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Continuing the ASF-project The Sinaitic Glagolitic Sacramentary (Euchologium) Fragments (P19608), this project continues the interdisciplinary collaboration of the Institute of Slavic Studies (ISS), University of Vienna (humanities), the Computer Vision Lab, Vienna University of Technology (computer scientists) and the Institute of Science and Technology in Art (ISTA), Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (chemists).
It is devoted to the recording, investigation and critical and facsimile edition of several newly detected Glagolitic manuscripts from St. Catherine's monastery on Mt. Sinai (Sin. slav. 1/N, 3/N-5/N) and the comparative analysis of the whole Sinaitic Old Church Slavonic collection (10th-11th/12th c.), on the one hand, and the further development and application of new technical means for the preservation, investigation and virtual restoration of (damaged) written cultural heritage and its access for the research community, on the other.
In this joint venture three complex results are to be expected:
1. editions and comparative data of the relevant documents (codicology, palaeography, graphemics, and material);
2. improved imaging devices and new computer-programmes for the preservation, analysis and restoration of (damaged) written sources; and
3. the solution of the "Sinaitic Glagolitic Enigma", i.e. new insights in the literary, ecclesiastic and overall cultural history of the Slavs and their connections with the Christian Orient.
- Languages: German, English, Russian, Bulgarian
- Countries: Austria – and cooperations with Russia, Bulgaria, Slovakia, UK, Greece, Italy, et.al.
- Duration: 2011/02/01-2014/01/31
- Keywords: palaeoslavistics, paleography, codicology, graphematics, digital imaging, image enhancement, document analysis, multispectral imaging, toolbox for manuscript analysis, material analysis
- Funding: Austrian Science Fund (project number: P23133)
Project Head: Heinz Miklas (ISS)
Robert Sablatnig (VUT), Manfred Schreiner (ISTA)
Melanie Gau (VUT), Fabian Hollaus (VUT), Dana Hürner (ISS), Gunn Pöllnitz (ISTA), Willi Vetter (ISTA)
Links and references
- Publications [1]
- Manuscript: Collections of ancient and medieval Slavonic and Russian texts [2]
- NEWS: Publication announcement of 1st volume of the "Glagolitica Sinaitica" series (with special thanks to the Holzhausen Publishing House) [3]
- Publication Announcement Faksimile Edition of Psalterium Demetrii Sinaitici [4]


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I got an email a few days ago from Wet Seal saying their clearance was an additional 30% off. Woot Woot! So I went on their website and here are the things I got.. just waiting their arrival in the mail. OH! Also I found a coupon online if you order anything over $15 you get free shipping use promo FREE09.(oh and btw it's good all the way till the end of december! :)
Bow skirt in black. $9.09
Black smock waist skirt $9.09
And of coursse... graphic tee "I Love my cupcake" :)
Whooping $29! Can't wait for the stuff to come in... I'll do my Haul part 2 tomorrow, it's way to hot here, I can't move without sweating.. lol


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Conference Paper
"The Low Band Observatory (LOBO): A VLA-based Radio LSST for Continuous, sub-GHz Observations in the LSST Era", in AAS Meeting #223, 2014.,
"The Low Band Observatory (LOBO): Expanding the VLA Low Frequency Commensal System for Continuous, Broad-band, sub-GHz Observations", in AAS Meeting #225, 2015.,
"Low Frequencies on the NRAO VLA and the NRL VLA Low Band Ionospheric and Transient Experiment (VLITE)", in IAU General Assembly, Meeting #29, 2015.,
"A new era for low frequency Galactic center transient monitoring", in Proc. IAS, 2013.,
"A Next Generation Low Band Observatory: A Community Study Exploring Low Frequency Options for ngVLA", 2017.,
"The Path from VLITE to ngLOBO: A Roadmap for Evolving a Low Frequency Commensal System from the JVLA to the ngVLA", in AAS Meeting #231, 2018.,
"Searching for MHz Transients with the VLA Low-band Ionosphere and Transient Experiment (VLITE)", in American Astronomical Society, 2018.,
"Surveying the Sky at Low Frequencies with the Commensal VLITE System", in AASTCS5 Radio Exploration of Planetary Habitability, Proceedings of the conference 7-12 , Palm Springs, CA., 2017.,
"Update on the Commensal VLA Low-band Ionosphere and Transient Experiment (VLITE)", in AAS Meeting #229, 2017.,
"VLITE meter-wavelength detection of MAXI J1820+070 at 339 MHz", presented at the 04/2018, 2018.,
"VLITE meter-wavelength detection of V404 Cyg at 341 MHz", in Astronomer's Telegram, 2015.,
"The VLITE Post-Processing Pipeline", in AAS Meeting #231, 2018.,
"VLITE Surveys the Sky: A 340 MHz Companion to the VLA Sky Survey (VLASS)", in American Astronomical Society Meeting #231, 2017.,
"VLITE-Fast: A Real-time, 350 MHz Commensal VLA Survey for Fast Transients,", in merican Astronomical Society Meeting #231, 2016.,
Journal Article
"Exploring the Transient Radio Sky with VLITE: Early Results", The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 832, no. 1, 2016.,
"Observations of the ionospheric impact of M-class solar flares on local and hemispheric scales", 2015.,
"A radio counterpart to a neutron star merger", Science, vol. 358, no. 6370, 2017.
"The VLA Low-band Ionosphere and Transient Experiment (VLITE)", American Astronomical Society, 2018.,
"The VLA Low-band Ionosphere and Transient Experiment (VLITE): A Commensal Sky Survey", Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, 2016.,
"The VLA Low-band Ionosphere and Transient Experiment (VLITE): A Commensal Sky Survey", Proceedings of Science, 2015.,


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First and foremost, I'd like to finish citing my family tree. A couple years ago, I was asked by a cousin I met through Ancestry message boards about information on my tree. I went to my tree to give him the citation and it wasn't there. I sat there scratching my head asking myself, "Now how the heck did I come to that conclusion?" I was eventually able to find my source and forward the information to him, but I was frustrated it took so long and I hate disorganization. I started poking around my tree and realized that I hadn't cited so much from my early years doing genealogy and the result was UHG-A-LEE! So I decided to start over. Scary and not something any of us want to do, but it had to be done. I printed out a list of everyone in my tree and I've been going through it when I have free time and making sure each person in there has a citation and that my conclusions are valid. If there's no source information in there for someone, they're out of the tree.
Which brings me to my next resolution...to find more time for genealogy. Cub Scouts and PTA (mostly PTA) have taken an absolutely obscene amount of my time. I've blogged about this before and it's just so frustrating to not be getting any farther in my aspirations of becoming a professional because of volunteer obligations. They won't go away completely. I love Cub Scouts and feel that it is ultimately beneficial to my boys. We've got a great Pack too which makes the energy spent on Scouting completely worth it. The PTA, well, I'm a huge supporter of the PTA, but most everyone (including some teachers, sadly) aren't. This is the last year that I can be the President. Elections will be in April and then I'll volunteer or perhaps run for a smaller position. I could never walk away from something that benefits my children and their school (boy if everyone only felt that way, things would be so much easier!). I still shouldn't have as much to do as I do now, so hopefully that will give me the time I desire.
Fourth? I want to create a website for my family's genealogy. I've seen so many great family sites and I've become motivated to do just that. Not sure how I want it to look yet. I normally wait for an epiphany with stuff like that, so this one might be a tough one!
Fifth, I want to use my new family tree software! I picked up Legacy's Family Tree software at the NGS conference, but didn't want to transfer my .gedcom over until I finished going through my data. I hope to be enjoying that purchase soon!
Last, I want to keep up with my blogging. I'm usually pretty good at getting at least 3 or more posts out each week, but I'll admit to slacking off now and then. Never too long, but I don't feel my best when I don't give my blog the love it deserves. Blogging makes me think. Even when posting a tombstone, my instinct it to try to find out all the information I can about it and put that up with the post. I start thinking and working on just that one person (or couple) and many times I come to some new conclusions or make completely new discoveries. My blog isn't just for the sake of posting (and I'm sure all of you feel the same), it's here so I can make connections with others researching the same lines, it's there to help me work through problems, and it's here so I can connect with fellow geneabloggers who have been extremely helpful with their comments and suggestions!
Well, I guess that's it for this year. Start slow. Six resolutions. Not too bad. I'm not resolving to break through any brick walls that. I'll save that for next year when I've completed resolution #1. I don't know what my high-priority brick walls are until then!
I'll take a look back at these when the world doesn't end in December 2012 and see what I've accomplished. Thank you all for reading and have fun tending those roots in the new year!


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Article by: Will Brown
The East Georgia State College Bobcat baseball team has not been able to put it all together, but as the season draws to a close, they have a chance to make another late season push and make the playoffs.
The Bobcats currently stand at 10-27 on the season and 3-17 in the conference, but they are still not mathematically out of the race and play Andrew College three times, South Georgia four times, and West Georgia Tech four times over the last 11 games.
Those are the three teams right ahead of the Bobcats and if they can take all the series, they could make the conference playoffs despite struggling for most of the season. The Bobcats have played Andrew College once, losing by a score of 10-0. They haven't played either South Georgia or West Georgia Tech.
The Bobcats have generally played close in their losses, just not quite able to get the big hit or make the play in the field to get them a win. If the bats get hot and the pitching does what it's done for most of the season, the Bobcats could make the conference tournament, where anything could happen.


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Plaintiffs in Calif. marriage case marry
SAN FRANCISCO — The lead plaintiffs in the U.S. Supreme Court case that overturned California's same-sex marriage ban tied the knot at San Francisco City Hall on Friday, about an hour after an appeals court cleared the way for same-sex couples to obtain marriage licenses for the first time in 4 1/2 years.
State Attorney General Kamala Harris presided at the wedding of Kris Perry and Sandy Stier, of Berkeley. The couple sued to overturn the state's voter-approved gay marriage ban along with Jeff Katami and Paul Zarrillo, of Burbank, who planned to marry Friday evening at Los Angeles City Hall.
"They have waited and fought for this moment," Harris said. "Today their wait is finally over."
Harris declared Perry, 48, and Stier, 50, "spouses for life," but during their vows, they took each other as "lawfully wedded wife."
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals had issued a brief order Friday afternoon dissolving a stay it imposed on gay marriages while the lawsuit challenging Proposition 8 worked its way through the courts.
Sponsors of California's same-sex marriage ban said the appeals court's decision was "disgraceful."
Anthony Pugno, general counsel for a coalition of religious conservative groups, called the 9th Circuit's order an "outrageous act" by judges and politicians determined to overturn Proposition 8.
He called the court's decision an "abuse of power to manipulate the system and render the people voiceless."
The Supreme Court ruled 5-4 Wednesday that the sponsors of California's voter-approved gay marriage ban lacked authority to defend the measure in court once Harris and Gov. Jerry Brown refused to do so.
The decision lets stand a trial judge's declaration that the ban, approved by voters in November 2008, violates the civil rights of gay Californians and cannot be enforced.
Under Supreme Court rules, the losing side in a legal dispute has 25 days to ask the high court to rehear the case. The court said earlier this week that it would not finalize its ruling in the Proposition 8 dispute until after that time had elapsed.
It was not immediately clear whether the appeals court's action would be halted by the high court.


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|Sesame Street
|Big Bird and Snuffy go shopping with Maria and Luis
|Air date
|January 2, 1991
|Season 22 (1990-1991)
|Written by
|Cathi Rosenberg-Turow
|Big Bird and Mr. Snuffleupagus visit Maria at the Fix-It Shop. She needs to go inside to find her screwdriver, and tells them to answer the phone if it rings while she's inside. The phone does ring, but Big Bird and Snuffy argue over who will answer the phone, until it stops ringing. They realize they've made a mistake, and the next time it rings, Big Bird insists that Snuffy go first, and vice versa...and the phone stops ringing again.
|When it rings for a third time, Big Bird decides to pick up the phone while Snuffy answers it. Maria comes outside and takes the call, which is from Luis (who called two times earlier). She says she'll meet him at the supermarket, and Big Bird and Snuffy ask if she'll let them follow her there. Before that happens, someone has to call Snuffy's mommy and tell her where he's going...but who's going to do that?
| A man laughs out loud as an alligator uses the telephone to call his wife - then he eats the phone booth.
(First: Episode 1113)
|"Rollin' on the River"
| Ernie & Bert — At night, Ernie gets creative inspiration to write a poem about what he likes, but has trouble with finding a word that rhymes with "dirt".
(First: Episode 2399)
| Men in boxes sound out the word RUN.
(First: Episode 0369)
|At the supermarket, Maria and Luis tell Big Bird and Snuffy that they have to be careful walking down the aisles - but they're already aware of that.
|Snuffy walks up and down an aisle (as his theme plays) to show how careful he is, and when he succeeds, he jumps for joy...which knocks down some cans.
| A real Indian boy tells two boys who are playing Cowboy and Indian that Indians don't say "ugh". The other kids tell him that they heard the expression on TV.
(First: Episode 0771)
| Herry Monster sings "Two Heads Are Better Than One."
(First: Episode 1447)
| A girl goes to school somewhere in Africa. We see the girl getting ready to go to school, as she washes herself and brushes her teeth, puts on her clothes, brushes her hair, and takes her lunch, all with some help from her mother. We see her walking past her neighbors and watching her classmates play outside as she arrives at school. The bell rings and the girl enters the school, where the teacher is passing out chalk to her students. We see the teacher teaching the students the English words: "a boy", "a girl", "a man", "a woman", which she has written on the board, along with a drawing for each word. The students repeat the words, then write them down on their individual chalkboards as we hear the girl remark, "We are learning to read and write." The students then jump up and down, as the teacher looks on, smiling. Next, we see the students jumping outside excitedly, now that school has finished.
(First: Episode 2658)
| Speech Balloon: I for Island.
(First: Episode 0314)
| Elmo bumps into Kermit the Frog on the way to the post office, begging to help him with one of his demonstrations, during which the post office closes - a perfect prompt to demonstrate closed.
(First: Episode 2473)
| "Animal Elevator": 1-10
(First: Episode 2530)
|Big Bird and Snuffy love to push the shopping cart when they go to the supermarket, but they get into an argument over who will push it today. They quickly realize that they have to cooperate, and ask Maria and Luis for a turn.
|Big Bird takes his turn first, and then Snuffy takes his turn...but he whacks the cart with his snuffle, and it rolls around a corner and makes another mess. Now they have to decide who gets the cart...but while they modestly hand the duty back and forth, Maria and Luis go for it instead.
| "Cooperation" - a reggae song about a group of animals who wash a car together.
Artist: Michael Sporn
(First: Episode 2139)
| Grover waits in line at a supermarket. He generously lets two people go in front of him, but then explains that you can't always let everyone go before you, or else you'll never get to the register yourself. When he finally gets to the register and is first in line, the cashier says the register is closed. Grover considers following a customer to a pickle party.
(First: Episode 1939)
| Number creatures 18
(First: Episode 2668)
| Two girls walk on an island together, and a map of the island is shown.
(First: Episode 2650)
| Name That Food ("Will you eat it?")
(First: Episode 1491)
|Big Bird remembers that there's a new birdseed cereal he wants to try, "Captain Birdflake". He wonders if he should get the big box or the small box. If he gets the big box, he'll be fortunate if he likes it, but if he doesn't, he'll think he should have got the small box (which would only be enough for one bowl). He eventually decides on the big box, in case the other birds want to try it.
|Snuffy is taking home a small box of his cereal of choice, "Snuffleupagus Puffs." Of course, the small box is bigger than Luis, who carries it.
| Things say that other things are small, but then something comes along that's bigger, or smaller, or whatever.
(First: Episode 0320)
This airing omits the part where the gorilla falls backwards.
| "Cereal Girl"
(First: Episode 2687)
| An I-beam is molded at a steel factory as heavy industrial-type music underscores the action. The segment ends on a video freeze of the finished beam, which is shaped like the letter "I."
(First: Episode 1077)
| Shooting stars form the letter I/i.
(First: Episode 2218)
| Dicky Tick hosts "Lifestyles of the Big and Little".
(First: Episode 2206)
| Geronimo 10-0: Instead of a parachute, she has a helicopter propeller.
(EKA: Episode 2363)
|Muppets / Celebrity
| Susan Sarandon learns the Meryl Sheep method of acting: switching emotions while saying the alphabet.
(First: Episode 2567)
| Alphaquest: R
Running down a road past a rabbit, a radio, some rocks, and a rainbow.
(First: Episode 2726)
| An orange ball tries to pet a green ball, which growls, scaring him away.
(First: Episode 2118)
| Biff and Sully are about to start work, when Biff realizes that he forgot his portable radio. He tells Sully not to start work until he comes back with it, but every time he's about to leave, he hears Sully doing a different kind of construction work. Sully's noisy building results in a piano, which Sully plays as Biff works.
(First: Episode 2120)
| A green man demonstrates dark and light.
(First: Episode 1129)
| A montage of the evolution of mechanical technology, from wind-up toys, to robots that can spell "SESAME STREET" with blocks, to satellite transmitters.
Music: Joe Raposo
(First: Episode 2226)
| R for rhinoceros, raquet, robot
(EKA: Episode 2443)
| "Readers of the Open Range"
(First: Episode 2141)
| The Bellhop is told that somebody at table 18 has a phone call, and after he struggles to get to the table, he is told to take a message.
(First: Episode 2549)
|As Big Bird and Snuffy eat their cereal in Big Bird's nest area, the closing music begins, and they realize it's time to say goodbye. They argue over who will do it, and eventually decide to mention the sponsors together at the same time.
|Previous episode:
|Next episode:
|Episode 2782
|Episode 2784
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I'm in an ongoing conversation with a teacher/friend about gender and identity. She shared how her 5 year old son is very into the notion that "colors are for everyone" lately. No "boy colors" or "girl colors." Any color for any person.
In talking about Q and how confining sex and assumptions around gender can be, she suggested the notion (which was really suggested by this wise 5 year old, but not in so many words) that gender is for everyone. As in, any gender for any person. Or every gender for every person. Or whatever gender anyone wants. No restrictions based on stereotypes. It came from the suggestion, by said wise 5 year old, that on a particular day when he was hanging out with Q and folks kept thinking Q was a girl, that maybe, in fact, he WAS a girl that day. None of us really know, he suggested. So wise. And so doable inside of the notion that gender is for everyone. So, I'm going with this conceptualization. I like it and am using it.


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Katniss and Peeta get ready for their victory lap across the Districts of Panem. Two new posters from The Hunger Games: Catching Fire show the dazzling winners out on the town. And a metal thing. We're actually not sure what that is, at all. A different cornucopia? Art? Can someone help us with this? Either way the two kids look great in this very 1930s social realism poster. Can't wait for the beach battle!
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Thanks for the upload! Man you done something gorgeous
thanks, I tried
Skin Material 2.0 16x9
Minor changes:
- rewind is now more responsive
- new icon folders
- the frame covers in portrait orientation
- the color of the button play/pause
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Skin Beats 2.0 16x9
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These are fantastic. Can you upload your project folder for one of the apple ones? i want to see how this skinning thing works (slash see if I can make a convincing album art backdrop behind all that white space).
Thanks) To change something you will fail, because the skin is collected by the program SkinDesigner.exe and strictly according to the template from the file skindef.skindef and *.txt and images (buttons, rewind, cover). They can only set the coordinates, size and color. The maximum that is possible is to redraw the buttons and replace noart. What is the functionality inherent in the SkinDesigner is known only to the CREATOR . You can try brute force to guess the hidden commands, but navryatli functions laid wider than at the moment. Sorry for the inaccurate translation, Yandex)
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thanks! i've been playing around with it a bit. way more fun learning this way hehe.


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Back in March we learned that Ridley and Tony Scott would be producing a mini-series adaptation of Kate Mosse's best-selling novel Labyrinth, and now we finally have word on the cast coming together for the project. THR reports John Hurt (V for Vendetta) has just signed on to star in the project with Sebastian Stan of (Captain America: The First Avenger), Katie McGrath (Syfy's Merlin) Emun Elliott (Game of Thrones) also signed on along with British actors Janet Suzman (Nicholas and Alexandria), Jessica Brown-Findlay (Downton Abbey), Vanessa Kirby (The Hour) and Italian actress Claudia Gerini (The Passion of the Christ). That's an interesting assembly of talent for a mini-series that will likely get attention come Emmy time next year. The project is in the hands of director Christopher Smith (Black Death) working from a script by Primeval writer Adrian Hodges, and production is slated to begin in France next month. For a full synopsis of the novel, hit the jump.
Here's the synopsis:
In the present, Alice Tanner, a volunteer at a French archaeological excavation, stumbles across the skeletal remains of two people in a cave, as well as a ring with an intricate labyrinth engraved on it. Her discovery attracts the attention of two unsavory figures: Paul Authie, a sinister police inspector, and Marie-Ceile de l'Oradore, a wealthy, powerful woman. When the ring that Alice discovered and the friend that invited her out on the dig both disappear, Alice begins to fear for her safety. Interlinked with Alice's story is that of 17-year-old Alais, newly married to a handsome chevalier and living in thirteenth-century Carcassonne. The threat of French invasion grows every day, but Alais and her father are more concerned with protecting three sacred books that reveal the secret of the Grail. The Crusaders want the books, but two people much closer to home are working against Alais and her father, desirous of the promise of eternal life that the Grail offers.


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Splendid Sand Art by Sudarshan Patnaik
Twenty two year old Sudarshan Patnaik was the first to introduce "Sand Art" form on the beach in India. The striking sand art and sculptures shaped by Sudarshan Patnaik on Puri Beach have been widely cherished by people across the world. The sculptures are shaped based on different concepts. People in large number visit Puri to take a glimpse of the magnificent and splendid art by Sudarshan. Puri, also known as "Abode of Lord Jagannath", is a place 70 kms away from Bhubaneswar, the capital city of Orissa State, India.
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The Canvas Klatch is an online office hour for the course Introduction to Teaching with Canvas by @ONE.
This is an office hour, so whoever attends directs the conversation. Previous sessions have covered how to complete course assignments and therefore serve as overviews of how to use various tools in Canvas. This session is scheduled during the second week of a four-week class, so it's like we're grinding the beans.
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Esi Visual Environment v10.0 (x86/x64) | 1.97 GB
Visual-Environment- an integrated suite of pre- and post-processor that can work together or alone, in general, among other products ESI Group
Visual-Mesh is a complete meshing tool which supports CAD Import, 2D and 3D Meshing and Editing features. Some of the features which work on 'mesh only' will be available in Visual-Crash PAM context. Visual-Crash PAM (VCP), which is one of the contexts in Visual-Environment, provides PAM-CRASH users with fast iteration and rapid model revision process, from data input to visualization for crashworthiness simulation and design. This environment provides quick model browsing, advanced mesh editing capabilities and rapid graphical assembly of system models. VCP allows graphical creation, modification and deletion of contacts, materials, constraints, control cards and all crash entities. In VCP, you are provided with tools for checking model quality and simulation parameters prior to launching calculations with the Solver. Using these tools helps in correcting errors and fine-tuning the model and simulation before submitting it to a solver, thus saving time and resources.
Visual-Safe is a context in Visual-Environment, dedicated to Safety utilities. High productivity tools such as advanced dummy positioning, seat morphing, belt fitting and airbag foding are provided in this context.
Visual-Safe MAD (VSM) is a complete, efficient and productive CAE environment for multi-body and finite element occupant safety simulations using Madymo. It utilizes the multi-window / multi-model / multi-application environment of Visual-Environment very efficiently. It provides complete flexibility of working for both the experienced and the novice Madymo users alike. It incorporates a vast database of customer requirements and feedback gathered over a decade.
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Visual-Viewer is completely command driven which enables the user to execute commands at ease. Visual-Viewer is completely built on multi-page and multi-plot environment. The user has the freedom to create any number of pages and to have upto 16 windows in a single page. These windows can be plot, animation, video, model or drawing block windows. The entire snapshot of the product can be saved as a template and restored any time.
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+ Golden Apple funding denied
The Downtown Improvement District unanimously voted March 30 to deny the Golden Apple Dinner Theatre's request for a $144,000 loan. However, the board said it was committed to help the dinner theater in other ways.
Three weeks ago, the Golden Apple's owners, Robert and Roberta Turoff, asked the DID board for assistance, because the construction of the Palm Avenue parking garage and Five Points roundabout would take away most of their customer parking.
The Turoffs feared that if they didn't get a loan for things, such as advertising the available parking spots, they would be forced to permanently close.
"Our phone activity has dropped more than 30% since articles about the construction (were published)," said Robert Turoff.
But DID members said their mission does not include giving money, which would amount to more than one-third of its annual budget, to individual businesses.
"We don't have $144,000 to loan anybody," said Ernie Ritz, DID vice chairman.
Two of Turoff's supporters, Mark Kauffman and John Harshman, countered that the ordinance that created the DID state that it is to help new and existing businesses with financial incentives.
But board members said they were more comfortable assisting the Golden Apple in the same way they're assisting all downtown business, including creating advertising that reminds people that businesses are open during the construction; coordinating valet parking with private lots, such as the one in Five Points Plaza; and assuring that sidewalks remain clean throughout the construction process.
Turoff learned that the loss of parking may not last as long as he anticipated. He was asking for a year's worth of funding, but road closures associated with the Five Points roundabout are only scheduled to last through July and August. The parking garage is scheduled to be complete in eight months.
Turoff said he was generally pleased with the DID's decision.
"I think it's positive," he said.
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• City Commission —
2:30 p.m. Monday, April 5, at
City Hall, 1565 First St. Sarasota
Contact Robin Roy at [email protected].


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A New York City neighborhood that has been neglected and avoided not that long time ago, Brooklyn now thrives in every way, especially when it comes to art. The Brooklyn Museum has been joined by a plethora of Brooklyn art galleries range from the avant-garde to more traditional. In recent years, the spectrum of Brooklyn art galleries has broadened to encompass work in a range of media created by artists that run the gamut from emerging to blue chip. Over the past two decades, Brooklyn proclaimed itself a cultural hot-spot for experimentation as creatives migrated in search of open spaces and economical rent. Now, the whole area probably sustains more artists per square foot than the Venice Biennale. Simply, no greater concentration of creatives, art organizations, art publications, alternative spaces, curators, galleries specializing in emerging artists and affordable-ish studios exists in the country. As a growing artistic chaos, Brooklyn responds to globally synced artistic trends and hosts many site-specific utopian projects, community art projects, and environmental projects, but it also accommodates strong communities of formal art. With such an amazing creative dynamism Brooklyn houses, the neighborhood is now on a NYC map of every art enthusiast out there.
With so many amazing galleries, one wouldn't even know where to start. This is why we have mapped out the best Brooklyn art galleries that should definitely put on your bucket list!
Featured images: Andy Romer Installation View, via pioneerworks.org; Watterlogged, installation view, Courtesy of Transmitter Gallery; Real Fine Arts, Maggie Lee - Fufu's Dreamhouse, installation view, via realfinearts.com; Closer Things, installation view. Courtesy of Sardine Gallery; City Limit Installation View. Courtesy of The Journal Gallery.
Located in Red Hook and situated in the building was first occupied by Pioneer Iron Works, one of the largest machine manufacturers in the United States, Pioneer Works Center for Arts and Innovation is dedicated to the creation, synthesis and discussion of art, science and education. It brings together artists, scientists and creative thinkers to collaborate outside the boundaries of traditional institutions. In order to nurture and support arts and culture, Pioneer Works hosts educational programming, exhibitions, publications, residencies, lectures and performances and presents a social hub for the inception and dissemination of art and ideas.
Featured images: Pioneer Works Gallery, via pioneerworks.org; Pioneer Works
Located in Bushwick area, Microscope Gallery was founded in 2010 by artists and curators Elle Burchill and Andrea Monti. Representing and promoting both emerging artists and pioneers of their art forms, the gallery specializes in the moving image, sound, digital and performance art through exhibitions and weekly events. Addressing the unnecessary divide between the white box setting of the gallery and black box of the screening/performance venue, the gallery provides a space for artists working with time-based arts to show their work in both contexts. Besides an exciting exhibition program, the gallery hosts a variety of screenings, performances, readings and lectures.
Featured images: Microscope Gallery, via bushwickbuzz.com; Marni Kotak - Mad Meds, installation view, via bedfordandbowery.com
An artist run gallery and studio founded by Simran Johnston, Zoe Alexander Fischer and Riley Storm, 99 Cents Plus Gallery aims to create and all-inclusive space in which the production, exhibition, and consumption of art and objects can exist under one roof. It shares its storefront gallery space with HANDJOB Gallery/Store curated by Zoe Alexander Fischer. It also serves as an active and productive art studio for Simran Johnston and Riley Strom (Plus one lucky resident).
Featured images: 99 Cents Plus Gallery, via greymagazine.com; 99 Cents Plus Gallery, via archinect.com
Founded by Michael Nevin a decade ago in New York's East Village, The Journal Gallery is now situated in a massive 3,500-square-foot space in the Williamsburg neighborhood in Brooklyn. It has served as an incubator for some of the art world's rising stars, but also as a generous open platform for undervalued mid-career masters. Before opening a gallery, Michale Nevin has started the zeitgeist-driving zine-turned-biannual arts magazine The Journal that continues to be one of the most relevant art magazines out there.
Featured images: Freedom Culture Installation View. Courtesy of The Journal Gallery; Peter Demos- Horizon, installation view. Courtesy of The Journal Gallery.
A contemporary art gallery founded in 2011 by Lacey Fekishazy and situated in a tiny venue in Brooklyn, Sardine focuses on working with emerging and mid-career artists in presenting solo exhibitions, small group shows and occasional limited editions by featured artists. Using their modest size as a key asset, the gallery provides a contemplative, intimate space that showcases carefully curated collections of work as well as immersive, site-specific installations. Among artists whose artworks have been featured in the gallery are Takeshi Arita, Jamison Brosseau, Maria Calandra, Holly Coulis, Andy Cross, Matthew F Fisher, Jaime Gecker, Jacob Goble, Michele Hemsoth, and Gabriel Hurier. Their philosophy is Art for Art's sake.
Featured images: Sardine Gallery, Closer Things, installation view. Courtesy of Sardine Gallery; Closer Things Installation View. Courtesy of Sardine Gallery.
Founded in 2014 by Rob de Oude, Carl Gunhouse, Sara Jones, Rod Malin, Tom Marquet and Mel Prest, Transmitter is a collaborative curatorial initiative based out of Brooklyn. The gallery's main focus is on programming that is multidisciplinary, international and experimental. In 2015, the curatorial team was joined by Jen Hitchings. Some of the artists whose artworks have been featured at the gallery are Lauren Adams, Robert Alan Grand, Jean Alexander Frater, Ben Alper, Todd Anderson, Ky Anderson, Phillip Andrew Lewis, Rosaire Appel, and Eve Aschheim, among others.
Featured images: Faulted Valley Fog Installation View. Courtesy of Transmitter Gallery; Publish or Perish, installation view. Courtesy of Transmitter Gallery.
Devoted to emerging young talents, Soloway describes itself as "a space created and run by artists." Founded by Tomer Aluf, Derek Franklin, Annette Wehrhahn and Emily Weiner, its name comes from a plumbing and heating business that used to occupy the storefront location. Past shows at the space include performance artist Aki Sasamoto, Brooklyn-based sculptor Graham Collins, and New York artist Munro Galloway.
Featured images: Soloway Gallery, via alfalfastudio.com; Soloway Gallery, via momentsound.com
Founded in 2008 by Bridget Donahue, Dridget Finn, Collen Grennan, and Erin Somerville, Cleopatra's was conceived as a space that wasn't dictated by professionalism and commercial value. As is not uncommon with such enterprises, the name was adopted from the previous tenant, a deli, with the faded letters still visible on the awning. The gallery has staged many idiosyncratic exhibitions featuring such artists as Irving Feller, a neighbor who owned a fur shop around the corner and made black-and-white drawings, and Cary Loren, a lyricist for the Detroit punk band Destroy All Monsters who once transformed the gallery's space into a lagoon.
Featured images: Cleopatra's Gallery, via saramagenheimer.com; Cleopatra's, A Summer Painting Show Installation View, via cleopatras.us
Founded by Lawrence R. Luhring and Roland J. Augustine, Luhring Augustine Gallery was founded in 1985 in New York with a principal focus on the representation of an international group of contemporary artists whose diverse practices include painting, drawing, sculpture, video, photography, and performance. Luhring Augustine Bushwick, the gallery's second location opened in 2012, houses an exhibition space for large-scale installations and long-term projects. Its exhibition schedule reflects the gallery's continued focus on an international program of contemporary art.
Featured images: Luhring Augustine Bushwick, via philiptaaffe.com; Luhring Augustine Bushwick, via sculpturecenter.com
Located under the BQE in the Greenpoint section of Brooklyn, Real Fine Arts is a gallery focused on contemporary art. It was founded in 2008 by artists and dealers Tyler Dobson and Ben Morgan-Clevelend who are managing the gallery even today. Be sure no to miss some of their upcoming exhibitions featuring pieces by artists such as Heji Shin, Whitney Clafin, Morag Kei, and Andrei Koschmieder.
Featured images: Real Fine Arts, via realfinearts.com; Real Fine Arts, via artnews.com
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News that Samsung is planning to hike up the price of its processors that it sells to Apple could well be false after a company official dismissed the reports.
At the beginning of the week we saw the Wall Street Journal quote a source who claimed Samsung was implementing the special 20 per cent price increase for Apple, but it looks like they may have got their facts wrong.
Seoul-based newspaper The Hankyoreh has spoken to an unnamed Samsung official who denied the Korean firm was pushing the prices up on components it sells to Apple.
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We were slightly surprised when we heard that Apple would be forced to pay the inflated price, without so much as a whimper from the usually boisterous Cupertino-based firm.
The official noted that price changes don't happen easily, and we'd be surprised if Apple would let Samsung get away which such a cheeky ploy.
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Pastoralists around the world are exposed to climate change and increasing climate variability. Various downscaled regional climate models in Africa support community reports of rising temperatures as well as changes in the seasonality of rainfall and drought. In addition to climate, pastoralists have faced a second exposure to unsupportive policy environments. Dating back to the colonial period, a lack of knowledge about pastoralism and a systemic marginalization of pastoral communities influenced the size and nature of government investments in pastoral lands. National governments prioritized farming communities and failed to pay adequate attention to drylands and pastoral communities. The limited government interventions that occurred were often inconsistent with contemporary realities of pastoralism and pastoral communities. These included attempts at sedentarization and modernization, and in other ways changing the priorities and practices of pastoral communities.
The survival of pastoral communities in Africa in the context of this double exposure has been a focus for scholars, development practitioners, as well as national governments in recent years. Scholars initially drew attention to pastoralists' drought-coping strategies, and later examined the multiple ways in which pastoralists manage risk and exploit unpredictability. It has been learned that pastoralists are rational land managers whose experience with variable climate has equipped them with the skills needed for adaptation. Pastoralists follow several identifiable adaptation paths, including diversification and modification of their herds and herding strategies; adoption of livelihood activities that did not previously play a permanent role; and a conscious decision to train the next generation for nonpastoral livelihoods. Ongoing government interventions around climate change still prioritize cropping over herding. Sometimes, such nationally supported adaptation plans can undermine community-based adaptation practices, autonomously evolving within pastoral communities. Successful adaptation hinges on recognition of the value of autonomous adaptation and careful integration of such adaptation with national plans.
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Rachel then started to direct me and we drove around for a while, dropping off the previous lesson and heading towards the next. I saw another review on yelp that said she spent most of the time looking at her phone...this was true for my lesson also and it was because she was using the maps to see where we were going. I understood at 1st but then quickly realized that it meant she wasn't really watching what I was doing and she didn't give me much feedback as we drove.
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Got my license with just 6 hour session from Pasadena DMV . Special thanks to my instructor George
Took a one hour lesson with George. I am an experienced driver but moved from overseas and needed to take the California test and George gave me great tips. I ended up passing at Pasadena DMV. They could improve on their car as well as booking options. I paid for the lesson one month in advance but couldn't book a lesson then because I wanted a lesson nearer my test date. Also, instructor was unaware my lesson was only for one hour instead of two which resulted in some delays. Nonetheless, the main driving lesson which is the most important part, went great.
After I got my permit I was determined to get my license as fast as possible. I learned about Viva through multiple alumni from my former high school. They all had great experiences with the service. Viva helped me learn the rules of the road and made me a safe/confident driver. I got my license in around 2 months by taking driving lessons every weekend. The instructors are very helpful and put you at ease if you are nervous to start driving. They also make sure you know everything you need to know for the driving test and for your future as a driver. 10/10 Would recommend.
I was lucky to get Racheal and Randy as my instructors! They did an amazing job! They were very detail-oriented and provided excellant tips not just to pass the test but also to become a life-long safe driver.
Awesome driving school. Very attentive to needs. Will schedule same instructor for each lesson if you so desire. Reasonable prices. They will take you on a practice run in area of DMV you are testing at. Not much notice needed for scheduling instruction. Nice cars as well. Attis was the best instructor. Should have used him for the 3rd rather than Bert, but... my son passed his driving test today. Thank you VIVA!!!!
Honestly depends on who you get.
For my lessons, I had Sam and Attis, who are great teachers. I would highly recommend requesting them. The only instructor I ever had issues with is Bert, who was completely unprofessional at times. For one of my lessons with him, he didn't offer much useful advice, and even requested that I park and wait for him for 10 minutes while he went to use the bathroom. That might not seem like a lot, but when you're paying $110 for only 2 hours (about a dollar per minute) it's incredibly unprofessional. My experience while driving with him was unpleasant and awkward, as every moment felt like he was just chastising me for doing something wrong, and he made no initiative to make conversation like the other instructors. Another instance I had with Bert was during my DMV road test. One would expect the instructor to show up early so that they could show you the route and give you extra practice. Imagine my anger and disappointment to learn that not only did he show up 20 minutes late, but he also didn't even know/was prepared to take me to my test. Had I not explicitly stated to him my test was for that day, he would have never taken me there. I never got to practice around the route, and we quickly went to the DMV without any prep. At the DMV while waiting, he forgot his instructors permit, and took his sweet time walking to the car to go get it. I was stuck waiting alone, letting others behind of me go first while I waited for him to come back. Needless to say, I failed my test because I forgot the route. A complete waste of $140.
However, the other instructors are incredibly nice, and offer great advice. For my third lesson, Attis showed me every spot student tended to fail in, and was very nice. For my first DMV test, the instructor (I think it was Randy) warned my about certain streets which had a speed limit that wasn't posted. He was incredibly nice, and it never felt awkward to drive with him. Considering it was only an hour before my test, he did a great job of preparing me while also making me feel comfortable. Even when I failed, he was there to comfort me by giving me hope and telling stories of other students. If you're gonna use this service, I recommend any of the other instructors!
Just finished the VIVA driving school course with George and passed by behind the wheel test in Arleta after three classes. The instructors are all very nice and super patient and tell you exactly what you need to do in order to pass the test. Their cars are easy to drive for beginners because they are small and easy to handle. Also, if you have a set driving test date you should let your instructor know beforehand so that he/she can take you to the course on your last day and show you what it will be like. Highly recommend!! Everybody is great and they make you feel like a comfortable driver in no time!
I just had my first driving lesson with Viva today and I'm feeling so good and empowered by my driving lesson. I had Rachel, who made me feel very comfortable and was easy to approach with any questions that I had. She was so personable and really easy going. I'm a very anxious driver and the lesson made a lot of my fears go away. I will be back for my second session soon, with Rachel! Thank you Viva for helping me feel more comfortable driving!
Randy is such an amazing driving instructor he made me feel very comfortable on the road and it was my very first time driving. I thought I'd have an insane panic attack but he was very patient and calm with me. He gave detailed instructions and let me know all the rules of the road. It was a very wonderful experience enough so that I'm coming for one more lesson before I finally take my driving test! (:
Took the test this month. Viva greatly helped me with my driving skills and made me more confident on the road. The staff is really helpful and attentive . Definitely recommended to all drivers and prospective drivers.
I hold a foreign driver's license and needed to re-take the California driving test. I went with the 2 hour exam package. Excellent experience, perfect package for my situation, and Sam, the instructor, was outstanding. Easy pass.
I really appreciate Viva driving instructor Randy. He was very professional, informative and patient with me. He's the best he's a 5 star driver instructor thanks Randy!!!!
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One of the instructors is mean and impatient. She also cuts lessons short and swears and has road rage. She was such a b*tch. I'm 21 and still don't have my license. All that b*tch did was take my money with her lazy ass.
I attended and had both Edwin and Randy as instructors and they were both very knowledgeable, professional and friendly. Previously I had had other instruction so I didn't stay the full course at VIVA but I would definitely recommend this school to anyone else looking to learn to drive and pass the driving test.Other conveniences:- Pay Online- They'll schedule your driving test for you if you are using their car for it (Pasadena or Glendale DMV only)- Pick-up for lesson and drop-off after at desired address(es)- School cars (Prius C) are nice and well-maintained
Wonderful, experience! ... Viva makes the driving test a simple task.
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I give 5 stars to Viva Driving School,Inc., the best Driving School in Pasadena and Los Angeles. I used Viva Driving Schools in Pasadena. For the first time, I found Viva Driving School from the website, I had felt already that Viva Driving School Inc., is very different with other Driving Schools. Feel it by yourself! Welcome and pleasant voice of Customer Service, in scheduling and checking what you need. The cars are brand new and nice.RANDY, my instructor during my driving practice with his deep knowledge, is very kind, patient, make me confident all the time.His lessons and words are very helpful and meaningful, and will be always remembered by me in my lifetime.I passed the Driving Test only 1 take. The first time.I STRONGLY RECOMMENDED Viva Driving School Inc., for everybody who has desire to pass the Driving Test and be a safe driver. I give 5 stars also to my instructor, RANDY. I recommend him. Viva!
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I was scared to go out on the road and start driving but with Viva I felt so confident! I was driven to take my test and PASSED! Definately recommend to anyone looking to pass on the first try.
VIVA is the best! I had both Glen and Sarah as instructors (from the Pasadena office). They definitely put me at ease for being an older student and were always calm and patient. Sarah was my instructor for the weeks leading up to my test, she's great company, and I passed on my first exam!! Bonus: the ladies in the office have great customer service. Thank you so much, VIVA!!
I am extremely satisfied with Viva Driving School!! Loren was my instructor and she was so positive and friendly and she encouraged me a lot!!
Overall the instructors have been good with my son (almost 16). We had to cancel a session and then had to scramble to get a new session before his drivers test--they were great in making that happen. Our younger son will go to Viva in a few years!
Viva's Driving schools is a great place to get driving instructions. It is easy to learn here and quick.
The instructors here are the best! I had Lorena as my driving instructor and she was very patient and really helped me learn and improve my driving skills.


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The Pittsburgh Steelers stood around as the Baltimore Ravens scored an inexplicable first-half touchdown. Then it was the error-prone Ravens who watched helplessly as the team they love to beat most came back to beat them when it mattered most.
Ben Roethlisberger hit rookie Antonio Brown on a 58-yard pass play on third-and-19, and Rashard Mendenhall scored from the 2 with 1:33 remaining to give the Steelers a 31-24 comeback victory over the Ravens in an AFC divisional playoff game Saturday.
The Steelers, 9-0 against division teams in the playoffs, advance to their fifth AFC championship game in 10 seasons next Sunday - at New England if the Patriots beat the Jets on Sunday, in Pittsburgh if the Jets win. They will be play to reach the Super Bowl for third time in six seasons.
"I saw the young fella just take off, so I'm just going to throw it up for you," Roethlisberger said of his throw to Brown, who wasn't even activated regularly until midseason.
The Steelers (13-4) were trailing 21-7 at halftime after turnovers created two Ravens touchdowns. But they came back with the help of three Baltimore turnovers in the third quarter. It was so bad, the Ravens' minus-4 yards in offense wasn't the worst of it.
Baltimore was outgained 263-126 as Joe Flacco was 16 of 30 for 125 yards as the Ravens became the eighth team in NFL playoff history to fail to gain at least 100 yards in the first three quarters. All eight teams lost.
The Ravens' last chance to beat the Steelers - they haven't in three postseason tries - ended when T.J. Houshmandzadeh dropped Flacco's fourth-down pass at the Steelers' 38 with 1:03 remaining.
Failing to protect the ball cost the Ravens - even after they scored two touchdowns in less than 30 seconds in the first half. Defensive end Cory Redding returned a Roethlisberger fumble for a touchdown that both teams thought was an incompletion, but that wasn't nearly enough on a day when the Ravens offense did so little.
"What better way to put the Ravens out of the tournament," Steelers wide receiver Hines Ward said. "They keep asking for us and we keep putting them out of the tournament. They're going to be ticked about this for a long time."
With Baltimore up 21-7, Ryan Clark forced a rare fumble by Ray Rice on a screen pass, and LaMarr Woodley recovered at the 23. The play re-energized the crowd of 64,879 that had grown silent as Baltimore opened its two-TD lead.


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The weekend's deadly storm outbreak in the Midwest may cost up to $1 billion, says RMS, and could rank as the most expensive of the top five catastrophes of its kind to have occurred in November since 1950.
"Sunday's big tornado outbreak is yet another atypical storm of what has been an unusual 2013 severe weather season," said Matthew Nielsen, RMS director and meteorologist in a statement. So far, the three largest tornado outbreaks of 2013 have occurred in January, October, and November, all outliers of the usual spring/summer peak.
More than 80 preliminary tornado reports were filed in relation to the storms that killed six people, as well as incidences of hurricane strength winds, heavy rain, lightning and large hail. The storm system affected as many as 10 states, including Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Missouri and Michigan.
State Farm spokeswoman Holly Anderson says the insurer has received 3,300 homeowners claims in Illinois, 1,900 in Idaho, 1,000 in Michigan, and 400 in Ohio as of Wednesday.
The greatest damage occurred in Illinois, where tornadoes and thunderstorms flattened entire neighborhoods. One EF-4 tornado in New Minden, Ill., was one of only 20 tornadoes of similar strength to occur during November since the middle of the last century.
In Chicago on Sunday, thousands of customers were left without power, an NFL football game was delayed, and flights were delayed at two major airports.
"It will be a week or two until there is a better sense of the losses," says Steve Bowen, senior meteorologist at Aon Benfield. "The main takeaway from Sunday's outbreak is that most of the major metropolitan areas in the Midwest were largely spared from extensive damage. Had one of those metro regions taken a direct hit, the level of devastation and losses would be even greater than what we're already seeing in some of the smaller communities impacted in Illinois and Indiana."
The weekend's storms were a turning point for an otherwise calm year for convective storms and tornadoes—previously, says the Insurance Information Institute (III), only 818 tornadoes were confirmed this year, the lowest annual count since 1988.
Now, however, there have been five severe weather outbreaks in the U.S., the third-highest total in the country's history behind the 2011 and 2012 seasons. The most expensive and deadliest single tornado outbreak occurred in May and devastated Moore, OK. which cost about $562 million in insurance payouts.
RMS says the magnitude and severity of Sunday's tornado outbreak was caused by unseasonably strong thermodynamic instability and strong wind shear. Spring and summer months are good hosts for storms because of their strong daytime heat. According to the III, nine out of the top 10 costliest U.S. tornadoes occurred between April and May. One occurred in October.
Winter deflects storms with acute sun angles, short days, and cooler temperatures—but late autumn provides strong upper level winds and sharp temperature contrasts.
Specifically, says Aon Benfield, the conditions that coalesced in supercell thunderstorms and long-track tornadoes on Sunday included a rapidly deepening surface area of low pressure in the Midwest/Great Lakes; moisture and heating ahead of the advancing cold front; the presence of an upper level trough; strong wind shear; and a vigorous mid-level jet stream with wind speeds in excess of 120 mph.
Furthermore, Sunday's storm was unique because of the geographic span of its tornado warnings, which reached Wisconsin and Michigan. RMS's Nielsen tells PC360 that the powerful Sunday tornadoes in Illinois may "go into the record books" as the second and fourth most northerly EF4s in November.
Nielsen says North American jet stream is further north than usual in 2013, leaving the storm-struck region vulnerable to another outbreak for another week or more, whereas average thunderstorm activity at this time of year occurs near Arkansas and Mississippi.
RMS says the storms highlight "the importance of capturing these types of events from a catastrophe modeling perspective, even if historical records don't."


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Gaia's instruments installed and ready for testing
The payload module of ESA's billion-star surveyor Gaia is integrated and ready for the next stage of rigorous testing it must undergo before launch next year.
Once in space, Gaia will make precise measurements of the positions and motions of a billion stars. The information will be used to create a 3D map of stars in our home Galaxy, the Milky Way, revealing information about its composition, formation and evolution.
This latest image shows the payload module in the Astrium cleanroom in Toulouse, France.
The module is covered in grey and silver multilayer insulation fabric that protects the spacecraft's optics and mirrors from the cold environment of space.
Nearest to the camera, the rear of one of Gaia's main telescope mirrors and one of the tertiary mirrors are visible. The second main mirror is just visible towards the back left of the image.
The blue panel seen below and to the right of the image is the Focal Plane Assembly with its charge-coupled device sensors.
This focal plane array will carry the largest digital camera ever built, with nearly a billion pixels.
The integration process included the Radial Velocity Spectrometer (seen below the smaller mirror), which will help to measure the motions of stars, and the Basic Angle Monitor, which will ensure that the separation angle between the two telescopes is monitored in order to make precise distance measurements of stars. All of the optical components were also carefully aligned.
The payload module will be mated to the service module, which houses units that provide resources such as thermal control, propulsion, communication, and attitude and orbit control, at the beginning of next year.
Gaia will be launched from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana at the end of 2013.


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Think of the Independent Spirit Awards nominations as the Iowa caucuses of the annual awards season race.
Tuesday morning's announcements of the 2010 Spirit nominees (as announced by Jeremy Renner and Eva Mendes), culled from the standouts among the 220 independent film submitted for consideration, shined a klieg-sized spotlight on a number of non-Hollywood studio films and performances. Along with the prestige of potentially claiming Film Independent's honors, the resultant profile bump for this year's crop of contenders – "Winter's Bone," "Black Swan," "127 Hours," "The Kids Are All Right," "Greenberg" and "Rabbit Hole" chief among them – positions the nominees well when it comes to their chances in other major awards derbies, including the Golden Globes and Academy Awards.
"Winter's Bone," the widely praised drama about an Ozarks teen navigating a bleak criminal landscape in hopes of saving her troubled family, led the Spirit pack with seven nominations, including Best Feature, Best Director (Debra Granik), Best Screenplay (Granik and Anne Rosellini, from Daniel Woodrell's novel), Female Lead (Jennifer Lawrence), Supporting Female (Dale Dickey), Supporting Male (John Hawkes) and Cinematography (Michael McDonough).
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Best Director nominees are Granik, Darren Aronofsky ("Black Swan"), Danny Boyle ("127 Hours"), Lisa Cholodenko ("The Kids Are All Right") and John Cameron Mitchell ("Rabbit Hole").
Actors ranging from established A-list Hollywood stars to newly discovered breakouts also found their footholds in the overall awards race with Spirit nominations.
In the Spirits' first-ever six-woman field of contenders, the Best Female Lead category includes Lawrence, Annette Bening ("The Kids Are All Right"), Greta Gerwig, ("Greenberg"), Nicole Kidman ("Rabbit Hole") and Michelle Williams ("Blue Valentine"). Vying for Best Male Lead are James Franco ("127 Hours"), Ben Stiller ("Greenberg"), John C. Reilly ("Cyrus"), Aaron Eckhart ("Rabbit Hole") and Ronald Bronstein ("Daddy Longlegs").
For supporting roles, the Best Supporting Female nominees are Dickey, Ashley Bell, ("The Last Exorcism") Allison Janney ("Life During Wartime"), Naomi Watts ("Mother and Child") and Daphne Rubin-Vega ("Jack Goes Boating"), while Best Supporting Male noms include Hawkes, Samuel L. Jackson ("Mother and Child"), Bill Murray ("Get Low"'), Mark Ruffalo ("The Kids Are All Right") and John Ortiz ("Jack Goes Boating").
Other Spirit Awards categories include Best First Feature, Best Screenplay, Best First Screenplay, the John Cassavetes Award (given to the best feature made for a budget under $500,000), Best Cinematography, Best Foreign Film, Best Documentary, and the Robert Altman Award, given to one film's director, casting director, and its ensemble cast (this year's honoree is "Please Give").
The 26th annual ceremony takes place Feb. 26, 2011 at 2 p.m. on the beach in Santa Monica, airing exclusively that night on IFC at 10 p.m. ET/PT.


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How are the diverse religious expressions of immigrants changing the landscape of American religion, culture and society, particularly Christianity?
Four scholars of religion will discuss the major demographic changes in the Christian world and the impact on the United States from 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 26, at the John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress. The panel will be moderated by Laurie Goodstein, national religion correspondent for The New York Times.
Free and open to the public, the program will take place in Room 119 on the first floor of the Thomas Jefferson Building, 10 First St. S.E., Washington, D.C. Tickets are not needed.
According to Wesley Granberg-Michaelson, the former general secretary of the Reformed Church in America and a distinguished visiting scholar at the Kluge Center in 2012, the energetic center of world Christianity has shifted to the non-Western world. Much of its impact on the United States is being mediated through immigrants.
The panel will focus on the interconnectivity of current world Christianity, immigration to the United States from the Global South, and the impact on American religion, particularly Christianity.
While at the Kluge Center, Granberg-Michaelson researched and wrote his latest book, "From Times Square to Timbuktu: The Post-Christian West Meets the Non-Western Church" (2013).
Scholars participating in the panel, in addition to Granberg-Michaelson, include Jehu J. Hanciles, Scott W. Sunquist and Virginia Garrard-Burnett.
Hanciles is the author of "Euthanasia of a Mission: African Church Autonomy in a Colonial Context" (2002) and "Beyond Christendom: Globalization, African Migration and the Transformation of the West" (2008). A professor at the Candler School of Theology at Emory University, Hanciles is a widely published author on issues related to the history of Christianity, notably the African experience. His current research aims to survey the history of global Christianity through the lens of migration.
Sunquist is dean and professor of world Christianity in the School of Intercultural Studies at Fuller Theological Seminary. An author of volumes on Asian Christianity, global Christianity and missiology, he is editor of "A Dictionary of Asian Christianity" (2001) and co-author of "A History of the World Christian Movement, Volume 1" (2001) and Volume II (2012).
Garrard-Burnett is professor of history and religious studies at the University of Texas-Austin, specializing in the religious history of Latin America with a focus on Protestantism and new religious movements. The author of several books, she most recently co-edited the "Cambridge History of Religion in Latin America."
Goodstein, the moderator, is national religion reporter for The New York Times, and previously held the same position at The Washington Post. She is a past recipient for the first-place award for Best In-Depth News Reporting on Religion from the Academy of Religion, the nation's largest academic association of religion scholars. Goodstein has received many top awards from the Religion Newswriters Association.
The event will be live-tweeted with the hashtag #WorldChris. For further information, visit www.loc.gov/loc/kluge/news/worldchristianity-2013.html.
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CRESTVIEW � Representatives from Fort Walton Beach and Tallahassee Confederate heritage organizations have added their thoughts amid some residents� concern about a rebel flag that flies over a Crestview memorial.
CRESTVIEW � Representatives from Fort Walton Beach and Tallahassee Confederate heritage organizations have added their thoughts amid some residents� concern about a rebel flag that flies over a Crestview memorial.
Speaking during Monday evening's City Council meeting, Jack Bonham, Fort Walton Beach Sons of the Confederacy�s past commander, said the flag flying over the William "Uncle Bill" Lundy memorial on the corner of East 1st Avenue and North Ferdon Boulevard honors all Americans.
"All Confederate flags are red, white and blue to show their patriotism for the United States of America," Bonham said.
He said removing the flag from the memorial would be a "slap in the face (to)... veteran soldiers who put their life on the line so you can live the way you do."
During the meeting�s public comment period, Graham Smith, heritage defense chief of the Sons of Confederate Veterans' Florida Division, said his group "is dedicated to preservation of heritage of the South."
He reminded the council that when the flag issue was raised 11 years ago, the council "unanimously dismissed it."
"Nothing about the symbolism about the flag flying over the monument for Pvt. William Lundy has changed since then," Smith said.
Smith said �hate groups� that �twist and misrepresent� the flag's meaning pain his organization.
Sabu Williams, speaking as president of the NAACP�s Okaloosa County chapter, said he had been among delegates raising concerns over the flag 11 years ago.
"The issues haven't changed. Feelings haven't changed. People still feel very offended by the flag," Williams said.
"It's so offensive to me because it's a battle flag. It represents Americans going into battle to kill other Americans."
Community activist Mae Reatha Coleman raised the issue during the Sept. 9 city council meeting when she said she wants the flag to come down because it divides the community.
Council president Robyn Helt said the issue will be officially raised during a future council meeting when city staff have prepared a report on the memorial and ownership of the property it stands on.
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