Gregory Joseph Brosek, 44, of Concord, NC passed away Tuesday, April 9, 2019.
Greg was born May 21, 1974 in Nyack, NY to Gregory Francis Brosek and Sandra Ann Brosek.
He was preceded in death by his grandfather Joseph Solomey, and grandparents Frank and Christilda Brosek.
Survivors include his parents Gregory and Sandra Brosek of Concord, NC; sister Jennifer Brosek of Blowing Rock, NC; grandmother Steffie Solomey of Concord, NC; as well as aunts, uncles, cousins and many friends.
The family will receive friends from 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm, Friday, April 12, 2019 at Hartsell Funeral Home of Concord. The funeral service will be on Saturday at 11:00 am at Hartsell Funeral Home Chapel, 460 Branchview Drive, Concord, NC, officiated by Father Charles Donovan. Burial will follow at the St. James The Greater Catholic Church Cemetery in Concord, NC.
Hartsell Funeral Home of Concord is serving the Brosek family.


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John W. Hardy, an active member of SNCC during the sixties, worked to establish a voter registration school in 1961 at Mount Moriah Baptist Church in Walthall County. Hardy was pistol whipped by the Election Registrar in Walthall after attempting to help several local black residents. The assault resulted in Hardy being charged with "inciting a riot"and "resisting arrest,"but he was later released from jail.


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Scaling Up Energy Innovation through Advanced Computing
Ready to Respond to Chemical Weapons
Software Developers Get Their Hack On
High Performance Computing for Energy Innovation
Computer scientists Pythagoras Watson (left) and Teresa Kamakea work on Sierra, a high-performance computing (HPC) system that can process more than 260 trillion floating-point operations per second. Project teams supported by the hpc4energy incubator, a yearlong pilot program at Livermore, received time on this workhorse machine to accelerate development efforts on energy technologies.
High-performance computing (HPC) systems and software have already changed how science is done. Industry is its next frontier. With HPC, computing systems with millions of processors run calculations simultaneously—in parallel—instead of sequentially, often slashing run times from weeks to hours or minutes. This massive increase in computational power and speed has allowed scientists to explore research problems that, because of scale or complexity, have previously been impossible to model.
Despite the promise of HPC for innovation, dedicated and experienced industrial users remain a relatively small group. Large communities of researchers and technology developers within both the public and private sectors use desktop workstations exclusively, and as a result, they have complex problems that remain unsolved. Many segments of the energy sector, for instance, rely solely on experiments and physical prototypes for product development. (See S&TR, December 2011, Simulating the Next Generation of Energy Technologies.) Trillions of calculations per second may sound impressive, but companies want further proof that HPC modeling and simulation will benefit their business model before they move beyond what commercial software and a modest in-house computer cluster can offer.
Lawrence Livermore's hpc4energy incubator (See S&TR, June 2012, Incubator Busy Growing Energy Technologies.) has demonstrated how national laboratories and companies might partner to expand the adoption of HPC, a tool capable of addressing such national grand challenges as energy security, economic prosperity, and scientific leadership. The one-year pilot program was designed to exhibit the benefits of incorporating HPC modeling and simulation into energy technology development.
The hpc4energy incubator is part of Livermore's broader industrial outreach and economic development initiatives, and initial funding came from the Laboratory Directed Research and Development Program. Project teams often worked at the HPC Innovation Center on the Livermore Valley Open Campus, which provides industrial clients with access to computing resources and technical expertise from across the Laboratory. The hpc4energy incubator joins a growing number of Department of Energy–sponsored partnerships that are helping to connect energy businesses with HPC resources and meet the nation's carbon emission and energy security goals.
The six industrial participants, selected through a competition, differ in their level of HPC experience and the problems they want to examine, but they share one commonality. "These are all forward-thinking companies willing to embrace new technologies and research tools," says former Livermore engineer Clara Smith, who managed the incubator program. Each company was granted time on Sierra, a supercomputing system that can perform more than 260 trillion floating-point operations per second. Project teams were matched with Livermore staff members who had expertise in applying HPC resources to solve computationally intensive problems in the companies' chosen research areas. The program, which concluded in April 2013, garnered praise from both Laboratory and industry participants for the exposure to new research tools, methods, and collaborators.
John Grosh, deputy associate director for Computation Programs, says, "I was pleased to see how enthusiastic and committed the six companies were to our collaboration. They knew the program was a unique opportunity, and they were intellectually engaged and responsive."
Whether the goal was designing a more efficient combustion engine, simulating complex energy networks to improve planning and scheduling, refining a new geothermal drilling technology, or analyzing energy use in buildings, the partners concurred that Livermore supercomputers and expertise accelerated the cycle for product and service development. The incubator project encouraged them to approach research problems in a new way. "When you have computing capabilities you didn't have before, you think differently about problems," says Eugene Litvinov, the senior director for Business Architecture and Technology at ISO New England. "You can ask questions you didn't think of asking before."
Injecting HPC into Fuel Simulation
Aircraft and automobile manufacturers are interested in developing more-efficient engines that last longer and generate less pollution, but the current engine optimization cycle of prototype design, fabrication, and laboratory testing is onerous. Designers cannot see inside or measure many engine systems during laboratory experiments. Conducting a series of tests that replicate the full range of potential operating conditions is impractical. As a result, the current prototyping and testing process can be expensive and inefficient. Two hpc4energy participants, GE Global Research and Robert Bosch, LLC, are augmenting laboratory measurements with modeling and simulation to better understand combustion, turbulence, and other processes that affect engine performance.
An engine's overall performance hinges in part on how well the injected liquid fuel disperses into a turbulent spray of droplets that mix with an oxidizer and burn. Scientific understanding of turbulence has improved in recent years, largely because of new high-fidelity numerical techniques, but industry researchers often do not have the computational power to run the software. For the incubator effort, jet engine designer GE Global Research and researchers from Arizona State University and Cornell University collaborated with the Laboratory to deploy numerical methods developed by the universities on an HPC machine. Using these codes on Sierra, team members simulated turbulent spray breakup in three dimensions and, with those results, evaluated two designs for fuel-injector engines.
For the test simulation, the incubator team examined liquid fuel entering the combustion chamber to determine how the shape of the opening affects spray breakup as fuel droplets intersect with a turbulent cross-flowing current of air. Both numerical codes simulated the problem at a range of resolutions, in some cases with droplets as small as 20 micrometers in diameter. These simulations used nearly 16 million core-hours of computing time on Sierra, by far the largest demand for HPC resources among the incubator projects. A typical run took more than 3 days of continuous computing on more than 11,000 cores.
Postprocessing analysis of the simulation data sets and comparison with existing experimental measurements are ongoing, but the initial findings have been encouraging. For instance, results showed that Cornell's NGA code effectively captures the shape and distribution of fuel droplets as the fuel and air mix. The simulations also indicated that experimentally drawn conclusions accurately describe how the injector pipe's shape affects fuel droplet size, speed, distribution, and shape. These factors are important because they influence the efficiency, durability, reliability, and safety of engine operation.
Livermore computational physicist Gregory Burton observes, "The fidelity of the simulations has been astonishing. The work provides an unprecedented opportunity to delve deeply into the physical processes governing droplet formation and ultimately learn how to control these processes to develop higher-performance engines." Gary Leonard, the global technology director at GE Global Research, adds that through the incubator effort, "We've started to learn about some of the physics going on in our jet engines that we didn't know about. And we've been building jet engines for 60 years."
GE Global Research and Livermore coupled sophisticated numerical methods and HPC to create a high-resolution simulation of liquid fuel spray. This research effort focused on reducing the number of design iterations needed to create advanced fuel injectors. (Courtesy of Computational Thermo-Fluids Laboratory, Cornell University.)
Combustion Switches Gears
Certain advanced combustion technologies in automobile engines could reduce fuel consumption by more than 30 percent in low- to moderate-load driving conditions, such as while idling or cruising at a steady speed. Unfortunately, these technologies cannot provide the same performance level as conventional combustion in high-load circumstances, for example, when merging onto a highway or starting from a complete stop. Engines currently under development combine the two combustion modes to optimize performance and fuel efficiency. Switching between modes, however, will require advanced control algorithms. Before those calculations can be developed, researchers must better understand the complex chemistry and physics involved in the transition from one mode to the other—a problem that Bosch collaborators wanted to evaluate in their incubator project.
Using their in-house computer cluster, Bosch researchers needed two weeks of computational time to calculate the chemistry and flow through one engine cycle. Understanding how a set of timing parameters affects the transition from conventional to high-efficiency combustion requires modeling 10 four-stroke engine cycles: two cycles in conventional mode, followed by eight in high-efficiency mode. Processing those calculations on the Bosch system would require 20 weeks of uninterrupted computational time—much too slow to make meaningful progress.
For the incubator project, the collaborators scaled the sophisticated Bosch codes to run efficiently on the Laboratory's computing system. The team reduced the calculation time for each cycle by 70 percent, making it possible for the first time to simulate the full transition process. Expedited processing times also enabled the team to complete multiple sets of test cycles and vary parameters such as the fuel-injection method to more thoroughly validate the combustion model.
Livermore mechanical engineer Dan Flowers says, "Combustion is one of the hardest processes to model because events are occurring at a wide range of size and timescales simultaneously." Capturing the fine-scale effects of combustion was the most important factor in this study, so the team focused its effort on computationally expensive simulations at extremely high resolutions. The researchers observed some unusual and possibly significant physical behaviors, such as high-frequency pressure wave effects, that would rarely if ever appear in the results of less-detailed simulations.
Through the hpc4energy collaborations, GE Global Research and Bosch had access to far more computing power than is available to either group internally, allowing their researchers to perform multiple tests and study complex physical phenomena with more precision than they could have otherwise. The insights these teams gained into spray breakup and combustion modes will help the companies improve the models they use for engine design and testing.
Livermore researchers emerged with a better understanding of the engineering and simulation problems that most concern these two participants and similar energy companies. Laboratory scientists also gained first-hand experience with two advanced numerical techniques developed by GE Global Research to examine spray breakup problems. In addition, the GE codes will now be available for use in other research projects through the new Turbulence Analysis and Simulation Center at Livermore.
(left) Researchers at Robert Bosch, LLC, have developed a three-dimensional numerical code to simulate how exhaust gas recirculates in the combustion chamber of a new engine design. Calculations run on the Bosch in-house computing cluster show fresh air (blue) entering the combustion chamber and interacting with leftover combustion products from the previous cycle. (right) In their hpc4energy project, Bosch researchers worked with Laboratory computer scientists to scale the Bosch code to run efficiently on Livermore's Sierra supercomputer. They reduced the calculation time for each engine cycle by 70 percent and improved the model resolution, allowing them to examine combustion in greater detail than the Bosch computer system can produce.
Anticipating Changes in the Grid
In its 2003 book A Century of Innovation: Twenty Engineering Achievements That Transformed Our Lives, the National Academy of Engineering identified the U.S. electric power grid as the greatest engineering achievement of the 20th century. Modernizing the grid's infrastructure and tools to meet 21st-century needs poses a significant challenge. New, "smart" grids incorporate more sensors and automated controls to operate efficiently and better prevent interruptions.
However, many organizations involved in grid planning and scheduling have found that the accompanying increases in data volume and system complexity are straining available processor performance. In addition, integrating intermittent power sources such as wind and solar energy into the grid can confound planning efforts. To address these issues, two incubator teams examined how HPC could improve energy-grid modeling and planning for complex networks.
In many parts of the world, electricity is now a dependable and vital resource. If a power line is damaged by a falling tree or a connection is offline for maintenance, electricity must keep flowing or quickly be restored to customers. Utility planners often use the GE Positive Sequence Load Flow (PSLF) software to predict how a system's events might affect energy transmission. PSLF analyzes the systemwide effects of failed components for a given grid configuration and pinpoints configurations that will continue to operate in the event of such failures.
When calculations are made on a desktop computer, the contingency analyses, or what-if scenarios, must be examined consecutively. Completing the calculations for larger grid systems can take hours or days. To reduce the turnaround time, planners may lean on their expertise. For example, they might identify the most-likely failures and simulate only those scenarios. However, this type of selective testing increases the chance of overlooking a critical failure point.
The PSLF developer, GE Energy Consulting, wanted to scale up the software model while reducing the computational load. Through the incubator program, GE Energy could run the software on more powerful computing systems and simulate extremely large networks, many times the size of those previously simulated on the company's computing cluster. The collaboration also enabled GE Energy scientists to perform more contingency analyses than they could process in-house. Livermore computer scientist Steve Smith says, "By running a more comprehensive simulation on our machines, the GE team increased confidence in the results produced by PSLF."
Laboratory researchers optimized the PSLF code to run in parallel on Sierra, thereby reducing the run time for all contingencies to the time required to solve the longest running contingency. In a study of 4,217 contingencies, the total calculation time on Sierra was only 23 minutes. Processing this number of analyses consecutively would have required an estimated 23.5 days. Devin Van Zandt, software products manager for GE Energy Consulting, says, "Working with the Laboratory team to improve the performance of our code was a great opportunity. Their experience in solving problems similar to ours coupled with the HPC infrastructure at Livermore helped us understand the potential of our code base."
After the successful Sierra test, GE Energy worked with Livermore experts to speed up the processing on individual contingency analyses. GE Energy researchers are now studying how to incorporate these scaling and performance improvements into a new version of PSLF.
GE Energy performs contingency analysis to determine the stability of an electric grid when a connection is removed from the system, for example, for required maintenance or because of a damaged power line. With the increased computational power provided by Sierra, GE Energy could simulate all of the contingencies for a large network simultaneously rather than in sequence, producing more rapid and thorough results.
Tomorrow's Forecast for Energy
In scheduling electric grid operations, system operators evaluate the supply and demand, or load conditions, forecast for the following day and, through a process called unit commitment, determine which power generators will be used. If the day's forecast is inaccurate—say, for example, the amount of wind energy available is significantly below projections—operators may not be able to start up the uncommitted power sources quickly enough to alleviate the shortfall. Traditional models for unit commitment are thus designed to generate conservative estimates, an approach that is neither very cost effective nor efficient in its use of renewable resources.
ISO New England, the company responsible for power generation and transmission throughout that region, enlisted Livermore's help in comparing this point forecast approach with a new method that accommodates a range of uncertainty. A preliminary experiment by ISO New England indicated that the newer technique, termed robust unit commitment, could substantially reduce dispatch costs and improve reliability. Assessing the operational and economic benefits of robust commitment required generating day-ahead forecast ranges for projected electric load and renewable power generation. These ranges were then used to identify an optimal unit commitment schedule for the day. The final step was testing the system dispatch over that day for each of many possible realizations of load and renewable power generation.
Since each unit on the grid is scheduled to be either on or off, optimizing schedule scenarios is a computationally demanding mathematical problem that leads to millions of possible combinations. For a set of 1,600 robust unit commitment configurations, for example, solving each scenario takes about 30 minutes, or 800 hours of processing time on one desktop computer. Up to 10,000 dispatch problems, each one taking 15 seconds, must be answered for every configuration, for a total dispatch-solving time of 67,000 hours on a desktop.
By parallelizing the software to process the robust problem set and running it on 1,600 core processors, the hpc4energy collaboration reduced the calculation time from 800 hours to 90 minutes. After demonstrating that the optimized code could efficiently process such a large number of scenarios, the team completed more than 10,000 simulations using Monte Carlo sampling based on historical load and wind-generation data combined with a Livermore-developed statistical model of this behavior. The team also evaluated the optimal size of the uncertainty range for the robust approach.
Processing thousands of occurrences at once provided researchers with a more comprehensive evaluation of the next day's schedule and allowed them to assess the effectiveness of the robust unit commitment approach under a broad range of energy use, wind, and power-generation scenarios. "We can't explore all of the possibilities because it would cause what is appropriately called combinatory explosion," says Livermore computer scientist Barry Rountree. "But we can look at thousands more scenarios than ISO New England could with their in-house computing resources."
The Livermore team's greatest contribution in the ISO New England project was in statistical modeling and visualization. Laboratory researchers helped frame the problem and prepared a statistical model to simulate wind and load for the Sierra calculations. In the GE Energy effort, the Laboratory team provided a third-party evaluation of the GE application and demonstrated how larger-scale HPC resources could benefit that work. Using Sierra to efficiently run thousands of simulations, the two energy companies gathered statistically significant results that they can use to evaluate and develop sophisticated scheduling and contingency analysis software.
Electricity supplier ISO New England is studying future development of large wind resources throughout the company's service territory. Collaborators used the hpc4energy project to examine different approaches for optimizing the daily schedule of generators in use under a broad range of energy use, wind, and power-generation scenarios. (Courtesy of ISO New England, Inc.)
Modeling a New Drilling Technique
The final two incubator efforts focused on making a clean energy source more cost competitive and on saving energy through better building design and operations. Unlike other renewable power sources, geothermal resources generate a steady supply of base-load energy without the need for storage or power-grid modifications. However, capital costs and potential economic risk have deterred investors. Geothermal wells are drilled up to 6 kilometers underground in hard rock formations such as granite, which have a high heat capacity. Because of the depths involved and the difficulties associated with penetrating hard rock, mechanically drilling the wells is expensive.
Potter Drilling, a small start-up company, has developed a technology called hydrothermal spallation drilling that could reduce drilling time and cost and make existing wells twice as productive. Thermal spallation uses a jet of superheated water to penetrate granite at two or more times the rate of conventional technologies, without the drill bit ever contacting the rock. Livermore mathematician Stuart Walsh notes that once a well location is determined, "The economics of drilling a well is the time involved. If you have a technology that allows you to drill faster or replace drill bits less frequently, then you gain a competitive advantage."
Before its collaboration with Lawrence Livermore, Potter Drilling relied on laboratory experiments and field testing. Unfortunately, most of the relevant work occurs in deep boreholes where it is impossible to monitor the process directly, making system optimization difficult, slow, and expensive. In the two years prior to the incubator project, Potter engineers completed 15 field trials and 30 design and process changes. Through the hpc4energy collaboration, the company conceptually tested operations under a broad range of conditions, such as encountering different rock types or drilling in deeper wells with higher pressure than could be experimentally simulated.
The incubator team developed a model to study hydrothermal spallation drilling at the mineral grain scale and combined it with Livermore's GEODYN and PSUADE codes to determine how about two dozen model parameters affect the drilling process. Even with the computational support provided through the incubator, completing three-dimensional simulations for the full range of circumstances would have been computationally prohibitive. Instead, the researchers first ran a set of over 7,000 less-taxing two-dimensional simulations, each using 72 computer processors. With those results, they constrained the number of three-dimensional simulations required, each of which would run on 1,020 processors. Parameters and boundary conditions for the modeling studies were derived from Potter's past experiments, and the results were compared to data acquired in field tests of the new technique.
Jared Potter, cofounder of Potter Drilling, says, "Initial results of the Livermore modeling studies have shown a good replication of the key features thought to occur during the spallation process, including the initiation of spalls and movement of the damaged zone into the rock with time. Future collaborative work could lead to predictive capabilities and the ability to change drilling tool operating conditions, depending on such parameters as rock type or drilling depth." Working with the 19-employee company was a valuable experience for Livermore participants, highlighting the needs and concerns of start-up companies, whose core business can rapidly evolve. The collaboration also produced software tools that will be valuable to future energy and drilling research efforts at the Laboratory.
Potter Drilling worked with Laboratory researchers to create a grain-scale model (shown at far left on a 1-centimeter cube of granite slab) of hydrothermal spallation drilling, a new technique (right) that efficiently removes rock from a well bore. Hydrothermal spallation could reduce the time and cost for drilling deep geothermal wells and could make existing wells more productive.
Factoring in Uncertainty
Commercial and residential buildings account for more than 40 percent of U.S. energy consumption. Making buildings more energy efficient could thus generate substantial savings in operational costs and energy use while reducing carbon emissions. Predicting a building's efficiency requires engineers and planners to quantify uncertainties in the parameters they use to estimate energy consumption for a building's lifecycle, from design and construction to operations and maintenance. The actual energy usage for a building is often up to 30 percent greater than originally projected because of variability in building materials, occupant behavior, weather, and maintenance. If the primary factors causing uncertainty can be identified and analyzed through simulation, an accurate risk assessment can be made prior to investing in a building retrofit, making energy-efficient designs and remodeling more attractive to investors.
Through the incubator program, United Technologies Research Center (UTRC) identified key operational variables for predicting building energy performance and estimated some effects of such uncertainty. UTRC researchers will use this information to validate and calibrate the company's models and to advise builders and building operators on a facility's use patterns and areas to target for improvement. "For existing facilities, the operations staff can determine a sustainable or wasteful path for building use," says Livermore engineer Noah Goldstein. "The people who run these buildings are really starting to understand the value HPC can add to operations."
UTRC researchers had incorporated parallel computing into their analysis process prior to the incubator project, reducing the turnaround time for whole-building analysis from 2 weeks to less than 24 hours. But their analysis was somewhat limited in scope. With the Livermore collaboration, they expanded their optimization effort to run the simulations in a massively parallel form. Working with an energy use model of an office building located in the Philadelphia Navy Yard, the incubator team tested variations in more than 900 operating parameters, including such factors as the performance of heating and air-conditioning equipment, energy used by lighting fixtures and appliances, insulation properties of different walls and windows, weather changes, and occupant activities in the building. On Sierra, operating with 1,000 computer cores per simulation, calculation time was reduced by a factor of 60, permitting UTRC to efficiently complete 10,000 simulations and accelerate uncertainty modeling. Analysis turnaround time was reduced from days to only hours.
Goldstein notes that collaborating with UTRC helped Laboratory scientists better understand how to simulate the energy consumption of a building. It also allowed them to compare approaches of uncertainty quantification to Livermore-developed methods.
The company is now comparing the model results and sensitivity levels from the incubator project with a year's worth of data on energy usage and occupant behavior from the Philadelphia building. The UTRC analysis indicates that, for simulating a typical building, only a small number of parameters has the greatest effect when modeling energy use. Variations in all other parameters have a negligible effect. One such example is the electricity consumption of a building air-handling system. Results from the HPC models suggest that the system's performance depends primarily on only three parameters, while the combined effect of all other parameters is less than 10 percent. This finding, if proven accurate, would simplify a building retrofit design, because it gives clear guidance to the engineers regarding where to focus their effort and resources.
In the project's final months, the incubator team began designing a more efficient refrigeration system to meet the needs of certain commercial building users. HPC has rarely been used to consider heating and air-conditioning designs because such computations cost more than the retail price of the system. The incubator collaborations are thus helping address a wider range of engineering problems.
Although UTRC is already an HPC user, the company benefited from working with researchers who had an established HPC-based workflow for building analysis and were experienced in quantifying uncertainty. Both the Potter Drilling and UTRC efforts show how advanced computing can enable companies to quickly narrow the list of significant variables, freeing up time and resources to focus on optimizing the factors that will likely yield the greatest improvements.
Researchers from United Technologies Research Center used Livermore's HPC resources to analyze which parameters most affect the energy efficiency of an office building. In reviewing air-handling fan units—one of the largest energy "consumers" in a building—the collaboration found that only 3 of the 917 operating parameters examined significantly alter a unit's electricity consumption. This kind of analysis provides vital information because it reveals precisely how retrofit designs will affect a building's energy performance.
Problems on a Whole New Scale
The Laboratory's hpc4energy incubator helped demonstrate that businesses of all sizes can benefit from applying HPC to reduce risk and optimize designs. Through the pilot program, energy companies observed new details about the physical processes involved, modeled problems with extremely fine resolution, and captured the variability in the systems they were evaluating. Livermore participants learned about the energy industry's requirements and goals. In the process, they helped solve new problems, worked with unfamiliar algorithms and methods, and expanded their computational skills.
Initiatives such as the hpc4energy incubator support the Laboratory's mandate to transfer technology and expertise to the private sector. At a November 2012 workshop, Laboratory Director Penrose (Parney) Albright noted, "The Lab's culture is about bringing together multidisciplinary teams to work on problems of national importance. Now, we want to take some of the capabilities we've developed and put them in the service of the U.S. economy."
In addition, fostering wider adoption of and demand for HPC drives down hardware and software costs, which benefits Lawrence Livermore and its mission work. "Broadening the HPC user base makes it easier and more affordable to push the cutting edge," says Livermore computer scientist Rob Neely. "Everyone wins."
With an effective template for industry engagement in place, the Laboratory's HPC leaders are considering which other research areas to "incubate." Several industrial sectors with urgent research problems have yet to fully embrace HPC and could benefit from Livermore's computational expertise. For instance, an HPC incubator for bioinformatics and pharmaceutical design could expand the traditional "number-crunching" capabilities of HPC simulation by marrying it with the Laboratory's strengths in molecular dynamics and big data analysis. (See S&TR, January/February 2013, Dealing with Data Overload in the Scientific Realm.) Such collaborations have the potential to produce highly precise results and reduce the need for laboratory testing.
The competitive nature of business often makes companies reluctant to share their HPC success stories. An effort such as hpc4energy can strengthen the case for investing in this technology and can teach prospective users to think differently about problem solving. "Because of limited computational resources, many researchers have gotten used to constraining their models in resolution and scale," says Goldstein. "We've shown them that they can model a whole system, do full-scenario planning, or even do real-time modeling. The hpc4energy incubator has helped crack open the box of what simulation and modeling can do. It's not just faster—it's about thinking on different scales."
—Rose Hansen
Key Words: clean energy technology, contingency analysis, fuel-injection engine, high-efficiency combustion, high-performance computing (HPC), hpc4energy incubator, HPC Innovation Center, hydrothermal spallation drilling, parallel computing, smart electric grid, turbulence, uncertainty quantification, unit commitment.
For further information contact John Grosh (925) 424-6520 (grosh1@llnl.gov).

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Domenica Corsi (nicknamed "Core-Breach") was the daughter of Aldo and Ulrika Corsi, born circa 2340. She had one brother, Roberto. The Corsis were descendants of a New York City firefighter who perished in the terrorist attacks of 2001. That ancestor's firefighter's axe became a cherished family heirloom, and Domenica Corsi's most valued possession. In 2355, Aldo Corsi and his brother, Giancarlo, were approached by Lieutenant Commander William Ross of Starfleet Intelligence to use their civilian freighter, Ulrika's Hope, to gather intelligence during their passage near the Cardassian border. Unfortunately, the Cardassians detected their covert activities, boarded the ship, and killed Giancarlo. This incident created in Aldo an intense dislike and distrust of Starfleet, and when his daughter decided to join, it caused a rift between them lasting many years. As a small child, Corsi would listen to her grandfather, who she called Nonno, tell stories around a campfire. Her grandfather died when Corsi was five, after she had discovered him collapsed and semi-conscious on the floor of their home. As of 2355, Corsi and her family lived on planet Madellin Prime. The Corsi family also lived on planet Galor IV at some point during Domenica's childhood. Corsi was a competitive swimmer as a youth, and had won trophies for at least three swim meets. Domenica Corsi first considered joining Starfleet due to her uncle Giancarlo's infatuation with the organization.
As a Starfleet Academy cadet, Corsi began a romantic relationship with fellow cadet Dar Ableen, a relationship that would last for eight years. Corsi's first assignment as an ensign was aboard the USS Soval, where she worked directly under deputy Security Chief Heinrich Waldheim. Corsi's first command of a security detail involved piloting a shuttlecraft into the volatile atmosphere of planet Svoboda II. When Waldheim was promoted to chief of security of the USS Roosevelt, he brought Corsi along as his deputy chief. In 2366, Lieutenant (j.g.) Corsi was assigned to assist civilian peace officers on Izar in investigating an apparent string of serial murders. Corsi and Dar had previously arranged to share shore leave on Izar, and Corsi spent much of her off-duty time with him in Garthtown on Izar. However, the investigator in charge, Officer Christine Vale, uncovered evidence that pointed to Ableen as the murderer. Discovered, Ableen targeted Vale as his next victim, and Corsi was forced to use deadly force to save Vale. While Vale considered Corsi a hero, and was inspired by her to join Starfleet herself, Corsi became angry with herself for the way the situation turned out. This self-loathing would impact the relationship between the two Starfleet officers for years to follow.
By 2374, Corsi had reached the rank of lieutenant commander, and was assigned as chief of security aboard the USS da Vinci under Captain David Gold. She became notorious with the da Vinci's crew as being a stickler for regulations and her fierce temper, which earned her the nickname "Core-Breach." In early 2376, on the tenth anniversary of Ableen's death, Corsi seduced fellow da Vinci crewmember Fabian Stevens in an effort to distract herself from her memories. Intended to be a one-time occurrence, a unique friendship developed between the two. Later that year, when the son of an Izar peace officer, Tomozuka Kim, joined the da Vinci security detail, Corsi is finally moved to open up to Stevens about the death of her former lover, enabling her to move past it and decide that she and Stevens are a proper couple. Corsi was promoted to full Commander in early 2377. As part of her promotion ceremony, her third solid rank pip was left outside the ship, with the intention of making her go outside in an EVA suit to retrieve it. Corsi instead had the ship's computer locate and beam it aboard.
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Цебриков Микола Романович (1800, Російська імперія — 1866, Санкт-Петербург, Російська імперія) — український і російський суспільний діяч і революціонер, декабрист, син академіка Романа Максимовича Цебрикова, онук українського козака Максима Цебрика з Харківщини.

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Син уродженця Харкова, академіка Романа Максимовича Цебрикова, онук українського козака Максима Цебрика.

Знайомий відомого генерала Олексія Єрмолова, якого поважав за людяне ставлення до простих солдатів, що різко контрастувало з порядками, які панували в ті часи в Російській Імператорській Армії і яке лежало в основі знаменитої «єрмоловської школи», що сприяло становленню нового типу російського солдата, «солдата єрмоловського».

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As a prominent vocalist in the carnatic musical tradition, Sudha Ragunathan's voice enthralls listeners from around the world. Among the first in her generation to receive many prestigious awards including the Padmabhushan and the Sangita Kalanidhi, her mastery over vocal techniques and complicated styles makes her one of the most sought after artists. Her authentic renditions of 'krithis' and refined elaborations of 'raagas', the élan with which she breezes through the 'kalpana swaras', her command over the octaves and her supremely confident stage presence combined with unstated humility has given her an enviable pre-eminence in the world of carnatic music. Sudha has performed a range of concerts and festivals worldwide, and has released over 200 albums with leading recording companies like AVM, INRECO, Vani and Amutham. She is a top ranking artist for Prasar Bharati, All India Radio, and the Doordarshan, and was the auspicious voice at the first live broadcast at the National Program Series of concerts hosted in Chennai. Sudha also has the unique honor of rendering 'Vande Mataram' at the Central Hall of Parliament, New Delhi on 27th January 2000 to mark the completion of 50 years of the free Indian Republic.
Sudhaji, your music combines intellectualism with bhava.
-Pandit Jasraj
Sudha's foray into the world of music began with her mother, Smt. Choodamani, who initially trained her, and then put her under the tutelage of Vidwan Sri B.V Lakshman. As a child, Sudha participated in several music competitions and was immersed in carnatic music, but she also excelled academically. As an intelligent and talented individual, it is no surprise that Sudha won the 'Outstanding Student' award at Ethiraj College (for all the three years during her graduation) while simultaneously increasing her musical repertoire by leaps and bounds. In 1977, Sudha received a scholarship from the Central Government that gave her the opportunity to study under Padmabhushan Sangita Kalanidhi Dr. M.L. Vasanthakumari, known by many as a musical genius and a doyenne of carnatic music. This would mark the beginning of her musical ascendency and her journey to becoming MLV's vaarisu. During this time, Sudha was given the golden chance to provide vocal support to MLV (as she was affectionately called) for over a decade. When asked about her Guru, Sudha often says, "Music was only one of the few things she taught me. She taught me how to live life to its fullest." Sudha vividly recalls how while singing with her Guru, a sangathi in Yaman Kalyani would get woven into an Ashtapathi in Ragamalika. Spontaneously, MLV would stop singing and allow Sudha to take over. She fondly remembers her Guru as a generous soul, both onstage and off.
If I speak anything about Sudha, it will be like speaking about myself
-Padmavibhushan Dr. Balamuralikrishna
Sudha's rise to fame has not been easy. Being a prominently recognized musician requires unwavering focus – something Sudha has mastered. She is a dedicated artist, always striving for excellence. Aside from her success with music, Sudha started the Samudhaaya Foundation in 1999, a charitable organization that has contributed to several causes such as the Kargil Relief Fund, the Orissa Cyclone Victims Fund, the Gujarat Earthquake Victims Relief Fund, pediatric cancer care, pediatric heart surgeries, mentally challenged destitute children, the deaf blind children and towards palliative care. Sudha has also taken carnatic music to corporation schools, remote villages, and prisons. Without the support of her loving husband, and two children, none of Sudha's accomplishments would be possible.
Sudha is the Sachin of Carnatic music.
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OOPS! Is Janhvi Kapoor not allowed to date anyone?
Janhvi Kapoor to star with Rajkummar Rao in Rooh Afza, to essay a double role!
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Janvhi Kapoor made her successful debut in Bollywood with Dhadak. The actress has also bagged two more Dharma films in her kitty.
The actress, who recently appeared on a digital chat show, spoke about her dating life and her equation with the Kapoors. Janhvi claimed that her mom Sridevi was very dramatic about her dating life and so was her dad, Boney Kapoor.
She revealed that if her parents knew she was dating someone, they would create a 'situation' out of it and would always say that if you like someone, just tell us and we would get you married.
Talking about it she said, "Mom and dad were very dramatic about it (dating). (They would say) 'When you like a guy, come to us and we'll get you married.' And I'm like what!? You know we don't have to get married to every guy we like. Like we can be chill also!"
Talking about her siblings, especially who helped her recover from the shock of her mom's death, Janvhi added, "You know at the end of the day, we have the same blood in us. I don't remember anything of those four months but I do remember that one day when we were sitting in Harsh (Anil Kapoor's son) Bhaiya's room and Arjun Bhaiya and Anshula (Arjun Kapoor's sister) Didi came in — I think that was the one day when I felt like, 'Ok maybe we might be okay'."
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John has the honor of representing the family of Jordan Davis, who was shot and killed in 2012. As a family lawyer, hr helped with coordination on the documentary 3 and 1/3 minutes premiering in theaters and then on HBO. It won an award at Sundance Film Festival for its social impact.


UBQ recovered very fast after yesterdays BTC run to 15k $. Looking back at our previous analysis UBQ is very well within expectations and on the way to its target at 75k sat (still 65% from now).
UBQ is trying to break ristance at 26,5k sat. If it breaks next targets are: 27,5k, 34k, 40k.
UBQ is back in our buy zone we called earlier. 22.7k sat has to break. Targets still the same: 27.5k, 40k, 55k, 75k sat.


Lindie Fern made great progress over the weekend. Not only did she get the tube to her stomach removed, she also got the all clear to start eating breastmilk today! Please pray that her body transitions well back to breastmilk. Once that happens, we would really love for Lindie to eventually be able to nurse, rather than just bottle feed. From what we've heard and read it's more difficult for babies with Down syndrome to nurse, but we have full confidence that the Lord can make it happen if He desires. So, please, please pray for that too!


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Only the Jester Speaks the Truth
Starts: Saturday, Jul. 19 1:30 PM (Eastern)
Ends: Saturday, Jul. 19 2:45 PM (Eastern)
Room: 142 C
"If you're going to tell people the truth, you better make them laugh; otherwise they'll kill you."
– Often attributed to George Bernard Shaw
The Left is supposed to be funnier than the Right, damn it.
So why do we so often sound in public like we're stiltedly reading from a non-profit grant proposal?
This panel hopes to explore humor's unparalleled ability to deliver challenging information to the public, as well as mold and shift perspectives.
We'll have some of the folks who have most effectively used comedy as an organizing and advocacy tool, whether for an one-time campaign or an ongoing media project. T hat includes comedians; offline organizers; online media- makers; and anyone who could use comedy to say what's otherwise impossible. (Read: anyone.)
Also, we'll make climate catastrophe hilarious. (We promise.)
Nicole Carty
Nicole Carty is a Director with PowerLabs where she focuses on online to offline mobilization and creating structures and processes to support volunteer-led teams.
Prior to PowerLabs, Nicole was a Campaign Manager at SumOfUs where she ran campaigns to bring equitable policies to the tech industry, served as a communications specialist, and implemented internal anti-oppressive organizational structures.
Previously Nicole was Programming Director at The Other 98% where she helped grow the organization's social media reach into the millions.
Nicole is a movement builder who was deeply involved in Occupy Wall Street and has played critical roles in the Movement for Black Lives.
Nicole is also a Lead Trainer and Core team member at Momentum.
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Lee Camp
Lee Camp is a comedian and writer. He's the creator of the "Moment of Clarity" web series and podcast. He's also a founding principal of Qualified Laughter – a production company dedicated to comedic social justice media – where he co-created the AFL-CIO Collective Bargaining video series and the We The People anti-Citizens United series, among others. He's a contributor to The Onion and Huffington Post and the author of "A Moment of Clarity". Camp has been featured on "Countdown with Keith Olbermann," "Viewpoint with Eliot Spitzer," BBC's "Newsnight," Showtime's "Green Room," and Comedy Central's "Fresh Debate '08." You might know him best as the guy who went on Fox News and called them a "parade of propaganda" live on their own network.
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Julianna Forlano
Julianna Forlano is the creator, host, and producer of the acclaimed progressive news parody ABSURDITY TODAY! which can be found on FreeSpeechTV, and at CrooksandLiars.com. (Archives at www.AbsurdityToday.com) She is a professor at Brooklyn College where she teaches Media Studies, Broadcast Journalism Ethics, and Comedy Script Writing. Her written work has been published in the Chicago Sun Times, in the book Letters to President Obama, and online. She is also a popular guest commentator on some of today's favorite progressive tv and radio programs as well as at mainstream outlets. Once named Chicago's Funniest Comedian by Reader's Digest, Julianna has had many notable performances including being the featured speaker and humorist at Barack Obama's Official Inaugural Ball. She currently lives in Brooklyn, NY.
Other sessions: Laughing Liberally Comedy Show, Food, Guns and Money: A Showcase of Advocacy Films
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Katie Halper
Born and raised on the mean streets of New York City's Upper West Side, Katie Halper is a comic, writer, blogger, satirist and filmmaker. A director of Living Liberally and co-founder/performer in Laughing Liberally, Katie has performed throughout the country, at all Netroots Nations, and The Nation Magazine Cruise, where she made Howard Dean laugh! Her writing and videos have appeared in The New York Times, Comedy Central, The Nation Magazine, Gawker, Nerve, Jezebel, the Huffington Post, Alternet and Katie has been featured in/on NY Magazine, LA Times, In, Gawker,Jezebel, MSNBC, the Alan Colmes Show, and the National Review, which called Katie "cute and some what brainy." She is a founding principal of Qualified Laughter – a production company dedicated to comedic social justice media – where she co-created the AFL-CIO Collective Bargaining video series and SEIU's Healthy Americans Against Reforming Medicine series, among others.
Other sessions: Top-Choice Movies for the Pro-Choice Movement: Film and the Fight for Reproductive Rights, Laughing Liberally Comedy Show
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Elon James White is a Brooklyn-based comedian, writer and creator of the award-winning web series This Week in Blackness, a satirical look at race, politics and pop-culture in a so-called "post-racial" America and the award winning podcast Blacking it Up! White has been a featured commentator on MSNBC's The Melissa Harris Perry Show, VH1's "Black to the Future", "The Great Debate" and HLN's "The Joy Behar Show." His commentary on race and politics has been featured on CNN.com, Daily Kos, The Huffington Post, Giant Magazine, Salon, Alternet & The Root. Praised as "The perfect comedian for the Obama era, talking race while exploding racial stereotypes" by Dr. Melissa Harris-Perry on Politco.com & as "Precise, thought provoking and hilarious" by Daily Show creator Lizz Winstead, White continues to win accolades from critics, academia and audiences alike
Other sessions: TWiBPrime w/ Elon James White: Biden Reaction, TWiBPrime w/ Elon James White: Biden Introduction, TWiBPrime w/ Elon James White, TWiBPrime w/ Elon James White, TWiB! Party on Friday night!, Laughing Liberally Comedy Show, Historical Blackness: Movements as Models: What the History of Organizing Can Teach Today's Organizers


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Emma is the Managing Director of Mindfulness Dubai, which she founded to pioneer the teaching of Mindfulness based programs to organisations and the public in the Middle East. She has delivered mindfulness training to over 30 organisations in the region and worked with hundreds of individuals through 1-2-1 work and public programs. She is passionate about equipping organisations and individuals with the tools they need to thrive in today's 'always-on' environment and believes that mindfulness and emotional intelligence tools can bring transformational change to the organization, the individual, to customers and to the community at large. As a long-term meditator, Emma has personally seen the impact of these practices in her own life, and is inspired and fulfilled by seeing others experience change for themselves.
Prior to establishing Mindfulness Dubai, Emma worked in the corporate world for over 20 years, as a Human Resources Director and HR Consultant working with businesses to facilitate growth and maximise talent. She led large scale change projects within multi-site and multi-region businesses in the financial services sector and worked extensively with senior leaders to facilitate people performance, culture change and business growth. As lead teacher at Mindfulness Dubai, Emma has worked with private and public organisations in the Middle East such as Dubai Expo 2020, Uber Middle East, Nielsen, Danone, The Federal Authority of Nuclear Regulation, Jones Lang Lasalle and Svitzer to deliver mindfulness programs. See: www.mindfulnessdubai.com.
She is a Search Inside Yourself Certified Teacher and holds an advanced mindfulness teaching certification from the Teach Mindfulness Institute in the UK. She is also a member of the Chartered Institute of Personal Development (CIPD) and holds Masters' degrees in Politics, Philosophy and Human Resources.
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From ลิ้น (lín, "tongue") + สอง (sɔ̌ɔng, "two") + แฉก (chɛ̀ɛk, "fork"); literally "two-forked tongue"; referring to the feature common to many kinds of reptiles. Compare Japanese 二枚舌; English forked tongue, speak with a forked tongue.
I've seen many — those kinds of two-faced, two-fork-tongued people.
The defence ministry spokesman...holding the press conference with forced-out tears is a clear example of the two-forked tongue.
Atchariya goes on a live stream to slam Toilet Lawyer at full stream, [calling him] a two-fork-tongued man [who] can break his own word even [in the presence of] fellow townsmen.
Reading this news immediately reminds me of those two-fork-tongued people: one [fork of their] tongues is entrusted with working on destroying the opposite faction, the other [fork of their] tongues keeps protecting their own fellows. So, this has resulted in unreliability.


GeneratePress is a totally free WordPress theme made by Tom Usborne, a programmer from Canada. I have really seen it for many years in the WordPress repository. Most of you realize that I am fairly picky when it comes to web performance, so I have a tendency to ignore everything from the repository. Typically because a great deal of stuff on there isn't that great, or not supported for long. Nonetheless, in this circumstance, this was a mistake. The motif now has more than half a million downloads, 80,000+ busy installs, with over 500 5-star evaluations. So clearly Tom is doing something right here.
I Actually installed the free version of the theme and in a matter of 15 minutes purchased the superior version. I could tell right off the bat, the programmer was thinking exactly how I was imagining a theme should work. And I will go into that more below, but let us first look at some of the qualities. I'm going to be covering the premium version of the subject, since it's worth . In fact, Tom, if you read this and so are seeing Scottsdale, Arizona, java on me.
The Documentation is also incredible. Besides have great documentation on their website, the theme has been around long enough that what I Googled during the setup process was found within a few seconds in their forum.
Now it is Time for the fun part! I always test a brand new theme right from the box with no customizations to just see how quickly the foundation is. This tells me a lot of what I could expect by the time that I add everything to it. Running the inventory GeneratePress WordPress theme on Kinsta hosting clocked in at a whopping 265 ms loading time. I was quite impressed.
That is a developer that cares about performance! And I've Seen exactly the same during each of the premium add-ons. They are as small as possible get them. In reality, Font Awesome is probably the biggest file contained. And that is not even his. Together with Font Awesome 5 coming round the corner, we could expect that to get smaller too.
The premium add-ons Are setup in what I would call a modular layout. You can activate/deactivate whatever you are not using to guarantee they don't load on your website. Since the co-developer of the perfmatters plugin which has a script manager built-in, I felt right at home for this. Everything should be designed this way.
The WordPress customizer choices is where GeneratePress really shines! Bear in mind, lots of these options are enabled from the premium add-ons. I can't show you everything, otherwise, we would be here all day. But allow me to show you couple which really come in handy.
You might want to Also catch his incredible WP Display Posts plugin too. See my featured articles on the sidebar of this site? That is using the WP Show Posts plugin. I have it set to show posts from a specific"featured" category. You might also have it show last modified/updated articles, recent articles, etc.. I'm using the free version and it works great.
The Sections add-on in the premium version of GeneratePress allows you to perform all kinds of things concerning design. Consider it like a page builder without the bloat. GeneratePress is certainly not just for blogs! I am in fact using GeneratePress to our ecommerce site (perfmatters.io) that is running Easy Digital Downloads. Feel free to look it over. But as you can see below, it looks nothing like a site.
For those Of you who are regular readers, you likely did not even notice that I changed the entire theme that powers woorkup.com. It only took me about an hour to get GeneratePress to mimic my MyThemeShop theme that I had spent annually customizing. Here's a comparison below.
My older MyThemeShop theme was already pretty fast, but I invested a lot of time customizing it. In reality, I have gotten a lot of emails from you guys asking me to print all my customizations. My advice now is, simply get GeneratePress!
With the New GeneratePress theme I was able to attain faster speeds and 600 fewer lines of code! And remember, I do not have a kid theme. Each of the customizations were made with the awesome GP hooks and snippets plugin (both CSS and PHP).
Like the WordPress theme I've working on woorkup? You are in luck. Tom asked if he can make a replica of woorkup for the new GeneratePress blog library. I am happy to let you know that now you can put in my woorkup theme on your GeneratePress website with only a click! It's known as the Marketer motif. Get started using a great blog layout instantly.
Additionally, I Moved within my personal website, brianjackson.io, to GeneratePress. Previously I was using a theme from Array Themes. It's a fairly basic minimal site, since I do not use it for much. Since you can see it loaded pretty fast.
I was Able to duplicate the entire appearance 100 percent in GeneratePress in under an hour. And as you can see it loads even faster! Amazing. I was able to get rid of a few plugins that weren't needed due to GP.
I was Able to move everything over and get it looking just how I wanted it in under one hour. And as you can view it loads even faster! Amazing. I managed to eliminate a total of four plugins and it dropped my total page burden 2x!
I can't express my Excitement about finding GeneratePress and I am moving over all my websites for this (which includes some EDD e-commerce sites). Once I have my 9 websites all running in GP without any child themes, my life is going to be a breeze! The developer has restored my faith in multi-purpose subjects , and that when done the right way, can actually perform faster.
GeneratePress Is the ideal option for performance-focused users who wish to have the ability to personalize and control precisely how their site looks.
Even though GeneratePress is becoming a great deal easier to use, as a result of its pre-built Site Library, GeneratePress still seems very barebones if you initially install it.
So To make GeneratePress look how you would like it to, you'll almost certainly will need to go in and personalize matters. And while the significant benefit of GeneratePress is how customizable it is, some users, especially casual users, do not like having to make those changes themselves.
Here Are a few of the specific features that clarify why GeneratePress is so popular.
The Free variant of GeneratePress gives you adequate options, but if you own GeneratePress Premium, you will have the ability to customize nearly all about your site.
All In all, GeneratePress will give you much more customization choices in the WordPress Customizer compared to most other topics. This amount of detail may be a little overwhelming if you're a beginner. But once you understand how the settings come together, you'll have complete control on how your site looks.
Across All its attributes, GeneratePress consistently has a focus on exceptional performance and tidy code. The entire theme is less than 30 kB, which will be about as little as you are ever going to find for a WordPress theme. Even most other optimized WordPress themes are still 200+ kB. And a few badly coded themes can even exceed 1 MB!
To Remain lightweight, GeneratePress also gives you a modular interface where you can select and choose exactly which characteristics you would like to activate.
In The last, you needed to construct GeneratePress sites from a blank canvas regardless of what, which made the motif difficult for casual users to install.
Earlier In 2018, however, the developer added a fresh Website Library feature for GeneratePress Premium users that allows you easily import any one of those 25+ pre-built demonstration websites .
With Most themes, every post and page will use the very same settings for the most part. You might have some custom formats or templates — but you do not have very much control beyond that.
Nevertheless, If you are seriously interested in using GeneratePress, I feel you need to purchase the GeneratePress Premium plugin, as that is what makes the theme so flexible. The free version does not give you nearly as numerous settings in the WordPress Customizer. And you will also lose out on the premade Site Library.
GeneratePress Premium can be still quite reasonably priced. It costs only $39.95, and that provides you use on infinite websites . You will also get a 40% discount if you would like to renew to continue receiving support and updates following the initial year (you can, obviously, keep using GeneratePress following the initial year without beating — you won't get any more updates).
But If you're ready to spend time altering settings, GeneratePress' mode controls give you the flexibility to flip it into any sort of WordPress website. Or, you may even have the ability to locate a starter website that fits your needs to save some time.
Additionally, It is one of those fastest-loading WordPress topics that you will find. So if you're seeking the best performance possible, using GeneratePress as your WordPress site's foundation is a great decision.