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Brad Baron likes to do it all, balancing many different theatrical disciplines.As a singer and actor, he is as equally at home in opera and operetta as he is in musicals and plays. Stage credits include: Artie (The House of Blue Leaves); Bedroň (Veselohra na Mostě); Don Pedro (Béatrice et Bénédict); Don Quixote (Man of La Mancha); Franz-Fritz (Flammentangel Kabarett, premiere); Fred Graham (Kiss Me, Kate); Jeff Douglas (Brigadoon); Leporello (Don Giovanni); The Soldier (Once Upon the Wind); Sweeney Todd (Sweeney Todd); Whitelaw Savory (Kurt Weill's One Touch of Venus); and Wilfred Shadbolt (The Yeomen of the Guard). He has appeared on stages with Bronx Opera, Des Moines Metro Opera, LSU Opera Theatre, Ohio Light Opera, Opera Louisiane, operamission, The Princeton Triangle Club, The Secret Opera, and more. He has also lent his voice to professional recordings like Albany Records' recording of Blossom Time as Moritz von Schwind. As a writer and director, he recently directed his play Last Ditch Playlist at Dixon Place. He has contributed works to the New Jersey One Minute Play Festival (#1MPF) and his one acts Homochondria and Queer Assumptions were mounted in the Rainbow Festival with the La Strada Ensemble Theater. While at Princeton University, he re-imagined Sophocles' Oedipus plays in an original drama In the Waste: A Theban Cycle. He maintains a very active social media presence. Namely, he is the founder of QueerForceX, a YouTube Gaming Channel dedicated to nerds and "gaymers" everywhere. Barihunks also awarded him "Best TwitterDiscovery" of 2015.Brad is a Masters of Music recipient from Louisiana State University and a graduate of Princeton University.For more, please visit www.brad-baron.com or follow him @BaronAsInRed directly.


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Working in arts education (theater & circus arts)
The Ruling Class, Young Frankenstein, Shot in the Dark, Pink Panther, Marat/Sade, Forbidden Zone, The Color of Pomegranates. Youtube:
Anything from the Marx Brothers and Bugs Bunny to Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker and Sergei Parajanov. I like arty stuff if it moves somehow, someway, and isn't taking itself too seriously. I also like when pianos fall out of windows and people slip on banana peels and fall directly into open manholes.
I can get into cooking when I'm doing it for others but I often astound myself with how simple nourishment can look.
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How to think about thinking.
How to teach about learning.
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Projections of global warming-induced impacts on winter storm losses in the German private household sector
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We present projections of winter storm-induced insured losses in the German residential building sector for the 21st century. With this aim, two structurally most independent downscaling methods and one hybrid downscaling method are applied to a 3-member ensemble of ECHAM5/MPI-OM1 A1B scenario simulations. One method uses dynamical downscaling of intense winter storm events in the global model, and a transfer function to relate regional wind speeds to losses. The second method is based on a reshuffling of present day weather situations and sequences taking into account the change of their frequencies according to the linear temperature trends of the global runs. The third method uses statistical-dynamical downscaling, considering frequency changes of the occurrence of storm-prone weather patterns, and translation into loss by using empirical statistical distributions. The A1B scenario ensemble was downscaled by all three methods until 2070, and by the (statistical-) dynamical methods until 2100. Furthermore, all methods assume a constant statistical relationship between meteorology and insured losses and no developments other than climate change, such as in constructions or claims management. The study utilizes data provided by the German Insurance Association encompassing 24 years and with district-scale resolution. Compared to 1971–2000, the downscaling methods indicate an increase of 10-year return values (i.e. loss ratios per return period) of 6–35 % for 2011–2040, of 20–30 % for 2041–2070, and of 40–55 % for 2071–2100, respectively. Convolving various sources of uncertainty in one confidence statement (data-, loss model-, storm realization-, and Pareto fit-uncertainty), the return-level confidence interval for a return period of 15 years expands by more than a factor of two. Finally, we suggest how practitioners can deal with alternative scenarios or possible natural excursions of observed losses.
1 Introduction
Winter storms represent one of the major natural hazards. Based on three decades of data (1982–2011) from the EM-DAT1 database (e.g. Guha-Sapir et al. 2012) extratropical storms account for a world-wide average of annual economic loss of USD 10.7 bn in 2011 prices. According to Kron et al. (2012), the cumulative world-wide losses 1980–2012 amount for USD 178 bn (2012 prices). For Europe, current estimates for a single 10-year event reach USD 7 bn (2006 prices), increasing up to USD 30 bn for events with a return level of once per 100 years (Schwierz et al. 2010). Changes in winter storm statistics related to global warming have been studied in several investigations, in particular referring to the Euro-Atlantic area (e.g. Ulbrich et al. 2009). Additionally, several studies indicate that losses from winter storms may increase in future decades over Western Europe (e.g. Donat et al. 2011a; Leckebusch et al. 2007; Pinto et al. 2012; Schwierz et al. 2010). Hence, winter storms clearly have the potential for a relevant global warming impact category. Further, the international debate on an adequate climate policy is shifting from a mitigation-oriented focus towards a broader perspective including more of the impact and adaptation side.2 With this aim, we suggest a new methodological approach for combining different impact assessment techniques and integrating the related measures of uncertainty. We suggest that the sequence demonstrated here for the special case of storm losses in Germany will be relevant for impact modeling in general.
Losses caused by European winter storms are particularly relevant for western and central European countries (e.g. Della-Marta and Pinto 2009; Haylock 2011; Leckebusch et al. 2007). Average annual storm-related insured losses to residential buildings in Germany add up to about EUR 1.1 bn (GDV 2012). The link between extreme wind speeds and induced insured losses is dependent on the spatial distribution of winter storm (hazard) intensities and the vulnerabilities of local buildings (e.g. Donat et al. 2011b; Prahl et al. 2012). As there is no unique mechanism quantifying the vulnerabilities which may differ between regions, the assessment of any 'winter storm intensity—loss'-relation must rely on statistical data. In that regard, insurance companies hold the most reliable and systematic records. Annual values of insured losses for Germany had been used in previous works (e.g. Leckebusch et al. 2007; Pinto et al. 2007). For the first time, the German Insurance Association (Gesamtverband der Deutschen Versicherungswirtschaft e.V., GDV) provided highly spatio-temporally resolved data on storm and hail losses from the German residential building sector for a scientific project. Currently, about 93 % of private buildings in Germany are insured. For that reason, we assume that the results derived from that dataset are representative for the sector as a whole.
In this article we provide a compilation of results from the project focusing on global-warming induced changes of winter storm losses over Germany based on ensemble projections with one coupled global climate model (GCM). At the same time, the subsequent methodological advancements are highlighted. The key sources of uncertainty are estimated in a causal chain from global warming projections to economic losses including the step of regionalization. We utilize three different approaches to regionalization of winter storms. As these approaches produce different results by applying different methodologies to one common driver (ECHAM5/MPI-OM1 GCM scenario runs), they constitute a 3-model ensemble in some sense. Basically, the three approaches correspond to dynamical downscaling, statistical downscaling, and a hybrid of dynamical and statistical downscaling. Firstly, the applied methods are described in more detail in the following Section, and specific results are given in Section 3. Secondly, we attempt a semi-quantitative discussion of all major uncertainties and, to a large extent, their synergetic effects along the causal chain, as outlined in Section 4. Thirdly, the uncertainties are evaluated based on both academic and stakeholder insurance industry standards. The implications of the latter are further incorporated into the summary in Section 5.
2 Data base and modeling approaches
daily loss values per district 1997–2007
annual loss and portfolio values per district 1981–2007
daily loss values per district 1984–2008 of a simulation of residential buildings losses from losses due to storm/hail/lightning in motor own damage insurance.
All methods use various reanalysis datasets for the representation of the current climate, namely NCEP/NCAR (Kalnay et al. 1996), ERA-40 (Uppala et al. 2005), and ERA-Interim (Dee et al. 2011). A 3-member ensemble3 of climate change experiments performed with the atmosphere-ocean coupled ECHAM5/MPI-OM1 (hereafter ECHAM5; Jungclaus et al. 2006) following the 20C (1860–2000) and the SRES A1B scenarios (2001–2100; Nakicenovic and Swart 2000) is used in this study. We focus on the period 1971–2000 for recent climate conditions, and for 2011–2040, 2041–2070, and 2071–2100 for future climate conditions.
For the dynamical downscaling (DD) approach, the storm events in Germany are identified using an impact model for storm damages (e.g. Klawa and Ulbrich 2003; Leckebusch et al. 2007; Pinto et al. 2007). The model translates wind speeds into loss, assuming that loss is induced when wind speeds exceed a minimum value, which is associated with the 98th percentile of local wind climate. Thus, a regional adaptation is assumed. Loss is increasing with the third power of normalized excess over this threshold. The storm loss model is calibrated with Reanalysis data and loss data from the GDV at the district scale (Donat et al. 2011b). Climate models produce their own wind climatologies, with inherent biases against observational data. Loss associated with the models' windstorms can, however, be estimated using the respective 98th percentile and normalized excess of storm wind speeds rather than their absolute values. For simulations of historical storms, the regional climate model COSMO-CLM (Rockel et al. 2008) with an implemented wind gust parameterization (see Born et al. 2012, for validation and more details) is used. Synthetic storms identified in the global model for recent and future climate conditions are also dynamically downscaled by the same RCM. In order to estimate uncertainties, 5 RCM ensemble runs are produced for each storm by shifting the spatial domain of the nesting region by 8 grid points (see Supplementary Material). This shift is resulting in equally valid developments of a storm, as there is no preferred predefined position of the nesting region. This should be distinguished from ensemble forecast generations, which aim to estimate the effects of variations in physics and in modifying the initial conditions with specific anomalies. For each simulation, the storm loss model is applied for making loss data available. This method will thus sample for the uncertainty of a specific storm situation from its dynamical aspects: Given the same forcing conditions, a different realization might exist and the real event is only one of multiple possible realizations. Further details can be found in the Electronic Supplemental Material, Section 1.
Statistical downscaling (SD) is performed by the statistical regional climate model STARS (STatistical Analog Resampling Scheme; Orlowsky et al. 2008). It calculates regional climate projections of daily meteorological variables for the next few decades. The model uses historical observations from weather stations and a prescribed future trend of a meteorological variable (in this case the annual mean of the air temperature, spatially distributed in the area of interest, here for Germany) in order to assemble a new meteorological data set that fulfills the trend prescription. Observed meteorological data associated with the trend variable are maintained, so temporal and spatial consistency in the future data set is assured. Because of the very modest demands in computational resources, the STARS model is able to simulate a large number of such data reassemblies, called realizations, for a given future trend of a meteorological variable.
The results of the global climate model ECHAM5 runs under scenario A1B forcing showed an average increase in temperatures of approximately 2.1 K has to be anticipated between 2011 and 2070. (This time period was selected because of the rule that the simulation period must not be longer than the observational period (Orlowsky et al. 2008).) However, spatially resolved temperature increases may differ from the average trend and were used as input for STARS. 1,000 realizations were generated. Using two further statistical methods (regression approach and analogue approach—for more information see Electronic Supplemental Material, Section 1) it was possible to estimate the future development of the loss ratios for winter storms based on the results of model STARS and the insurance data (Gerstengarbe et al. 2013).
The statistical-dynamical downscaling (SDD) method presents an alternative to purely dynamical or statistical approaches to determine the regional responses to climate change. SDD relies on regional modeling, on changes in frequencies of weather types, and on estimated statistical distributions of climate variables like wind (Fuentes and Heimann 2000; Pinto et al. 2010). The study uses NCEP/NCAR Reanalysis for the representation of storm-relevant weather classes following Leckebusch et al. (2008) under recent climate conditions (see Electronic Supplemental Material). In order to include the climate change signal, changes in the frequencies of weather classes between recent and future climate conditions as represented by ECHAM5 runs are considered. For storm-relevant weather classes, CCLM simulations of historical storms (Born et al. 2012) are conducted and considered as the dynamical part of this downscaling technique. The GDV loss data is used to calibrate a wind-loss relation in a parameter-free probabilistic relation using quantile regression. Unlike the dynamical approach, no RCM simulations for GCM storms are considered. Hence, the climate change signal is derived only from changes in the frequency of the storm-relevant weather classes and does not consider possible changes of intensity of singular events within a specific weather class. Further details can be found in the Electronic Supplemental Material.
Economic losses in the insurance sector are to a large extent influenced by extreme events that would appear at least once over the observational or projected period. Hence, the impact projections cannot be evaluated directly, but have to be extrapolated for less frequent events of even higher impact. We follow a standard approach, exploit the asymptotics of our extreme value statistic, and fit a Generalized Pareto Distribution (GPD, e.g. Coles 2001) to annual loss data (Donat et al. 2011b) of any 30-year period. Any GPD is characterized by three fit parameters that we determine as a maximum likelihood combination. Confidence intervals for 95% confidence levels are derived from the profile likelihoods following Coles (2001).
3 Results
Return levels of economic losses for given return periods
Return values in ‰ for various return periods
Return period
0,19 (+6 %)
0,23 (+28 %)
0,27 (+35 %)
0,24 (+20 %)
0,31 (+55 %)
0,24 (+20 %)
0,26 (+30 %)
0,28 (+40 %)
0,26 (−10 %)
0,34 (+17 %)
0,48 (+26 %)
0,40 (+5 %)
0,60 (+58 %)
0,26 (+18 %)
0,31 (+41 %)
0,32 (+45 %)
0,30 (−23 %)
0,43 (+10 %)
0,63 (+19 %)
0,49 (−8 %)
0,82 (+55 %)
0,27 (+23 %)
0,33 (+50 %)
0,33 (+50 %)
0,34 (−35 %)
0,54 (+4 %)
0,78 (+11 %)
0,57 (−19 %)
1,05 (+50 %)
0,27 (+17 %)
0,33 (+43 %)
0,33 (+43 %)
A suggestion for a re-interpretation of the previous Section in view of the mismatch of ECHAM5-temperature and observations (see Fig. 1 in the Electronic Supplemental Material)
Temperature discrepancy interpretation
Bias of ECHAM5 for Germany
Excursion of present-day climate against the mean
Downscaling method
Dynamical & statistical-dynamical
Time-shift all calculated impacts by 20 years to earlier dates.
Time-shift calculated present-day impacts by 20 years to earlier dates.
Statistical (STARS)
As only ECHAM5-trend, and not the absolute value is utilized, no correction is necessary.
Time-shift calculated future impacts by 20 years into the future.
Results indicate slightly higher return levels and shorter return periods of extreme losses under enhanced greenhouse gas conditions. However the observed changes are much smaller than the widths of most of the 95 % confidence intervals. (A confidence level of 95 % is often requested by practitioners.) Compared to 1971–2000, the return levels for a 10 year event increase by 6–35 % for 2011–2040, by 20–30 % for 2041–2070, and by 40–55 % for 2071–2100, respectively (cf. Table 1). Accordingly, the return period estimates for a 10 year return level are shortened, corresponding for example to 5.8–8.7 years for 2011-2040 (cf. right graph in Fig. 1 and Table 1 in the Electronic Supplemental Material). Concerning less frequent events, changes of return levels are of similar or larger order of magnitude as for a 10-year event: For example, the return level of a 25-year event may increase by 5–41 % and 45–58 % for the periods 2041–2070, and 2071–2100, respectively (Table 1). Note that the increase is not in all cases steady between the periods, and even changes of opposite sign are found for specific methods and periods. This fact is related to the presence of long term (decadal) climate variability superposed to the greenhouse gas signal: as single model simulations represent individual developments of (model-) climate, the respective return values will be strongly affected by such long-term variations. This is particularly relevant for the DD method (c.f. Section 4).
The confidence intervals of all three methods overlap in their projections. This is remarkable in the sense that the three methods are structurally very different. While the dynamical method is able to consider changes in intensity of storms under future climate conditions, the statistical method represents an optimal temperature-driven extrapolation of observational weather patterns, and the statistical-dynamical method considers changes of storm-prone weather types. In fact, maximum storm losses for current climate conditions are exceeded under future climate conditions, particularly in the last decades of the 21st century (Pinto et al. 2012, their Fig. 4d).
Overall the results show a modest increase in return levels and shorter return periods due to global warming for Germany. This result, for the first time derived from a district-scale data set on insured losses, is in line with projected changes in extreme cyclones affecting Western Europe (Della-Marta and Pinto 2009; Donat et al. 2010), and with changes of return periods of estimated losses for Germany and nearby countries under several SRES scenarios (Donat et al. 2011a; Pinto et al. 2012).
4 Uncertainty discussion along the causal chain
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Uncertain future emission regulation and the subsequent emissions and concentration
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Uncertain response of the global climate dynamics on greenhouse gas emissions
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Initial value problem: is the present-day 30 years window representative in terms of its extreme value statistics—or is it rather an excursion from the mean climate? Are the other periods representative for the respective GHG forcing?
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Uncertainty in downscaling
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Uncertainty in statistical relation from the meteorological phenomenon to the economic loss
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Uncertainty in estimate of generalized Pareto distribution due to finite length of time series.
What could be the consequences of these sources of uncertainty for the interpretation of our results?
In addressing the first two items we clearly have to state that we present results only for the intermediate no-mitigation policy A1B scenario and only for ECHAM5 which is characterized by somewhat 'centered' response characteristics compared to other GCMs (with respect to the mean climate change signal of the storm track, please compare Ulbrich et al. 2008). Note, however, that beyond the mean climate response to rising greenhouse gas concentrations decadal climate variations are produced, see item #3.
Here we offer one possible extrapolation of our results that might serve as a bridge as long as analyzes with other global scenarios are missing. The A1FI-SRES scenario represents the most aggressive of the SRES marker scenarios. When augmenting this scenario with climate response uncertainty, IPCC-AR4, WG-I, states a maximum warming of 6°C in the course of this century (Fig. 5, Summary for Policymakers; upper end of 90 % quantile). In view of likely negative feedbacks of global warming (Stern 2007) on economic growth, we regard any warming beyond 6°C by 2100 as highly unlikely. Within the framework of our purely statistical approach STARS, climate evolution is seen as driven by the average temperature evolution. From that point of view, an A1FI scenario could be interpreted as an accelerated A1B scenario, from 2050 onwards, when scenarios start to diverge. In case one was willing to extrapolate that reasoning also to the results derived by our other two methods, this would imply that the warming-induced impacts could occur up to 15 years earlier than projected under the A1B scenario.
While standard impact publications based on GCM-warming scenarios generically project ratios of impacts from present-day to future time periods (as we do in our dynamical and our statistical-dynamical approach), real-world stakeholders are more interested in the ratio as induced by real future vs. real present climate. This potential mismatch of supply and demand of type of information is addressed by item #3. Figure 1 in the Electronic Supplemental Material reveals that this is a salient obstacle: Germany's mean temperature as projected in the median ECHAM5 ensemble member vs. as observed differ by 0.85°C. Note that given the slope of the warming curve, in above logic this corresponds to a time shift of about 20 years. This difference allows for two main interpretations: (i) ECHAM5 is biased for the temperature average across Germany, or (ii) the present-day observed climate is characterized by a temporary excursion to the high-temperature end as against the mean. Depending on the interpretation, the correction to be applied would work in rather opposite directions (see Table 2). With respect to (ii), such deviations from an average climate are also expected under increased GHG forcing. This effect of climate variability influences the changing return levels in particular when just one (or few) model runs are considered. Table 1 shows, for example, even decreasing return levels in the 2041–2070 period compared to both the present day forcing period (1971–2000) and 2011–2040. This suggests that climate is also just one 'realization' of the possible climate conditions under a certain GHG forcing level, and therefore decadal variability can be expected to play a role in our analysis.
Regarding item #4, the uncertainty on downscaling, we suggest that the model ensemble presented here represents a novel approach to estimate downscaling uncertainty as the ensemble contains two structurally most extreme versions: dynamical versus the particular version of statistical downscaling as used for this article. The latter can be interpreted as the maximum that can be derived from observational data without adding explicit dynamical knowledge. We also address item #5 for the dynamical approach in deriving an empirical distribution of the deviation from projected and observed impacts. Finally, the finite length of time series (item #6) has been acknowledged by 95 % profile likelihood confidence intervals when estimating the generalized Pareto distributions from the beginning.
5 Conclusion
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In response to an A1B scenario, compared to 1971–2000, the downscaling methods indicate an increase of 10-year return values (i.e. loss ratios per return period) of 6–35 % for 2011–2040, of 20–30 % for 2041–70, and of 40–55 % for 2071–2100, respectively (for the latter period the statistical method does not apply).
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For larger return periods, increase ratios are found to be on the same order of magnitude.
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More specifically, compared to 1971–2000, we find a maximum increase of return values of 35, 50, 58 % for 2011–2040, 2041–2070, and 2071–2100, respectively. For this purpose the maximum is taken across all three downscaling methods (for 2071–2100 omitting the statistical method that however tends to the low-end) and across all return periods as of 10, 25, 50, and 100 years. (Analogously, the minimum increases read as − 35, − 19, + 40 %. Negative increases on shorter time-scales may highlight the influence of climate variability.)
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All of the above findings are conditional on our highly simplifying assumption that no adaptation measures were anticipated. Preliminary analyzes of our data suggest significant adaptation potential in several regions within Germany.
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During 2071–2100, windstorms with magnitudes unseen under current climate conditions are identified in these ECHAM5 simulations (see Pinto et al. 2012). Their occurrence could partially be explained by long-term climate variability (see above). However, they might also be an indication that climate change affects significantly the intensity of windstorms over Europe.
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An uncertainty analysis spelled out for the case of dynamical downscaling suggests that confidence intervals as derived by standard Pareto-fit profile- likelihood methods are a good approximation (within a factor of two for return periods of 15-years or less) for more comprehensive confidence intervals. However the factor needed to upscale Pareto fit uncertainty to include multiple uncertainties increases super-linearly with return period.
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The increase of 10-year return values in the course of this century is generically smaller than the 95 % confidence intervals generated from fitting a Generalized Pareto Distribution. In view of expanding confidence intervals with return period, analogous statements would hold the more so for larger return periods.
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The project partners from the insurance industry conclude that global- warming induced increases in insured losses under the A1B scenario are generically to be expected, could however be handled within the existing insurance frameworks in Germany.
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We furthermore suggested options for interpretations how to deal with discrepancies between GCM runs and observation as well as how to extrapolate to the effects of other (than A1B) input scenarios. These options have to be utilized with care and are not to be seen as built on an academic basis of similar quality as our main results. However, they might serve as expert-informed 'bridging technology' for the practitioner as long as solid academic results are missing.
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All results have passed a twin-test of relevance. The scientific results presented are claimed to be derived according to academic standards. In addition, the priorities set were strongly influenced by the stakeholders involved in the project, the insurance industry. We regard this project a fine example how practitioners can push academic developments, in particular by requesting a combination of structurally most divergent methods in order to minimize surprises in the real-world future development.
Future work will concentrate on a detailed comparison of the results from the three methodologies focusing on regional aspects and on associated uncertainties. Such an analysis will enable the development of detailed climate change impact charts for winter storm risk for insurance purposes.
EM-DAT: The OFDA/CRED International Disaster Database—www.emdat.net—Université catholique de Louvain—Brussels—Belgium.
To illustrate, the desire to represent the impacts of global warming in a more explicit and accurate manner recently led to the launch of the impact model intercomparison activity ISI-MIP (Schiermeier 2012).
Representing different initial conditions.
The contributions of K. Born, P. Ludwig, M. Donat, T. Pardowitz and B. F. Prahl were partially funded by the GDV-project 'Climate change impacts on the loss situation in the German insurance sector' (2008–2011). We furthermore acknowledge the provision of computing power by the DKRZ (German Climate Computer Centre) to perform the regional climate simulations.
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For the first time in the UK Donizetti's Three Queens will be performed complete — Tudormania is invading our opera houses
An audience with Anne Boleyn, Mary Queen of Scots and Elizabeth I is a potent mix of jilted queen, pretender and boss. "Vile bastard!" shouts Mary. "She's always the same!" spits Elizabeth. "Let her vile heart be tortured!" cries Anna. Time out, ladies.
Thankfully, the regal egos remain safely onstage once lead sopranos Judith Howarth (Mary Stuart), Serena Farnocchia (Anna Bolena) and Alexandra Deshorties (Elizabeth I) break from rehearsals for Welsh National Opera's performance of Donizetti's Tudor trilogy or Three Queens , opening this week in Cardiff. For the first time in the UK, the trio of operas will be performed complete and WNO will also tour its Tudor productions to seven British theatres. Tudormania is finally invading our opera houses.
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Secretary Gates,
Vice Admiral Rondeau,
General Abrial,
Ladies and Gentlemen,
When I last August appointed the Group of Experts to prepare
the way for NATO's new Strategic Concept last August, I
asked it to look at all the issues facing our Alliance objectively
and dispassionately. I also asked the Group not only to analyse
NATO's challenges, but to come up with creative solutions.
In no other area of NATO is the need for creative thinking more
urgent than in the area of Transformation and Capabilities. Getting
these right will be absolutely crucial to any NATO Strategic
Concept and by extension to the relevance of the Alliance.
If we draw up an ambitious political vision but neglect to specify
how we are going to reform NATO, then unfortunately our new Strategic
Concept will have a very short shelf life.
Today, Secretary Albright and her fellow Experts are shifting
their focus from the "why" to the "how" of
NATO's 21st century role and missions. With the support
of Allied Command Transformation and the National Defense University,
I believe that they will provide some of the answers.
It is not my intention today to set out a detailed roadmap for
NATO's political and military transformation. I want to
respect the Group of Experts' independence and wait for
its report to me on 1 May. But I see this issue as so urgent
and fundamental to NATO's credibility as a security actor
that I would like nonetheless to give some pointers and underline
some key priorities.
First we must answer a basic question: what is transformation
nowadays? It is about improving our working methods and preparing
for the future, while spending our resources efficiently. We
must face new challenges. Terrorism, proliferation, cyber security
or even climate change will oblige us to seek new ways of operating.
And in a time of financial and budget constraints, we need to
maximise our efficiency within limited resources.
In order to achieve this goal, we need to reform the three fundamental
elements of our modus operandi: the way we do our traditional
business, the way we address new threats and last but definitely
not least, our structure and organisation. Here are some suggestions
on how we can proceed down that path:
Firstly, transforming the way we conduct operations. The experience
in Afghanistan has clearly showed how we should do things and
how we should not. The way we deploy our forces should be a collective
effort, not a patch up of different national contingents with
different caveats. As we deploy in operations with over 40 participating
countries – Allies as well as partners – we have
to move beyond a multinational force to become a truly unified
force, - a force where information and capabilities are shared
among all to the benefit of all, and to get the job done.
We have to seek common solutions to common problems, whether
we talk about upgrading helicopters, deploying missile defence,
or countering road-side bombs. Having multiple national projects
running at the same time is not only a waste of time and money,
it ultimately also puts the lives of our soldiers at risk.
We also need to extend our common funding activities. We have
had considerable success involving a number of Allies – as
well as several partners - in the acquisition and operation of
heavy lift transport planes- a strategic airlift capability.
But we really need to engage all the Allies in such projects,
because they would all benefit.
And we need to expand our cooperation with the EU. We have to
go beyond exchanging views and information. We need to act together,
since we are both pursuing similar objectives and face similar
challenges. We have to combine our efforts in developing capabilities,
such as heavy lift helicopters. It makes no sense engaging in
two parallel projects without talking to each other and spending
double the money. Our key objective must be to avoid duplication
and ensure greater operational efficiency. This should appeal
to Defence Ministers as well as Finance Ministers, and certainly
to our publics as well.
These are not just interesting proposals, they are necessities,
if we want to be more efficient, capable and maximise the use
of scarce resources.
Secondly, we have to transform the way we address new threats.
For instance, cyber security was not on our agenda a few years
ago. Since then, some of us have faced the consequences.
We can not stay idle against such threats. We have to develop
our defences in order to protect ourselves. We have already set
up mechanisms that protect NATO HQ from such attacks. But we
should move further and make NATO the place where standards and
best practices can be developed. Standards that will enable all
of us to detect and respond to cyber attacks – before our
systems are disrupted and paralysed.
We must pool resources in order to develop this joint strategy.
We have set up a multinational centre of excellence in Estonia,
where experts from several Allied countries are already working
together on devising such a strategy.
But cyber defence is just one example. We need to examine now
what capabilities we shall need in the future so as to protect
us from other threats such as nuclear proliferation. Clearly,
the development of a common Missile Defence capability will be
more efficient and more cost effective if it is developed in
common. The effects of climate change will require us to adapt
to a more unstable security environment. In order to face these
challenges, we need to improve NATO's ability to analyse,
to consult, to collect and share intelligence and to respond.
This brings me to the third and final point: we have to reform
our structure and our organisation. We need to have a different
NATO organisation in the future – more operational, less
bureaucratic, and with human and financial resources devoted
to the real priorities.
For this reason I have decided to establish a new division at
NATO Headquarters to deal with new threats and challenges. Naturally
Allied Command Transformation will be a key partner for this
new division, which will become operational after the summer.
Moreover, I also have a mandate from Defence Ministers to overhaul
NATO's Command Structure and the whole way in which we
manage our resources. This is a mandate for real reform which
I intend to use in full.
I am convinced that transformation will only succeed if we do
it together. We will all benefit if we all invest in it. The
choice for many nations is to either acquire a capability multi-nationally
or not to acquire it at all. Transformation is about spending
our resources better, achieving economies of scale, working more
effectively together and saving lives through better technology,
doctrine and mission preparation.
Our common effort should be to minimise the bureaucratic overheads
and devote our scarce resources to our operations – to
our soldiers in the field. And I have no doubt that this seminar
will generate interesting ideas on how best to achieve these
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Baby if you time travel back far enough you can avoid that work because the dust won't be there. You're too pretty to be working that hard.
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(Thank you for saving me from googling the rest of the performance)
Every time I hear the dirty word 'exercise', I wash my mouth out with chocolate.
Burn it with FIRE and douse it with FLAME! That's how super-hot this performance was.
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Thank you LF! I thought I was gonna have to call my local friendly vamp & ask for a glamour there for a minute. Her mama & daddy must be so proud! That was just unbelievably tasteless. But she knew that going in. It's all about the publicity of which it's getting a lot.Goal: Don't worry be happy!
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The tongue was what slaughtered me. Well, also the sticking of her face in a dancer's ass, the rubbing of her naughty bits with a foam hand . . . it was just gross from start to finish.
While I do realize that it was a ridiculous stage performance for many reasons... the popular response to it has been equally ridiculous in it's vilification of Miley Cyrus.
White girls are not allowed to show sexuality without out remorse. Ever. Or they are whores. Period.
Has anyone noticed that no one has mentioned the many black female dancers also twerking their little hearts out? Why not? Maybe because people expect brown skinned women to behave more sexually. Terrible double standards.
The whole dance sequence was choreographed and rehearsed and the portion where Miley dances around in the costume implying nudity, and then goes ass in the air, butt pressed against Robin Thicke's groin is intentional and in direct reference to RT's "unrated" video for his song Blurred Lines which he was singing during that time.
No one is lambasting poor, dear, married RT for his part in this fiasco... quite the opposite in fact, people feel bad for him. WTF? It was his stage show too. He was just as much a part of it as she was.
And that little song is all about the "blurred lines" around not quite consensual sex BTW. Nice.
Blurred Lines (Unrated Version) - Robin Thicke ft. Pharrell Williams & T.I.
But having white male privileged RT gets the "boys will be boys" free pass... and anything and everything wrong with that stage performance was all, 100% Miley's fault.
When discussing this particular scandal and comparing the dancing actions to to past dancing maneuvers to VMA acts performed by black or latino male rap/hip hop stars with female dancers that were very similar that got exactly zero "scandalous" attention because, you know... those guys just act that way? I was also dismissed.
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Miss me? Well, I missed you! I fell off the grid for minute. It's been busy around these parts. My little princess has infant acid reflux and it is taking its toll on her and us. She's handling it as best she can but she's in pain at times and has a hard time resting. Not exactly how I envisioned her first few months of life. Her doctor says she will grow out of it in a month or two. I'm praying it's sooner rather than later. She's a little trooper! Always laughing, talking and flashing that beautiful gummy grin!
My little guy has been doing great. He's started pre-school. He really likes it most days. He has homework, y'all! We have a folder of work he needs to turn in by the end of the month. He'll be getting this folder full of homework every month. He's in the big leagues now! He won't be three until November! I'm sure he's farther along than I was at his age! He's obsessed with Disneyland. He talks about the place daily. It's on our short list of places to take him. Whenever we get in the car, he asks to go eat food or to go to Disneyland. This child is focused!
As for me, I have been watching way too much HGTV! Now I want to move – bad. Womp! I'm sure my husband is over my obsession with House Hunters, Property Brothers, Property Virgins, Love it or List it, etc. All I know is, whenever we move, I have an awesome lists of must-have's!
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The Cekakak Hostel is located opposite the Mountain View Resort & Spa. Check in / out at the resort.
The traditional Minahasa wooden house has a terrace with seating areas, a large living room with sofas and numerous sockets.
Four rooms ar: a private room with double bed and three bunk rooms with lockable wardrobe per bed.
Two spacious bathrooms with wash basins, mirror, seat toilets and hot water shower are available to the community.
Of course, all hostel guests are also welcome to the Mountain View Restaurant, where we serve lunch and dinner à la carte.
Massage treatments can be booked at the resort reception.
Fancy a cocktail, a cold beer or a wine? Right next door the bartender of our Explorers Bar is looking forward to your visit.
Mail adress: Jl. Kimereng Kali, Kinilow Jaga VI,Tomohon - Minahasa 95362, North Sulawesi, Indonesia


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Celebrities increasingly are turning up in cameos on HBO's Entourage (Sunday, 10 p.m. ET/PT). The hip movie-industry satire centers on a rising young star and his close New York buddies as they taste L.A.'s fast-lane life.
In Entourage's second season, several actors have played twisted versions of themselves. Bob Saget dissolved his saccharine Full House reputation appearing as the bong-toking, prostitute-chasing neighbor of actor Vincent Chase (Adrian Grenier). Ralph Macchio, guesting as an old buddy of Johnny Drama (Kevin Dillon), riffed on his Karate Kid persona.
Sunday, Titanic director James Cameron — central to this season's plot — shows up at the Sundance Film Festival and orders Sour Patch Kids candy at a concession stand. The Station Agent's Peter Dinklage appears as a foul-mouthed bar patron. Future cameos will include Bono, Mandy Moore and Brooke Shields.
"Whenever we run into people, they say they want to do the show," series creator Doug Ellin says. "It often provides them a different take on who they are."
Entourage was inspired by actor Mark Wahlberg, the show's executive producer. It's filled with disparaging references to A-listers, most delivered with dead-on aplomb by super-agent Ari Gold (Jeremy Piven, nominated Thursday for an Emmy).
Mixing in cameos — Larry David, Scarlett Johansson, Anthony Anderson, Jessica Alba, Jaime Pressley, Gary Busey and Hugh Hefner also have appeared — adds to Entourage's behind-the-scenes authenticity, Ellin says.
Not all play themselves. Last season, Val Kilmer, in waist-length wig and ZZ Top-style beard, was unrecognizable as a mystical pot dealer. Last week, Bai Ling was an amorous martial arts trainer.
For Saget and others, the exposure is more than a fun gig. "The show is brilliant," Saget says. "Doing it helps people take me more seriously as an actor."
Macchio had been asked to spoof his Karate Kid image for years, but he didn't agree until Entourage. Cameos "always seemed cheesy, but Hollywood watches, so it seemed like a smart idea," says Macchio, now filming the independent film Beer League. "I thought it would be cool to poke fun at myself."
And psychologist Dr. Joyce Brothers, who appears in a future episode as a supermarket shopper who has her box of Froot Loops stolen by Entourage's entourage, says, "Professionally, it helps me enormously to show up in things that attract young people."


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When a family of grey whales becomes trapped in the Arctic Circle, a Greenpeace volunteer and a small-town reporter go to extraordinary lengths to save the majestic creatures in this romantic adventure inspired by actual events. Alaskan newsman Adam Carlson (John Krasinski) has grown weary of working in such a small market. He's eager to move on to bigger and better things when the story of a lifetime lands right in his lap. Ice has been forming in the Arctic Circle at a rate so fast that a family of grey whales has become hopelessly stranded. As the eyes of the world turn toward this small, chilly corner of the globe, an oil tycoon, slews of politicians, and countless journalists descend upon Alaska -- each with their own hidden agenda. Meanwhile, the only one Adam notices is Rachel Kramer (Drew Barrymore), a devout environmentalist who also happens to be his ex-girlfriend. As the situation grows dire, the unlikely pair rallies a diverse coalition of allies to work together toward the common goal of saving the endangered marine mammals. The result is a rescue mission that will help to thaw Cold War tensions between America and Russia, and show the entire world just what can be accomplished when we start working together, instead of pulling apart. Dermot Mulroney, Tim Blake Nelson, Ted Danson, and Kristen Bell co-star. Drama, Action & Adventure, Romance, Comedy Directed By: Ken Kwapis Written By: Jack Amiel, Michael Begler XviD | English | avi | 608x256 | XviD @ 760 Kbps MP3 @ 128 Kbps | Genres: Comedy | Romance Uploader Note: When 1gb version will be available will be uploaded also if you want better quality in bigger size Note:If you have something to offer as early releases,seedboxes, links,accounts,etc please contact us on torentz 3xforum ro Seed Stats: 20-400 GiB at aprox 10 MiB/sec/20 slots per torrent How To Get Your Maxspeed (uTorrent) Torrent Client - Preferences - Bandwidth - Number of connections - Set aprox. 500 for each Torrent Client - Preferences - BiTorrent - Protocol Encryption - Forced Bandwidth Allocation - High (Set download/upload limit - Unlimited) Stop Other Active Torrents - Start downloading and wait for connections. Enjoy and Seed for at least 1:1 ratio. Don't forget to say thanks/leave reviews. Before downloading you should check/google search sample "release name""sample". Greets to all actual/future p2p/scene QUALITY groups and affiliate websites. Don't trust IMDb robot or bad ratings,always watch some trailers first. Ignore stupid comments/fake/mislabeled/no-DVDrips/CAM/TS/RAR uploads. Please spread this release/torrent to your friends/forums/etc. If you need translation subs visit some subtitles sites. Report if you see online streaming or other spam links. Recommended movie player VLC PLAYER.
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Here is something to tide you fellows over until I have the time to properly respond to Ghoul's article on libertarianism:
"I love my daughter… But I also love my job."
"Part of me wants… Part of me feels like I… I… I…"
I owe it to her to do what I want.
Nowadays the only meaningful difference between adult and child is the elaboration of their excuses. Going by the quote, I'd wager she has a diploma and at least one collegiate degree in advanced adolescence.
In a more sane time she would have the biological father involved in this choice. Reading her words, it is obvious there is no man in this relationship… it is obvious there is no child, either. There is only herself.
Over 100,000 people didn't see that. Those over 100,000 people very likely vote and participate in this society. That's a problem.


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After standing on a campaign pledge to ban commercial advertising in the city, the recently-elected Mayor for Europe Écologie – Les Verts (the French Greens), Eric Piolle, is staying firm to his promise, despite the threats of major businesses that investment in the city will decline. But what is investment if it is not investment in people and the environment?
As of April, the city will get rid of all of its 326 commercial advertising spaces, including 64 large billboards. In their place, 50 trees will be planted before spring.
On the few remaining advertising spaces, the city will offer them not to companies but to local cultural and social groups instead. With public advertising revenues plummeting across much of the world, the time has never been better to free up community space for the benefit of local people.
The French village of Forcalquier implemented a similar ban back in 2009 but clearly on a much smaller scale. So as the first city in Europe to commit to such a brave move, Grenoble is leading the way in putting community space before profits and consumption.
It's often said that advertising is just the generation of insecurities – that is, so that we buy things we don't need with money we don't have to impress people we don't know. Under a Green mayor sticking to his campaign pledges, thankfully Europe has at least one city, and hopefully more soon, that is turning the tide on consumerism and instead is putting wellbeing and ecology at the centre.


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Antoine Belardinelli was a Havenite citizen and government clerk.
Around 1920 PD, he served as President Eloise Pritchart's senior secretary, and was the only member of her staff who persistently "forgot" to refer to Thomas Theisman as "Admiral Theisman", even though Theisman preferred his naval title. As far as Belardinelli was concerned, one of the most important features of the restored Republic was that elected officials really were in charge again, and so he invariably used Theisman's civilian title. (HH12)


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Riley Blevins' thoughts
Joshua Dobbs showed flashes.
Brief, yet honest flashes.
But with the freshman making his first career start and the defense facing a daunting test against a dangerous Missouri offense, Tennessee knew it had to play perfect.
It didn't.
Not even close.
Not on offense. Not on defense. Nowhere.
There were drops, penalties, turnovers and missed assignments. It was a forgettable brisk evening at Memorial Stadium as handfuls of Missouri fans trickled to the exits in the third quarter. The game was already won.
It was hard to find a bright spot.
Sure, Dobbs added a splash with his legs, rushing for a team-high 45 yards. But he fumbled on a promising drive before halftime.
Yes, Dobbs was fairly accurate through the air, dinking and diming Missouri for 240 yards. But he tossed two costly interceptions.
However, the rest of the offense didn't help the rookie.
Receivers played poorly. Josh Smith highlighted a contest filled with drops, letting what looked to be a touchdown zip through his hands in the second quarter.
Running backs played even worse. Rajion Neal rushed for 8 yards on eight carries. Missouri quarterback Maty Mauk outrushed Tennessee singlehandedly.
To top it all off, the Vols were flagged for six false starts.
And the dismal play was apparently contagious.
Tennessee's passing defense flashed back to its Sal Sunseri days, allowing Mauk to find wide open receivers on touchdown throws of 40 and 26 yards.
The run defense was equally as bad. The Vols were handing out yards like they were Halloween candy. The Tigers diced the Vols for 344 rushing yards.
Simply put, the defense couldn't get off the field.
Missouri was 10-of-19 on third downs.
For the second Saturday in a row, special teams was Tennessee's lone bright spot. Michael Palardy continued to add to his NFL resume, drilling a 51-yarder and twice pinning Missouri down inside the 10.
Defense — F
Offense — D -
Special teams — A
Danny Parker's thoughts
At least Tennessee fans now know that Tino Thomas' uniform fits and Riyahd Jones won't be redshirted as both played special teams against Missouri. Aside from that, it was almost the same story, different verse as the humiliating loss to Alabama.
The Volunteers have now been outscored 59-3 their last two first halves combined. Coach Butch Jones talks continually about creating your own momentum but his team isn't listening, which is beyond sad for a roster with so many experienced seniors in the two-deep.
It's tough to get an accurate assessment of how quarterback Joshua Dobbs played in his first start as he got little to no help from the men around him. His offensive front continually left the unit off schedule and dropped passes continue to haunt them (Jones wanted to strangle Josh Smith after dropping a likely touchdown).
Hard to figure out where to start with the Tennessee defense, which was again torched — as predicted. Missouri had five ball carriers average 4.6 yards per carry or better. If this stat won't slap you in the face then nothing will: Maty Mauk ran for 117 yards on 13 attempts. Entering Saturday, Mauk had ran it 24 times for a net of 22 yards. Maybe put Jalen Reeves-Maybin in the game and tell him to go wherever No. 7 goes and plant his rear end when he's out of the pocket? Michael Palardy and Devrin Young didn't have the best games of their careers but both were bright spots for the Orange & White, including the kicker nailing a 51-yarder for the lone score and downing four punts inside the Mizzou 20.
Defense — F
Offense — D-
Special teams — B
Randy Moore's thoughts
When you start a true freshman at quarterback teammates are supposed to step up their games to make his job easier. Apparently, Tennessee's players never got the message because Joshua Dobbs was on his own Saturday against Missouri.
The Vol offensive line got whipped for four quarters and, making matters worse, committed a bunch of drive-killing false-start and holding penalties.
The ground game is supposed to take pressure off a young quarterback but that didn't happen, either. Dobbs led the Vols with 7 rushes for 45 yards … equaling the combined output of running backs Marlin Lane (6 carries, 37 yards) and Rajion Neal (8 carries, 8 yards).
The receivers are supposed to make some tough catches to help out a young quarterback. Tennessee's receivers didn't even make all of the easy catches. One drop by Josh Smith cost the Vols a touchdown that would've trimmed the score to 17-7 just shy of halftime and maybe … just maybe … changed the complexion of the game.
Tennessee's defense didn't do its part, either. The Vols limited Missouri's lanky receivers to 12 catches and 163 yards but couldn't stop the run. The Tigers gashed Tennessee's defense for 339 rushing yards en route to 502 total yards.
Given all of the above, winning the game fell on the shoulders of Dobbs. That was asking too much. He wound up completing 26 of 42 passes for 240 yards but lost two interceptions and a fumble. You'd expect that kind of uneven performance from a freshman making his first college start. You'd also expect more help from his teammates. The only Vols who answered the call were wideout Pig Howard (11 catches for 89 yards), linebacker A.J. Johnson (a boat-load of tackles) and kicker Michael Palardy (42.7-yard punting average, 51-yard field goal).
Apparently, the rest of the Vols thought this was an open-date weekend.
Defense — D
Offense — F
Special teams — B
Offensively Joshua Dobbs showed some flashes, but the offensive penalties killed drives. I expected turnovers from Dobbs since it was his first start. This is by far the worst performance I have seen from the Tennessee offensive line. They got blown up for most of the game and had zero intensity all night. The receivers continue to have key momentum drops which left points off the board tonight.
Defensively this was the worst performance of the year. The defensive line got zero push and secondary was exposed by the Missouri wide receivers. The nickel position is hurting the Vols a ton right now and Brian Randolph is not healthy at all. Maty Mauk deserved a spy after his first half runs. Just all around a bad performance for the defense.
Michael Palardy scored the only points for the Vols in Missouri, Devrin Young looked good on returns. Teams was the best unit on the field for the Big Orange today.
Defense — F
Offense — D
Special teams — B


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How to specify partition count for local parallel
Dear Users,
I have to start a run in local parallel mode by command line I use the command "cfx5solve -def file.def -par-local" but it does not start and says: You must specify a partition count for PVM Local Parallel
please somebody can help me as how can i specify the partition count in the batch
Thanks for your replies, Rohit.
Re: How to specify partition count for local paral
Try "cfx5solve -def file.def -par-local -partition 2". This is all discussed in the documentation, have a look there for all the command line parameters and examples.
Glenn Horrocks
Re: How to specify partition count for local paral
Thanks Glenn
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Digital Theatre is thrilled to announce that Tricycle Theatre's acclaimed
production of Sam Shepard's True West will be released worldwide on
Wednesday 20th January 2016.
British director Phillip Breen's production of this masterpiece of American theatre stars Alex Ferns (Legend, Wallander, EastEnders) and Eugene O'Hare (Prometheus, The Fall, Red Velvet) as estranged brothers. Written by one of America's most renowned living playwrights, Sam Shepard's two-act drama is widely recognised as modern classic and the dramatist's key work.
Austin 'the achiever', an earnest screenwriter on the verge of success, is working on a script he has sold to a Hollywood producer while house-sitting for his mother in LA. When his brother Lee 'the drifter' and petty thief decides to stop by, he pitches his own idea for a movie and convinces the producer to ditch Austin's love story for his own trashy Western tale.
Now they must work together to secure the deal. But with mistrust and jealousy bubbling under the surface and the heat of a Californian night melting away their inhibitions, their own flaws threaten to get in the way.
originally produced by Glasgow Citizens Theatre
'Searingly good… a revival which always holds its nerve'
'Brilliant… An enthralling production of a true classic'
****The Daily Telegraph
****The Times
'Excellent… absurdly funny'
****Financial Times
True West will be available to rent and download from www.digitaltheatre.com. Audiences will be able to watch online and via an expanding range of platforms including the Digital Theatre Desktop Player, the Digital Theatre YouView channel and apps for Samsung Smart TV and iOS. The production will launch with English language captions provided by Stagetext.
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Rolled Buttercream - It's Gone!?
Baking By ThreeDGirlie Updated 5 Aug 2008 , 9:04pm by allydav
I have searched EVRYWHERE on this site, I even had the recipe for RBC in my favorites... It is gone.
Anyone have a good RBC recipe to share?
If you search rolled buttercream
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You will find several threads discussing RBC, several with recipes.
This site has good recipes:
me too!i've searched for it the other day & results came out w/ nothing..thanks for sharing joann
The recipe on allrecipes.com is almost exactly the same as the one that was on here. http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Rolled-Buttercream-Fondant/Detail.aspx
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The tourists were dismissed for 302, trailing Victoria's massive first innings of 571 by 269, when both captains agreed to end the match on Sunday.
Officials from both sides then agreed to play a Twenty-20 match to entertain the crowd instead of going on with the first-class game in which a result would not have been possible.
Captain Shivnarine Chanderpaul (59) and Marlon Samuels (50) were the only West Indies batsmen to make half-centuries.
But the tourists' tail-enders showed a little more application after the humiliation of the 379-run first Test defeat in Brisbane last week.
The Windies were content to bat for time. Chanderpaul's innings occupied more than four hours and came from 177 balls with just three fours.
All-rounder Dwayne Smith improved his chances of playing in the second Test starting in Hobart on Thursday, with a return of 3-50 with the ball and 40 with the bat.
Left-arm paceman Allan Wise (3-47) was the Victorians' best bowler, with Mick Lewis (2-57) and Cameron White (2-78) each taking a brace.