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Until the arrival of internet and the viral phenomenon it was enough with a photo created by the iconic stadium. It usually happened to be its exterior façade. Today, new stadium architecture searches for visibility adding details that not only meet their main end, but also are able to have an impact on online channels.
Retractable Roofs
Making the roof move, open or change position is one of the most expensive additions to a stadium. Apart from the building of the cover and its engineering needs, the energy cost to move it is usually extremely high. This is the case with one of the most emblematic cases, the Mercedes Benz in Atlanta. Its roof opens like the diaphragm of the lens of a camera. Even before they started to build it, the 3D design which showed the original project went viral on YouTube, creating a huge impact for the brand. Together with other positive characteristics of the stadium, it has reduced the amortization from six to three years as a consequence of the revenues generated by its strong appeal.
Mercedes Benz Stadium open-close sequence.
Number of Gates
In most of the new stadiums in America there are few entrance gates. This is a big difference with the oldest stadiums and a dramatic one with what is common in Europe. They are fewer but wider. So, the complete walk of the fans from the gate to their seats is done in the stadium's inner rings instead of the exterior one. In that walk they bump into each concession and between fifteen and twenty thousand people go in front of them, increasing their sales and allowing the stadium to sell its spaces at higher prices. T-Mobile in Las Vegas and Barclays Center in Brooklyn are the best examples of this kind of entrance.
Facilitate Drone Shots
Aerial shots from these flying devices are more and more frequent, and cover and moving parts are sometimes used to make them even more spectacular. SoFi in Inglewood, California, has built a translucent roof that works as a giant screen depicting moving images on the exterior to be seen from the air. Something similar has been done by Allegiant in Nevada. As it is a closed stadium it has taken advantage of its crystal façade for ventilation and airflow, and, at the same time, it has turned its upper parts into projection spaces with LED lights that during the match can only be spotted by drones flying outside.
Façade Lightning
The exterior shape of a stadium continues to be one of its biggest attractions. It increases their visibility on online channels and on matchdays, and it makes it easier to get good naming right deals. Today, their esthetic is important during the day as well as at nightfall. The possibilities LED lights offer have made it easier. The most extreme case is Allianz Arena in Munich. Its façade is made up of 2874 panels that can light up independently in white, red or blue. Even though, in the beginning, those lights were meant to have movement, the German police asked not to do that in order not to mislead drivers on the highway nearby since they can cause accidents. That limitation was not a problem, and in fact, the stadium is a benchmark of success for recovering the club's investment nine years earlier than expected.
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Architectonic details are usually designed for live sports events, but there are some others that have been conceived for those stadiums that need accessory activities to be feasible. For leisure and entertainment activities that rent part of their spaces for shops, cinemas and restaurants, the inside mall is a key asset that turns to be unique due to its special location and creates more revenues.
Stadium Jose Alvalade in Lisbon is a perfect example. Alvalaxia mall is integrated into three floors: the ground floor for restaurants, the mid one for shops and the upper one for cinemas. A similar solution has been used in Borisov Arena in Belarus with a public space of 3000 m2 between the façade and the stands used as a circular high street. That mall includes shops, bars but also VIP spaces and newsrooms.
One of the key learnings we get visiting a stadium with a professional vision is that none of its characteristics is an accident. In fact, when further thought, the more success as a central attraction for fans and for the successful management model of the club.
Sports Facilities: The New Boom in the Sports Market
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This model looks to the future with the requirements and demands of a new era of stadiums, directed toward improving and fulfilling the experiences of fans and spectators, remembering "feeling" and "passion" when designing their business model.
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Through the use of computer vision we can identify some shortcomings in the body orientation of players in different game situations.
The Athlete's Physical: an Essential Examination
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A health check must detect situations which, despite not showing obvious symptoms, may endanger athletes subject to the highest demands.
Spaces in Soccer from a Quantitative Perspective
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In the words of Johan Cruyff, "Players, in reality, have the ball for 3 minutes, on average. So, the most important thing is: what do you do during those 87 minutes when you do not have the ball? That is what determines whether you're a good player or not."
Diagnostic Imaging in Sports Medicine: Present and Future
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Muscle injuries account for more than 30% of all injuries in sports like soccer. Their significance is therefore enormous in terms of training sessions and lost game time.
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Q: firebase image does not load when used with Image() so, I have this function
async function getAverageRGB(src) {
  return new Promise((resolve) => {
    let context = document.createElement("canvas").getContext("2d");
    context.imageSmoothingEnabled = true;
    let img = new Image();
    img.src = src;
    img.crossOrigin = "";
    img.onload = () => {
      context.drawImage(img, 0, 0, 1, 1);
      resolve(context.getImageData(0, 0, 1, 1).data.slice(0, 3));
    };
  });
}

and it works fine when the src is a local file but it just does not work when i use a firebase storage url for eg :

https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/marsfood-image-storage.appspot.com/o/userdata%2Fimages%2Fdishes%2F26.jpg?alt=media&token=abed73cd-0ffe-4007-8dd5-5aa42135b8eb

any solutions to this?
When checking for errors with
image.onerror = console.error

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Translate Social Media to Sales – Gregg Chadwick
Gregg Chadwick is a Santa Monica–based artist who has been painting for three decades, and his work has been exhibited in national and international galleries, art fairs, and museums. He's given many lectures on the arts, including speaking engagements at UCLA and Categorically Not—a forum that examines the intersection of art and science. Gregg is also a Fellow in The Clark Hulings Fund's 2017 Business Accelerator Program.
Art and social justice:
"All art has a political stance whether it's on the surface or boiling underneath."
"Every day something new happens in the world and art is really primed to look at those global changes and shifts."
"The history of oil paintings is so deep that it allows artists to address issues with a very subtle touch."
Developing a virtual network:
"If you're in your studio by yourself, people aren't going to come looking for you. If you're on social media, you're communicating globally, and there are things that can only happen in that forum."
"I've had a number of people contact me over the years looking for particular paintings that I've shown online, even if they were previous works on older platforms like Flickr."
Social media translates to sales:
"Art dealers are on Twitter, and I like to create subject matter that, when it's Googled, my name comes up."
"Social media allows you to sow the seeds of your work and who you are. People want to get to know you a little bit, who the artist is—it's not just a product."
"The collectors who want to be connected to the artists are able to do that. That community and camaraderie is there. It makes me feel like I've accomplished something significant, and it drives me to keep going, to keep my audience happy."
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"The encouragement and enthusiasm from the [Accelerator] program and other Fellows has led us to have bigger dreams and bigger ideas that we now know can come to fruition."
"This is a group of like-minded individuals in which we can talk about our work and challenges together."
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Oti Region Campaigner Dead
Dr Kwaku Addeah
Dr Kwaku Addeah, the Secretary to the Joint Consultative Committee (JCC) of the Oti Movement who championed the creation of the proposed Oti Region has passed away.
DAILY GUIDE revealed that the lawyer was rushed to the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital on Sunday, May 13, 2018 in Accra but died shortly.
A communiqué from JCC under the chairmanship of Krachiwura, Nana Mprah Besemuna II, consoled the family over the death of the hero.
It stated that "On behalf of the chairman and members of the JCC, we wish to inform all Nananom, the entire citizens of our proposed Oti Region, of the call to eternal rest of our brother and friend, Dr Kwaku Addeah."
The communiqué added that the JCC meeting on Sunday was curtailed to enable the leadership to commiserate with the bereaved family.
"The delegation met the family who sadly confirmed the passing on of our indefatigable secretary, lawyer and spokesman of Oti Movement," it said.
The statement added that "the family has agreed to allow JCC to bring two of our members to help the funeral committee to plan a befitting funeral for our departed brother."
Dr Addeah played a leading role in the campaign to carve out Oti Region from the Volta Region in order to develop the northern part of the region.
He said the northern part of the Volta Region had been neglected for a long time and must be on its own to attract investment.
Dr Addeah told the nine-member Justice Brobbey Commission of Inquiry that the JCC has enough justification for the creation of Oti Region.
According to him, "There was a deliberate British policy not to develop the northern side of the Volta Region and the northern region, as most of the areas of deprivation in Ghana are located in the three regions of the north, extending downwards to parts of the Volta Region.
The Commission of Enquiry was set up by President Nana Akufo-Addo to fulfill one of his campaign promises to consider petitions on the possible creation of new regions in the country.
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Serbia is known to have a high Human Development Index, which means that the quality of life for residents in the country is favourable and more than satisfactory. The majority of the people moving to Serbia are Hungarians, followed by Romanis. Those who are planning to relocate to Serbia would do well to learn the Cyrillic and Latin alphabets, are these are widely used in the country.
Serbia may be a newly founded nation but has a long-standing history. Overshadowing its turbulent past is an emerging economy recognized by The International Monetary Fund.
Even the World Bank has distinctly classified Serbia as an upper-middle income economy. Officially called the Republic of Serbia, it used to be one of the republics within the defunct Socialist Yugoslavia. For three short years (2003-2006), it was known as "Serbia and Montenegro" However, the union with Montenegro was broken in 2006. Today, Serbia is an independent country. Its capital city is Belgrade. Serbia continues to be a member of the United Nations, The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), the Council of Europe, and the Central European Free Trade Agreement. More so, Serbia is sharing the limelight with some of the premier cities in Europe as a new expat destination.
Although the unemployment rate is high, Serbia's recent economic growth rates, which averaged 6.6% in the last three years, shows an upward trend, and it is becoming an economic force in Europe. Even foreign analysts have labeled Serbia as the "Balkan Tiger." Serbia is the only European country outside the former Soviet Union to have free trade agreements with the Russian Federation and Belarus, and with its plans to solidify economic agreements with Turkey and Iran, it will not be long before this new republic will benefit in bridging the East and the West.
Serbia is sandwiched between Central and Southern Europe in the Balkan Peninsula and the Pannonian Plain. Its northeast section is part of the vast, fertile Danubian Plain drained by the Danube, Tisa, Sava, and Morava river systems. It is landlocked by Croatia on the northwest, Hungary on the north, Romania on the northeast, Bulgaria on the east, Macedonia on the south, and Albania, Montenegro, and Bosnia and Herzegovina on the west. The north of Serbia has cold winters and hot, humid summers while the south experiences hot, dry summers and heavy snowfall in the winter.
Serbia's population of 7,209,764 as of January 2015 has found a home in its 150 municipalities and 24 cities. The city makes up the basic units of local self-government. Ethnic Serbs, or those who declared themselves as Serbs, comprise the largest ethnic group in Serbia, representing 83% of the total population in the territory of Central Serbia and Vojvodina. Hungarians hold the second largest ethnic group, representing 14.3% of the population in Vojvodina and the rest are minority groups that include Bosniaks, Roma, Albanians, Croats, Montenegrins, Slovaks, Vlachs, and Romanians. Serbian is the official language. Be forewarned that Serbian, overrun with grammar rules, is a difficult language to learn. However, English is well spoken, especially by the younger generation. As one of the most diverse countries in Europe, religion is also a mix of Catholics, Protestants, Muslims and other religious denominations, but Orthodox Christian remains the dominant religion. Customs and manners are crucial in the Serbian culture. Locals are passionate about team sports from football and basketball to water polo and volleyball.
Join one of the cruises on the Danube River and you know that this land, despite its poignant past, is determined in building an economic stronghold in Europe.
Packing for a trip to anywhere is never a breeze. This is the case especially for expatriates who aren't just packing for a few days of vacation, but for a longer stay.
There are numerous factors to consider in gathering your essentials for your relocation to Serbia, and customs regulations are definitely some of the most important.
Keeping yourself updated with these regulations would ensure a hassle-free entry into Serbia. You wouldn't want to be stuck in the Serbian airport going through unnecessary inconvenience because of that teeny bit of something you shouldn't have brought with you.
Overseas shipping through removal companies in Serbia are one solid solution as they are more aware and are up to date on customs regulations, and can definitely advise you on what is not allowed to be imported into Serbia.
Removals to Serbia need not be complicated though, as you can always check with movers to Serbia how to ship the bulk of your belongings.
For your personal things, there may still be limits as to the quantity of belongings you can bring with you. For example, you can only bring with you one bottle of perfume or 250 ml of eau de toilette, and one liter for spirits or wine. If you plan to bring in tobacco products, you may only bring in 200 cigarettes or 50 pieces of cigar.
Bringing in electronic implements are also limited in number. You may only import two photo cameras, one movie camera, and one video camera, one radio receiver, one record player, and one pocket electronic calculator.
Packing for Serbian weather is also a must. Make sure to have a thick jacket, and a number of clothes with thick fabric that you can layer on. Winters in this side of Europe can be harsh.
Serbia boasts a strategic location in one of the primary land routes from Central Europe to Turkey. However, it is often neglected by foreigners because of its expat-magnet neighbours Hungary, Bulgaria and Croatia. But in reality, Serbia is a beautiful nation patiently waiting to be noticed and those who are willing to see pass its lack of fame are guaranteed to have an experience of a lifetime.
The 2006 vote for independence of the citizens of Montenegro nearly left Serbia in a devastated position. There was a massive debt and the economy showed no signs of recovery. But like a persistent fighter willing to keep going despite the immobilising punches, Serbia proved to the rest of the world that it holds an undeniable potential. Slowly but surely, this country sailed towards economic development and produced an estimated USD 42.65 billion Gross Domestic Product in 2014. Jobs became available, and the news of Serbia as a progressive nation made its way across the world. Today, expats choose to live here not just because of employment but also because of the safe environment, beautifully diverse culture and simple, yet promising life.
Kids would fall in love with winter in Serbia. Although the cold can sometimes be biting, the snow-capped mountains and the white Serbian slopes are a skiing dream for kids. Places like Kopaonik National Park/Mountain Resort and Zlatibor would be a sure hit with the kids since they can indulge in skiing adventures while taking in spectacular mountain sights. Another notable place to bring the family to is Palic, a lake area with beautiful parks, architectural relics, and a great summer resort. Palic is also the host of the World Ethno Music Festival and a lot of sports-related events.
Kids would also love to soak in the historically rich medieval sights of Smederevo and Požarevac. Serbia is known for its medieval architectural treasures left by its Roman conquerors. And both adults and the little ones would find these just fascinating. Belgrade, the capital city of Serbia also offers a lot of options for families and kids to enjoy. A place called Ada Ciganlija is a great place to chill in especially during warmer weather. Ada Ciganlija offers a lot of sporting activities like soccer, basketball, volleyball, and even golf.
Serbian roads are not yet at par with Europe's top-notch highways. Some the country's roads are in poor to fair condition particularly the Ibarska Magistrala road. In built-up or populated areas, the speed limit is at 60 kilometres per hour, 100 kilometres per hour in the countryside and 120 kilometres per hour on major highways. Serbia also observes right-hand driving. For drivers, blood alcohol content should be kept below .05%. Use of mobile phones while driving is also strictly prohibited. Headlights should also be used at all times. Children below 12 years cannot be seated in the front seat and must be secured in a safety seat while on the road.
Living in Serbia means immersing yourself in one of the world's richest and oldest culture. A history of multi-cultural influences, and invasions of great rulers of old like the Romans, Slavs, Zetas, and the Ottoman Kings, makes this country's culture interesting. The evidence of this fusion of cultures is seen in many rural villages of Serbia, where customs and traditions are still widely followed and observed.
A lot of Serbian customs are religious. They observe a high number of religious public holidays in a year, and the people strictly follow the traditions meant for these occasions. They also celebrate feast days of their venerated saints. An expat in Serbia would find these occasions enjoyable, as Serbia's holidays, even the secular ones are celebrated with lively and colourful festivals.
Serbians also have one unique Christmas celebrations. One of the many traditions they have during this season is called the badnjak, which includes the cutting of a log, preferably a young and straight oak. This log is ceremoniously prepared, brought in, and laid into the fire with elaborate rituals including prayers. Another intriguing part of the Serbian culture is their folklore. Maybe due to the country's ancient battles or their proximity to the infamous 'Transylvania' where the tales of a vampire called Dracula originated, the Serbian tall tales are filled with stories of mythical creatures and mysterious happenings.
An expatriate in Serbia would also easily notice how the people of the country have a deep love for the arts. This is evident in how they have traditional Serbian folk music as a great influence to modern or contemporary mixes. The country's colourful culture makes moving to Serbia a thrilling experience one should look forward to.


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What Would You Sacrifice for the Greater Good? Downstage presents BENEFIT, April 13 - 30, 2016
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BENEFIT by Matthew MacKenzie is a riveting drama that wrestles with what trade-offs, big and small, we are willing to accept in order to do good.
An Albertan charitable foundation that supports young girls' education around the world is holding a glittering gala in the Rockies. At the centre of the event is Srey, a beneficiary of the Foundation's work and their official spokesperson since she immigrated from Cambodia years before.
Her husband Greg sits in the dark in a room off the main hall, having discovered traces of an explosive secret that threatens to destroy both their relationship and the future of the thousands of girls who benefit from the Foundation's work.
"Benefit engages with some challenging topics around moral compromise and forgiveness in a way that I think will really stimulate some engaging discussions in our post-performance talks," said Simon Mallett, Artistic Director of Downstage, who is also directing this production.
Downstage's next step in creating theatre that welcomes all Calgarians is also being explored with this production through their Pay-It-Forward program, where 25% of tickets for each performance are available at no cost at the door.
"We're hoping that this barrier-reducing initiative, coupled with invitations to a number of community partners, will help us to foster an audience that is as diverse as the City of Calgary."
Performance Times - Motel Theatre at Arts Commons
April 13 - 16; April 20 - 24; April 27 - 30 at 7:30 PM
April 22 & April 30 2:00 PM Matinees
April 26; Special Stay-After-Work Performance 6:30 PM
TICKETS are on sale at www.downstage.ca/benefit.shtml OR at 403.294.9494 OR in person at the Arts Commons Box Office.
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The following is a list of events that have been held at Warner Bros. Movie World on the Gold Coast, Australia.

Fright Nights

In 2006, Warner Bros. Movie World decided to run a single Halloween Family Fun Night on 31 October with a Scooby-Doo theme. Due to the event being sold out, the park extended the event to become a 3 night event. This format remained until 2009 when Movie World decided to re-theme and rename the event to Halloween Fright Nights in an attempt to target an older audience. In 2010, Warner Bros. Movie World worked with Sudden Impact Entertainment and Lynton V. Harris to produce mazes based upon the Nightmare on Elm Street and Saw franchises. Just after the conclusion of the 2010 event, it was announced that the event would return in 2011.

White Christmas

Following the success of their first Halloween Family Fun Night in 2006, Warner Bros. Movie World ran a one-off Looney Tunes Christmas event on 23 December 2006. The event featured a Christmas parade and Looney Tunes shows. In 2007, an extended Halloween Family Fun line-up returned but the Christmas event was discontinued. On 30 December 2009, the Gold Coast Bulletin reported that Movie World had plans to create a White Christmas event with one million Christmas lights and artificial snow. Through their website and several television commercials they announced the event will be a separate ticketed event on eight nights in December and will feature one million Christmas lights, Polar Express 4-D Experience, Looney Tunes on Ice, Ice Skating for guests, Christmas carollers, snow and a Christmas Parade. The first White Christmas event was held as a charity event on 3 December 2010 for 3,000 disadvantaged children and their families. The following two weeks the event was held on Thursday through to Sunday for VIP pass holders and event ticket holders. Due to the unexpected success of the event, an additional night was added to the line up on Monday 20 December.

Hooray For Hollywood
On 26 June 2021, Warner Bros. Movie World started an event called Hooray For Hollywood. Hooray For Hollywood was made to celebrate the park's 30th birthday since it opened on 3 June 1991. Hooray For Hollywood contained more classic characters that were from the park back in the 1990's, like Wile E. Coyote, Road Runner, Gizmo, and more. The 2021 version was originally meant to last until 11 July, but due to COVID-19, the park closed for a few days, so it was extended to 18 July. The event was brought back in 2022 and had a couple more events.

Sci-Fi Fantasy Night
On 14 April 2007, Warner Bros. Movie World hosted a one-off Sci-Fi Fantasy Night. The night was organised as part of the 2007 Supanova Pop Culture Expo, however, tickets were still available for the general public. Several rides and shows operated for the event as well as additional Sci-Fi entertainment, a best dressed competition, games and a Q&A session. International sci-fi stars were also present including Billy Dee Williams and Clayton Watson.

DC Comics 75th Anniversary Heroes vs. Villains Parade

In late May 2010, Warner Bros. Movie World announced that they would help celebrate DC Comics' 75th Anniversary by holding a special Heroes vs. Villains Parade. From early June 2010, DC Comics decorations were displayed and merchandise started to be sold throughout the park. The parade was run nightly from 26 June through to 31 July 2010, replacing the traditional All-Star Parade that would normally be held earlier in the day. The Heroes vs. Villains parade introduced six new costumed characters to the park as well as an array of additional floats. The parade also featured existing in-park characters that would normally be featured in the All-Star Parade. From 26 December 2010, the parade replaced the All-Star Parade in its traditional day timeslot.

Other events
Warner Bros. Movie World has also played host to a variety of other events. The Roxy Theatre in Main Street has been the location for a variety of Australasian movie premieres including several from the Harry Potter film series, Fool's Gold and Get Smart. A variety of television shows have also been produced at the park including Cash Bonanza and Toasted TV. Episodes of Sunrise and The Morning Show have also been filmed at the park with invited members of the public being allowed in early.

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Some New Climate Models Are Projecting Extreme Warming. Are They Correct?
Yves here. Readers may be surprised to learn that independent science groups review major climate models on a regular basis. Nevertheless, and I hate to seem like such a naysayer, but between Covid-19 and greater social divisions, the ability of many advanced economies to change course on climate change seems very much diminished.
By Jeff Berardelli, a meteorologist and climate contributor to CBS News in New York City, and a regular contributor to Yale Climate Connections. Originally published at Yale Climate Connections
For the past year, some of the most up-to-date computer models from the world's top climate modeling groups have been "running hot" – projecting that global warming may be even more extreme than earlier thought. Data from some of the model runs has been confounding scientists because it challenges decades of consistent projections.
"It is concerning, as it increases the risk of more severe climate change impacts," explains Dr. Andrew Gettelman, a cloud microphysics scientist from the National Center for Atmospheric Research, in Boulder, Colorado.
As a result, there's been a real urgency to answer this important question in climate science: Are there processes in some new models that need correcting, or is this enhanced warming a real threat?
After months of contemplation and study after study, the picture is becoming much more clear, and providing something of a breather. Along with those studies, an unprecedented international research mission, led by NOAA and named ATOMIC, aims to provide climate science with the most sophisticated insights yet into why some models point to more warming.
International Effort To Evaluate Climate Models
For the past 25 years the international community has been evaluating and comparing the world's most sophisticated climate models produced by various teams at universities, research centers, and government agencies. The effort is organized by the World Climate Research Programme under the United Nations World Meteorological Organization.
Climate models are complicated computer programs composed of millions of lines of code that calculate the physical properties and interactions between the main climate forces like the atmosphere, oceans, and solar input. But models also go a lot further, incorporating other systems like ice sheets, forests, and the biosphere, to name a few. The models are then used to simulate the real-world climate system and project how certain changes, like added pollution or land-use changes, will alter the climate.
Every few years there is a new comprehensive international evaluation called the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP). In the sixth such effort, known as CMIP6 and now under way, experts are reviewing about 100 models.
Information gleaned from this effort will act as a scientific foundation for the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) next major assessment report, scheduled for release in 2021. The goal of the report – the sixth in 30 years – is to inform the international community about how much the climate has changed, and, importantly, how much change can be expected in coming decades.
A Conundrum Emerges
Over the past year, the CMIP6 collection of models being reviewed threw researchers an unexpected curveball: a significant number of the climate model runs showed substantially more global warming than previous model versions had projected. If accurate, the international climate goals would be nearly impossible to achieve, and there would be significantly more extreme impacts worldwide.
A foundational experiment in every report addresses "sensitivity": If you double levels of carbon dioxide (CO2) that were in the air before the Industrial Revolution, how much warming do the models show? This doubling is not expected for a few more decades, but it is a quick way to communicate the critical role of greenhouse gases in changing the climate.
The amount of CO2 in the atmosphere has increased by 35% since the 1800s because of the burning of fossil fuels. As a result, global temperatures have already increased by more than 2 degrees Fahrenheit.
In the first IPCC assessment report, published in 1990, the answer to that question about the impact of doubling carbon dioxide gave a fairly wide range of results – between 2.7-8 degrees F of global warming. Since then, four more assessments issued six to seven years apart reached nearly the exact same conclusion on sensitivity.
But that sensitivity may, for the first time, change significantly in next year's assessment. Why? Because starting last year, numerous models in the CMIP6 collection displayed even bigger spikes in temperature upon doubling of CO2 concentrations. We're in serious trouble if the climate sensitivity falls in the mid or upper range of the previous assessments. But if the new, higher estimates are correct, the impacts on civilization would be catastrophic.
(Source: Tweet by NASA climate scientist Gavin Schmidt)
According to the highly regarded climate site Carbon Brief, which did an independent evaluation of the model suite, 30% of models showed a significant increase in their sensitivity to a doubling of atmospheric CO2.
In the above CarbonBrief interactive visualization, the bars offer a comparison in the range of sensitivity in the CMIP5 models (gray) and CMIP6 models (blue).
New and Encouraging Evidence Is Emerging
At first, scientists were uncertain whether the new model runs were on to something, so the international modeling community dug in to produce multiple studies. The results are not yet conclusive, but a gradual collective sigh of relief seems to be materializing.
"Evidence is emerging from multiple directions that the models which show the greatest warming in the CMIP6 ensemble are likely too warm," explains Dr. Gavin Schmidt, director of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies.
For example, a study released April 28 evaluated the past performance of the models making up the CMIP6 ensemble. The team assigned weights to each model based upon historical performance of their warming projections, weighing the poorer performing models less. By doing so, both the mean warming and the range of warming scenarios in the CMIP6 ensemble decreased, meaning the warmest models were the ones with weaker historical performance. This result supports a finding that a subset of the models are too warm.
That conclusion is supported by another new study evaluating one particular model – the Community Earth System Model (CESM2) – that showed greater warming. Using that model, the researchers simulated the climate in the early Eocene era, about 50 million years ago, when rainforests thrived in the Arctic and Antarctic. The CESM2 simulated a historical climate that seems way too warm compared with what is known about that era from geological data, indicating that the model is likely also too warm in its future projections.
Two other recent studies of the CMIP6 models being evaluated use clever analysis methods to narrow the range of future warming projections and also reduce the projected warming of the CMIP6 models by 10 to 15%.
Through the intensive research spurred by the CMIP6 climate-sensitivity curveball, scientists have been able to turn a confounding challenge into a confidence builder, providing even greater certainty than they had before in both the abilities of the climate science community and in the computer models used. Moreover, the experience has helped unearth uncertainties remaining in the modeling process.
Experts conclude much of this uncertainty probably lies in the complexity of clouds. "We have been looking as a community at why the models with greater warming are doing what they are doing – and it's tied to cloud feedbacks in the southern mid-latitudes mostly," explains Schmidt.
In fact, a new study addressing the increased sensitivity was published in Science Advances stating, "Cloud feedbacks and cloud-aerosol interactions are the most likely contributors to the high values and increased range of ECS [sensitivity] in CMIP6."
Understanding the Complexity of Clouds
It's long been known in climate modeling circles that cloud processes and interactions are a potential weak link for climate modeling. That reality has been brought front and center by the urgent challenges posed during this CMIP6 evaluation period, but the current evaluation of models also provides an opportunity for discovery and improvement.
Cloud complexity comes from the reality that clouds have a multitude of sizes, altitudes, and textures. Some clouds cool Earth by providing shade, reflecting sunlight back into space. Others act like a blanket, trapping heat and warming the world.
Given that about 70% of the globe is covered by clouds at any given time, it's no surprise that they play an integral role in regulating the climate. The challenge is to figure out which types of clouds will increase, which will decrease, and what the net effect will be on cooling or warming as the climate changes.
One study last year reached an alarming conclusion: Left unchecked, the release of CO2 into the atmosphere may lead to a tipping point where shallow low clouds disappear – leading to runaway, catastrophic warming of nearly 15 degrees F. While scientists see that outcome as only a remote possibility, it drives home the urgent need to better understand clouds.
"We have a saying at NOAA: It isn't rocket science – it's much, much harder than that," quips Dr. Chris Fairall, ATOMIC's lead investigator. "One of the major problems for modeling is there is not clean separation of scales." The photo below is one that Fairall took from the NOAA P-3 aircraft.
"Think about trying to code up a model that can produce this," Fairall muses. "Huge cloud systems are made up of a spectrum of clouds from the size of Kansas to ones that fit in the trunk of your Volkswagen."
In the real world and the simulated model world, cloud formation depends partially on how moisture interacts with aerosols, tiny floating particles in the air. Aerosols are fine particles like smoke, sea spray, and pollutants. These tiny dust-like particles act as condensation nuclei, allowing gaseous water vapor to turn into cloud droplets.
The interplay between clouds, aerosols, and a warming climate in a model affects how much of a cooling or warming influence that model calculates.
Recently a new international dataset of emissions – including changes in the concentrations of aerosols – has been introduced into some climate models with improved cloud physics. As a result, some scientists conclude, the changes have affected cloud dynamics in these models, leading to additional warming.
But despite the increased confidence that a subset of the CMIP6 models are likely overdoing warming projections, Gettelman believes there is at least some merit to the warmer projections because this generation of models has more sophisticated cloud physics.
So in order to get to the bottom of cloud complexity and improve these vital model projections, the international community is collaborating on a massive research project.
Investigating the Secrets of Clouds
To address the urgent question about the dynamics and role of clouds in a warming world, NOAA and European partners launched their ongoing research effort unprecedented in scale. The U.S. contribution, ATOMIC – short for Atlantic Tradewind Ocean-Atmosphere Mesoscale Interaction Campaign – is an international science mission that was featured recently on "CBS This Morning: Saturday."
"The research that originally motivated this project was an analysis that showed that the single biggest factor that separated the CMIP models into big warming and not so big warming was treatment of shallow convective clouds," Fairall explains.
The best places to find shallow convective clouds are tropical waters. So in February, a group of scientists from more than 40 partner institutions from countries including the U.S., Germany, France, and the U.K. painstakingly probed hundreds of miles of tropical air and sea near the island of Barbados. They used every tool in their arsenals: five research aircraft, four large fact-finding vessels, buoys, radar and futuristic air and ocean drones to examine the makeup of these complicated and crucial clouds.
Scientists expect that the vast, concurrent and diverse types of observations captured in ATOMIC will allow them to improve how clouds are represented in climate models, enabling them to make more precise predictions of future climate and impacts.
Fairall says the data from ATOMIC is ideal for such assessments, and he expects the findings will inform the upcoming 2021 comprehensive IPCC report. With the data from ATOMIC still being analyzed, scientists have not yet reached conclusions.
On the whole, however, these unprecedented research efforts to troubleshoot discrepancies in the latest models have already borne critical fruit. They are providing scientists with more insights, illustrating the crucial value of the scientific method, lending credibility to the capability of climate models, and helping build more confidence within the climate science community.
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Pam, Yu are part of my daily life. I have a wanderlust and my trip to London in Dec. of 2009 stirred it up again. I am able to feed my wanderlust through you, thank you. On my bucket list is to go to the airport one day and choose a flight going someplace and just get buy my ticket and go.
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var sinon = require('sinon')

describe('onError', function () {
  var onError = require('../../../lib/middleware/onError')

  var res = {
    setHeader: function () {},
    status: function () {
      return this
    },
    json: function () {},
    send: function () {}
  }

  var setHeader = sinon.spy(res, 'setHeader')
  var status = sinon.spy(res, 'status')
  var send = sinon.spy(res, 'send')
  var json = sinon.spy(res, 'json')
  var next = sinon.spy()

  var err = new Error('An error occurred')
  err.statusCode = 400

  afterEach(function () {
    setHeader.reset()
    status.reset()
    send.reset()
    json.reset()
    next.reset()
  })

  it('with express', function () {
    onError(true)(err, {}, res, next)

    sinon.assert.calledOnce(setHeader)
    sinon.assert.calledWithExactly(setHeader, 'Content-Type', 'application/json')
    sinon.assert.calledOnce(status)
    sinon.assert.calledWithExactly(status, err.statusCode)
    sinon.assert.calledOnce(json)
    sinon.assert.calledWithExactly(json, err)
    sinon.assert.notCalled(next)
  })

  it('with restify', function () {
    onError(false)(err, {}, res, next)

    sinon.assert.calledOnce(setHeader)
    sinon.assert.calledWithExactly(setHeader, 'Content-Type', 'application/json')
    sinon.assert.notCalled(status)
    sinon.assert.calledOnce(send)
    sinon.assert.calledWithExactly(send, err.statusCode, JSON.parse(JSON.stringify(err)))
    sinon.assert.notCalled(next)
  })
})

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ISO 898-1:2013
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Mechanical properties of fasteners made of carbon steel and alloy steel - Part 1: Bolts, screws and studs with specified property classes - Coarse thread and fine pitch thread
standard by International Organization for Standardization, 01/15/2013
ISO 888:2012
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DIN EN ISO 898-1
Mechanical properties of fasteners made of carbon steel and alloy steel - Part 1: Bolts, screws and studs with specified property classes - Coarse thread and fine pitch thread (ISO 898-1:2013); German version EN ISO 898-1:2013
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Mechanical properties of fasteners made of carbon steel and alloy steel
ISO 898-1:2013 specifies mechanical and physical properties of bolts, screws and studs made of carbon steel and alloy steel when tested at an ambient temperature range of 10 °C to 35 °C. Fasteners (the term used when bolts, screws and studs are considered all together) that conform to the requirements of ISO 898-1:2013 are evaluated at that ambient temperature range.
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DIN EN ISO 898-1, BS EN ISO 898-1:2013
Mechanical properties of fasteners made of carbon steel and alloy steel - Part 1: Bolts, screws and studs
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Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebration
Minneapolis College invites you to Amplifying Beloved Community—the 2022 celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.—on January 20 at 11:30
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As part of the Fablab workshop, we offers a range of hand tools as well as woodworking machines for use by inducted Fablab users in conjunction with the overall use of the Fablab.
I want to use one of the machines, how can I get inducted?
Please get in touch to discuss the machine you would like to use and we can arrange an induction.


Returning speakers is, according to the Distance Selling Act, possible; especially, if the packaging is still sealed. However, that matter has to be seen in a different light if the speaker has already been used, as that certainly means that the speaker has been installed in a cabinet and was connected to an amplifier.
Generally speaking, a static connection of components (such as speakers) to other parts (cabinets and/or amplifiers) contradicts the basic idea of the Distant Selling Act.
This is hinted at in the countermand instructions for consumers in paragraph c) and eliminates the possibility of returning the product in the sense of the Distant Selling Act. Yet, as a gesture of good will, we would like to present a solution and offer to take back the product within two weeks after purchase, if you send back the product at your own expense and can provide a copy of the invoice. We cannot accept freight collect consignments.
Still, we will only take back speakers and refund the money if they show no signs of use at all. If a returned speaker shows irreversible signs of use or installation, we will have to deduct 20-50% of the purchasing price, depending on the level of damage.
Usually, speakers are fixed by screw nuts and the respecting screws stick out of the baffle board. Alternatively, speakers can be mounted with screws which themselves are held by fitting screw collars in the baffle.
In both cases, the screws stick out of the steel basket which is partly covered by the speaker cardboard. This, inevitably, leads to the piercing of the cardboard. Thus, the speakers have traces of use and installation.
One way of avoiding this is to clamp the speaker onto the baffle board by using appropriate holding clamps (rubber seal or felt). This also helps to avoid other traces of installation, for example to the paint of the frame of the speaker, as done by erection screws and nuts.
The connecting of the speakers has to be carried out by using accessory shoes or contact pins.
If you abide by the steps mentioned above, the damages caused by wrongful installation can be avoided. This is the only option of returning undamaged speakers at full value within the statutory period of time.
However, if irreversible damages have occurred, we reserve the right to examine the speakers and we will deduct a certain percentage of the purchasing price, depending on the level of damage or even refuse to take back the speakers.


The NBA regular season usually offers a few surprises.
The Denver Nuggets fighting for a No. 1 seed in the Western Conference against superpowers like the Golden State Warriors and Houston Rockets would constitute a surprise.
But given the fact that more than half of the teams in the league make the playoffs, rarely something occurs during the 82-game campaign that is truly shocking.
LeBron James not making the playoffs as a member of the Los Angeles Lakers qualifies as shocking.
In the past eight seasons, some of James' Miami and Cleveland teams didn't play up to their potential in the regular season, but there was no doubt that they would receive a high seed and turn on the jets in the playoffs. That's exactly what happened in the past eight seasons. James reached the NBA Finals with a supporting cast of various amounts of talent. Some years, it was expected – Dwyane Wade, Chris Bosh, Kyrie Irving, Kevin Love were a part of LeBron's teams that cruised through the Eastern Conference. Other years, James carried injury-laden teams on his back and used sheer will to reach the promised land over teams that, on paper, were considered better.
When James decided to join the Lakers in the offseason, many concluded that his eight-year NBA Finals streak was in serious jeopardy. For the first time since his initial run in Cleveland, James would not be flanked by two additional superstars. However, very few believed that the Lakers would miss the playoffs entirely.
But that's the reality facing Los Angeles after a dismal loss at Phoenix. The Lakers are four games behind both the L.A. Clippers and San Antonio for the 7- and 8-seed with 19 games to play. That may not seem like an unmanageable distance to close, but it doesn't take into account the talent of the teams ahead of the Lakers (Sacramento is also ahead of L.A. in the standings in the ninth position). ESPN's BPI Playoff Index puts the Lakers' playoff chances at a meager 1.1 percent.
At the beginning of the season, the odds on the Lakers to make the playoffs at the Westgate Superbook in Las Vegas were at -450 – meaning you had to bet $450 to win $100 if the Lakers made it. They had the fifth-best odds in the Western Conference to make the playoffs. Now, those odds are +600 – so if you like to gamble against the odds, go make a $100 bet on L.A. making the playoffs. If the Lakers do, you'll pocket 600 bucks.
Granted, James did miss 18 games with an injury, marking the longest span of games that he's missed in his 17 seasons as a pro. But the Lakers have lost six of eight with James in the lineup. Lonzo Ball, Josh Hart, and Rajon Rondo have also missed large chunks of games due to injuries.
Fortunately for James and Lakers fans, this likely doesn't mean that "The King" is finished. While he's clearly on the back-nine of his career, this can't be compared to Michael Jordan missing the playoffs in his first season with the Washington Wizards in 2000. Chances are, James will use the added rest gained by not playing an extra 20-25 games into June and come back healthier and refreshed in 2019-20. The Lakers also will have the cap freedom to try and add another superstar to their roster, and James has been very successful in the past when courting other max-contract players to join his quest for gold.
So while James' 13-year playoff streak is on life support, it's too early to consider writing the epitaph for one of the most prolific careers in NBA history.