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Advanced Computing, Mathematics and Data
Research Highlights
November 2012
Getting a Quick View of Data
New software component provides near real-time look at experimental data
Mass Spectrometry Imaging options available in the new PNNL MSI QuickView tool.
Results: Usually, scientific research means conducting an experiment and then evaluating the results to see whether it worked and for possible discoveries. Now, a new tool specifically for High Resolution Mass Spectrometry developed by scientific data management researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory provides the first step toward achieving real-time analysis. MSI QuickView provides a critical component to view what's going on during an experiment as it unfolds. This moves the process away from post-experimental analysis toward both active observation and influence.
MSI QuickView is part of REXAN (A Rapid Experimental Analysis Framework), a library of data management software components developed at PNNL. REXAN provides access to high performance analytical components that can be quickly assembled into high-speed data analysis pipelines for different experimental instruments.
Why It Matters: Understanding what is happening at the molecular level during chemical, materials, and biochemical processes is fundamental to addressing multiple scientific challenges. But the tools for researchers to achieve this level of clarity simply have not been available. Instead, they have been observing after the fact using secondary sources and mathematical models to determine what is going on.
Even with computational assistance, validation can take many hours, days, or even months, depending on the type of experiment. Ideally, researchers want to know the results much sooner, if possible while the experiment is still ongoing, so they could potentially influence specific outcomes by triggering and observing reactions.
MSI QuickView enables a new way of conducting experiments by providing interactive analysis of mass spectrometry imaging data within seconds. This near real-time analysis during the data acquisition stage helps validate whether a particular experiment was successful. The tool also allows for the analysis of unlimited data volumes, 3D visualization of multiple layers of sectioning data, and integrated data management; and it is highly flexible and adaptable for use in other domains.
Methods: The PNNL team developed the new concept by looking at the existing analysis process and dividing it into needed mathematical and visualization components. They then optimized the components to perform analyses faster by implementing a different mathematical approach, analyzing the data differently, and using computer science methodologies to make the codes run faster. Then, they integrated these approaches into a single product.
What's Next: The team is building a library of tools designed to allow the user community at large to share the software without having to start from scratch each time. The user service aspect of the library provides users the ability to try new pipelines on their data and compare it to their existing ones.
This work was supported by PNNL's Laboratory Directed Research & Development program through the Chemical Imaging Initiative.
It is part of both the Science of Computing, Biological Systems Sciences, and Chemical Imaging research areas.
Research Team: Kerstin Kleese van Dam, Matthew Thomas, James Carson, Abigail Corrigan, Daniel Einstein, Zoe Guillen, Senthil Kabilan, Andrew Kuprat, Carina Lansing, Dongsheng Li, Yan Liu, Paulo Pinheiro da Silva, Seun Ryu, Brandi Heath, Ingela Lanekoff, Julia Laskin, Matthew Marshall, Erin Miller, Gayla Orr, Craig Szymanski, Nancy Hess (PNNL).
Reference: Kleese van Dam K, M Thomas, JP Carson, AL Corrigan, ZC Guillen, BS Heath, AP Kuprat, IT Lanekoff, CS Lansing, J Laskin, D Li, Y Liu, MJ Marshall, EA Miller, G Orr, P Pinheiro da Silva, S Ryu, CJ Szymanski, and M Thomas. 2012. "REXAN – A Rapid Experimental Analysis Framework." Presented by Mathew Thomas at the 8th IEEE International Conference on eScience 2012, Chicago, Illinois October 9.

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American analysts say they've verified several pieces of evidence that show pro-Russian separatist rebels shot down Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17, according to U.S. intelligence officials who briefed reporters Tuesday.
Here's a quick rundown of the officials' updates on what U.S. investigators have found, from notes taken by NPR's Pentagon reporter Tom Bowman:
The information comes as an update into the inquiry of how the commercial flight was shot down with nearly 300 people aboard. The U.S. has laid the blame at the feet of the separatists — and criticized Russia for supporting them.
"But U.S. intelligence said they still don't know who pulled the trigger, that person's rank or nationality," Tom says. "They also don't know why this was done – they said it was most likely a mistake."
Dutch and Malaysian experts are combing over the wreckage of the flight that had been bound from Amsterdam to Kuala Lampur.
And at the scene of the crash, NPR's Corey Flintoff reports that the stories from many residents are close to the version of events coming out of Moscow, which has suggested alternative explanations for the downing.
Some of them suspect Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko might be behind the attack; others said a man parachuted from the mid-air explosion, but that he had likely died.
Another family has saved a pock-marked piece of aluminum that they say is from the plane — when it fell from the sky, it crashed into their garden and killed their cat, Corey reports for today's All Things Considered.
U.S. officials say experts still need to perform forensics analysis to provide hard proof that the Malaysian plane had been hit by a missile.
The forensics work could be complicated, given the restricted access investigators had to the crash site for days after the jet was shot down — and given today's reports that some of the plane's wreckage had been cut apart.
That's the version of events reported by USA Today, which says "the Boeing 777's cockpit inexplicably had been sawed in half while under the control of Russian-backed separatists."
The newspaper also quotes a spokesman for the group of international monitors from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (the OSCE) who said, "The rear part of the aircraft, one of the biggest intact pieces, has definitely been hacked into."
As we reported earlier today, the separatists have finally released the black boxes and 282 bodies that were found among the wreckage, for analysis by experts in the Netherlands (and, in the case of human remains, repatriation to their home countries). The remains of some passengers have reportedly not been found.
For weeks, U.S. intelligence agencies have been saying that Russia was supplying rebels in Ukraine with weapons. And after today's briefing, Tom reports that analysts now say "Russian equipment, including tanks and armored personnel carriers, are still continuing to roll into Ukraine from Russia."
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Exhibit Designer's Toolbox: Inventables
Who wouldn't love a website that provides cool stuff like Soft Gel Magnets or Glow-In-The-Dark Thread? Inventables is just such a website, and it's been great fun trying out their stuff for new exhibits and prototyping projects.
The clean and simple Inventables website gives you examples of new and interesting materials (with specs!) to investigate, as well as a nice search feature that lets you sort materials by qualities like "sticky" or "magnetic".
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Developers want to exceed the density allowed in the West End's Beauregard neighborhood by building 6,500 new apartments, condos and houses, and City Hall seems bent on realizing their desires. If it passed today, the plan would be at the expense of thousands of people losing their residences and a severe blow to what's left of affordable housing in Alexandria.
Five giant developers including JBG and Duke Realty have the right to build what they want on their land if it is within legal zoning parameters. But to realize their vision of adding a mass of new housing units, the city must increase zoning limits. As city officials consider bending the rules, developers are salivating at the prospect. Why? Because to get what they want, they only have to preserve 700 units of affordable housing.
That's the lopsided deal on the table: Developers will demolish more than 2,500 market-rate affordable homes and build 6,500 new ones. When construction is complete, the area will host about 9,500 housing units, mostly gleaming and new. In exchange for the city's permission, developers promise to subsidize 700 homes to freeze the rent and keep it affordable, at least for 30 years.
But "affordable" is perhaps one of the most relative terms in the English language. Some Alexandrians can afford a Lamborghini while others can't scrape together money for a Huffy.
So how does the City of Alexandria determine what's affordable?
It starts with the annual median household income of the Washington area according to Housing and Urban Development: $107,500. Any household making 60 percent of the median income or less qualifies for affordable housing, according to the city's definition. So a household making $64,500 a year or less is considered eligible.
Yet the 700 units being labeled "affordable" in the Beauregard plan are feasible only for households making between $59,000 and $80,000, according to the city's housing department. The available units don't reflect Alexandria's housing needs.
Another problem: The city's formula skews the local reality. Alexandria's median income is about $81,000, far less than the regional figure. That means city households making $48,600 actually require affordable housing. Developer contributions don't even scratch the surface of aiding Alexandria's needs. The gap between reality and fantasy grows deeper.
There is a serious gap between what the city portrays as generous developer contributions and what is actually occurring. The gloomy facts are the city stands to lose 2,000 decently priced housing units and, more importantly, displace thousands of residents. At the behest of developers, Alexandria will become less diverse economically and ethnically despite years of lip service condemning such notions. City Hall should play hardball with developers and refuse to up-zone the Beauregard area under the current plan.


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The centre consists of a composition of two contrasting structures: the black, monumental, one-storey logistics structure 'planted' on the ground, and the 'soaring' white three-story administration building.
A geothermal power plant was also used that met the highest ecological requirements.
To make the inside of the centre more related to the outside view, a lot of attention was devoted to the interior and exterior landscape architecture.
To facilate the work processes and contribute to their well-being, it was decided to look into the centre of the building innovatively and to rely on the latests tehnological solutions.
Various Peikko products where used on this project such as PETRA® Slab Hangers, Arnchor Plates, JENKA Lifting System, HPM® Rebar Anchor Bolt, and TERAJOINT®.


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National Pow/Mia Recognition Day
September 19, 2003
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION The sacrifice and service of America's veterans, including those who became prisoners of war or who went missing in action, have preserved freedom for America and brought freedom to millions around the world. On National POW/MIA Recognition Day, we honor the extraordinary courage of the Americans who have been prisoners of war, and we pray for those who are still missing in action and unaccounted for. This Nation also remembers the challenges and heartache endured by the families of prisoners of war and missing in action. We seek answers for the families of those who are still missing, and we will not rest until we have a full accounting. To mark this important day, on September 19, 2003, the flag of the National League of Families of American Prisoners and Missing in Southeast Asia will again be flown over the White House, the Capitol, the Departments of State, Defense, and Veterans Affairs, the Selective Service System Headquarters, the National Vietnam Veterans and Korean War Veterans Memorials, U.S. military installations, national cemeteries, and other locations across our country. We raise this flag as a reminder and a promise. The black-and-white flag is a symbol that these missing Americans will not be forgotten, and is flown as a testament to our Government's unwavering commitment to pursue the fullest possible accounting for all our missing in action service members. NOW, THEREFORE, I, GEORGE W. BUSH, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim September 19, 2003, as National POW/MIA Recognition Day. I call upon the people of the United States to join me in saluting all American POWs who valiantly served this great country. I call upon Federal, State, and local government officials and private organizations to observe this day with appropriate ceremonies and activities. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this eighteenth day of September, in the year of our Lord two thousand three, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and twenty-eighth. GEORGE W. BUSH |
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Check Out the New Voice of the Joker
Hear the new voice of the Joker. Troy Baker – the new Joker – at NY Comic-Con.
What makes a good game great?
Oftentimes its attention to details, like voice acting, that will turn a good game into a blockbuster.
Troy Baker is the new voice of the Joker in Batman: Arkham Origins, and his participation bodes well for this 75 year old franchise. Troy has already helped two of the biggest games of 2013 become the leading contenders for game of the year. He was the voice actor for Joel in the mega-hit The Last of Us AND Booker DeWitt in BioShock Infinite.
At the New York Comic-Con, Troy provided an impromptu performance of his new role as Joker in Batman: Arkham Origins. The performance is a must see.
As Troy says, the monologue provides "one of the best cross-sections of who the Joker is."
Troy takes over the role of the Joker from Mark Hamil (Yes, Luke Skywalker).
Are you too "sold" after watching the video? Thinking of playing Batman: Arkham Origins? And what do you think of Troy Baker? Could he top Mark Hamil, Heath Ledger, Jack Nicholson, or Cesar Romero as the Joker. Comment below.
Troy Baker has a very impressive list of roles in Video Games, Anime, and Movies. At just 37 years of age, his best performances may be yet to come. Check out all his roles at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troy_Baker
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The pilots of a Thomas Cook A330 had their hands full when the right engine of the big airliner failed on the takeoff roll at Manchester Airport in the U.K. Planespotter video by Eddie Leathwood shows a jet of flame exiting the rear of the engine followed by smoke and the delayed sound of the explosion. There were no reported injuries and the explosion appears to have been contained.
The engine comes apart about 10 seconds into the takeoff roll and that left plenty of runway for an emergency stop. The video shows smoke pouring from the tires and one of the spectators says he sees a tire blow. There were 325 passengers and crew on the aircraft, which was headed to the Dominican Republic. Emergency crews responded but there was no fire and the aircraft was able to get back to the gate under its own power. A couple of flights were diverted while the runway was cleared of engine bits.


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The Shelby Fire Dept. wanted to replace their annual soup supper fundraiser that they had been doing for many years with something that was new and fresh. They wanted something that had not been done around their little part of the world yet. So, they came up with the idea of a Dodgeball Fundraiser, but really didn't think that it would get support from the Department. At the next monthly meeting, they voiced their opinion and the department loved the idea and instantly decided to go for it.
The Shelby Fire Dept. decided to do some checking on the internet and found the National Dodgeball League site. The NDL helped with the details of the tournament, pricing ideas, court set-up and also the rules and regulations of the game.
With the advertising that was done on local radio and TV stations, newspapers, county EMS coordinators, e-mail and plain old footwork of hanging up posters that we made at home, the word really spread far and fast.
Planning started at the beginning of March, with the actual games to be held on April 29th, 2006. The turnout was excellent! The fundraiser ended up with 20 teams attending counting one of their own Shelby Fire Dept team.
All of the bleachers were full with anxious spectators ready to cheer on their favorite teams. When it came down to the last three teams, you could feel the electricity in the air with everyone present. Even the most skeptical members of our department were impressed! The championship came down to two rival high school teams; it was an intense moment. Their own hometown high school team, the GT's Terminators, won the match and the crowd exploded with cheers.
As people were leaving everyone was talking about the success of the tourney and asking when the next tournament was. All in all, this was our most successful and entertaining fundraiser. It far surpassed our expectations of raising funds. The soup supper is officially OUT and Dodgeball is IN; as a matter of fact some of our members want to have another tournament this fall.
We made over $1980.00, our soup supper grossed us between $150-$250! We are confident that the next dodge ball games we have will be even better and can't wait to do it again. We really need a new rescue truck, and this is an excellent way to raise the money needed. I would recommend a dodge ball fundraiser for any non-profit organization.


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This position is labor intensive, requiring lifting, loading, pushing, and pulling cases weighing from 20-45 pounds per case, as well as bending, reaching, and squatting while merchandising and moving products. This job follows a consistent schedule with specific start times and customers (opportunity to attain different work schedules with time.)
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These months, Europe is experiencing the biggest wave of migrants since World War II. In Hungary, the issue exploded in the hot summer of 2015, with thousands of migrants arriving in the country daily. While the media image of Hungary sunk to an all-time low, this development brought out the best and the worst instincts in locals, deeply disturbed by images of exhausted families living in tents at Budapest's Keleti Railway Station and stalwart young men marching through border villages. Most of the migrants do not want to say in Hungary, however―their intention is to continue toward more affluent Western and Northern European countries.
Both for historical and economic reasons, Hungary has certainly not been a popular target for immigrants in the last few centuries. According to 2014 figures, migrants make up less than two per cent of the country's population. For over a hundred years, our problem has typically been emigration rather than immigration, with only a few considerable waves of immigration. Even at those times, however, Hungarians were not confronted with people coming from distant cultures as the immigrants were mostly ethnic Hungarians from neighboring countries―mostly from Romania, but also from Slovakia, Ukraine, Croatia and Slovenia. In this blog entry, I have collected some Hungarian writers and poets whose oeuvre was influenced by the experience of living between two (or more) worlds.
The great wave of emigration that started in the 1870s and lasted up to World War I is documented in a recent novel by Imre Oravecz, a major poet and novelist. Oravecz had spent years in the US in the 1970s, travelling back and forth between the US and Hungary, before eventually returning to settle in his native village. In 2012, he published Californian Quail, a novel about his grandparents who emigrated to America around the turn of the century. The life of this generation of emigrants―about 1.5 million Hungarians, mostly young agricultural and industrial workers―has not really been part of the national memory, except for the mere fact of their absence, present in a well-known, powerful line by Attila József: "s kitántorgott Amerikába másfél millió emberünk" (roughly translated as "and one and a half million of our people staggered to America"). Oravecz did extensive research about the life of Hungarian communities of workers on oil rigs in Toledo, Ohio and Southern California, who left Hungary with the intention to make some money and return. Many of them, however, including Oravecz's grandparents, eventually decided not to return to their homeland, as the world they had left behind was lost forever, ravaged by World War I and the Treaty of Trianon that ended the war, in which Hungary lost roughly two-thirds of its pre-war territory and one-third of its population.
When the initial hope for a better future after World War II was quickly disproved by the Soviet occupation and the Communist takeover, a number of Hungarians chose emigration, among them Sándor Márai (1900–1989), one of the most successful writers of the pre-war period. With an astonishing clairvoyance, Márai foresaw that Communist power would entail a complete loss not only of freedom of speech but of freedom of silence as well. He decided to leave the country, and lived the remaining 41 years of his life mostly in the US, yet hovering in the void. A non-person for official Hungary, a writer without an audience in America, Márai continued to write in Hungarian, and published a number of books, including his diaries and Memoir of Hungary, a fine account of the years 1945–48, including his decision to leave the country. He committed suicide in San Diego in 1989, and did not live to see his renascence in Hungary and his international success after the translation of Embers.
If the summer of 2015 was an all-time low in the international image of Hungary, the autumn of 1956 was certainly the highest ever. The Hungarian revolution was regarded as the fight for freedom of a tiny nation against a tyrannical empire, and Hungarian emigrants were seen as heroes―the gorgeous, dauntless Hungarian freedom fighter on the cover of Time Magazine was voted as Man of the Year. As the new Hungarian government, headed by János Kádár, officially declared the events to be a counter-revolution, writers who emigrated in 1956 were punished by damnatio memoriae in their homeland, similarly to Márai and others who had fled from Communism. Victor Határ, George Faludy, János Nyíri or György Ferdinandy never really became part of the Hungarian canon, although they continued to write in Hungarian (Ferdinandy wrote in French and Spanish as well, while Nyíri wrote mostly in English and French), and two of them returned to their homeland―Faludy lived the last two decades of his life in Hungary, Ferdinandy moved back in 2010.
As none of the writers mentioned above switched languages, they could not be integrated into the literature of their chosen countries. Agota Kristof, however, who fled to Switzerland in 1956 with her husband and young child, wrote in French, a language that she learnt as an adult, and that she claimed she never managed to learn perfectly. Her case is especially interesting as the success of her Trilogy―narrated by a set of twin brothers living in symbiosis during the war, then separated by the division of Europe―is due not least to the eerie, fragmented language in which it was written.
Some writers who emigrated from Hungary in 1956 and became successful in their chosen countries have played a mediating role, translating and disseminating Hungarian literature. Two poets living in the UK should especially be mentioned here: George Szirtes, the T.S. Eliot Prize-winning British poet, the translator of Sándor Márai and László Krasznahorkai; and George Gömöri, who has translated several volumes of poems by Miklós Radnóti and György Petri, in collaboration with British poet Clive Wilmer.
The first decade and a half of the new millennium has seen a new wave of emigration. In the intoxicating years of the regime change, most young people believed that once the Communists are toppled, Hungary would catch up fast with its Western neighbors. This did not happen, however, for a variety of reasons, including the resurfacing of major traumas and antagonisms within the society that had been suppressed during the Kádár era, as well as the economic crisis of 2008, the repercussions of which hit Hungary extremely hard. Hundreds of thousands of Hungarians, many of them young and well-educated, left the country, mostly to Western Europe, especially the UK, Germany and Austria.
As opposed to those who emigrated in the previous waves, the writers of this new generation mostly create in the language of their chosen countries―some of them very successfully so, like Terézia Mora, who left the country in 1990 for personal rather than political reasons. Mora, who writes in German, has garnered such prestigious awards as the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize and the German Book Prize. Her books revolve around the experience of being between two worlds: the stories in her collection entitled Seltsame Materie take place in a village on the Austro-Hungarian border, whereas her novel Das Ungeheuer takes the reader on a journey through Eastern Europe. Mora keeps close ties with contemporary Hungarian literature; she has translated a number of books (by Örkény and Esterházy, among others) into German.
Another Hungarian who has won the Deutscher Buchpreis is Melinda Nadj Abonji, who emigrated to Switzerland from the province of Vojvodina in Serbia which has a large population of ethnic Hungarians. Her novel Tauben fliegen auf recounts the experience of a family of immigrants in Switzerland, whose identity is further complicated by the fact that they arrived in the country from a minority status.