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What sites are referring traffic to your store? Where in the world are your visitors? How did your Black Friday Cyber Monday marketing campaign perform last year? What products are people searching for most?
You have a lot of questions about your business, your customers and your marketing efforts.
UPDATE: With Live View, you can watch in real-time as visitors become customers. Now you can celebrate sales as they happen. Learn more here.
Fortunately, answers to many of those questions are in your Shopify reports and analytics.
Reporting vs. analysis
It's the end of the day (or week, or month) so you open up your analytics tool and jot down some key metrics. "Traffic is up 2% week over week. Nice!" You pat yourself on the back, maybe do a little dance in your chair.
That's data reporting. Up is good, down is bad.
You have to think of data and analytics the way you think of an iceberg. Sure, you can see a few shiny metrics above the water, but there's so much hiding just below the surface.
Analysis is the process of diving below the surface and uncovering meaningful insights about your business. So instead of just getting the "what" from basic ecommerce metrics, you start exploring the "why" and "so what".
Analytics are a lot more complex than "up is good, down is bad". But that added complexity of looking below the surface can be overwhelming, whether you're using Google Analytics or Shopify analytics.
Still, we must persist because below the surface, you'll find:
- The answers to meaningful business questions (and new questions to ask, too).
- Problem areas you aren't aware of that are costing you money.
- Quick wins and fixes to improve your user experience (UX) and conversion rate.
Asking the right questions of your data
So, we all want those insights hidden below the surface. The question becomes: how do you get below the surface? By asking meaningful questions about your store.
If you open up your analytics, you're going to be staring down a lot of data. That kind of volume gets overwhelming quickly. To focus your efforts, it helps to have a list of questions that you want answered.
That way, you're not clicking around waiting for insights to pop out at you. (This doesn't happen, though it would be nice.) You need a purpose.
So, what's a good question, then? Good question.
When you think you've got a good question, ask yourself: "What am I going to change based on the answer to this question?" If the answer is nothing, it's not a good question.
Try to come up with an "if this, then that" scenario for each question. If the answer is yes, then this. If the answer is no, then this.
Here's a simple process for coming up with meaningful questions to ask of your data:
- Walk through your site looking for problem areas. Basically, you're trying to break your store, to find something that's not working as expected.
- Write down the problem areas, concerns, questions, etc. that you identify during the walkthrough.
- Turn to your analytics to confirm the problem areas and concerns, and answer the questions.
For step one, it helps to have a structured walkthrough process. For example, set a few important factors ahead of time to eliminate your subjective opinion and biases:
- Friction: is anything difficult? How can you make it easier? Is anything preventing your visitors from buying?
- Distraction: is anything distracting your visitors from taking your most wanted action, whatever that might be? For example, adding a product to cart or checking out.
- Motivation: what's adding to or subtracting from the motivation of the visitor? Are they motivated enough to complete your most wanted action?
- Relevancy: is everything on the page relevant? Is there anything that's irrelevant or unimportant? Is everything on the page working in favor of the most wanted action?
- Clarity: is the value of the product or service clear? Is the next step clear? Is the most wanted action clear? Is anything confusing?
After the walkthrough, you'll undoubtedly have a big list of meaningful questions to ask of your data.
One thing to note, though. There's this old saying in statistics, inspired by Ronald H. Coase, "Torture data long enough and it'll confess to anything."
If you go looking for a specific answer, you'll find it. Eliminating cognitive biases during analytics analysis is actually quite difficult, but try to put emphasis on your questions, not your presumed answers.
What's a good X?
What's a good amount of monthly traffic? What's a good conversion rate? What's a good average order value? What's a good…?
There's no real answer to these questions. There are, of course, industry benchmarks and averages that you can turn to, but they are often more interesting than actionable.
For example, what will you change about your business knowing that the average store in your industry gets 100,000 visitors per month?
If you have fewer than 100,000 visitors per month, maybe you'll vow to increase your monthly traffic. But aren't we always trying to increase traffic? If you have more than 100,000 visitors per month, will you forget all about increasing traffic?
A good amount of monthly traffic is more traffic than you had last month. The same is true of every other metric you're tracking.
It's all about what's good for you and your store.
Start where the value is
If you're wondering where to start your walkthrough because you don't have time to run through the entire store right now, start where the biggest opportunities are. That boils down to three categories:
- High volume, low value pages. These are pages that get a lot of traffic, but aren't bringing in much revenue. So, for example, this might be an old blog post.
- Low volume, high value pages. These are pages that get a smaller amount of traffic, but that traffic is higher quality and more likely to convert. For example, your checkout page.
- Your funnel. Break your purchase funnel down into definitive steps. For example: the homepage is step one, the collection page is step two, the product page is step three, the cart is step four, and the checkout is step five. Linear funnels are on their way out, so you can likely think of multiple routes your visitors will take to purchase.
Funnels are particularly interesting. If you gather data for each step of the funnel, you can pinpoint exactly where your funnel is "leaking". That is, where people are falling off most frequently. For example:
- 100 people make it to a collection page.
- 50 people make it to a product page.
- 40 people add a product to their cart.
You can see from this (super basic) funnel example that the biggest leak is on your collection page because you lose 50% of visitors there. So, that's a good place to start digging around for questions, which you will use to analyze your data later.
Note that the further down the funnel you go, the smaller the necessary impact. For example:
- 100 people make it to a collection page.
- 50 people make it to a product page.
- 40 people add a product to their cart.
- 20 people click checkout.
- 4 people complete the checkout.
In this example, imagine increasing four completed checkouts to six. That's a 50% increase very close to your bottom line. Now imagine increasing 50 people making it to a product page to 52. Much smaller impact because it's higher up the funnel.
That's why perfecting the bottom of your funnel can be so valuable.
Analyzing 3 core Shopify report categories
You'll find both analytics dashboards and full analytics reports in Shopify:
Different reports are available to you depending on your Shopify plan. Everyone has access to the Overview dashboard and the Finances reports. If you're on the Shopify plan or above, you also have access to three other report categories: acquisition, behavior, and marketing.
1. Acquisition reports
Acquisition reports focus on visitors to your website. A couple important things to note:
- The number of visits and visitors are based on cookies, one that identifies the device (visitor) and one that identifies the length of the visit. So, to be clear, one visitor can generate multiple visits.
- A visit automatically ends after 30 minutes of no activity or at midnight UTC.
Visits over time
You'll find this report under "Acquisition" in the "Reports" overview:
Visits over time shows you the number of visitors and sessions during the specified time period:
You'll notice the bar graph visualization above the data table for easier interpretation.
You can click the data table's column headers to sort ascending or descending. So, for example, you could bring the days with the most visitors to the top of the data table or simply order the days in chronological order.
Note that you can dig deeper beyond the default time period:
Compare the last 30 days to the 30 days prior. Compare Q3 this year with Q3 last year. The more you slice and dice your data, the more you dig, the more you will undercover.
It's also important to prioritize trends. Data will fluctuate. The last week often matters much less than the how that week compares to the eight previous weeks. Don't look for minor fluctuations, look for trends that are developing.
Visitors by referrer
You'll find this report under "Acquisition" in the "Reports" overview as well.
Visitors by referrer shows you the number of visitors and sessions referred by source:
In this case, Google search is the most popular referral source. Google has referred 574 visitors to this store, who have generated 604 sessions.
Note that referral source is broken out by referral name. You can use the column header sorting to end up with something like this:
Now it's easier to see that Facebook is the top social referral source, for example.
This report adds another layer to the simple visits over time report. Not only do you know who is visiting your site and how often, but you know where they're coming from as well.
This is important for deciding where to invest your marketing time and money. You're a busy entrepreneur who can't be everywhere at once. Pay attention to what's paying off and double down. Or, better yet, experiment with a new referral source and track how effectively it referred traffic to your site during the experiment period.
Be sure to note the difference between visitors and sessions. If the number of visitors from a referral source is high and the number of sessions from the same referral source is on par, it's not inherently bad, but it may indicate lower traffic quality or engagement.
Visitors by location
You'll find this report under "Acquisition" in the "Reports" overview as well.
Visitors by location shows you the number of visitors and sessions from various countries:
Not only is it interesting to know which countries people are accessing your store from, but geographic information can be quite insightful, too.
For example, let's say you're running Facebook ads to your most popular product's page. Now you know exactly where to target your ads:
Or perhaps you'll break up the ad campaigns by country to see which refers the most traffic to your store. You might even put some ad spend on a country that looks promising, like the Philippines, which generated only 5 visitors, but 11 sessions.
You can also use geographic information to inform things like spelling and grammar, cultural references, and imagery (skin tones, faces, etc.) Go a step further and let it inform your shipping and pricing.
2. Behavior reports
Behavior reports focus on the actions your visitors take. A couple important things to note:
- The website cart analysis report also falls under this category, but is only available to those on the Shopify plan or higher.
- Half of these reports require that you use a theme with a search bar. If you don't, two of the following four reports will not have any data to display.
Top online store searches
You'll find this report under "Behavior" in the "Reports" overview:
Top online store searches shows you the search terms your visitors use to find what they're looking for on your site:
"Original Query" shows you the exact keyword visitors searched for on your store. "Total searches" shows you how many times that specific keyword was searched.
There are a few different insights you can pull out of this report:
- Voice of customer: this is how your customers think of and describe the products you sell. Incorporate the queries in your product titles, product descriptions, value propositions, collection names, etc.
- Product popularity: presumably, search frequency will correlate somewhat with product popularity. Look at this report over a longer period of time to spot products that might be gaining/losing popularity.
- UX confusion: if a visitor is searching for something, it may be an indication that they are having trouble finding it on their own. (Though, to be fair, some visitors will just prefer using a search bar.) Consider whether your navigation is clear and easy to use. You might, for example, notice an increase in search volume if your product quantity has grown quickly without a revamp of the navigation UX.
Top online store searches with no results
You'll find this report under "Behavior" in the "Reports" overview as well.
Top online store searches with no results shows you popular search terms that return no results:
You'll notice the "Returned results is No" filter has been activated. This is a perfect example of report segmentation because the only difference between this report and the previous search query report is that filter. Yet you've uncovered a whole new set of insights.
When your visitors search for something, you can assume there is a certain level of buying intent. When no results are returned, it's a total disappointment. So here's how you can use this report to reduce that disappointment:
- Product demand. If people are searching for keywords that aren't relevant to your products or store, why might that be? Perhaps you're targeting the wrong keywords or ad demographics. If people are searching for relevant keywords, but those keywords don't match any of your products, consider creating supply to meet the demand.
- Product labeling. As discussed above, use these queries in your relevant product titles, descriptions, etc. so that results are returned for the popular keywords.
- Product hierarchy. If you have a relevant product to match the popular query, but no results are being returned, move the product up the visual hierarchy. Chances are, it's buried, something is distracting from it or it's being missed by visitors. Make it more prominent!
Visitors by landing page
You'll find this report under "Behavior" in the "Reports" overview as well.
Visitors by landing page shows you the pages visitors first arrive to your store on:
In the example above, the blog is bringing in the most traffic followed by product pages and the homepage. You might decide, based on this data, that you should double down on blogging efforts because it's working to bring visitors to your site. Or you might note that your Pinterest ads to your product pages are working well.
Of course, you'll also uncover what's not working well.
Be sure to compare current performance (the last seven to 30 days) with long-term performance. Is a new landing page up and coming? Has a previously successful landing page fallen off your radar?
This can help you decide where to spend your landing page optimization time and effort. If a landing page performed well in the past, but doesn't anymore, there's likely friction on the page. If a landing page performed ok in the past, but is booming now, prioritize it during your walkthrough.
This is especially useful if you're running dedicated landing page tests, like for Black Friday Cyber Monday, for example. You can sort by the "Landing page type" column header and see which BFCM landing page performs the best (e.g. variation A vs. variation B or men's clothing vs. women's clothing).
Visitors by device
You'll find this report under "Behavior" in the "Reports" overview as well.
Visitors by device shows you the device types being used to access your store:
Why does this matter? It might seem, at first glance, that this report is filled with "nice to know" data, but it's actually quite an actionable report. Here's how:
- Ad targeting. Most major ad platforms will ask whether you'd like to create desktop ads, mobile ads or both. This report will help inform that decision. Using the data above, mobile ads and desktop ads seem fairly even, both appearing to be a solid choice.
- UX differs. A good mobile UX looks and feels very different than a good desktop UX. That's something a lot of people neglect. Responsive design is a step in the right direction, but you need to go a step further. With mobile, you need to think about things like button size, keyboard style, swiping, tapping, etc. A navigation that's intuitive on desktop might be infuriating on mobile. This report will help you flag potential UX issues on desktop and mobile.
- Separate testing. Because desktop and mobile are so different, it's important to test and experiment with them separately. Having a report broken out by device type will make that much easier.
3. Marketing reports
Marketing reports focus on the effectiveness of your marketing campaigns. A couple important things to note:
- Four other reports also fall under this category, but they're only available to those on the Shopify plan or higher.
- Marketing reports summarize data from all Online Store channel orders.
Visitors by marketing campaign
You'll find this report under "Marketing" in the "Reports" overview:
Visitors by marketing campaign shows you the number of visitors generated by a UTM marketing campaign:
If you're unfamiliar with UTM campaigns, this is a great guide to get you started. Here are the basics:
- UTM parameters are small pieces of information that can be added to links so that you have a more holistic view of your marketing efforts.
- You'll see three parameters most often:
- Source (utm_source): This is generally used to define the site the link is placed on. For example, utm_source=shopify or utm_source=newsletter.
- Medium (utm_medium): This is generally used to define the marketing effort. For example, utm_medium=paid.
- Campaign (utm_campaign): This is generally used to define the specific campaign you're running. For example, utm_campaign=bfcm or utm_campaign=summer17.
In the end, your UTM campaign link might look something like this:
Now, when you open up the visitors by marketing campaign report, you can pull that UTM parameter information. You now have a comprehensive understanding of how your marketing efforts, from your newsletter to your paid campaigns, are performing.
Note that UTM parameters are automatically applied by Integrated Marketing Apps.
Understanding columns and filters
As you can see, there's a lot of useful data within Shopify analytics. Your list of problem areas or areas to explore during your site walkthrough is probably pretty long already.
But we still haven't even scratched the surface. There's still a ton of insight hiding below the proverbial water.
How do you dive into that data? Through segmentation.
Segmentation is a scary word, but it's really quite straightforward. Let's say you have a pack of Smarties. Do you ever separate the Smarties out by color? That's segmentation.
With Shopify analytics, you have two options: filters and columns.
Filters allow you to isolate a specific portion of the report's data (e.g. only the red Smarties). There are three key components of filters:
- Name: identifies the filter and corresponds with a column. For example, "Device type" or "City".
- Operator: this is where you'll select "is" (meaning "equal to") or "is not".
- Values: identifies the specific words or numbers you want to filter based on. For example, "Mobile" or "Toronto".
To the top left of your data tables, you'll find a "Manage filters" button, which will open a popup:
You can add and remove a variety of filters from categories like device, landing page, location, marketing campaign, referrer, returned results, etc.
Note that some reports will offer you unique filtering options, like the search bar reports:
You can add multiple filters as well. The more you slice and dice your data using filters, the more likely it is that you'll find those below the surface insights.
Columns allow you to show more data than is displayed by default. You're essentially adding and removing the column headers we've been using to sort the data tables.
Simply click the "Edit columns" button to trigger a dropdown, where you'll see all of the available columns:
You can add and remove a variety of columns from categories like device, landing page, location, marketing campaign, referrer, time, visits, etc.
Note that some reports will offer you unique column options as well, like the search bar reports:
So, let's see this stuff in action, shall we?
Remember the visitors by location report? We can use filters and columns to segment the data and dive deeper into the insights:
Now you're looking at cities in the United States (filter) that have generated visitors, cart additions (column) and checkouts (column).
Note that it's always a good idea to measure close to the money. So, for example, checkouts is a stronger indicator of success than visitors.
Remember the visitors by landing page report? It's the perfect report to show you why bottom of the funnel metrics like checkouts are more insightful than top of the funnel metrics like visitors:
All I've done here is add a "Checkouts" column and the insights have changed drastically. When we were only looking at sessions, we figured we should focus on writing more blogs since it generated the most visitors.
Now we know that blog articles generate visitors, but not a lot of sales. How can we improve the conversion rate from the blog, then? Let's add that to our walkthrough list.
More visitors are nice, but more money is the goal. Low quality traffic that won't convert is a waste of marketing time and money.
Ok, one more. Remember the visitors by device report? Here it is now with some new filters and columns:
I've added two filters, one to isolate mobile and one to isolate visitors using iOS. So the data table is showing me information exclusively about mobile iOS users.
I've also added three new columns, one to tell us the version of iOS, one to tell us how long the average session duration is and one to tell us the number of checkouts.
This report is useful for a couple reasons:
- It will surprise you how many people are using old operating system versions and browser versions (you can recreate this report for browsers as well) you consider irrelevant. Do you know that your custom theme looks good and works well on a mobile operating system from 2013? Because 143 visitors arrived via iOS 7.1.
- If a device operating system version has a much lower average session time or checkout count, it could be an indication that UX issues exist on that version. Make sure you're always comparing within the same family though. For example, I've purposefully isolated only iOS. I would never compare iOS to Android, only iOS to iOS and Android to Android.
- It's very time-consuming to check how well your store works in dozens of device versions and browser versions. This report can help you find the most popular (and most concerning) versions for your store, so you know exactly where to start.
You can also export reports to CSV:
This can be helpful to those who prefer to analyze their data in Excel, an incredible tool for more advanced data analysts.
As you continue experimenting with filters and columns, segmentation ideas will just start popping to mind. I'm not exaggerating when I say the options are endless. Practice makes perfect!
Analyzing and optimizing your business is an ongoing process
Inevitably, the answers to your burning questions will lead to even more questions.
Analyzing reports is a continuous process of asking questions, digging for answers (both in reports and on your site) and asking more informed questions next time.
Keep slicing and dicing, experimenting with filters and columns. Resist the urge to simply report on what's above the surface.
If you have any questions or filter/column combination ideas, leave a comment below.


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Remarks by the Vice President at a Luncheon for Congressman Robin Hayes in Charlotte, North Carolina
Charlotte Convention Center
Charlotte, North Carolina
THE VICE PRESIDENT: Thank you very much, Robin; and I want to thank all of you for that warm welcome . It's great to be back in Charlotte, and to see so many old friends here today -- and I want to bring greetings to everybody in North Carolina from the man you helped elect President of the United States, President George W. Bush. (Applause.)
I'm especially pleased today to see my old friend, Jim Martin. Jim and I served together for a number of terms in the House of Representatives, before he became your governor, and he taught me most of what I know about the House of Representatives -- although, I'm not sure he'll admit that. But I really valued my time in the House. At one point in my career, I thought that's where I was going to spend it literally -- a member of Congress from Wyoming.
Wyoming only had one congressman. It was a small delegation -- (laughter) -- but it was quality. (Laughter.) Thanks, Jim. (Laughter.) But I loved my time in the House, and now have the privilege of presiding over the United States Senate as Vice President. And I'm here today specifically because President Bush and I both believe that it's absolutely essential that we reelect Congressman Robin Hayes to another term in Congress come next November. (Applause.)
Since I've returned as Vice President, I've gotten to know Robin well and had the opportunity to work with him on a number of occasions. And when it comes time to stand up for America and stand up for North Carolina, nobody does a better job than Robin does.
Since being elected to Congress in '98, he's fought to protect North Carolina's family farms, to keep the federal government's promises to North Carolina's seniors, and improve North Carolina's educational system by making it less bureaucratic and more responsive to local control.
And through his service on the House Armed Services, Robin has been a strong and effective advocate of our nation's military in a time of national crisis. North Carolina plays an absolutely vital role in America's defense -- and Robin never forgets about Fort Bragg or Pope Air Force Base here in North Carolina.
Above all, Robin has been a tireless advocate for jobs in North Carolina. Where his constituents are involved, he works very effectively to get things done for everybody in the state.
I've been in politics long enough now, and having served as the congressman from Wyoming, I learned the value of what I would call good congressional horse flesh -- there are always a few members who stand out, who have their roots firmly grounded in their districts, who have a good, solid philosophy and a set of principles by which they live, and who have the capacity to influence others to make crucial decisions for the nation -- Robin is exactly that kind of member, and that's why it's so vital to help him get reelected come November.
He represents, obviously, one of the toughest districts in North Carolina. This is likely to be a priority race next time around, and he will continue to be elected, I believe, because of his strong leadership skills, his bipartisan capabilities, his capacity for working with both sides of the aisle. And the North Carolina people need Robin Hayes in Congress. (Applause.) And President Bush and I need him in Congress to help us to our vital jobs at this crucial moment. (Applause.)
It's been about three years since the President talked to me about becoming his running mate. When he asked me to sign on, he said it wasn't because he was worried about carrying Wyoming -- (laughter) -- in fact, he got nearly 70 percent of the vote in Wyoming. But from time to time I point out to him that those three electoral votes came in pretty handy. (Laughter.)
I think a lot of the pundits expected, since we won a close election -- one of the closest in history -- that our administration might trim its sails and move forward with a timid agenda. But from the very beginning, the President made it clear that he'd gone to Washington to get something done and that we were going to do absolutely everything we could to move ahead on our priorities.
That very first year, we achieved two of our major objectives: tax relief and education reform. On the tax front, we lowered tax rates, reduced the marriage penalty, and eliminated the death tax. (Applause.)
The President also moved aggressively on a bipartisan basis to build a coalition to reform our educational system. It was milestone reform, ushering in an era of standards and accountability. It was, we believe, truly a turning point that set American education on the path towards educational excellence.
But the defining moment for the President, and for all of us, was the sudden attack on our country on September 11th, two years ago yesterday. That's a day none of us will ever forget. Suddenly we understood how vulnerable we were as a nation, how it was possible for terrorists to take advantage of our open borders and open society and to use them against us. We saw that it was relatively easy for a small number of terrorists to launch an attack and kill some 3,000 of our fellow citizens in two hours in New York and Washington and Pennsylvania -- truly a watershed event in American history.
We also began to understand, particularly from the evidence we uncovered in caves and tunnels and training camps in Afghanistan, that our enemies are determined to acquire weapons of mass destruction -- chemical, biological and nuclear weapons, if they can. And we have every reason to believe that if they succeed, they will use them, launching attacks far more deadly than anything we've ever experienced.
To counter these threats, we've been forced to think anew about how we defend our country, and about what constitutes a viable national security strategy for our America. We've come to realize that if we are to protect the American people against determined enemies, we can't simply rely on our old Cold War strategy. The kind of strategy we used against the Soviets during the Cold War, where we put at risk those things they valued in order to deter them from ever launching an attack against the United States, simply will not work where terrorists are concerned. There is nothing the terrorists value highly enough that we can put at risk to keep them from ever launching that attack. So no treaty or arms control agreement or strategy of deterrence will end this conflict. We need a new strategy -- and that's precisely what we've developed.
We began working aggressively here at home to toughen our defenses, created the Department of Homeland Security, the biggest reorganization of the federal government since the Department of Defense was created back in the 1940s.
But good defense is not enough. The problem with terrorist organization is that, even if you build defenses that are 99 percent successful, the 1 percent that gets through can kill you. We need a strategy that takes us on offense, and that lets us go after those who pose a threat to the United States and to our friends and allies -- a strategy that allows us to destroy the terrorists before they can launch further attacks against the United States. (Applause.) We cannot wait to act until after we have another day like 9/11 or a day perhaps far even worse. A good part of our new strategy is, indeed, based upon the President's determination to change the way we think about states that sponsor terror.
Prior to 9/11, too many nations tended to draw a distinction between terrorist groups and the states that provided those groups with support, with sanctuary and safe harbor. They were unwilling, oftentimes in the past, to hold terror-sponsoring states accountable for their actions.
After 9/11, President Bush decided that the distinction between the terrorists and their sponsors could no longer be permitted to stand. The Bush doctrine makes clear that those states that support terrorists, or provide sanctuary for terrorists, are just as guilty as the terrorists themselves. So in addition to going after the terrorists, in addition to dismantling their financial networks and their logistic support, we also are taking on states that sponsor terrorism. (Applause.)
I'll never forget that Friday after the attack, when the President went to Ground Zero in New York -- many of you may remember it. He stood up on a pile of rubble with a bullhorn in his hand. And when the men in the hard hats working nearby said they couldn't hear him, he responded, "Well, I can hear you. The rest of the world hears you. And the people who knocked these buildings down will soon hear from all of us." He's been a man of his word.
In Afghanistan, the Taliban regime harbored al Qaeda and brutalized an entire population. That regime is no more. In Iraq, where a brutal dictator threatened the peace and gave support to terrorists, the United States launched one of the most extraordinary military campaigns in history. And that regime is no more.
Some people have questioned the strategy, suggesting somehow it's wrong for the United States to strike "before an enemy strikes us." But I would argue that on 9/11 we were struck. We lost more people that day than we lost at Pearl Harbor. And I ask you, if we had been able, through preemptive military action, to defeat the attack before it ever occurred, would we have been justified? The answer is, you bet we would have. And make no mistake: this President will act against further attacks, even when it means moving aggressively to head-off would-be attackers. (Applause.)
So the war on terror continues. It's a war being fought all over the globe -- just look at the attacks that have occurred in the last two years, not only in New York and Washington -- but also in Bali, Mombassa, Riyadh, Casablanca, Jakarta, Bombay, Baghdad and Najaf. And the war will continue, perhaps as long as we're in office, perhaps even longer.
In this global war on terror, U.S. forces are heavily engaged where they need to be, and especially today in Afghanistan and Iraq. We will stay in Afghanistan and Iraq to make absolutely certain that the job is done before we move on. We will stay until we've wrapped up all the weapons of mass destruction and eliminated those who are enemies of the United States.
This war is not without sacrifice. More than 400 of our troops have already given their lives since the war on terror began on 9/11. And there are bound to be more casualties. But remember, we lost some 3,000 Americans here at home on 9/11. We'll be much safer and much more secure long-term if we're aggressively going after the terrorists and after the nations and mechanisms that support them overseas than if we lay back and wait for them to strike us again here at home.
In the battles of Iraq and Afghanistan and in other fronts in the war on terror, we've depended on the skill and courage of our men and women in uniform. They have faced enemies who have no regard for the rules of warfare or morality. They have carried out urgent and difficult missions in some of the most remote and hostile parts of the world. And they've done all this with the bravery and honor we have come to expect of them. As a former Secretary of Defense, I've never been more proud of our men and women in uniform than I am today. (Applause.)
Waging and winning the war on terror is only part of our responsibility toward other nations. There is great work in this world that only America can do. In the Middle East, we're encouraging free markets, democracy, tolerance, because these are the ideas and aspirations that overcome violence and turn societies toward the pursuit of peace.
Under President Bush, America acts in the world according to both our fundamental interests and our founding ideals. We believe in the dignity of life and the right of all people to live in freedom. And all who strive and sacrifice for the cause of freedom will have a friend in the United States.
Here at home, we'll continue with an active and aggressive agenda. We have made major progress on the economy. When we took office, America was sliding into recession, too many people who wanted to work couldn't find a job. To help create jobs and to get the economy growing again, we have cut taxes each of the three years we've been in office. In the bill we passed this year, not only did we cut the income tax rates, but we also significantly cut taxes on dividends and capital gains -- a fundamental reform of the tax system that should encourage and stimulate long-term economic growth. We've delivered the largest tax relief since the presidency of Ronald Reagan.
Some in Congress have suggested we need to repeal tax relief and raise taxes on the American people. But raining taxes now, at a time like this, will hurt the recovery and postpone the day when we generate sufficient revenues to be able to close the deficit.
It's vital that we move forward to do everything we can, as well, to encourage greater growth and development in the manufacturing sector. I know you've had significant problems you've been addressing here in North Carolina. The administration wants to work closely with Robin Hayes and do everything we can to make certain that you've got a strong economy here and that we take care of the needs of the people of South Carolina who've been badly adversely affected.
We've also had action both in the House and the Senate on an energy bill. And as in New York, Ohio and Michigan, firsthand people experienced last week, two weeks ago, that our nation's electricity grid badly needs to be upgraded. We're hopeful that Congress will work swiftly to move an energy bill through the conference committee and to produce a bill that will improve our nation's infrastructure, and promote energy efficiency and conservation, develop cleaner technologies and help reduce our dependence on foreign oil -- a must for the sake of our national security.
After many years of inaction, we are making progress on bringing Medicare into the 21st century. Last January, President Bush submitted a framework for Medicare reform to Congress that would give seniors access to prescription drugs and offer them better choices under Medicare. Both Houses have taken historic action, and now Congress must complete its work and send a bill to the President that provides seniors with better health coverage and relief from the rising costs of prescription drugs. We're also looking forward to working with Congress to help small businesses better be able to afford affordable health care for their employees.
We also need to fix the judicial confirmation process. Right now, far too many nominations to the federal bench are being held up because of the threat of filibuster. Our friends on the other side of the aisle refuse to allow nominees of great merit to even be voted on, on the Senate floor. Well-qualified nominees like Terry Boyle, here in North Carolina, have been attacked by Senate Democrats who blocked an up-or-down vote on the Senate floor. And just last week, another outstanding nominee, rated well-qualified by everybody who has looked at him, a man named Miguel Estrada, withdrew his name from consideration after waiting two years for a vote on the Senate floor. The treatment of this fine man has truly been disgraceful. It's time now to restore dignity and civility to the judicial confirmation process to make sure that every person nominated to the federal bench gets a timely up-or-down vote.
We have achieved a great deal in these two-and-a-half years. But there is much left to do in Washington and around the world. We need to enact Project Bioshield to help protect the American people against the threat of bio-terrorism. We need legal reform, because the strength of our economy is undermined by frivolous lawsuits. And while there are encouraging signs that the economy is picking up steam, the President and I will not rest until everyone who wants a job can find a job.
The campaign season will come in due course -- and when it does, we will run hard and take nothing for granted. President Bush and I know that the key to victory is to do the work we've been given and to do it well. We intend to make good use of every day we have the honor of serving the America people.
Long before I took this job, I had the good fortune to work with other presidents whom I greatly admire. As the White House Chief of Staff in the aftermath of Watergate, I watched Gerald Ford restore confidence in government by the sheer decency and force of his character. As a congressman during the decisive years of the Cold War, I saw the conviction and moral courage of Ronald Reagan. And as a member of the Cabinet and Secretary of Defense under former President Bush, I saw the idea of public service in its purest form and came to know a leader of true honor and integrity.
Along the way, I learned a few things about the presidency, and about the kind of person it takes to do it well. It takes the finest qualities of character: a conviction, personal integrity, good judgment, compassion, courage in times of testing for the nation. And that, ladies and gentlemen, is exactly the kind of man we have in the White House today. (Applause.)
I am honored to work with George W. Bush. And he and I are both honored by your confidence in us, by your support for strong congressmen like Robin Hayes, and by your commitment to this great and good country of ours, the United States of America.
Thank you very much. (Applause.)
Richard B. Cheney, Remarks by the Vice President at a Luncheon for Congressman Robin Hayes in Charlotte, North Carolina Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/281904

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(visited by Gerhard Henrich, Elisabeth Henrich, Helmut Loew, Elfi Loew, Renate Schlipkoether, Norbert Schlipkoether, Trudi Fritz and Edith Angermeir)
21-Feb-2002 -- 510 kilometres forth and back of Riyāḍ at the western gate of the famous Rub` al-Khāliy desert we had to find our Confluence. Not an easy one we thought since the terrain was not known to any of us and the maps were not very much promising.
So we went off Riyāḍ first in direction to al-Kharj, that is south-east on a highway through the garden of Riyāḍ, because most of the local agricultural products come from this area, including fresh water and dairy products. Shortly before al-Kharj the highway split and we took the southern leg in direction of Wādī al-Dawasir, that is 600 kilometres further south of Riyāḍ. The highway leads further through farming areas, interrupted by chains of mountains and small sand belts until Ḥawṭat Banī Tamīm. Here the highway ends and a normal tarmac continues, but already under construction for a highway.
After Ḥawṭat Banī Tamīm the landscaspe is very monotonous and there are only few very small hills over the plain. We were lucky about that and after finding an exit in the very long fence along the road we could immediately hit the Confluence straight away.
So finally, it turned out to be a very easy one and we came to the conclusion, that one cannot trust the maps of Saudi Arabia in details.
We have to admit that this was the last Confluence for Helmut and Elfi Loew, they are leaving for good end of the month. So we wish them all the best for the future. For sure they will carry the sense of Confluence to their new destination.


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UA overpowered by Stanford in series finale
PALO ALTO, Calif. – In a tale of two ballgames, Stanford won a slugfest and then held on in a pitcher's duel to defeat 25th-ranked Arizona 12-8 to capture the three-game series at Sunken Diamond.
Stanford (22-12, 9-6) claimed a 2-0 lead in the first, but found itself trailing by five following a disastrous seven-run top of the second inning for Arizona (25-14, 9-9 Pac-12). However, the Cardinal would bounce back, outscoring the Wildcats 10-1 the rest of the way.
Neither school's starting pitcher lasted more than three innings, and after four innings the teams had combined for 19 runs on 18 hits – eight for extra bases – and three home runs.
The second half of the game was highlighted by a pair of strong relief appearances. Stanford's Sam Lindquist (W, 1-0) pitched masterfully to close the game over five shutout innings to earn the win. The righty allowed only one hit and two walks.
Arizona's Tyler Hale kept the Stanford offense at bay with three shutout innings, but the Wildcats were never able to make a significant rally in the late stages against Lindquist.
Stanford seized control with a five-run fourth inning. Starter Tyler Crawford hit Brant Whiting with a pitch to open the frame was lifted in favor of Stephen Manthei.
Against Manthei (L, 1-2), Drew Jackson drew a walk and Justin Ringo singled to load the bases. Austin Slater, who finished 3-for-5 with three runs and five RBI, doubled to left-center, which gave Stanford a 9-8 lead – one it would not relinquish.
Later in the fourth against Nick Cunningham, Brian Ragira, who went 2-for-5 with two runs and three RBI, added a run-scoring single, and Alex Blandino also tallied an RBI single.
Ringo accounted for the game's final run when he homered to right field off Cunningham, putting the Cardinal on top 12-8.
A wild and lengthy second inning saw Arizona score seven times after a big inning was ignited by two Stanford errors. Kevin Newman, who finished 2-for-4 with two runs, reached on a one-out single, and then a pair of errors loaded the bases.
Riley Moore was called on to pinch-hit for David Real, who started the game behind the plate. Moore worked an 11-pitch at bat against John Hochstater, before belting a grand slam to right-center field to put the Wildcats on top, 4-2.
Hochstatter subsequently hit Joseph Maggi with the next pitch, prompting home plate umpire Ramon Armendariz to immediately eject the veteran left-hander.
Against reliever Bobby Zaruben, the Wildcats scored three more runs. Trent Gilbert and Zach Gibbons tallied RBI singles, and Newman drove in a run with a double – his second base hit of the inning.
After seeing the Wildcats score seven runs, the Cardinal answered with four runs in the home half of the second inning. With two outs, Slater tripled to left-center to drive in a pair of runs, before Brian Ragira homered to left-center to cut the deficit to 7-6.
Stanford struck for two first inning runs. Ringo walked and Slater singled to lead off, before Danny Diekroeger hit a two-out, two run double to right-center for the game's first runs.
The Wildcats only run outside the second inning was tacked on in the fourth after Hughes walked four consecutive batters with two outs, final one – issued to Moore – driving in the run.
Arizona steps away from Pac-12 play next week to host Alabama State in a three-game set at Hi Corbett Field. The series begins Friday night at 6 p.m.
NOTES: Johnny Field reached base for the 26th-straight game … Kevin Newman extended his hitting streak to 10-consecutive games …Riley Moore's pinch-hit grandslam in the second inning was UA's first since current volunteer assistant coach Josh Garcia hit one off the bench against San Francisco on March 19, 2011, at Kindall Field/Sancet Stadium in Tucson … The last Wildcat to hit a grandslam was Johnny Field against Louisville on June 3, 2012, at the Tucson Regional at Hi Corbett Field in Tucson … Moore's homer was the second of his career, and both have come on the road (March 24, 2012 at Oregon State) … The second inning saw 11 total runs scored between the teams and lasted 51 minutes.


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Rebekah Brooks' husband Charlie kept up appearances at the Cheltenham festival on Wednesday, the day after he and his wife were arrested and bailed on suspicion of perverting the course of justice.
Racing horse trainer Brooks had written in his Telegraph column that the hours before the racing event began on Tuesday were the happiest of his year.
However he and his wife were arrested in a dramatic dawn raid - meaning he didn't get to the course until Wednesday.
Four others were arrested as well as the couple in addresses in London, Oxfordshire, Hampshire and Hertfordshire between 5am and 7am on Tuesday morning on suspicion of conspiracy to pervert the course of justice.
Rebekah Brooks' husband in a green jacket and suit
The arrest of Charlie and Rebekah Brooks could potentially embarrass Prime Minister David Cameron, who has described Charlie as a "good friend."
Cameron was recently forced to admit he had ridden a police horse loaned to Rebekah earlier this month, saying: "I've known Charlie Brooks for over 30 years and he's a good friend, he's a neighbour... I haven't been riding with him since the election.
"I have not been riding with him since the election. Before the election, yes, I did go riding with him."
"He has a number of horses and, yes, one of them was this former police horse Raisa, which I did ride."


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33 S.Ct. 648
57 L.Ed. 1125
MARTIN PEDERSEN, Plff. in Err.,
No. 698.
Argued January 14, 1913.
Decided May 26, 1913.
Messrs. Benjamin Patterson and George Bell for plaintiff in error.
Messrs. James F. Campbell and William S. Jenney for defendant in error.
[Argument of Counsel from pages 146-149 intentionally omitted]
Mr. Justice Van Devanter delivered the opinion of the court:
This was an action under the employers' liability act of April 22, 1908 (35 Stat. at L. 65, chap. 149, U. S. Comp. Stat. Supp. 1911, p. 1322), to recover for personal injuries sustained by the plaintiff through the negligence of a coemployee while both were in the defendant's service. At the trial the circuit court refused to direct a verdict in the defendant's favor, and the jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff, assessing his damages at $6,190. Subsequently the court, following a local statute (Pa. Laws 1905, p. 286, chap. 198), entered judgment for the defendant notwithstanding the verdict, on the ground that the latter was not sustained by the evidence. 184 Fed. 737. The judgment was affirmed
The act and the amendment of April 5, 1910 [36 Stat. at L. 291, chap. 143, U.S. Comp. Stat. Supp. 1911, p. 1324 ], are printed in full in 223 U. S. p. 6, 56 L. ed. 329, 38 L.R.A. (N.S.) 44, 32 Sup. Ct. Rep. 169. by the circuit court of appeals (117 C. C. A. 33, 197 Fed. 537), and the plaintiff sued out this writ of error.
The evidence, in that view of it which must be taken here, was to the following effect: The defendant was operating a railroad for the transportation of passengers and freight in interstate and intrastate commerce, and the plaintiff was an iron worker employed by the defendant in the alteration and repair of some of its bridges and tracks at or near Hoboken, New Jersey. On the afternoon of his injury the plaintiff and another employee, acting under the direction of their foreman, were carrying from a tool car to a bridge, known as the Duffield bridge, some bolts or rivets which were to be used by them that night or very early the next morning in 'repairing that bridge,' the repair to consist in taking out an existing girder and inserting a new one. The bridge could be reached only by passing over an intervening temporary bridge at James avenue. These bridges were being regularly used in both interstate and intrastate commerce. While the plaintiff was carrying a sack of bolts or rivets over the James avenue bridge, on his way to the Duffield bridge, he was run down and injured by an intrastate passenger train, of the approach of which its engineer negligently failed to give any warning.
The circuit court ruled that an injury resulting from the negligence of a coemployee engaged in intrastate commerce was not within the terms of the Federal act, and the circuit court of appeals, although disapproving that ruling, held that under the evidence it could not be said that the plaintiff was employed in interstate commerce, and therefore he was not entitled to recover under the act.
Considering the terms of the statute, there can be no doubt that a right of recovery thereunder arises only where the injury is suffered while the carrier is engaged in interstate commerce, and while the employee is employed by the carrier in such commerce; but it is not essential, where the causal negligence is that of a coemployee, that he also be employed in such commerce, for, if the other conditions be present, the statute gives a right of recovery for injury or death resulting from the negligence 'of any of the . . . employees of such carrier,' and this includes an employee engaged in intrastate commerce. Second Employers' Liability Cases (Mondou v. New York. N. H. & H. R. Co.) 223 U. S. 1, 51, 56 L. ed. 327, 346, 38 L.R.A.(N.S.) 44, 32 Sup. Ct. Rep. 169.
That the defendant was engaged in interstate commerce is conceded; and so we are only concerned with the nature of the work in which the plaintiff was employed at the time of his injury. Among the questions which naturally arise in this connection are these: Was that work being done independently of the interstate commerce in which the defendant was engaged, or was it so closely connected therewith as to be a part of it? Was its performance a matter of indifference so far as that commerce was concerned, or was it in the nature of a duty resting upon the carrier? The answers are obvious. Tracks and bridges are as indispensable to interstate commerce by railroad as are engines and cars; and sound economic reasons unite with settled rules of law in demanding that all of these instrumentalities be kept in repair. The security, expedition, and efficiency of the commerce depends in large measure upon this being done. Indeed, the statute now before us proceeds upon the theory that the carrier is charged with the duty of exercising appropriate care to prevent or correct 'any defect or insufficiency . . . in its cars, engines, appliances, machinery, track, roadbed, works, boats, wharves, or other equipment' used in interstate commerce. But independently of the statute, we are of opinion that the work of keeping such instrumentalities in a proper state of repair while thus used is so closely related to such commerce as to be in practice and in legal contemplation a part of it. The contention to the contrary proceeds upon the assumption that interstate commerce by railroad can be separated into its several elements, and the nature of each determined regardless of its relation to others or to the business as a whole. But this is an erroneous assumption. The true test always is: Is the work in question a part of the interstate commerce in which the carrier is engaged? See McCall v. California, 136 U. S. 104, 109, 111, 34 L. ed. 391, 392, 393, 3 Inters. Com. Rep. 181, 10 Sup. Ct. Rep. 881; Second Employers' Liability Cases (Mondou v. New York, N. H. & H. R. Co.) 223 U. S. 6, 59, 56 L. ed. 329, 350, 38 L.R.A.(N.S.) 44, 32 Sup. Ct. Rep. 169; Zikos v. Oregon R. & Nav. Co. 179 Fed. 893, 897, 898; Central R. Co. v. Colasurdo, 113 C. C. A. 379, 192 Fed. 901; Darr v. Baltimore & O. R. Co. 197 Fed. 665; Northern P. R. Co. v. Maerkl, 117 C. C. A. 237, 198 Fed. 1. Of course, we are not here concerned with the construction of tracks, bridges, engines, or cars which have not as yet become instrumentalities in such commerce, but only with the work of maintaining them in proper condition after they have become such instrumentalities and during their use as such.
True, a track or bridge may be used in both interstate and intrastate commerce, but when it is so used it is none the less an instrumentality of the former; nor does its double use prevent the employment of those who are engaged in its repair or in keeping it in suitable condition for use from being an employment in interstate commerce.
The point is made that the plaintiff was not, at the time of his injury, engaged in removing the old girder and inserting the new one, but was merely carrying to the place where that work was to be done some of the materials to be used therein. We think there is no merit in this. It was necessary to the repair of the bridge that the materials be at hand, and the act of taking them there was a part of that work. In other words, it was a minor task which was essentially a part of the larger one, as is the case when an engineer takes his engine from the roundhouse to the track on which are the cars he is to haul in interstate commerce. See Lamphere v. Oregon R. & Nav. Co. ——L.R.A.(N.S.) ——, 116 C. C. A. 156, 196 Fed. 336; Horton v. Oregon-Washington R. & Nav. Co. ——Wash. ——, 130 Pac. 897; Johnson v. Southern P. Co. 196 U. S. 1, 21, 49 L. ed. 363, 371, 25 Sup. Ct. Rep. 158.
What has been said shows that there was evidence to sustain a finding that at the time of the plaintiff's injury the defendant was engaged, and he was employed by it, in interstate commerce; and, as in other respects the case was one for the jury, the court rightly denied the defendant's request that a verdict in its favor be directed. A motion for a new trial was interposed by the defendant, but no ruling was had upon it, doubtless because the court concluded that it could and should render judgment for the defendant on the evidence notwithstanding the verdict. In this the court was in error, first, because it was without authority so to do (Slocum v. New York L. Ins. Co. decided April 21, 1913 [228 U. S. 364, 57 L. ed. ——, 33 Sup. Ct. Rep. 523]), and, second, because the evidence did not warrant such a judgment. Unless the motion for a new trial was well taken, judgment should have been given for the plaintiff on the verdict; and, subject to that qualification, the plaintiff is now entitled to such a judgment.
The judgments of the Circuit Court and the Circuit Court of Appeals are reversed, and the case is remanded for further proceedings in accordance with this opinion.
Judgment reversed.
Mr. Justice Lamar, dissenting:
I am unable to assent to the proposition that a man carrying bolts to be used by him in repairing a railroad bridge was employed in interstate commerce.
Transportation has been defined as commerce, and those engaged in transportation are employed in commerce. But in building the bridge originally, the carrier was not 'engaging in commerce between the states,' and the plaintiff, in subsequently repairing it, was not employed in such commerce. Such work was not a part of commerce, but an incident which preceded it.
The act provides that 'every common carrier by railroad, while engaging in commerce between any of the several states or territories . . . shall be liable in damages to any person suffering injury while he is employed by such carrier in such commerce.' [35 Stat. at L. 65, chap. 149, U. S. Comp. Stat. Supp. 1911, p. 1322.]
The defendant, though engaged in both interstate and intrastate commerce, was also engaged in many other indicental activities which were not commerce in any sense.
The railroad had to be surveyed and built, bridges had to be constructed and renewed, cars had to be manufactured and repaired, warehouses had to be built and painted, wages had to be paid and books kept; but these transactions, though incident to it, were not transportation, and, therefore, not within the purview of the statute limited to persons employed in commerce. Otherwise the law would embrace 'all of the activities in any way connected with trade between the states, and exclude state control over matters purely domestic in their nature.' Hooper v. California, 155 U. S. 655, 39 L. ed. 300, 5 Inters. Com. Rep. 610, 15 Sup. Ct. Rep. 207. Acts burdening interstate commerce can, of course, be prohibited by Congress. But when Congress itself limits the operation of the statute to persons injured while employed in interstate commerce, the statute does not extend to its incidents, and is confined to transportation. It does not include manufacturing, building, repairing, for they are not commerce, whether performed by a private person, a railroad, or its agents.
It is conceded that a line must be drawn between those employees of the carrier who are employed in commerce and those engaged in other departments of its business. It must be drawn so as to take in, on one side, those engaged in transportation, which is commerce; otherwise there is no logical reason why it should not include every agent of the company; for there is no other test by which to determine when he must sue under the state statute and when under the act of Congress; for if a man on his way to repair a bridge is engaged in interstate commerce, then the man in the shop who made the bolts to be used in repairing the bridge is likewise so engaged. If they are, then the man who paid them their wages, and the bookkeeper who entered those payments in the accounts, are similarly engaged. For they are all employed by the carrier, and the work of each contributes to its success in hauling freight and passengers.
This view is supported by the two cognate statutes. The hours of service law applies only to those 'engaged in the movement of trains;' and the safety appliance law refers not to machines in the shop, but to cars and locomotives, which are the immediate instruments of transportation. The employers' liability act in like manner applies to those engaged in transportation, and not to those employed in building, manufacturing, or repairing.
The plaintiff was carrying bolts to be used in repairing a bridge. That was not interstate commerce, and in my opinion the court below properly held that his rights were to be determined by the laws of the state of New Jersey, and not by the act of Congress.
Mr. Justice Holmes and Mr. Justice Lurton concur in this dissent.


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Advanced Computing, Mathematics and Data
Staff Awards & Honors
May 2013
Krishnamoorthy Earns DOE Early Career Research Program Award
Sriram Krishnamoorthy is one of many scientists reaching for the next step in supercomputer evolution, the exascale computer. In April 2013, DOE awarded him $2.5 million over five years to explore ways to advance exascale computing through their Early Career Research Program.
Dr. Sriram Krishnamoorthy was one of 61 DOE Early Career Research Program award recipients in 2013.
With the award, Sriram will pursue "Concrete Ingredients for Flexible Programming Abstractions on Exascale Systems," which will fundamentally transform exascale programming models and runtime systems for scientific applications via the design and characterization of algorithms that automate concurrency, data movement, and resilience management.
Today's top supercomputers can function at the petascale level, performing in one hour what would take a typical laptop more than 20 years to do. Exascale computing will provide a thousand-fold increase in computing capability that can be applied toward solving crucial energy and environmental problems.
Sriram has been studying ways to make computers better at accommodating the rigorous demands of parallel computing, where machines perform different parts of calculations simultaneously, sometimes on different kinds of computer hardware, and put all the pieces back together on the fly. He also has found ways to automate processes that translate equations that work on conventional machines into computer language and styles used by parallel computers.
His need to enhance the flexibility and capability of computing systems also has pushed Sriram to create tools that allow programmers to write code in modules that can be automatically matched to different computing platforms, making it easier to customize programs to different systems. His work with fault tolerance also has led to creating programs that identify just the work lost due to a fault and only redo that portion - rather than returning to the last good checkpoint.
With the support from the DOE Early Career Award, Sriram will delve deeper into how parallel computing solves problems, assuring that the different pieces of the full calculation are working as efficiently as possible. After building the understanding of when and where certain approaches work best in different programs and platforms, he will test how they will perform on future extreme-scale computer systems.
For more information about Sriram's DOE Early Career Award, see the PNNL news item "PNNL's Krishnamoorthy earns one of Energy Department's 61 Early Career Research Program awards."


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"About 120 protesters outside Mullingar station Ming Flanagan, Maura Harrington, etc. Supporting McCabe. M" - Ex-Garda Commissioner Callinan
"You can judge a man by his friends" Brian Purcell - SG of Dept of Justice
"Some shower Brian" Callinan
In Belmullet district court on Monday 20th February, 6 campaigners were convicted of a total of 13 charges between them with fines totaling 3,035 euros. While this went on, local residents blocked Shell's haulage route between Bellanaboy refinery and the compound in Glengad.
Monday was the beginning of a week-long special sitting for anyone arrested in the last year for protesting against Shell's Corrib Gas project. Yesterday 6 out of 19 people's cases were heard, and all 6 were convicted of every charge they faced. A bench warrent was issued for one person who was unable to attend court. So 12 people are left to be heard, some of them with 4 or 5 cases each.
Around 1pm a group of local residents decided to block the haulage route to Glengad, and were thrown off the road by Gardaí. The usual camera person Terence Conway was up in court in Belmullet, so the Gardaí took advantage of the lack of cameras and were fairly rough with people. One woman was thrown into a ditch.
The last special sitting dealing with campaigners against Corrib resulted in 24 of 27 people being acquitted. So far this week, the Judge has not accepted any of the defense arguments.
At one stage when one defendant questioned the level of force that had been used on the protesters, Superintendent Patrick Diskin responded that "Public order situations are never pretty. pushing and shoving sometimes has to happen to ensure people don't get hurt."
Gardaí refused to arrest local people on the roads on Monday, instead using brute force. Yet they are happy to criminalise outside supporters in their effort to further isolate the community of Erris.
Stay tuned this week on shelltosea.com and twitter to find out what happens with the rest of the cases.