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Where is God?
The Lutheran theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer, executed by the Nazis for his involvement in an assassination attempt on Adolf Hitler, once said the following: "God wants us to realise his presence, not in unsolved problems but in those that are solved." (Letters and Papers from Prison) So where is God's presence? We might answer that question in several different ways: in us; in Christ; everywhere. We probably wouldn't say that God is at the end of our reasoning; at the very fringes of human understanding. But sometimes we can talk about God's existence as being the answer to unsolvable mysteries and therefore God becomes the one who sits at the place where our imagination runs out. We tend to do this when we are on the defensive; in other words, when we are trying to create an apologetic for our faith.
So should the Christian engage in apologetics? Well, it's a Christian thing, apologetics; it goes back to the early Church. But consider this further quote from Bonhoeffer:
Religious people speak of God when human knowledge (perhaps simply because they are too lazy to think) has come to an end, or when human resources fail - in fact it is always the deus ex machina that they bring on to the scene, ... for the apparent solution of insoluble problems… (Letters and Papers from Prison)
Has Bonhoeffer lost his faith? Is he having a go at religious people other than us? Or is there something endemic in the way that we think that means that God is only ever the end point of our reasonable resources? Now the early apologists had a very different way of going about apologetics than some modern theists do. Their argument was not to defend a concept of God as the answer to unanswered questions, but to help people see the truth of Christ in contrast to Hellenistic ideas of the time. Their apologetic was acutely philosophically engaged – I think ours should be too. But what it brought to that territory was an apologetic focussed upon the centre of Christian teaching, not the periphery of it. So if we are to define an apologetic in modern society, then surely it must not be for a God that merely exists, but for the God that we know and are known by in Christ.
Bonhoeffer certainly didn't avoid an engagement with philosophy; in fact his habilitation thesis Act and Being was exactly an engagement with philosophy. Likewise, we shouldn't ignore the New Atheism, for example; but if our only defence against it is to advocate the existence of a God that might be a first cause, or a sufficient explanation for the universe's origins, then we are not very close to the Christian understanding of God in Christ. God, we would surely have it, is right in the middle of things, not at the outskirts. God has enfleshed himself within time and eternity and the apologetic for that is to talk about this very God – Jesus Christ – in the sense that He is revealed to us; that is, at once as the good news of our salvation and as very God.


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Madhya Pradesh tourism takes pride to announce that the historical town – Orchha situated in Madhya Pradesh has been included in UNESCO's tentative list of world heritage sites followed a proposal sent by The Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) to the UN body. Madhya Pradesh has emerged as a prime tourism destination on the national and international map and is considered as the tourism trendsetter in the country.
Orchha near Jhansi is one of the biggest tourist attractions in Madhya Pradesh and home to some unique architecture and buildings. Nestled on the banks of river Betwa, it was founded in the 16th century by the Bundela Rajput Chief, Rudra Pratap. The ancient town is also famous for its two elevated minarets called Saavan and Bhadon and its four palaces — Jahangir Palace, Raj Mahal, Sheesh Mahal, and Rai Praveen Mahal — and for its concept of open bungalows, stonework windows, and animal statues depicting the culture of Bundelkhand. It is the only place in India where Lord Ram is worshipped as a king with a dedicated temple in his name called Sri Ram Raja Mandir.
Orchha is more than the historic monuments and ancient temples it houses. It has offerings for visitors of all kinds — be it nature lovers or adventure junkies, or history buffs alike. While Orchha tourist places primarily comprise the historic monuments built in the erstwhile era, the place is also blessed with a scenic natural landscape.
The majestic River Betwa flows through the town of Orchha, enchanting visitors with a picturesque sunset view while they explore the ruined settlement. The town is also home to a wide range of fauna as the Orchha Wildlife Sanctuary houses exotic creatures, giving wildlife enthusiasts a nice experience.
The Responsible Tourism initiatives taken by the state's several private and government organizations such as Pench Tree Lodge in Pench, Salban – the Kanha Homestay, Flame of the Forest & Kipling Camp in Kanha, Denwa Backwater Escape in Satpura, Art Ichol in Maihar has resulted in outstanding results and the state has emerged as a model destination in implementation of responsible tourism. Madhya Pradesh tourism has always taken new initiatives to promote the heritage of Madhya Pradesh keeping in mind the responsibility of protecting them.
As one of the initiatives for 2019-2020, the board plans to work forwards responsible tourism by maintaining essential ecological processes and conserving natural heritage and biodiversity of Madhya Pradesh for future generations.

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Concerns over men's reluctance to wear a mask has led to a PR campaign focused on the masculinity of masking up.
An Old Phoenix Coffee Chain With Ties To The Mob? Arizona Republic Pursues Don Bolles' Investigation
Published: Monday, August 5, 2019 - 12:01pm
Updated: Monday, August 5, 2019 - 12:18pm
Arizona Republic reporter Don Bolles died in June 1976, 11 days after his car was blown up in the middle of the day in downtown Phoenix. Soon after, journalists from across the country came to the Valley in an attempt to finish Bolles' work.
Forty-three years later, the Republic found filing cabinets full of Bolles' written and audio archives, and the paper has begun a series on those files.
Richard Ruelas has been heavily involved in the project. His most recent piece includes Bolles' reporting on whether there was a connection between organized crime and Hobo Joe's, a popular Phoenix coffee shop in the 1970s.
Ruelas joined The Show to talk about the project and his most recent story.


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For people who attended Crawford High School or would have attended if they hadn't
moved -- or just have fond memories of San Diego in the '40s, '50s and '60s.
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Quote of the Day - I've been a puppet, a pauper, a pirate, A poet, a pawn and a king; I've been up and down and over and out, And I know one thing; Each time I find myself flat on my face, I pick myself up and get back in the race.
- Dean Kay and Kelly Gordon (written for Frank Sinatra)
Lawyer 2 Lawyer Internet Radio Walks the Plank
The first prosecution of a pirate in the U.S. in 100 years! The world watched closely as Richard Phillips, Captain of the Maersk Alabama cargo ship was rescued, after being held hostage by four Somali pirates. Please join me and my fellow Law.com blogger and co-host Bob Ambrogi, as we welcome piracy law expert, Professor Samuel P. Menefee, Maury Fellow at University of Virgina's Center for Ocean Law and Policy and Attorney Joseph R. McFaul from Sedgwick, Detert, Moran & Arnold LLP and a retired Commander in the U.S. Coast Guard Reserve, to explore the legal issues on the high seas surrounding the Somali pirates, the future of the captured pirate and how this case could be a deterrent in other incidents of piracy.


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Richmond Practice - Vaccinations for round-the-world travellers
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Measles, Mumps and Rubella in children
Middle ear infections: Otitis Media in children
Nutrition in children
Obesity in children
Potty training
Sleeping for babies
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Urinary tract infections in children
Vomiting in children
Weaning your child
Behaviour problems and ADHD in children
Children and Weight
Feeding children and failure to thrive
Headaches in children
Preschool child development and intelligence
Meningitis in children
how to prepare a child for their visit to the doctor
Vaccines side effects
Reflux in Babies
The crying baby
Early ultrasound screening for congenital dislocation of the hip
Pros and cons of giving your baby a dummy
The Developmental Milestones of Your Childâs First Year
Why screen infants for metabolic disorders?
When to consider desensitisation as a treatment option for hay fever?
Use of mobile and interactive media by young children
Outbreak of slap cheek in Richmond
The Developmental Milestones of Your Childâs Second Year
A measles outbreak in London
Do you suspect your child has a food allergy or food intolerance?
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Vaccinations for round-the-world travellers
Are you finally planning the round-the-world trip you have been dreaming of for some time? Vaccinations can be easily forgotten when organising a trip, but you definitely do not want to ruin your trip (or indeed your life) by falling ill with a vaccine-preventable infection. This basic guide can help you decide what to do before you go.
Plan well ahead
It is best to start planning long before you travel for some vaccinations involve a course of two or more injections at specified intervals, before the best possible levels of immunity are attained. You are therefore best place to seek advice and leave plenty of time. For an individual assessment you should visit your GP or a local travel clinic. Ideally, you'll need to make the first appointment for your immunisations and other travel health advice about six to eight weeks before you go.
Recommended resources
Particularly useful are the websites run by the National Travel Health Network and Centre: nathnac.org or the Scottish NHS travel information site: fitfortravel.nhs.uk. They also have up-to-date links to malaria maps and news about current or recent outbreaks of malaria, dengue fever and other dangerous diseases.
Get professional advice
Working out which immunisations you need doesn't just depend on your destination, your doctor will also take into account:
The length of your trip
Whether you're going to be travelling in rural areas or sticking to the resorts
Whether you're planning to work
Which vaccinations you've had in the past
Any medications you are taking
Any allergies you have.
Not all vaccinations are available free on the NHS, even if they are recommended for travel to a certain area.
Common travel vaccinations
First check that all your "regular" UK vaccinations are up to date. These vaccinations give you a good starting point and already cover a wide range of conditions. Most travellers should get vaccinations for Hepatitis A, Hepatitis B and Typhoid, especially if they are travelling for extended periods of time.
Visitors to specific countries often require more vaccinations, such as:
Yellow fever
Japanese Encephalitis
Tick-Borne Encephalitis
Wherever you're going, it's a good idea to make sure your immunisations are recorded on an official certificate – your doctor or travel health centre will usually issue you with a record. This is useful for your own information; as well as knowing what you're protected against (and when you're due for a top-up); you will also be able to show it to any doctor treating you.
Most importantly, many countries require you to have a certificate showing you've been vaccinated against yellow fever before they will let you into the country.
Consult a doctor if:
As soon as you decide where you will be travelling to or eight weeks before you go
If your health is generally fragile
If on return from you trip, symptoms such as a fever or being sick
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we offer a comprehensive travel health assessments for backpackers and others who are travelling around the world. We have most travel vaccines in stock and you can therefore usually be seen for your assessment and travel vaccines on the same day. The centre is a yellow fever accredited clinic. You will be attended too by a doctor in our newly refurbished clinic close to Richmond mainline and underground station. Our doctors have themselves been widely travelled and will look forward to hearing about your travel plans.
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Books help us make connections to our lives, each other and the world around us.
Working at Foote School offers the opportunity to be part of a learning community that values an experiential approach to education as well as autonomy and creativity in the classroom. We are strongly committed to the professional development of our faculty and staff and to remaining at the forefront of best practices in primary and middle school education.
Foote's teachers are truly experts in their fields. They share a commitment to understanding how children learn and to developing age-appropriate curriculum that reflects this knowledge. Our teachers support one another by collaborating across grade levels and departments.
Close relationships among teachers, students and parents cultivate an atmosphere of mutual consideration and respect. We are deeply committed to diversity and to creating an inclusive curriculum and community. We actively encourage applications from candidates with broad and diverse backgrounds and from individuals of all races, nationalities and beliefs.
When first and second graders study humpback whales, they learn how scientists use flukes to identify individual animals—like fingerprints. Each student then designs his or her own unique whale fluke.


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Dear Friends
Finally, I bought the MAC 217 blending brush. It retails at RM92 in Malaysia if I'm not wrong but I got mine from MAC Hollywood. My friend who went to US helped me to get this. So, I got this brush at a slightly cheaper price.
I have used this brush and would like to tell you that this is a very good blending brush. Great for smoky eye and other looks that requires great blending. Although I know how to blend using my finger, using this brush will ensure that my eye lids are treated gently without the unnecessary pulling. This is to prevent wrinkles around the eye areas.
MAC 217 is recommended by most reknown makeup artist. e.g. Lisa Eldridge, the famous celebrity makeup guru & Marlena of Makeup Geek
|See the well blended eye shadow using MAC 217. I did not use eyeliner and mascara, only eye shadow
So, if you would like to make your eye shadow application easier, you can consider getting this brush. It's not cheap but it will make your eye shadow application a lot easier, that's for sure.
My rating: 5/5
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Quality, accomplishment and economy, in that order. These are the reasons I've found it worthwhile to build my life around the do-it-yourself philosophy for home improvements, home building and lots of other things. That said, three decades of experience has convinced me that success also requires more than just good intentions. You need to understand and come to terms with three myths that often prevent great do-it-yourself home improvement plans from ever getting off the ground.
Myth#1: Not Enough Talent
There's a natural mystique that surrounds people who are good with their hands, and it's easy to mistake this for talent. In reality, a knack for laying ceramic tile, shingling a roof or finishing a basement is nothing more than basic knowledge coupled with practice. Being handy around the house is mostly about experience, focus and effort, with natural talent more or less irrelevant. Yes, some people need more practice than others to catch on to manual skills, but that's no reason to give up before you even get started. Effective, easy-to-understand videos are available on disk or online for those who have a hard time learning from books.
Myth#2: Not Enough Time
Even allowing 10 to 12 hours each day for employment and commuting, that still leaves most of us with at least four hours of discretionary time each day to make good things happen around the house. And even if you devoted only half of this time to working towards your home improvement goals, this still gives you more than 10 hours of productive DIY time each week. Trouble often sets in, however, when distractions bleed away all your DIY time. That's where a simple DIY schedule fits in.
What would your professional life be like if you only showed up for work if and when you pleased? Structure is essential to success in your career, and it's the same for do-it-yourself home improvement projects. Shut the TV off, tackle DIY work three evenings a week and it won't be long before you'll see how a small investment of extra effort yields a huge improvement in your life. It's good exercise, too.
Myth#3: Good Tools Cost Too Much
Over the past ten years, more and more cheap, ineffective power tools have appeared on store shelves, and this causes two problems. First, it fools inexperienced homeowners into buying tools that makes success difficult or impossible to achieve. Rock-bottom prices for cheap tools also makes good tools seem more expensive than they really are.
Fact is, inflation-adjusted prices of today's best tools are actually lower than they've ever been in history. The quality of internal tool design also varies enormously between tools with the same specs but different prices. I know because I've taken them apart to see. Besides design differences, the cost of a pro-grade cordless drill, circular saw, impact driver or mitre saw is an even bigger bargain when you consider how quickly these tools pay for themselves when you're saving the $25,$ 30 or $50 after-tax per hour you'll pay for a professional to run them. The world definitely needs professional tradespeople, but there is an alternative when the budget won't allow you to pay for them.
Besides all the technical advantages of the do-it-yourself lifestyle, practical self-reliance is also a very Canadian national quality. More than most other countries of the world, we have a tradition of practical handiness that's worth celebrating. A little confidence, a little time management and a few solid tools make remarkably good things happen.


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2 Ways to Take Care of Your Self During the Holiday Season
The holidays can be hard. They can be especially difficult for people recovering from disordered eating, alcoholism, depression, or anxiety. The intention of this blog is to help you be a bit more fierce with your own self-care and a bit more compassionate with yourself and others. This is not a list to use to beat up on yourself for not doing enough or being imperfect! May it be helpful, useful, and ease some of your suffering during this time.
Try not to let yourself get too Hungry, Angry, Lonely, or Tired. Getting too tired, hungry/hypoglycemic, resentful, or isolating is a recipe for addictive behaviors and/or depression. Imagine yourself to be a little one (this will not be hard for you parents to imagine) who needs regular meals and snacks, regular emotional understanding, and regular sleep. If little ones get too tired/hungry/emotionally not heard, there will be meltdowns. Be a kind parent to yourself. Pack a self-care bag with protein snacks, water, get to bed on time, make plans with friends and/or providers that "get" you so you can feel nourished and grounded. Practice what a friend of mine calls "aggressive self-care."
2. Keep 1 Thing Constant
Choose one thing – morning meditation, weekly support group, your meal plan, sobriety, journaling, daily inspirational reading. Whatever it is, just keep coming back to this.
A Word About Kindness and Self-Compassion
The intention here is to help you be a bit more fierce with your own self-care and a bit more compassionate with yourself and others… not to beat up on yourself for not doing enough or being imperfect. So if you HAVEN'T kept one thing constant, just restart it. And when you notice you haven't kept your thing – whatever your thing is that keeps you grounded and sane – constant (We all fall off the wagon on this. It is part of being included in humanity.), notice with kindness and compassion. Imagine you are a puppy. Gently pick yourself up from the place where you are being unkind to yourself and bring yourself back to the place where you are being kind. Gently bring yourself back to the thing that helps you. Just keep coming back.


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Every picture tells a story...
Jackie Clarke asked if anyone recognised the people in this picture which she took at Gatcombe Park way back in the early 80s - before her son Ant was born and before we knew anything about Agility. The equipment looks pretty antiquated! Here's the story behind the picture from the man who ought to know because he was there, Graham Taylor.
I am near certain the photo was taken Sunday afternoon 17 August 1986 as part of the finale programme to the Barbour British Open, run by HRH Princess Anne and Captain Mark Philips. Robert Andrews is definitely the judge and I reckon the person behind the tyre is Sue Roberts Hamer. The handler could be Brian Elson or maybe Geoff Cove and I was probably glad it wasn't another collie in the ring! The young lady in the fetching hat escapes me.
Seated behind me is my son Luke's Godmother Jan and her other half as well as Robert B (Bartlett) - both of whom, together with Robert A (Andrews), formed the key stalwarts to make this sort of thing run to perfection both here at Gatcombe and at The Royal for The Barbour Knockout Paris Challenge.
1986 was a busy year as we had earlier run the first Jersey Experience over the late May Bank Holiday Weekend with, for the first time ever, Agility on the beach.
I am very pleased to say we are going to repeat the experience later this year some 25 years on.
When asked about the picture, Graham Taylor said, 'I didn't think I had the figure to be on Page 3!
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From Jackie Clarke...
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Historical Preservation Society Meeting
The Public is Invited to Attend (no admittance fee)
When: Thursday, October 27 @ 6:00 pm
Where: Cherokee County Historical Museum
101 East Main Street, Centre, AL
Program : Southern Claims Commission
Presenter: Adet Stephens
This program will shed light on the roll Cherokee County citizens played in the Civil War. Not all citizens of Cherokee County were in favor of succession from the Union. Few were slave holders and did not wish to see the United States torn apart. The families of this County experienced first hand what it meant to have brother fight against brother, father against son, and neighbors against neighbors because of their support of the Union or the Southern causes.
The Historical Preservation Society will be presenting accounts from Southern Claims Commission files of people from Cherokee County who submitted claims. These people remained loyal to the Union and suffered losses when the Union Army foraged throughout the area. You may be surprised to discover some of your ancestors are listed among those who filed claims. A list of names of those from Cherokee County who filed claims will be available to review.


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August 8, 2014
Ok, so this isn't really a useful WANK for a lot of you, because I doubt you'll be doing a lot of gardening here when you're in Korea, but this was something we were really fascinated in and wanted to share with you. Our coffee shop, You Are Here Cafe, is about to open on Saturday, and we're doing our best to make the place look as spiffy as possible.
Going to the flower market was really interesting for us, because it reminds us about things we take for granted. Like, we're functional in Korean, and haven't felt any issues with speaking it for quite a while now, but when we went to the garden there was a world of vocabulary that we were never taught. How the hell do you say "perennial"? Soo Zee didn't even know what it was. She had to explain it to the flower lady and get the term out of her.
Also, we grew up with gardening in our lives, Martina moreso than myself, but we're used to lawns and lawnmowers, digging up dirt, pulling up weeds, and all that. In Korea, though, majority of people don't own lawns. Most people live in apartments. It makes me wonder how a flower market can stay in business for so long, with so few people to be able to plant things.
Another thing that shocked us about gardening in Korea (yes, I know this is a weird topic that you'll probably never have to experience but listen to our stories!!!) is when we bought different seeds for our garden. We bought some sunflower seeds, for example. We got a packet of them. When we opened up the packet, you know how many seeds were in it? Two. GOTDAMN TWO SEEDS. 2. The number 2. It's 1 bigger than 1. They sold us two freaking seeds! Why the hell do you need to make a package for TWO SEEDS?!?! We spoke with Soo Zee about it afterwards and it seems this is common practice, selling seeds by the couples. What the hell?!
Anyhow, if you're coming on Saturday, our garden isn't fully done yet. We're still planting some more things there. We realized that the previous owners let everything overgrow, and a lot of it was rotting, so we had to prune down a lot, unfortunately. We'll grow it back, bigger, healthier, stronger.
Question, though: we have no idea how many of you are coming on Saturday. If you are coming, please fill out this form below. And by fill out the form, I mean click the little button saying you're going. We're just curious. We have no idea. We're expecting ten of you to show up. Gracie and Unicornsgalaxy. We better see both of you there!
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Also, tomorrow on Reddit we're gonna do an AMA from our coffee shop, so we'd love to see you there 12PM, Korean time. We can't do a LiveChat there, YET, so we figured a LiveChat with text would be an interesting alternative :D
Otherwise, we've got some extra scenes from this week's video as well, if you're interested :D
And lastly, I'm surprised we're even publishing videos with all the craziness that's happening. Today was a full day of labor. Tomorrow we've got another gigantic day, and Saturday's the grand opening! But we've got another video Saturday as well, so for those of you outside of Korea we're not neglecting uuuuuuuu! Click on the button below so you won't miss out on all the fun :D
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Roan (noun): A realm of color, pattern, and texture that is never the same, never dulls, and has unlimited possibility.
Richmond peeps, have you been to Roan in Carytown? If you haven't, you need to get there. From one of a kind dresses for a special occasion to the perfect outfit for a drink at Can Can with friends, this boutique has got you covered. The eye for impeccable style and design that Hank, the owner/buyer, has is out of this world. As if the shopping experience that Hank and his team have created at Roan isn't enough, do you see this Roksanda dress I am wearing? Hank picked it out for me! I am an all-black-everything kinda girl and this dress fulfills my all-black needs with just the right amount of white peaking from the back of it.


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Personal Service for Senior Moves
Champion Movers are proud to serve our senior community. We understand how overwhelming, sensitive and even, traumatic it can be when moving out of a large family home or into a new senior community. And for that reason, we make this significant transition as smooth and comfortable as possible.
Whether you're downsizing to a single-family residence or simply remodeling your home and moving into temporary housing, we customize each service to every individual and family's needs. Leave it to us to coordinate, supervise and execute any packing, unpacking, and relocation of your belongings at your convenience. Our tailored services have helped the senior community all over the Las Vegas valley from senior apartments to assisted living communities.
We do this every day and take pride in this specific service. We like to work closely with both adult children and their parents so we can assure your family will be treated just like our very own.
Downsizing Services
We appreciate how much possessions and items can accumulate for someone who has lived life to the fullest. From years of precious mementos, keepsakes and traditions, we understand how sensitive this can be for our seniors. At Champion Movers, we like to help our seniors and their families to honor their past but embrace their future at the same time.
Let us help you relieve you of any stress this transition can have and get you started in welcoming the new next phase of your life.
Allow us to declutter, sort and organize, and relocate any unwanted furniture, appliances or other objects. Our eco-friendly disposal service does our very best to recycle or donate any materials or items. We like to think of downsizing as "rightsizing," that way you can live your new life in a clutter-free living space.CALL TODAY (702) 876.2343


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Center for Computing Research (CCR)
Center for Computing Research
The CCR collaborates on innovations in tool development, component development, and scalable algorithm research with partners and customers around the world through open source projects. Current software projects focus on enabling technologies for scientific computing in areas such as machine learning, graph algorithms, cognitive modeling, visualization, optimization, large-scale multi-physics simulation, HPC miniapplications, HPC system simulation and HPC system software.
Before a calculation can be performed on a parallel computer, it must first be decomposed into tasks which are assigned to different processors. Efficient use of the machine requires that each processor have about the same amount of work to do and that the quantity of interprocessor communication is kept small. Finding an optimal decomposition is provably hard, but due to its practical importance, a great deal of effort has been devoted to developing heuristics for this problem.
The decomposition problem can be addressed in terms of graph partitioning. Rob Leland and I have developed a variety of algorithms for graph partitioning and implemented them into a package we call Chaco. The code is being used at most of the major parallel computing centers around the world to simplify the development of parallel applications, and to ensure that high performance is obtained. Chaco has contributed to a wide variety of computational studies including investigation of the molecular structure of liquid crystals, evaluating the design of a chemical vapor deposition reactor and modeling automobile collisions.
The algorithms developed for Chaco have also been successfully applied to a number of problems which have nothing to do with parallel computing. These include the determination of genomic sequences (a critical part of the Human Genome Project), the design of space-efficient circuit placements, organization of databases for efficient retrieval, and ordering of sparse matrices for efficient factorization. The code can also be used more generally to identify data locality.
Chaco contains a wide variety of algorithms and options, many of which were invented by the authors. Some of the algorithms exploit the geometry of the mesh, others its local connectivity or its global structure as captured by eigenvectors of a related matrix. These methods can be mixed and matched in several ways, and combinations often prove to be more effective than any single technique in isolation. All these algorithms are accessed via a simple user interface, or a call from other software. Innovations in Chaco include
- Development of multilevel graph partitioning. This widely imitated approach has become the premiere algorithm combining very high quality with short calculation times.
- Extension of spectral partitioning to enable the use of 2 or 3 Laplacian eigenvectors to quadrisect of octasect a graph.
- Highly efficient and robust eigensolvers for use with spectral graph algorithms.
- Generalization of the Kernighan-Lin/Fiduccia-Mattheyses algorithm to handle weighted graphs, arbitrary number of sets and lazy initiation.
- Development of skewed partitioning to improve the mapping of a graph onto a target parallel architecture.
- Various post-processing options to improve partitions in a number of ways.
Chaco-1.0 was released in 1993 and the substantially enhanced Chaco-2.0 appeared in October 1995. The current version of the code is available under a GNU open source license, and can be obtained here. After gunzipping and untarring the code, you will find three subdirectories. The first subdirectory, "doc", contains several postscript files, including the important "Users_Guide.ps". We encourage you to print out and read this guide (or at least the quick overview section and the introduction) before making a serious effort to use the code. The second subdirectory, "code", contains the program makefile and various subdirectories with the actual source code. The makefile places the executable module (called "chaco") in the third subdirectory, "exec". The "exec" subdirectory also contains several sample input files to get you started.
Associated Projects: Graph Partitioning and Load BalancingSoftware downloads
Contact: Hendrickson, Bruce A., email@example.com
CIME is the Common Infrastructure for Modelling the Earth. It is the full-featured software engineering system for global Earth system or climate models. CIME is a set Python scripts configured with XML data files as well as Fortran soure code, and owns the model configuration, build system, test harness, test suites, portability to many specific HPC platforms, input data set management, results archiving.CIME is jointly developed by NCAR, Sandia, and Argonne, and is the software engineering system for several important climate/weather models: E3SM, CESM, and UFS.
Associated Projects: E3SM - Energy Exascale Earth System Model
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Contact: Foucar, James G., email@example.com
Compadre Toolkit
The Compadre Toolkit provides a performance portable solution for the parallel evaluation of computationally dense kernels. The toolkit specifically targets the Generalized Moving Least Squares (GMLS) approach, which requires the inversion of small dense matrices. The result is a set of weights that provide the information needed for remap or entries that constitute the rows of some globally sparse matrix.
This toolkit focuses on the 'on-node' aspects of meshless PDE solution and remap, namely the parallel construction of small dense matrices and their inversion. What it does not provide is the tools for managing fields, inverting globally sparse matrices, or neighbor search that requires orchestration over many MPI processes. This toolkit is designed to be easily dropped-in to an existing MPI (or serial) based framework for PDE solution or remap, with minimal dependencies (Kokkos and either Cuda Toolkit or LAPACK).
Associated Projects: Kokkos
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Contact: Paul Kuberry, email@example.com
CrossSim is a crossbar simulator designed to model resistive memory crossbars for both neuromorphic computing and (in a future release) digital memories. It provides a clean python API so that different algorithms can be built upon crossbars while modeling realistic device properties and variability. The crossbar can be modeled using multiple fast approximate numerical models including both analytic noise models as well as experimentally derived lookup tables. A slower, but more accurate circuit simulation of the devices using the parallel spice simulator Xyce is also being developed and will be included in a future release.
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Contact: Sapan Agarwal, email@example.com
D2T - Doubly Distributed Transactions
Typical distributed transactions are a single client and multiple servers. For the supercomputing simulations, we have multiple clients to multiple servers when attempting to do atomic actions, hence doubly distributed transactions.
This project created a library that can handle scalably offering a two-phase commit style transaction for both storage oriented operations and also for more complex system operations like reconfiguring or redeploying services as atomic operations. The code has been released and is hosted at github.
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Contact: lofstead, Jay, firstname.lastname@example.com
Dakota: Optimization and Uncertainty Quantification Algorithms for Design Exploration and Simulation Credibility.
The Dakota toolkit provides a flexible, extensible interface between analysis codes and iterative systems analysis methods. Dakota contains algorithms for:
· optimization with gradient and nongradient-based methods;
· uncertainty quantification with sampling, reliability, stochastic expansion, and epistemic methods;
· parameter estimation with nonlinear least squares methods; and
· sensitivity/variance analysis with design of experiments and parameter study methods.
These capabilities may be used on their own or as components within advanced strategies such as hybrid optimization, surrogate-based optimization, mixed integer nonlinear programming, or optimization under uncertainty.
Associated Projects: Albany ALEGRA CASL FASTMath Kokkos Trilinos
Contact: Adams, Brian M., email@example.com
DGM provides a software framework for forward modeling and optimization of partial differential equations using the discontinuous Galerkin method (DGM). Examples are provided for solution to generic Navier-Stokes (with and without subgrid-scale turbulence models), Euler, Burgers, Poisson, Helmholtz, Darcy, linear transport, and Advection Diffusion equations.
DGM supports a discontinuous Galerkin discretization in space using mixed nodal and modal representations with a variety of time advancement methods. Includes modeling capabilities for boundary conditions, source terms, and material models with the ability to solve optimization problems for parameters describing each. Also includes the ability to perform variational multiscale modeling for turbulence simulation.
For more information, send email to contact listed below.
Contact: Collis, Samuel Scott, firstname.lastname@example.com
Dynamic is a simple software tool, written in Python 3, for simulating networks of continuous dynamic variables linked by interaction Hamiltonians.
It was used to generate the results shown in the "Chaotic Logic" presentation at the ICRC 2016 conference; the concept for that work was described in the associated paper.
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Contact: Frank, Michael P (Mike), email@example.com
E3SM is an Earth System Model being developed by the DOE Energy Exascale Earth System Model (E3SM) project. E3SM Version 1 is scheduled to be released in 2018. The E3SM atmosphere model runs with the spectral element dynamical core from HOMME, upgraded to include new aerosol and cloud physics and improved convection and treatment of the pressure gradient term, and a formulation for elevation classes to better handle atmosphere and land processes more realistically in the vicinity of topography. The E3SM Land Model (ALM) is based on Community Land Model (CLM) version 4.5 updated to include a full suite of new biochemistry and VIC hydrology and dynamic land units and extensions to couple to land ice sheets. The E3SM ocean, sea ice and land ice components will be built on the MPAS framework.
Associated Projects: Aeras: A Next Generation Global Atmosphere Model Albany Coupling Approaches for Next Generation Architectures (CANGA) E3SM - Energy Exascale Earth System Model FASTMath Kokkos
Contact: Taylor, Mark A., firstname.lastname@example.com
EMPRESS - Metadata management for scientific simulations
With the growth of simulation data, finding relevant data within the sea of raw data can be a much more daunting task than running the simulation at scale in the first place. EMPRESS provides a separate metadata system allowing storing detailed run information as well as user-defined at runtime different data characteristics and associate those characteristics with a variable, a timestep, or run.
It has been published at PDSW-DISCS @ SC17 and SC18 and is available as open source on github.com
Associated Projects: SIRIUS: Science-driven Data Management for Multi-tiered Storage
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Contact: Jay Lofstead, email@example.com
EMPRESS metadata management system
Custom metadata management for scientific applications
Contact: Lofstead, Gerald Fredrick (Jay), firstname.lastname@example.com
Genten: Software for Generalized Tensor Decompositions
Tensors, or multidimensional arrays, are a powerful mathematical means of describing multiway data. This software provides computational means for decomposing or approximating a given tensor in terms of smaller tensors of lower dimension, focusing on decomposition of large, sparse tensors. These techniques have applications in many scientific areas, including signal processing, linear algebra, computer vision, numerical analysis, data mining, graph analysis, neuroscience and more. The software is designed to take advantage of parallelism present in emerging computer architectures such has multi-core CPUs, many-core accelerators such as the Intel Xeon Phi, and computation-oriented GPUs to enable efficient processing of large tensors.
Contact: Phipps, Eric T., firstname.lastname@example.com
The Image Composition Engine for Tiles (IceT) is a high-performance sort-last parallel rendering library. In addition to providing accelerated rendering for a standard display, IceT provides the unique ability to generate images for tiled displays. The overall resolution of the display may be several times larger than any viewport that may be rendered by a single machine.
IceT is currently available for use in large scale, high performance visualization and graphics applications. It is used in multiple production products like ParaView and VisIt.
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Contact: Moreland, Kenneth D. (Ken), firstname.lastname@example.com
Kitten Lightweight Kernel
Kitten is a current-generation lightweight kernel (LWK) compute node operating system designed for large-scale parallel computing systems. Kitten is the latest in a long line of successful LWKs, including SUNMOS, Puma, Cougar, and Catamount. Kitten distinguishes itself from these prior LWKs by providing a Linux-compatible user environment, a more modern and extendable open-source codebase, and a virtual machine monitor capability via Palacios that allows full-featured guest operating systems to be loaded on-demand.
Associated Projects: Kitten Lightweight Kernel
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Contact: Pedretti, Kevin, firstname.lastname@example.com
Modern high performance computing (HPC) nodes have diverse and heterogeneous types of cores and memory. For applications and domain-specific libraries/languages to scale, port, and perform well on these next generation architectures, their on-node algorithms must be re-engineered for thread scalability and performance portability. The Kokkos programming model and C++ library implementation helps HPC applications and domain libraries implement intra-node thread-scalable algorithms that are performance portable across diverse manycore architectures such as multicore CPUs, Intel Xeon Phi, NVIDIA GPU, and AMD GPU.
Associated Projects: Aeras: A Next Generation Global Atmosphere Model Albany E3SM - Energy Exascale Earth System Model Kokkos Mantevo The Extreme-Scale Scientific Software Stack (E4S) Trilinos
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Contact: Trott, Christian Robert, email@example.com
MR-MPI is an open-source implementation of MapReduce written for distributed-memory parallel machines on top of standard MPI message passing.
MapReduce is the programming paradigm, popularized by Google, which is widely used for processing large data sets in parallel. Its salient feature is that if a task can be formulated as a MapReduce, the user can perform it in parallel without writing any parallel code. Instead the user writes serial functions (maps and reduces) which operate on portions of the data set independently. The data-movement and other necessary parallel operations can be performed in an application-independent fashion, in this case by the MR-MPI library.
The MR-MPI library was developed to solve informatics problems on traditional distributed-memory parallel computers. It includes C++ and C interfaces callable from most hi-level languages, and also a Python wrapper and our own OINK scripting wrapper, which can be used to develop and chain MapReduce operations together. MR-MPI and OINK are open-source codes, distributed freely under the terms of the modified Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD) license.
Contact: Plimpton, Steven J., email@example.com
Mesh Quality Improvement Toolkit
MESQUITE is a linkable software library that applies a variety of node-movement algorithms to improve the quality and/or adapt a given mesh. Mesquite uses advanced smoothing and optimization to:
Mesquite improves surface or volume meshes which are structured, unstructured, hybrid, or non-conformal. A variety of element types are permitted. Mesquite is designed to be as efficient as possible so that large meshes can be improved.
Associated Projects: FASTMath Mesquite Trilinos
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Contact: Mitchell, Scott A., email@example.com
MultiThreaded Graph Library (MTGL)
The MTGL is a generic graph library in the Boost style that does not rely on Boost. It runs on multicore machines via Qthreads or OpenMP, and also on the Cray XMT supercomputer. We are currently developing a new version based upon Kokkos that will leverage both multi-core and GPU-accelerated compute nodes, but we do not have a release yet.
Associated Projects: Kokkos
Contact: Berry, Jonathan, email@example.com
Omega h
Omega_h is a C++ library that implements tetrahedron and triangle mesh adaptativity, with a focus on scalable HPC performance using (optionally) MPI, OpenMP, or CUDA. It is intended to provided adaptive functionality to existing simulation codes. Mesh adaptivity allows one to minimize both discretization error and number of degrees of freedom live during the simulation, as well as enabling moving object and evolving geometry simulations. Omega_h will do this for you in a way that is fast, memory-efficient, and portable across many different architectures.
Associated Projects: Albany FASTMath Kokkos Trilinos
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Contact: Ibanez, Daniel Alejandro (Dan), firstname.lastname@example.com
ParaView is an open-source, multi-platform data analysis and visualization application. ParaView users can quickly build visualizations to analyze their data using qualitative and quantitative techniques. The data exploration can be done interactively in 3D or programmatically using ParaView's batch processing capabilities.
ParaView was developed to analyze extremely large datasets using distributed memory computing resources. It can be run on supercomputers to analyze datasets of exascale size as well as on laptops for smaller data.
ParaView is maintained by Kitware, Inc. Sandia collaborates with Kitware to address our large-scale data analysis and visualization needs through ParaView.
Associated Projects: XVis
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Contact: Moreland, Kenneth D. (Ken), email@example.com
Peridigm is Sandia's primary open-source computational peridynamics code. It is a massively-parallel simulation code for implicit and explicit multi-physics simulations centering on solid mechanics and material failure. Peridigm is a C++ code utilizing foundational software components from Sandia's Trilinos project and is fully compatible with the Cubit mesh generator and Paraview visualization codes.
Associated Projects: Albany
Contact: Littlewood, David John, email@example.com
Poblano Toolbox
Poblano is a Matlab toolbox of large-scale algorithms for unconstrained nonlinear optimization problems. The algorithms in Poblano require only first-order derivative information (e.g., gradients for scalar-valued objective functions), and therefore can scale to very large problems. The driving application for Poblano development has been tensor decompositions in data analysis applications (bibliometric analysis, social network analysis, chemometrics, etc.).
Poblano optimizers find local minimizers of scalar-valued objective functions taking vector inputs. The gradient (i.e., first derivative) of the objective function is required for all Poblano optimizers. The optimizers converge to a stationary point where the gradient is approximately zero. A line search satisfying the strong Wolfe conditions is used to guarantee global convergence of the Poblano optimizers. The optimization methods in Poblano include several nonlinear conjugate gradient methods (Fletcher-Reeves, Polak-Ribiere, Hestenes-Stiefel), a limited-memory quasi-Newton method using BFGS updates to approximate second-order derivative information, and a truncated Newton method using finite differences to approximate second-order derivative information.
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Contact: Dunlavy, Daniel, firstname.lastname@example.com
Portals 4
Portals is a message passing interface intended to allow scalable, high-performance network communication between nodes of a parallel computing system. Portals is designed to operate on scales ranging from a small number of commodity desktops connected via Ethernet to massively parallel platforms connected with custom designed networks.
Portals attempts to provide a cohesive set of building blocks with which a wide variety of upper layer protocols (such as MPI, SHMEM, or UPC) may be built, while maintaining high performance and scalability. Many interfaces today either provide a simple mapping to hardware which may not be conducive to building upper layer protocols (InfiniBand/Open Fabrics Enterprise Distribution) or which are only a good fit for a subset of upper layer protocols (PSM, UCX).
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Contact: Grant, Ryan, firstname.lastname@example.com
Prove-It uses a powerful yet simple approach to theorem-proving. It is not designed with automation as the primary goal. The primary goal is flexibility in order to be able to follow, ideally, any valid and complete (indivisible) chain of reasoning. To that end, users can write additional Python scripts to make their own mathematical operations and LaTeX formatting rules. Axioms are statements that are taken to be true without proof. They can be added by the user at will in order to define their new mathematical objects and operations. Users can also add theorems that are to be proven. Theorems may be proven in any order. Theorem proofs are constructed in Jupyter notebooks (interactive Python sessions in a web browser). These notebooks render LaTeX-formatted mathematical expressions inline. Proofs are constructed by invoking axioms and other theorems and employing fundamental derivation steps (modus ponens, hypothetical reasoning, specialization, generalization, or axiom elimination). Axioms and theorems may be invoked indirectly via convenience methods or automation (methods that are automatically invoked when attempting to prove something or as side-effects when something is proven). Theorem proofs and their axiom/theorem dependencies are stored a kind of database (filesystem based). This database is used to prevent circular logic. It also allows users to track axioms and unproven theorems required by any particular proof. Convenience methods and automation tools may be added which utilize new theorems and aid future proofs. Mathematical objects and operations, axioms, and theorems are organized into built-in and user-defined packages.
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Contact: Witzel, Wayne, firstname.lastname@example.com
pyGSTi is an open-source software for modeling and characterizing noisy quantum information processors (QIPs), i.e., systems of one or more qubits. For more information and to download the code see: http://www.pygsti.info/ .
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Contact: Erik Nielsen, email@example.com
Source code is available on GitHub as follows:
1. Install Git on your machine from github.com 2. Initialize the target directory with "git init" 3. Download the software using "git pull git://github.com/dwbarne/PYLOTDB" 4. Read README_first.rtf file using Microsoft Word and follow directions.
PYLOTDB software is completely open source. PYLOTDB consists of two codes, PylotDB and Co-PylotDB. The software allows users to access either local or remote MySQL servers and easily display table data in an intuitive user-friendly GUI format. In PylotDB, data can be filtered and table columns are indexed with radiobuttons and checkboxes so data can be easily selected for plotting or statistical analysis. Plotting capability includes X-Y, semi-log, log-log, Kiviat (radar charts), scatter, and scatter with polynomial curve fits of the data. Entire databases, selected databases, or selected tables in selected databases can be backed up and restored as desired. Interfaces are provided for individual entry edits and additions.
PylotDB's companion software Co-PylotDB is used to send data files to a user-selected database table. If data files are in YAML format, PylotDB can then automatically extract each entry in the file, expand the database table with new fields with names taken from the YAML entries, and insert the data in those fields for plotting and analysis. This is a tremendous time saver for analysts. This allows the cycle of "data capture to storage to analysis" to be completed in a matter of minutes.
Another powerful feature of PylotDB is the storage buffer where selected data from any table on any server can be stored and mathematically combined to generate new data not currently in any accessed table. The new data can then be plotted along with other data from the currently displayed table. This allows the user to generate desired data on the fly without the necessity of modifying any of the stored database tables.
PYLOTDB's dependencies include matplotlib, numpy, MySQLdb, Python MegaWidgets (Pmw), and YAML. All of these dependencies are included in the download for Windows machines only. They can easily be found on the web for Mac or Linux machines.
Sample databases are also included to help users get up to speed quickly.
This software is being used at Sandia National Laboratories for analyzing results from our computer performance modeling analysis, but these codes can be used for any type of analysis where database storage and analysis is desired.
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Contact: Simon Hammond, firstname.lastname@example.com
Pyomo is a Python-based open-source software package that supports a diverse set of capabilities for formulating, solving, and analyzing optimization models.
A core capability of Pyomo is modeling structured optimization applications. The Pyomo software package can be used to define general symbolic problems, create specific problem instances, and solve these instances using standard commercial and open-source solvers. Pyomo's modeling objects are embedded within a full-featured high-level programming language with a rich set of supporting libraries that distinguishes it from other algebraic modeling languages such as AMPL, AIMMS and GAMS.
Pyomo supports a wide range of problem types, including:
- Linear programming
- Quadratic programming
- Nonlinear programming
- Mixed-integer linear programming
- Mixed-integer quadratic programming
- Mixed-integer nonlinear programming
- Mixed-integer stochastic programming
- Generalized disjunctive programming
- Differential algebraic equations
- Bilevel programming
- Mathematical programming with equilibrium constraints
Pyomo also supports iterative analysis and scripting within a full-featured programming language providing an effective framework for developing high-level optimization and analysis tools.
Associated Projects: Institute for the Design of Advanced Energy Systems (IDAES)
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Contact: Hart, William E., email@example.com
The Qthreads API is designed to make using large numbers of threads convenient and easy, and to allow portable access to threading constructs used in massively parallel shared memory environments. The API maps well to both MTA-style threading and PIM-style threading, and we provide an implementation of this interface in both a standard SMP context as well as the SST context. The qthreads API provides access to full/empty-bit (FEB) semantics, where every word of memory can be marked either full or empty, and a thread can wait for any word to attain either state.
Associated Projects: Kokkos
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Contact: Stark, Dylan, email@example.com
Rapid Optimization Library (ROL)
Rapid Optimization Library (ROL) is a C++ package for large-scale optimization. It is used for the solution of optimal design, optimal control and inverse problems in large-scale engineering applications. Other uses include mesh optimization and image processing.
Associated Projects: Kokkos Trilinos
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Contact: Denis Ridzal, firstname.lastname@example.com
SmartBlock reusable workflow components
SmartBlock offers a way to compose workflow glue components using generic functionality rather than having to write that code directly. The initial release has examples of a few different operators and how to compose them for different applications and data formats.
The underlying transport technology is ADIOS + FlexPath, but could be replaced with any other transport mechanism, such as Mercury or CCA.
Associated Projects: Decaf - High-Performance Decoupling of Tightly Coupled Data Flows
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Contact: Lofstead, Jay, email@example.com
SparTen provides capabilities for computing reduced-dimension representations of sparse multidimensional count value data. The software consists of the data decompositions methods described in published journal papers. These decomposition methods consist of several numerical optimization methods (one based on a multiplicative update iterative approach, one based on quasi-Newton optimization, and one based on damped Newton optimization) for fitting the input data to a reduced-dimension model of the data with the lowest amount of error. The software also consists of generalized computation that leverages Kokkos to compute the reduced-data representations on multiple computer architectures, including multicore and GPU systems.
Associated Projects: Kokkos
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Contact: Dunlavy, Daniel, firstname.lastname@example.com
Stitch 1.0
Progressive data storage IO library
Contact: Lofstead, Gerald Fredrick (Jay), firstname.lastname@example.com
Toyplot creates beautiful interactive graphics that use web technologies- HTML, SVG, and Javascript- as their primary output medium, to explore how a fresh "web-first" approach to rendering can change the interface, interactions, and expectations for scientific figures.
What began as a quick workaround to reduce the size of animated figures in Jupyter notebooks quickly grew into Toyplot, "the kid-sized plotting toolkit with grownup-sized goals". In a nutshell, we think that scientists and engineers should expect more from their plots, from explicit support for reproducibility and open science to greater clarity and better aesthetics.
We especially feel that, in an age of ubiquitous electronic media and the web, it makes little sense to publish using media (like PDF) designed to mimic the limitations of static paper. Toyplot embraces the standards of the internet - SVG, HTML, and Javascript - as its primary medium, so we can make useful new interactions part of the everyday experiences of data graphic users. Because we're passionate about publishing and sharing results, Toyplot graphics are completely self-contained and embeddable, without the need for a server. All of the Toyplot graphics you will see in this documentation are live and interactive, despite the fact that they were created offline in a Jupyter notebook and passed through several publishing steps on the way to becoming our documentation. Of course, we provide backends to publish Toyplot figures to legacy formats including PNG, PDF, Encapsulated Postscript, and MP4.
With most toolkits, interactivity means throwaway features like pan-and-zoom. For Toyplot, we're exploring simple-but-effective ideas to address the questions a colleague might ask when viewing a graphic in the real world: "What's the value at this weird peak?" "Where do those two series cross?" "Can I get a copy of the data?" We're working on efficient animation that doesn't compromise the quality of your graphic with compression artifacts; and interactive data cursors that display quantities of interest and descriptive statistics just by hovering the mouse. And since the raw data is already implicitly embedded in a graphic, why not support reproducibility by making it easy to export, so the viewer can work with it themselves? That's why Toyplot has a context menu to export raw data from a figure in CSV format.
Last but definitely not least: Toyplot fully embraces principles and best practices for clarity and aesthetics in data graphics that are well-established by the visualization community, yet sadly lacking in contemporary plotting libraries. Toyplot has beautiful color palettes and sensible default styling that minimize chartjunk and maximize data ink out of the box, not as afterthoughts or addons.
Contact: Tim Shead, firstname.lastname@example.com
The Trilinos Project is an effort to develop algorithms and enabling technologies within an object-oriented software framework for the solution of large-scale, complex multi-physics engineering and scientific problems. A unique design feature of Trilinos is its focus on packages.
Associated Projects: Aeras: A Next Generation Global Atmosphere Model Albany FASTMath HPC Resource Allocation IDEAS Kokkos Mesquite The Extreme-Scale Scientific Softare Development Kit (xSDK) The Extreme-Scale Scientific Software Stack (E4S) Trilinos Zoltan
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Contact: Heroux, Michael A., firstname.lastname@example.com
One of the biggest recent changes in high-performance computing is the increasing use of accelerators. Accelerators contain processing cores that independently are inferior to a core in a typical CPU, but these cores are replicated and grouped such that their aggregate execution provides a very high computation rate at a much lower power. Current and future CPU processors also require much more explicit parallelism. Each successive version of the hardware packs more cores into each processor, and technologies like hyperthreading and vector operations require even more parallel processing to leverage each core's full potential.
VTK-m is a toolkit of scientific visualization algorithms for emerging processor architectures. VTK-m supports the fine-grained concurrency for data analysis and visualization algorithms required to drive extreme scale computing by providing abstract models for data and execution that can be applied to a variety of algorithms across many different processor architectures.
Associated Projects: Kokkos The Extreme-Scale Scientific Software Stack (E4S) XVis
Contact: Moreland, Kenneth D. (Ken), email@example.com
Zoltan is a toolkit of parallel algorithms for dynamic load balancing, geometric and hypergraph-based partitioning, graph coloring, matrix ordering, and distributed directories.
Zoltan is open-source software, distributed both as part of the Trilinos solver framework and as a stand-alone toolkit.
Associated Projects: Combinatorial Scientific Computing FASTMath HPC Resource Allocation Kokkos Parallel Scientific Computing The Extreme-Scale Scientific Software Stack (E4S) Zoltan
Contact: Devine, Karen D., email@example.com


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Yesterday I spoke with Professor Mark Anthony Neal about the cultural aspects of protest. Asked about the relationship between music and civil unrest, Neal argued that the climate of today's music industry makes it difficult for musicians with a political message to have a major impact on social movements.
"[This] is not necessarily a critique of them, but this is a generation of artists that are built around building brands. Brand can be controversial, just think about Kanye in this context, but your brand can't be political in that kind of way. The political brand is seen as just that: a political brand. It doesn't cross over."
But last night, the tide changed when 'I Am Mike Brown,' penned and performed by G.A.G.E., leaked online. Unlike a Kanye West, known for his controversial commentary on social and political discourse, G.A.G.E. isn't as famous, and is an unlikely character in an ongoing fight to understand Ferguson — and other instances like it. But he may be the voice we need to revamp political messaging in popular music.
"They let Zimmerman off, this cop ain't learn from Trayvon.I'm just sitting here dropping a little tear and knowledge,because Mike Brown didn't even live to see a day of college. He would have started soon, now there's an empty seat in class. All because of these demons hiding behind a badge."
Featuring sound bites from Brown's distraught mother, it's a reflective song with the potential to reintroduce political messaging to national radio audiences. I talked to the rapper about the origins of the song and its overwhelmingly positive perception.
What inspired you to write this song at this particular moment? Why not after Trayvon or Oscar Grant? We actually did a video for Trayvon Martin; we directed a video for some other artists. And when Travyon was murdered it seemed like everybody was jumping on it, and making songs and posting on it. I never want to feel like I'm doing it just to get some shine or some light. We didn't put it on iTunes or anything; we're not trying to make money off of it. Soon we'll open a link so people can donate to the family. But as of right now, I'm not trying to get any money off of anybody. I really just felt the story. I am really Mike Brown. I walk these streets. I get harassed by police at least once a week. I just felt it so much.
When I heard his mother talking about it, I really came to tears. I really wasn't even going to release the song. A friend of mine actually leaked it. I was just going to vent that day. I recorded it in my house to vent, and I didn't know it was going to get the response it was going to get.
Let's talk about the popularity of the song. Usually songs with lyrics like these don't get radio time, but this song is gaining momentum. On the part of the radio stations, do you think there's a genuine interest to get this message out there, or are folks just capitalizing on a current event?I actually have someone in the radio station who fought for this song. People were turning the radio stations down. Program directors and everything were turning it down. So these actual hosts went around their producers and program directors. I just think a lot of radio stations are tired of the same music that keeps coming out with no message. Everyone is reiterating the same thing — saying the same things, talking about the same subjects. This was a light to a lot of djs and radio shows that can say, "Ok, we actually have some music that we can play with some content and a message, so let's run this." I think a lot of people are affected by this. A lot of these radio station hosts have kids; they have a Mike Brown at home. That's why I put it out: I am Mike Brown. We all are Mike Brown in some way.
I just think a lot of radio stations are tired of the same music that keeps coming out with no message
This is not a race thing. It's a power thing. These police get these badges and it's a certain power it gives them. A lot of people are taking it as a race thing, but to me, I don't take it as that.
To play devil's advocate, you say in the song and just now that it's not a race thing, it's not a black and white thing, but about abusing the law. Do you think those two ideas are mutually exclusive? The two things are very much related. It does definitely tie in because people characterize African Americans as dangerous. But there have been white kids killed by the police. It has happened. Many Hispanics are killed by police officers. So I do believe this is a race thing to an extent, but I didn't want to go off that, because I want this song to reach white people, Hispanics, Asians — wherever you're from. I didn't want it to feel like this is a black power song. We need change in every community. This is out of control. When Mike Brown was slain, I'm sure somewhere in St. Louis a kid was kidnapped, or molested, or raped. There are so many more crime areas to be focused on, instead of kids in these communities who are just walking down the street.
The line that stood out to me was "We gotta stop rioting in these streets. We ain't doing nothing but proving we animals to police." Historically rioting is the sign of being completely fed up and disillusioned with an establishment meant to oppress people of color. If not rioting, how would you encourage people to show their outrage? Go to these rallies. Write to your officials. You have to vote. People just think, "Ok, the presidential election is coming up, I need to vote for this." There are people in smaller places who run for mayor and governor, and positions that can help us pass the message. In my honest opinion, when I saw the rioting, I didn't see people fighting for a cause. I saw people running into stores selling weed. I could tell people had ulterior motives. It wasn't like they were rioting at police stations. They're rioting at companies that also have families and Mike Browns. The rallies, the marches, the candle vigils, all of that was part of the cause. When you're destroying properties, all you're doing is proving to these people that we're animals, breaking into stores in our own communities. Eventually, somebody is going to have to clean that up, and now the community looks even more dirty and torn down. There's no point in rioting; that is not going to solve anything. It won't bring Mike Brown back. It won't make the police apologize for killing Mike Brown. It's not going to do anything but have more police out, armies, SWAT, shooting these people with rubber bullets in the face, and tear gassing people.
So with this platform that you have now and that you're obviously going to build in the next few days, what is your next move? Now my main objective is to get celebrities involved. They will help raise this money. People listen to these celebrities; people don't know me from a can of paint. Many people don't know that I was an artist signed to Dr. Dre for years. I'm just the guy who had a message to get across. If we get some of these celebrities involved, we can actually raise money to get to these families. It costs money to bury people. I buried half of my family; it costs so much money. I'm pretty sure they don't have this assistance, so we have to do something.


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The jury, in my view, is still out on man-made climate change. Is our 10,000-year trend to warmer temperatures—with a cooler blip here and there—natural and inevitable, or has the emergence of mankind as the dominant influence on our planet been the recent cause of the warming, and can it be slowed or reversed?
Governments around the world are starting to bet hundreds of billions of dollars that global warming is heavily—perhaps overwhelmingly—caused by our lifestyle choices and can be slowed or maybe even reversed. Yet there remains a troubling number of naysayers—called "deniers" by the Green community to marginalize, and even demonize, them.
I remain agnostic with a bias towards the naysayers. I'm just not convinced. I am of the belief that the warming trend is inevitable regardless of any actions we are capable of taking.
So far, however, I've thought that actions to prevent warming of our atmosphere—however futile they may be—are good for they will help clean up pollution, which I see as a serious threat to our health and quality of life. I'm all for clean water and clean air, but will move to higher ground as my answer to global warming and rising sea levels.
Among the most troubling aspects of the idea of man-made global warming, has been the long-held belief among scientists that in medieval times the atmosphere was warmer than it is now, making 20th century statistics on global warming rather unimportant, at least, in relative terms. This said to me that the planet continues to warm and cool, and eventually we will probably have another ice age.
In the Financial Post, there is an opinion piece about "flawed climate data" that is a welcome addition to the debate, which I believe is far from being over. The author is Ross McKitrick, a professor of environmental economics at the University of Guelph, and coauthor of Taken by Storm: The Troubled Science, Policy, and Politics of Global Warming.
The essay questions the accuracy of the so called "Mann Hockey Stick" graph so heavily relied upon by those who sought to "prove" man-made global warming. The Hockey Stick graph was developed by a U.S. climatologist, Michael Mann, and was a statistical compilation of tree ring data, which was supposed to prove that air temperatures had been stable for 900 years, then soared off the charts in the 20th century.
As you read through the essay, you wonder at how some scientists seem to search through evidence to find a set of data that confirms what they already believe to be the case and happily toss out those data that cause questions about the validity of their belief.
Usually, I would care less about those who like to fool themselves, however, with the world's largest economies set to spend hundreds of billions on Green projects and reconfigure tax policy to align with the flawed theory of man-made global warming, I feel compelled to add my small voice to the cause of the deniers.
Here's the author's concluding paragraph:
"I get exasperated with fellow academics, and others who ought to know better, who pile on to the supposed global warming consensus without bothering to investigate any of the glaring scientific discrepancies and procedural flaws. Over the coming few years, as the costs of global warming policies mount and the evidence of a crisis continues to collapse, perhaps it will become socially permissible for people to start thinking for themselves again. In the meantime I am grateful for those few independent thinkers, like Steve McIntyre, who continue to ask the right questions and insist on scientific standards of openness and transparency."
Here, here! to that.
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The High Court has granted a six-month bail to Limon Hossain, who has been behind bars in a case filed by the Rapid Action Battalion. The bench of justices Nazrul Islam and Anwarul Haque approved the ad-interim bail on Thursday upon plea from the legal aid organisation Ain O Shalish Kendra.
The investigation panel of the International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) has started quizzing war crimes suspect Jamaat-e-Islami chief Motiur Rahman Nizami at its 'safe home'. The questioning began at 10am on Thursday and it will continue until 5pm with a one-hour pause at noon, Abdur Razzak Khan, a member of the investigation committee told bdnews24.com.
Dhaka has sent to New Delhi detailed proposals for 15 projects to be financed by the $1-billion Line of Credit that India offered to Bangladesh. Jayant Prasad, a Special Secretary with India's Ministry of External Affairs, on Wednesday said that New Delhi was studying the 15 Detailed Project Reports or DPRs it received from Dhaka.
The Supreme Court has rejected the petition of Muhammad Yunus for reversing its earlier verdict on his removal from Grameen Bank. The full court of the Appellate Division also snubbed another petition filed by nine Bank directors against the High Court order that backed Yunus sacking. The full court ended simultaneous hearings on the petitions on Wednesday.
US officials reaffirmed on Wednesday that there was a firefight at the compound in Pakistan where Osama bin Laden was killed, despite growing questions about the Obama administration's version of events and revelations the al Qaeda leader was not armed. "I know for a fact that shots were exchanged during this operation," said a Pentagon official. After a briefing by senior intelligence and defense officials, members of the House Armed Services Committee declined to discuss details of what they had been told.
Angry mob has detained the deputy commissioner of Dinajpur and police officials in a stand-off in Kaharol and Birganj Upazilas over an overnight robbery. According to locals, the incident occurred on Monday night after a heist in the house of Dr Rajon Debnath of Vasuria village. The mob set ablaze a microbus carrying plainclothes police late on Monday night, and a pick-up van of Kaharol police and three motor bikes between 10am and 12pm.
Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus has filed an ad interim bail petition with the High Court in a fraud case. The bench of justices Nozrul Islam Chowdhury and Mohammad Anwarul Haque is likely to hear the plea on Tuesday, a day after its filing. "The petition is in Tuesday's cause list (No 326) of the HC bench and it may hear the plea today," deputy attorney general Mohammad Ullah Kislu told bdnews24.com.
The Supreme Court has begun hearing a petition of Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus urging withdrawal of a previous order on his sacking from the Grameen Bank as managing director. Senior lawyer Dr Kamal Hossain is arguing Yunus's case at the hearing that began at the full court of the Appellate Division on Monday morning. Hearing on another petition filed by nine directors of the bank against the High Court order that backed th central bank's sacking is simultaneously being held at the full court.
The Supreme Court has confirmed the High Court ruling that backed the sacking of Muhammad Yunus from Grameen Bank as its managing director. Tuesday's dismissal of the Nobel Peace laureate's appeal by the full bench of the Appellate Division puts to rest a bitter battle between Yunus and the government.
The government has decided not to give fresh piped gas connections to households in a bid to promote liquefied petroleum gas (LPG). Energy secretary Mesbah Uddin told reporters about the government decision on Tuesday. "We've decided in principle not to give piped gas connections to households in the future as we want to promote LPG instead," he added.
WAR CRIMES TRIAL The International Crimes Tribunal has permitted its probe panel to question major war crimes suspects Jamaat leaders Matiur Rahman Nizami and Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed. The tribunal on Tuesday granted the appeal submitted by the investigation team and the prosecution panel. The tribunal allowed the investigators to quiz them between 10am and 5pm at the Dhaka Central Jail on separate dates to be fixed later. But the tribunal did not allow the panel to take them on remand.
The Supreme Court chamber judge has stayed for six weeks the High Court order on demolition of the BGMEA Bhaban at Karwan Bazar. Syed Mahmud Hossain passed the stay order on Tuesday. The High Court on Sunday ordered the demolition of the BGME building as it was constructed in violation of the Wetlands Protection Act.
Associations of recruitment agencies in Bangladesh and Saudi Arabia have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to recruit four categories of workers for the Middle East country. Under the MoU, Bangladeshi housemaids, drivers, security guards and gardeners will be sent to the kingdom country at reduced migration costs, president of Bangladesh Association of International Recruiting Agencies (BAIRA) Mohammad Abul Basher told newsmen after signing the agreement in the association office in the city.
The International Crimes Tribunal will hear on Sunday the investigation panel's appeal to remand Jamaat-e-Islami leader Matiur Rahman Nizami. Tribunal's registrar Mohammad Shahinur Islam revealed this to reporters at his office on Thursday. On the same day, it will also hear another appeal by the panel for the arrest of former BNP MP M A Alim.
Brushing aside the allegation of the opposition leader that the country was going through a constitutional crisis, Awami League leader Suranjit Sengupta has said the 1972 constitution is in place. "If there is no constitution in the country, how you are the leader of the opposition? How are you flying the national flag in your car? Could you do that had there been no constitution?" Suranjit questioned Khaleda Zia.
Six Bangladesh Chhatra League leaders, including Rangpur Medical College unit president and general secretary, have been arrested in connection with Tuesday's attack on a traffic police office. Kotwali police chief Haider Ali Mollah told reporters that the BCL leaders were arrested on Tuesday night following a case filed after the attack.
Workers back form Libya have pressed the government for compensation. A total of 465 workers from the Libya Expatriates Welfare Association made the demand at a press briefing at the National Press Club on Wednesday. The workers said that on Jan 14, groups of Libyans attacked them and looted their valuables, including mobile cash, telephone sets, laptops, etc.
The full court will hear on Mar 15 the petition filed by Muhammad Yunus seeking a stay order on the High Court judgment upholding his removal from Grameen Bank as its managing director. Hearing the stay petition on Wednesday, chamber judge Syed Mahmud Hossain put it forward to the full court of the Supreme Court. Counsel for Yunus filed the petition with the Appellate Division earlier in the day.
Prime minister Sheikh Hasina has laid the foundation stone of the country's first-ever maritime university at Chittagong Marine Academy. The foundation-laying ceremony was held on Saturday noon. The university, 'Sheikh Mujib Maritime University', the second of its kind in South Asia, will be set up on a 35-acre of land on the other bank of the Karnaphuli River.
A truck has ploughed through a jubilant procession of cricket fans in the city's Banani area, killing a young man and injuring 10 others. Three more fans were also injured in another accident at Shahbagh as they took out a procession after Bangladesh's victory in the crucial World Cup match against Ireland on Friday night. Thousands of frenzied cricket fans burst into wild celebrations taking out jubilant processions at different places of the country after the exciting 27-run win by Tigers.
The law minister has urged the judges to work with more sincerity and honesty to ease the backlog of cases. "If the process of trial is not expedited and the backlog of cases not eased it may result in people's non-confidence in the judiciary," Shafique Ahmed said on Saturday. The lawyer-turned-minister was inaugurating the 102nd Judicial Administration Training Course at the Judicial Training Administration Institute in the city.