a lot more than you are willing to. You should read the contract actively, and look up the words that you don?t understand.

Here are some basic rights that you should consider when selling the copyright to your work:

What is copyright?

Copyright refers to the exclusive right to publish, reproduce and sell a ?work.

Who owns copyright?

Generally, copyright subsists in the creator of the original work; however, copyright in a work can be sold or transferred to others under a variety of conditions. These conditions can vary based on usage, medium, temporality, etc.

Here are some rights that you should consider when signing a contract:

First Rights: The right to be the first to publish a work on a one-time-basis only. Any usage beyond this will be considered infringement of copyright.

Second Rights: The right to re-use an image that has been originally used elsewhere.

Non-exclusive Rights: When the artist as well as the client have the right to both reproduce and sell the image to third parties. This typically creates an unfavourable situation for both parties since an accessible piece of artwork loses its value relatively quickly.

Sublicensing Rights: Refers to a party, other than the creator of the work, owning the right to sell the copyright of an image to any third party. This is a situation one would want to avoid.

All Rights or a Buyout: Refers to the purchase of all rights of usage, while the artist maintains the authorship of the work. This is a situation that can work quite well for the artist if the compensation is fair.

Moral Rights: Refers to the rights that an author can retain which protect the work from being altered without the author?s permission. This right is meant to protect the integrity of the original piece of work. Moral rights can also assure that the client must obtain the creator?s consent in order to modify or update the work.

Fair Use: The right to reproduce a work of art for a very limited and specific purpose without requiring the consent of the copyright owner. An example of this would be the use of a small portion of a book for educational purposes.

Right of Celebrity: The right to use an image of a celebrity for a newsworthy purpose. One may not simply reproduce a celebrity?s image for profit without running the risk of being the target of a lawsuit.?

Source: https://www.mylegalbriefcase.com/blog/2012/06/29/what-should-you-know-about-copyright-to-protect-your-creative-work-2/

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Nora Ephron Talks Her Last Meal, Aging And More On 'Charlie Rose'

When Nora Ephron released her book, "I Remember Nothing," two years ago, the late beloved screenwriter, author and playwright sat down for a rare television interview with Charlie Rose.

Ephron ended "I Remember Nothing," which would become her last book, with two lists: "What I Won't Miss," and "What I Will Miss." Death was seemingly something she had thought about, even though she didn't make her battle with acute myeloid leukemia known to the public.

In her interview with Rose in late 2010, Ephron discussed the inspiration for her book, her mother's alcoholism, journalism, and also shared her thoughts on aging and why it's important to have your last meal.

"Is there anything right with getting older?" Ephron inquired when Rose asked what she doesn't like about the aging process. After he suggested wisdom, Ephron said: "Wisdom when you can't remember anything is not quite there. Having more time to read when you can't see? I don't think it's better to be older ... It doesn't have to be bad, but you have to know that at some point it will be -- and sooner rather than later, which is why it's very important to eat your last meal before it actually comes up."

Ephron, an admitted food lover, went on: "When you are actually going to have your last meal, you'll either be too sick to have it or you aren't gonna know it's your last meal and you could squander it on something like a tuna melt and that would be ironic. So it's important ... I feel it's important to have that last meal today, tomorrow, soon."

So what would her last meal be? A hot dog from Beverly Hill's famous Nate 'n Al deli ... with some Gulden's mustard and perhaps some sauerkraut or relish. Why Nate 'n Al's? "It's the greatest hot dog," Ephron explained.

And clearly, that wasn't the only deli that made an impression on Ephron or her fans: The iconic fake orgasm scene between Billy Crystal and Meg Ryan's characters at Katz's Deli in New York in "When Harry Met Sally" is movie legend and lead to one of cinema's most famous quotes.

For more of Ephron's musings, click back to Charlie Rose's website for the full interview.

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BEIJING, June 28, 2012 /PRNewswire-Asia/ ? According to the latest statistics released on June 3, 2012 by iResearch, the leading China internet research company, PPTV?s Daily Unique Visitors have reached 34 million, ranked No. 1 in the online video industry. With intense competition among China video players and low royalties for online video users, video companies are pursuing a strategy of content differentiation to stay ahead of the competition. PPTV has been building its differentiated content base on sports programming, exclusive Korean TV dramas and Taiwanese live TV shows for quite a while. Such a differentiated content strategy has helped the company retain its user base and support its growth amidst strong competition.

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iResearch released data based on the measurement of ?Comprehensive Video Services Ranking? that includes user traffic from both web and client software based video usage. The recent data shows that PPTV, Youku and PPS are ranked as the top three in the industry, all passing 30 million unique users in May 2012. Many believe that Euro 2012 has helped PPTV boost its traffic as PPTV is known for its live streaming technology and large sports content holdings. PPTV is one of only two video companies which acquired the Euro 2012 live streaming copyrights (Tencent video is the other). According to industry experts, PPTV has grown its traffic rapidly in the past six months, and is ranked No.1 in YTD growth, seen from the year-to-date traffic growth trend. After completing a $250 million financing deal with Softbank last year, PPTV invested in a exclusive content library including sports programming, Korean dramas and Taiwanese TV shows. These contents are generally not available on Chinese TV broadcasting stations. Content exclusivity and differentiation keeps PPTV ahead of the competition.

Although the top three companies are very close to each other in the overall ranking of Comprehensive Video Services, PPTV had outperformed most of its peers via its growth rate of 26.8%, followed by Tencent at 25.1%. The Euro 2012 programming has clearly provided a big boost to both of their traffic.

The measurement of ?Daily Unique Visitors? is considered as a key index for advertisement placement. Some experts have pointed out, with Youku and Tudou?s merger, that their expected synergy has yet to be seen as the integration process goes on. Suffering from recent lawsuits from Tencent and Sohu, PPS seems to have a shortage of copyrighted content in its content library. It is a fact that most video players can hardly differentiate themselves from each other from a content standpoint. On the other hand, PPTV has constantly invested in live sports programming, such as Euro 2012, English Premier League, NFL, UFC and domestic sports like the CBA, CSL, etc. In early 2011, PPTV signed deals with Korean and Taiwanese TV broadcasters, so PPTV now owns exclusive rights to most Korean TV dramas and Taiwanese TV shows. ?We have been pursuing our content differentiation strategy and have focused our investment on it. We understand that sports draw in male viewers, and Korean and Taiwanese TV shows are very appealing to female users,? said Vincent Tao, CEO of PPTV, adding, ?However, having great content does not guarantee traffic growth.? PPTV, once viewed as a client software based video player, has engineered and released their new video products across all devices, including their web viewing product and tablet and mobile phone based products for Android, iOS, Mac, Win 8, etc. The wide availability of its video experience has helped PPTV attract more video users. At the end of May 2012, PPTV ranked as the No.1 most downloaded iPad appstore video application.

The next question is whether PPTV is able to monetize their programming content effectively. In China, Sports media has gone through many tough times. PPTV has developed a so called SEM program, Sports Entertainment Marketing, to attract advertisers. According to a third party source, PPTV had bagged more than 30 advertising sponsors for its Euro Cup live programming at an estimated dollar amount of over 30M RMB. ?2012 is all about sports and monetization,? said Tao. With the Olympics coming, it could be a great year in terms of content differentiation among China?s major online video players.

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Germany are widely regarded as one of the favourites to win this year?s European football championship, much to the dismay of England fans. But there is of course more to Germany than sporting excellence ? and there are countless destinations across the country which are well worthy of a visit.

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There is no denying that this could yet turn out to be a fantastic year for Germany, and you know what they say; success breeds success. We are predicting a fantastic year for tourism for the country that has it all, so in preparation for this, here?s a compilation of our top five favourite cities in Germany:

1. Berlin ? With this choice there is absolutely no hesitation. No matter which way you look at things Berlin has to be regarded as the best city in Germany hands down. It truly does have everything you could ever wish for. If taking in the sights of the Berlin wall and soaking up the history of WW2, the list of other things to do is never-ending. Food, drink, shopping, museums, art galleries. Berlin really does have it all. It is a fantastic place to visit for people of all ages; with the youngsters enjoying the unbelievable night life and the oldies hitting up the history like there is no tomorrow.? 2. Frankfurt ? Situated right in the centre of the country and boasting a huge international airport, Frankfurt is, for many people, regarded as the first port of call on a trip around Germany. Like many German cities, Frankfurt is incredibly affluent which is evident when you take in its incredibly tall skyline. Similar to Berlin, the river Main runs through the centre of the city adding to its beautiful appearance.

3. Hannover ? This is your typical German city, steeped with history and decorated with unbelievable architecture. This is also a city that played a huge part in WW2 so if you are interested in the history of it make sure you pay it a visit.

4. Munich ? This is a city that is famous the world over and is often mistaken to be Germany?s capital. By far and away the best time to visit is during Oktoberfest ?- a huge celebration of lederhosen and beer.

5. Hamburg ? Surprisingly Germany?s second largest city behind the capital, Berlin. Situated in the north of the country, this is a city that is less frequently visited. It is a historic harbour town full of industrial history. Like Berlin, Hamburg also boasts an incredible nightlife which draws crowds from all over the world.

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Google tablet will indeed be cobranded with ASUS, says insider

We already suspected as much -- not least from the FCC filing above -- but an unnamed executive at Asustek Computer Inc has reportedly just confirmed that Google's much-rumored new tablet will be co-branded with ASUS. According to Reuters, the employee said the tablet will help Google to "target Amazon" and the Kindle range of tablets and e-readers. Despite the existence of Google Play Books, which are available on any Android tablet, the insider said that Google "doesn't have anything like Amazon's service" -- a quote which may not make a ton of sense, but which does support the general notion of a $199 rival to the Kindle Fire.

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Project Butter

As part of its unveiling of Android 4.1 Jelly Bean, Google has unveiled Project Butter, a major effort to squash Android's frequent problems with device lag, as well as Systrace to help diagnose performance. Project Butter lets the CPU and graphics run in parallel, rather than crash into each other, and has a big impact on both real and perceived speed: the entire interface runs at 60 frames per second on sufficiently fast hardware. Graphics are now triple-buffered to keep scrolling and transitions humming along, and the processor will swing into full gear the moment you touch the screen to keep input lag to a minimum. Systrace, in the meantime, will help developers stamp out what performance hiccups remain. The tracing tool will be a part of the Jelly Bean SDK, so every coder can get an app running in tip-top shape.

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Sifting through a trillion electrons

ScienceDaily (June 26, 2012) ? Modern research tools like supercomputers, particle colliders, and telescopes are generating so much data, so quickly, many scientists fear that soon they will not be able to keep up with the deluge.

"These instruments are capable of answering some of our most fundamental scientific questions, but it is all for nothing if we can't get a handle on the data and make sense of it," says Surendra Byna of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory's (Berkeley Lab's) Scientific Data Management Group.

That's why Byna and several of his colleagues from the Berkeley Lab's Computational Research Division teamed up with researchers from the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), Los Alamos National Laboratory, Tsinghua University, and Brown University to develop novel software strategies for storing, mining, and analyzing massive datasets -- more specifically, for data generated by a state-of-the-art plasma physics code called VPIC.

When the team ran VPIC on the Department of Energy's National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center's (NERSC's) Cray XE6 "Hopper" supercomputer, they generated a three-dimensional (3D) magnetic reconnection dataset of a trillion particles. VPIC simulated the process in thousands of time-steps, periodically writing a massive 32 terabyte (TB) file to disk at specified times.

Using their tools, the researchers wrote each 32 TB file to disk in about 20 minutes, at a sustained rate of 27 gigabytes per second (GB/s). By applying an enhanced version of the FastQuery tool, the team indexed this massive dataset in about 10 minutes, then queried the dataset in three seconds for interesting features to visualize.

"This is the first time anyone has ever queried and visualized 3D particle datasets of this size," says Homa Karimabadi, who leads the space physics group at UCSD.

The Problem with Trillion Particle Datasets

Magnetic reconnection is a process where the magnetic topology in a plasma (a gas made up of charged particles) is rearranged, leading to an explosive release of energy in form of plasma jets, heated plasma, and energetic particles. Reconnection is the mechanism behind the aurora borealis (a.k.a. northern lights) and solar flares, as well as fractures in Earth's protective magnetic field -- fractures that allow energetic solar particles to seep into our planet's magnetosphere and wreak havoc in electronics, power grids and space satellites.

According to Karimabadi, one of the major unsolved mysteries in magnetic reconnection is the conditions and details of how energetic particles are generated. But until recently, the closest that any researcher has come to studying this is by looking at 2D simulations. Although these datasets are much more manageable, containing at most only billions of particles, Karimabadi notes that lingering magnetic reconnection questions cannot be answered with 2D particle simulations alone. In fact, these datasets leave out a lot of critical information.

"To answer these questions we need to take into full account additional effects such as flux rope interactions and resulting turbulence that occur in 3D simulations," says Karimabadi. "But as we add another dimension, the number of particles in our simulations grows from billions to trillions. And it is impossible to pull up a trillion-particle dataset on your computer screen; it would just fill up your screen with black dots."

To address the challenges of analyzing 3D particle data, Karimabadi and a team of astrophysicists joined forces with the ExaHDF5 team, a Department of Energy funded collaboration to develop high performance I/O and analysis strategies for future exascale computers. Prabhat, of Berkeley Lab's Visualization Group, leads the ExaHDF5 team.

A Scalable Storage Approach Sets Foundation for a Successful Search

According to Byna, VPIC accurately models the complexities of magnetic reconnection at this scale by breaking down the "big picture" into distinct pieces, each of which are assigned, using Message Passing Interface (MPI), to a group of processors to compute. These groups, or MPI domains, work independently to solve their piece of the problem. By subdividing the work, researchers can simultaneously employ hundreds of thousands of processors to simulate a massive and complex phenomenon like magnetic reconnection.

In the original implementation of VPIC, each MPI domain generates a binary file once it finishes processing its assigned piece of the problem. This ensures that the data is written efficiently.

But according to Byna, this approach, called file-per-process, has a number of limitations. One major limitation is that the number of files generated for large-scale scientific simulations, like magnetic reconnection, can become unwieldy. In fact, his team's largest VPIC run on Hopper contained about 20,000 MPI domains -- that's 20,000 binary files per time-step. And because most analysis tools cannot easily read binary files, another post-processing step would have been required to re-factor the data into a format that these tools can open.

"It takes a really long time to perform a simple Linux search of a 20,000-file directory; and since the data is not stored in standard data formats, such as HDF5, existing data management and visualization tools cannot directly work with the binary file," says Byna. "Ultimately, these limitations become a bottleneck to scientific analysis and discovery."

But by incorporating H5Part code into the VPIC codebase, Byna and his colleagues managed to overcome all of these challenges. H5Part is an easy-to-use veneer layer on top of HDF5, that allows for the management and analysis of extremely large particle and block-structured datasets.

According to Prabhat, this easy modification to the code-base creates one shared HDF5 file per time-step, instead of 20,000 independent binary files. Because most visualization and analysis tools can use HDF5 files, this approach eliminates the need to re-format the data. With the latest performance enhancements implemented by the ExaHDF5 team, VPIC was able to write each 32 TB time-step to disk at a sustained rate of 27 GB/s.

"This is quite an achievement when you consider that the theoretical peak I/O for the machine is about 35 GB/s," says Prabhat. "Very few production I/O frameworks and scientific applications can achieve that level of performance."

Mining a Trillion Particle Dataset with FastQuery

Once this torrent of information has been generated and stored, the next challenge that researchers face is how to make sense of it. On this front, ExaHDF5 team members Jerry Chou and John Wu implemented an enhanced version of FastQuery, an indexing and querying tool. Using this technique, they indexed the trillion-particle, 32 TB dataset in about 10 minutes, and queried the massive dataset for particles of interest in approximately three seconds. This was the first time anybody has successfully queried a trillion-particle dataset this quickly.

The team was able to accelerate FastQuery's indexing and query capabilities by implementing a hierarchical load-balancing strategy that involves a hybrid of MPI and Pthreads. At the MPI level, FastQuery breaks up the large dataset into multiple fixed-size sub-arrays. Each sub-array is then assigned to a set of compute nodes, or MPI domains, which is where the indexing and querying occurs.

The load-balancing flexibility happens within these MPI domains, where the work is dynamically pooled among threads -- which are the smallest unit of processing that can be scheduled by an operating system. When constructing the indexes, the threads build bitmaps on the sub-arrays and store them into the same HDF5 file. When evaluating a query, the processors apply the query to each sub-array and return results.

Because FastQuery is built on the FastBit bitmap indexing technology, Byna notes that researchers can search their data based on an arbitrary range of conditions that is defined by available data values. This essentially means that a researcher can now feasibly search a trillion particle dataset and sift out electrons by their energy values.

According to Prabhat, this unique querying capability also serves as the basis for successfully visualizing the data. Because typical computer displays contain on the order of a few million pixels, it is simply impossible to render a dataset with trillions of particles. So to analyze their data, researchers must reduce the number of particles in their dataset before rendering. The scientists can now achieve this by using the FastQuery tool to identify the particles of interest to render.

"Although our VPIC runs typically generate two types of data -- grid and particle -- we never did a whole lot with the particle data because it was really hard to extract information from a trillion particle dataset, and there was no way to sift out the useful information," says Karimabadi.

But with the new query-based visualization techniques, Karimabadi and his team were finally able to verify the localization behavior of energetic particles, gain insights into the relationship between the structure of the magnetic field and energetic particles, and investigate the agyrotropic distribution of particles near the reconnection hot-spot in a 3D trillion particle dataset.

"We have hypothesized about these phenomena in the past, but it was only the development and application of these new analysis tools that enabled us to unlock the scientific discoveries and insights," says Karimabadi. "With these new tools, we can now go back to our archive of particle datasets and look at the physics questions that we couldn't get at before."

"Most of today's simulation codes generate datasets on the order of tens of millions to a few billon particles, so a trillion-particle dataset -- that is, a million-million particles -- poses unprecedented data management challenges," says Prabhat. "In this work, we have demonstrated that the HDF5 I/O middleware and the FastBit indexing technology can handle these truly massive datasets and operate at scale on current petascale platforms."

But according to Prabhat, exascale platforms will produce even larger datasets in the near future, and researchers need to come up with novel techniques and usable software that can facilitate scientific discovery going forward. He notes that one of the primary goals of the ExaHDF5 team is to scale the widely used HDF5 I/O middleware to operate on modern petascale and future exascale platforms.

In addition to Byna, Chou, Karimabadi, Prabhat and Wu, other members of this collaboration include Oliver Rubel, William Daughton, Vadim Roytershteyn, Wes Bethel, Mark Howison, Ke-Jou Hsu, Kuan-Wu Lin, Arie Shoshani and Andrew Uselton. The team also acknowledges critical support provided by NERSC consultants, NERSC system staff, and Cray engineers in assisting with their large-scale runs.

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Tofu Spaghetti & Meatless Meatballs | The Science Of Eating

Tofu Spaghetti & Meatless Meatballs

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  • To make the meatless meatballs,?Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
  • Mix everything in a mixing bowl
  • Use a tablespoon to measure out a spoonful of the mixture, then roll it into a ball.
  • Place meatballs onto a cookie sheet lined with aluminum foil and sprayed with cooking spray.
  • Bake for 30 minutes or until meatballs are firm to the touch and do not break apart when squeezed.
  • Remove from baking sheet.
  • Warm Sauce in a pot on the stove over medium heat for about 5 minutes
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  • Place 1/4 of the noodles onto a plate, top with 1/2 cup sauce and add 5 meatballs.
  • Serve

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  • 191 Calories
  • 5g Fat
  • 15g Carbs
  • 15g Protein

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Ousted leader hopes to regain power in Paraguay

ASUNCION, Paraguay (AP) ? Ousted Paraguayan President Fernando Lugo said Monday that he is aiming to return to power and will rally allies at home and abroad after a landslide congressional vote forced him from office in what he called a break with democracy.

Lugo has symbolically created a parallel Cabinet, attacking the legitimacy of the government that replaced him, and told reporters he will seek to plead his case on the international stage at this week's summit of the Mercosur trade bloc in Mendoza, Argentina. Lugo said he would also challenge the new leaders over Paraguay's role in a broader alliance of South American nations.

He also called on domestic backers, who so far have been relatively quiet, to turn up the pressure.

"I want to resist until we regain power because here there was a parliamentary coup," he said Monday morning after meeting with aides at a left-leaning party's headquarters in the capital. "I call on people from the countryside, the youth and all citizens to resist until we are back in the office we unfairly had to leave."

Meanwhile, aides to former Vice President Federico Franco, who was installed as president on Friday after lawmakers overwhelmingly voted to dismiss Lugo, condemned a Mercosur resolution preventing his new government from attending the summit. Franco's new foreign minister, Jose Felix Fernandez, noted that Paraguay has not been expelled outright from the group that also includes neighboring Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay.

"We reject Mercosur's decision to suspend us from the right to attend the Mercosur meetings, but I would like to make clear that Paraguay is not out of the bloc," Fernandez said. He said it was a measure "for just one meeting, and Paraguay continues to have the pro-tem presidency of the Union of South American Nations," another regional group, known as Unasur.

But Lugo has said he intends to hand over Unasur's rotating presidency to Peru this week, months before it is scheduled to change hands in November. Peru's Foreign Ministry said leaders of Unasur countries will meet Friday to take up the issue.

Congress booted Lugo out of office in fast-track proceedings last week triggered by a clash between police and landless protesters in which 17 people died. The Senate found him guilty of poor performance of his duties, citing a clause in the constitution that leaves wide room for congressional interpretation. Franco was tapped to serve out the remainder of Lugo's term, until August 2013.

After saying last week that he would honor the outcome, however, Lugo has reversed course.

"I accepted my removal only to avoid greater evils for the country and avoid violence against protesters in the plaza" in front of Congress, Lugo said Monday. He left the government palace three days ago and has been staying at his home on the outskirts of Asuncion.

"It's impossible for Lugo to return to power because the sovereign and autonomous decision of Congress is irreversible. It doesn't allow for appeal because it was a political process, not a judicial one," Eusebio Ayala, a lawyer for Franco, told reporters. "What's more, Lugo himself announced to the world that he accepted his dismissal as he left the government palace."

The Supreme Court on Monday denied a request by Lugo to overturn the Senate trial that removed him from office. Military officials also said they would not intervene.

So far, local support of Lugo has been restrained. A few thousand people demonstrated outside Congress last week, and a smaller group turned out for a weekend protest.

An "open-microphone" demonstration where citizens have been speaking out against Lugo's ouster stretched into its third night Monday. This time, at least 100 people from the countryside traveled to the capital to take part.

"Not just anyone can come to speak here. To speak here one must have high morals and not be afraid," said Nelson Riveros of San Pedro, the impoverished rural province where Lugo for years was bishop.

"The people do not legitimize this government," Riveros said. "The struggle continues, companeros!"

Some Lugo supporters accused Franco's government of being responsible for a half-hour outage of TV Publica, the public TV station that's organized and broadcast the open-microphone rallies. Officials blamed an electricity shutoff for maintenance scheduled before the impeachment.

TV Publica set up a second microphone in a nearby square for people on the other side of the conflict.

"We exhort the international community to respect our sovereignty and our right to self-determination," said Sebastian Daponte. "We the Paraguayan people will resolve our internal problems."

The most strenuous reaction has come from Paraguay's neighbors.

Presidents of the Mercosur bloc have said they will consider the political crisis this week and mull whether to take further action, though several regional governments, including Brazil and Chile, said they will do nothing that would hurt the people of Paraguay, suggesting economic measures against the impoverished, landlocked South American nation may not be on the table.

Lugo concurred.

"As a Paraguayan, I want the best for the country. May there be no economic blockade ? we would all lose," he said in the evening after meeting with union and social groups who back him.

But Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, a Lugo ally, announced the suspension of diesel sales to Paraguay.

Franco met on Monday with Paraguayan petroleum providers to evaluate the impact of the loss, and was told that Venezuela provides about one-third of the fuel consumed in the country.

"We told the president that the Venezuelan decision will not affect our market," said fuel importer Juan Jose Zapag. "We will surely cover the demand with other sellers."

Zapag said Venezuela does not actually ship the diesel to Paraguay, but instead finances a Paraguay company to purchase the fuel. He added that if Venezuela cuts off those funds, by contract it would be unable to collect a $260 million debt owed by Paraguayan oil company Petropar.

Franco's newly installed government has also been trying to counter growing diplomatic repercussions. Ambassadors have been called home for consultations by the governments of Mexico, Ecuador, Colombia, Brazil, Uruguay, Chile and Peru.

In Washington, State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said U.S. officials "remain quite concerned about the speed of the process used for this impeachment in Paraguay."

Asked if the U.S. government considers it a coup, she said: "We have not so designated it at this point."

Nuland said that U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton spoke over the weekend with Brazilian Foreign Minister Antonio Patriota, and that the region's countries plan to discuss the events in Paraguay at a meeting of the Organization of American States in Washington on Tuesday.

The State Department confirmed that Lugo, at his request, met with the U.S. ambassador to Paraguay on Thursday, the day of his impeachment, but without divulging the content of their discussion.

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Associated Press writers Peter Orsi in Asuncion, Eva Vergara in Santiago, Chile, Gonzalo Solano in Quito, Ecuador, and Matthew Lee in Washington contributed to this report.

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