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Posted by Richard Fichera on September 26, 2011
Background – Promises And Potential
Last year I wrote about Oracle's new plans for SPARC, anchored by a new line of SPARC CPUs engineered in conjunction with Fujitsu (Does SPARC have a Future?), and commented that the first deliveries of this new technology would probably be in early 2012, and until we saw this tangible evidence of Oracle's actual execution of this road map we could not predict with any confidence the future viability of SPARC.
The T4 CPU
Fast forward a year and Oracle has delivered the first of the new CPUs, ahead of schedule and with impressive gains in performance that make it look like SPARC will remain a viable platform for years. Specifically, Oracle has introduced the T4 CPU and systems based on them. The T4, an evolution of Oracle's highly threaded T-Series architecture, is implemented with an entirely new core that will form the basis, with variations in number of threads versus cores and cache designs, of the future M and T series systems. The M series will have fewer threads and more performance per thread, while the T CPUs will, like their predecessors, emphasize throughput for highly threaded workloads. The new T4 will have 8 cores, and each core will have 8 threads. While the T4 emphasizes highly threaded workload performance, it is important to note that Oracles has radically improved single-thread performance over its predecessors, with Oracle claiming performance per thread improvements of 5X over its predecessors, greatly improving its utility as a CPU to power less thread-intensive workloads as well.
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Hey everybody, in my Christmas present thread the topic turned to how I should mount my T-visor into my helmet- At first I thought Hot glue, but someone brought up that it'll easily melt. Someone suggested Plumbers goop, but I don't think I want to wait 24 hours for it to set, only to have it shift and set crooked-
So I have two rquests- Tell me how YOU secured your visor to you helmet, and if you have a picture of the inside of your helemt please post it here; I'd like to see how the visor looks and how its padded. Don't worry if its not the prettiest sight- its the inside of your helmet, you know.
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Beverly Williams from United States writes:
I currently have used my email address with Time Warner Roadrunner many, many years. After buying a Win 8 laptop find MS won't support pop servers accounts. RR told me MS hasn't told them how to configure their email and to access it through the web which is slow and few options that Windows Mail used to provide. I looked into buying MS Outlook, over $100, but even then think it won't support my accessing Roadrunner through it. What's the best option for me?
You've run into a problem that many users of the Mail app in Windows 8 have, Microsoft discontinued support for older style POP mail accounts. The good news is, there are a few ways you can work around this problem.
Switch POP3 to IMAP: IMAP is a server protocol for e-mail, where the e-mails are saved and stored on the server and your client (ex: Windows Mail, Outlook) just checks and syncs the information. IMAP is considered a better system then POP3, since all e-mail is saved on the server so multiple devices can check the same e-mail box. If you contact your internet service provider they may offer IMAP and have instructions on how to check your e-mail using IMAP.
Stand Alone E-mail Client: Another option is to use a stand alone e-mail client like Mozilla Thunderbird or Microsoft Outlook. These e-mail clients support POP3 and in the case of Mozilla Thunderbird can be downloaded free of charge by clicking here.
Use Fetcher in GMail: A popular choice among free e-mail providers, Gmail by Google, can check POP3 accounts and automatically download the e-mail into your g-mail account. This tool, called Fetcher, can be enabled for free on any Gmail account. Click here to read the directions on how to use Fetcher.
P.S. You may also want to consider switching off your ISP's e-mail all together. The problem with using the service providers e-mail address, is if you change providers, move or cancel your account you, lose all of your e-mail. A third-party free provider (Gmail, Outlook.com, Yahoo Mail etc) solves this problem and lets you keep one consistent e-mail address.
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Springfield, Ohio – Thirty-six students from around Ohio descended on Wittenberg University on Feb. 14 to participate in the annual Four College Mathematics Competition.
This annual competition allows students from Wittenberg, Ohio Wesleyan University, Denison University and Kenyon College to work as three-person teams to solve 10 math problems in two hours. Three teams represented Wittenberg, comprised of Marshall Zarecky, class of 2009 from Enon, Ohio; Alyssa Armstrong, class of 2009 from Hamilton, Ohio; Ben Scott, class of 2009 from Strongsville, Ohio; Amanda Furness, class of 2010 from Strongsville, Ohio; Aaron Dugger, class of 2010 from Newburgh, Ohio; Nam Vu, class of 2010 from Ha Noi, Vietnam; Alex Sitarik, class of 2011 from East Liverpool, Ohio; Michael Doerschuk, class of 2011 from Louisville, Ohio; and Savannah Kiser, class of 2012 from Warren, Pa.
"We try to keep it as low-key as possible and give students a chance to meet and socialize with like-minded students from other schools," said Adam Parker, Wittenberg assistant professor of mathematics. "While the students are working on the problems, the faculty members get to socialize or try the problems themselves, which is fun for us."
In addition to Parker, Wittenberg faculty members Al Stickney, professor of mathematics, Doug Andrews, professor of statistics and chair of the department, and Brian Shelburne, associate professor of computer science and chair of the department, attended the event.
The location of the exam rotates among the four schools. In addition to providing lunch and a physical space to take the exam, the host institution is responsible for recruiting an individual from outside the four competing colleges to write and grade the exam. This year's writer from Minnesota put together an exam with problems from areas such as geometry, calculus, number theory and trigonometry, among others.
According to Parker, while the problems are challenging, they rarely require any advanced mathematics to understand or figure out. Usually a clever insight will allow the student to solve them.
"It was a lot of fun working in teams to solve the problems," said Zarecky, who is a math major and computational science minor. "Most math competitions have you working individually, but it's nice to have teammates to bounce ideas off of."
In December 2008, seven Wittenberg students also participated in the William Lowell Putnam Mathematics Competition, the largest and most prestigious mathematics competition in the United States. Designed to test technical competence, problem-solving ability and originality, the event attracts more than 2,000 students who spend six hours attempting to solve 12 questions. The institutions with the five winning teams are awarded a monetary prize for their mathematics department, with the top team receiving $25,000. The 20 highest-scoring individuals are also awarded monetary prizes.
Wittenberg math students will continue to participate in competitions during the 2008-09 academic year. In April, students will travel to Bowling Green State University for the spring meeting of the Ohio Section of the Mathematical Association of America. There, they will participate in another problem-solving competition, as well as attend a pizza party and talks. In addition, senior mathematics majors will also present the results of their senior thesis research.


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UK Good Samaritan Hospital
UK Good Samaritan Hospital is an acute-care facility with 302 licensed beds.
Founded in 1888, the hospital has a long tradition of providing exceptional patient care in a community-hospital atmosphere. Its acquisition in July 2007 by UK HealthCare added the resources of a major health care system.
With more than 600 clinical and ancillary staff and a medical staff of more than 600 physicians, UK Good Samaritan is able to offer a broad range of health care services to meet the needs of the residents of central and eastern Kentucky.
All patient rooms in the hospital are single-occupancy, ensuring each patient privacy and individual attention.
UK Good Samaritan Hospital is home to the second-largest orthopaedic and joint replacement program in Kentucky.
A state-of-the-art diagnostic center provides walk-in appointments for MRI and X-ray.
A 50,000-square-foot medical office building is conveniently connected to the hospital by a pedway and is home to specialty physicians including orthopaedics, internal medicine and plastic surgery.
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|July 7th, 2008, 09:57 PM
Slice of Starsage Anyone?
The dangers of straight party voting...
I was talking to the fiance's grandpa (who is an awesome guy, BTW, so I'm not trying to pick on him too much) and he said some interesting stuff.
According to him, the best things Kzoo ever had were the "poor farms" where the poor people in the community could go work for government farms and earn a wage, and he was pissed that the government officials stopped providing this service.
Then he mentioned that he was a fan of more people riding their bikes to work, and he thought that the government should start a commission to build more bike paths around the country.
Then he proceeded to bash Obama (just making black jokes, not anything actually intellectual).
Now, I'm not an Obama supporter either, but it amazes me how some people are so "straight party" that they have no clue what anyone stands for...
This seems more dangerous than not voting to me...Your thoughts?
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I think the ability to vote a straight party ticket with one action needs to be eliminated.
I likewise think the media's in cahoots with the and to prevent the emergence of a legitimate 3rd party, forgetting that neither of them were around at the beginning either. Every third party attempt is consistently painted as a "nutball, fringe group" and is denied access to debates, etc... There's something a "fairness doctrine" needs to look at instead of worrying about what Rush Linbaugh says...
This is the Pub. Leave common sense at the door.
|July 8th, 2008, 05:06 AM
Mr. Special Snowflake.
So your fiance's grandpa's a racist socialist, I'm not sure what that has to do with straight party voting. I do think either party has a monopoly on racism.
I would like to see changes made to out electoral system ot give alternate parties a reasonable chance.
|July 8th, 2008, 06:58 AM
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I whole-heartedly agree about the 3rd party thing. CNN had an interview with Bob Bar, and there was a noteable quote in the article: CNN said, "Will he win? No." It's probably true, but the media gives relativly no attention to the 3rd party candidates (so individuals who do not investigate further than one or two news sites can easily miss the candidate entirely), and they spout the general idea that 3rd parties are not worth seriously considering.
|July 8th, 2008, 08:01 AM
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Completely agree.
I say the only way for anything other than the current system to actually come to be (agreeing with everything said thus far about a real third party) is to go directly to a 4-party system.
Something for the center-left and center-right between the other two. Problem in my mind with third parties is that they tend to be off to a "side" in the current political spectrum, rather than somewhere IN it.
As I see it, the political spectrum is reality and won't change regardless of additional parties, most people's views lie somewhere in that range, so let's simply divide it up a little finer (there's certainly enough of us to go finer than just two divisions, right?).
Basically, if you looked at this election, you could have had something like:
Kucinich (left)
Obama (center-left)
McCain (center-right)
Huckabee (right)
Put those four on a ballot and see what happens.
Many people would say that then we might not have a clear winner and the one with the most votes could have just a bit more than 25% of the total vote (of course the electoral system would have to be reworked too, but who doesn't want that?) but I'd argue that it wouldn't be any worse than now when so many people are unhappy with the options that they simply don't vote anyway or are just voting a straight party ticket... the reality of it all is that there's such small turnouts that I don't think the winner is really supported by much more than 25% of the voters anyway.
My $.02
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Well at least you got McCain in the correct slot.
Here's my take....
Obama(far left)
Clinton(almost as far-left)
Bob Barr(far-right)
ACU Lifetime ratings....
Obama 8%
Clinton 9%
McCain 83%
Barr 98%
|July 8th, 2008, 08:48 AM
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Don't get hung up on who I slotted where, I'm one of the annoyed/aggravated voters that hates the current system where there's no point in caring until the two candidates are official. Therefore I wasn't sure who to slot where.
|July 8th, 2008, 11:10 AM
Slice of Starsage Anyone?
Ya' know...I was reading an article by Lawrence W. Reed (a dude who wrote several articles...and, I believe, worked for...the Mackinac Center for Public Policy). That being said...he's pretty libertarian in his views...
I'm not a fan of most of his stuff, because, perhaps for the sake of keeping the article short, he doesn't really defend any of his statements/claims, but I thought he had one noteworthy article...
He stated that it is NOT better to have everyone go out and vote!!!
If 25% of registered voters vote (and they actually CARE about it), it is WAAAAAYYYY better than if 100% of the people voted, and 75% were just voting because it's "VOTE OR DIE!!!".
I just never heard it put that way, and I completely agree. The push should be for a better educated voting populace and less of a push on the "JUST VOTE!!!".
Some people hold that stigma that it is the end of democracy when less people vote, but we have at least double the voter turn out nowadays than they did in the washington/adams days (and I'm aware of the reasons why, but that's not the point).
I hope everyone who doesn't know which candidate to pick stays home, so people who care about the matter can have more of an impact.
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Not everyone should be able to vote. Some people have no clue as to what these candidates are all about. I don't want a bunch of uninformed voters going out and making choices for me. I think we need to start testing voters before they can proceed to the ballots.
|July 8th, 2008, 12:16 PM
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Ah yes, but is that better than what we have now where it's a large part just party voters going to the polls who'll vote for whomever has or next to their name?
I'd counter with the fact that the current system makes MANY people who would be excellent voters stay home because of the frustration they have with the way things are or the lack of candidates who truly reflect their values (i.e. not wanting to have to choose the lesser of two evils).
IMHO, iF there was a better system that eliminated some of these frustrations, the majority of people who would be showing up to vote would be just the type you'd want to vote.
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"Test" voters??? How do they pass??? Who decides if they fail??? Will they be able to "Re-test" if they study hard for 3 days before an election???
Don't get me wrong...I wish that more people who actually cast a ballot were more educated about the candidates themselves instead of if they are or , but I'll bet there are MUCH more educated voters than you think.
Just because voters disagree with your point of view or the candidate you support does not mean they are uneducated.
There are alot of educated voters in Zimbabwe.
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|July 8th, 2008, 04:38 PM
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How fun would it be if the voters had to answer these 3 questions before voting though?
1. Name the three branches of government.
2. Name the two bodies of congress.
3. How many states are in the United States?
Honestly, if they can't answer these 3 questions, what point is there in them voting?
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I'd like to think that most people that take their time to go vote actually have somewhat of a clue as to what's going on.
Most people that don't vote either don't care or do so by choice because they think it doesn't matter.
|July 8th, 2008, 05:03 PM
Mr. Special Snowflake.
There is nothing in our current laws that mandates that there be 2 parties, and in fact when you go to vote in November there will be many candidates from different parties on the ballot. The "Two party system" is just a side effect of our election process. I think the biggest change that would help give an alternate party a chance would be to change from only requiring a candidate to be elected on a plurality (more votes than any other candidate) of vote to requiring a majority (over half of votes cast) of votes to win. If no candidate gets a majority then a runoff election is held between the 2 top vote getters.
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Saperstein: "The United States can ensure and enhance its own security, as well as that of the world, by leading the way to a reduction in the world's nuclear stockpile."
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Washington, D.C. December 6, 2010 - In response to the New START treaty pending in the Senate, Rabbi David Saperstein, Director of the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism, sent a letter to Senators urging ratification. The full text of the letter follows:
Dear Senator:
On behalf of the Union for Reform Judaism, whose more than 900 congregations across North America encompass 1.5 million Reform Jews, and the Central Conference of American Rabbis, which represents over 1,800 Reform rabbis, I write to urge you to ratify the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) during the current lame duck session of Congress.
We have supported this treaty since it was signed in April and have urged what we reiterate at this vital moment: that the Senate moves as expeditiously as possible to ratify this New START agreement. It calls on the United States and Russia, the two countries with a majority of the world's nuclear weapons, to reduce their nuclear stockpiles. It will reinstate American inspectors on the ground in Russia, enhance transparency and therefore stability, even as it will strengthen cooperation between Russia and the U.S. In doing so, it will lay the groundwork for further reductions and for the cooperation on nuclear proliferation that is indispensible in placing maximum pressure on Iran to halt its proliferation efforts.
The New START treaty properly enjoys broad bipartisan support and we ask you to add to that. Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger has said, "[New START] will affect the prospects for peace for a decade or more. It is, by definition, not a bipartisan, but a nonpartisan, challenge." Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has also asserted the treaty's importance, noting that, "This is a treaty that if ratified will provide stability, transparency and predictability for the two countries with more than 90 percent of the world's nuclear weapons."
Many other respected military and diplomatic experts have expressed their views that ratification of the New START treaty is essential to securing a safer future. This issue transcends partisan and ideological lines; it is about nations taking action to make the world more secure. As Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Michael Mullen argued, "It helps strengthen openness and transparency in our relationship with Russia. It also demonstrates our national commitment to reducing the worldwide risk of a nuclear incident resulting from the continuing proliferation of nuclear weapons."
The United States can ensure and enhance its own security, as well as that of the world, by leading the way to a reduction in the world's nuclear stockpile. We call on you to vote for the New START treaty, ensuring both a safer America and a safer world.
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I got the genius idea (well, I think it is) to build Mando armor out of campaign signs. They're fairly sturdy and as long as I continue to drive around at 2am they're free.
I've found that they shape well in the oven, or in boiling water (haven't tried a heat gun yet, but soon) and they're nice to work with. The only problem is that they are corrugated plastic, and when they are shaped, you can clearly see the vertical lines of the inner cell.
I figured that I could put a layer of Bondo over everything, or some other sort of overlay...does anyone have suggestions?
P.S. I'm new here, and I apologize if I posted this in the wrong area...it seemed like a good idea at the time.


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SPCME program is developed by the Department of Anthropology at The Field Museum (FM) in Chicago, in collaboration with the American Research Center in Sofia (ARCS) and with sponsorship from the America for Bulgaria Foundation (ABF). The program promotes projects that concern archaeological sites and museum collections in Bulgaria that are suffering from long periods of neglect and are in dire need of restoration.
2010 SPCME Awarded Projects
Conservation and Protection of Monuments and Signatures in the Town of the Victory Nicopolis ad Istrum, Bulgaria ($42,486)
Nicopolis ad Istrum is a Roman town founded by the emperor Marcus Ulpius Traianus to honor his victories over the Dacians in A.D. 101 and 106. It is located near the village of Nikyup, 20 kilometers northwest of Veliko Turnovo, Bulgaria. The goals of this project include:
• ensure the physical protection of the epigraphy and gravestone monuments in the Roman city;
• build a series of roofing structures which will help to preserve a variety of ancient features, including a well dating to the Roman period, a waste canal that passes through the central part of the forum, and a pedestal for an equestrian statue of an emperor; publicize the above activities in English and Bulgarian and facilitate visitors to the site through signs, information boards, and model graphics.
This project is directed by Ivan Tsarov (Regional Historical Museum - Veliko Turnovo, Bulgaria).
Conservation, Restoration and Socialization of Archaeological Monuments from Ancient Colony Deultum, near Debelt Village, Burgas District, Bulgaria ($47,810)
The archaeological reserve "Deultum-Develt" is a monument of historical heritage with national importance for modern Bulgaria. It holds a variety of archaeological remains that provide evidence of habitation from the Bronze Age to the 14th century A.D. The goals of this project include:
• conserve, restore, and prepare the metal findings that are currently threatened by destruction based on research at ancient Deultum;
• integrate the monuments from the archaeological reserve; promote Deultum archaeological heritage; provide a new cultural product on the tourist market; and attract tourist flow from the coast of the Western Black Sea and inland.
This project is directed by Krasimira Kostova (History Museum of Sredetz, Burgas District, Bulgaria).
2011 SPCME Awarded Projects
Preservation and Enhancement of the Antiquity Collection of the Museum of History"Iskra", Kazanlak, Bulgaria ($45,000)
The Antiquity Department of the Museum of History Iskra houses one of the richest collections of ancient artifacts in Bulgaria. Its permanent exhibition and the seven exposed monumental Thracian tombs represent attractive destinations for tourists from all over the world. The goals of this project include:
- improve the long-term preservation of the collection;
- enable space for future acquisitions of artifacts;
- recover endangered artifacts with high scientific and exhibitional value;
- enhance the work of the museum officers and scholars wishing to study artifacts; promote the collection and raise awareness about the need for constant care of the collection.
The director of this project is Meglena Parvin (Museum of History "Iskra", Kazanlak, Bulgaria)
Bishop's Residence from the Late Middle Ages – Archaeology, Education and Tourism, Rousse ($39,680)
The medieval town of Cherven was founded in the 11th century and destroyed at the end of the 16th century. Its bishop's residence, dated to the 15th-16th centuries, is the only one of its kind in Bulgaria, and it provides an opportunity to understand the material condition of the Church during the Early Ottoman period, the everyday life of the bishops, and the structure of their residences. The lack of conservation and restoration activities threatens the preservation of the site. In addition, the site remains relatively unknown to local and international tourists. The goals of this project include:
- restore, conserve and prepare an exhibit of the Bishop's complex from the 15th-16th century;
- conserve movable cultural valuables found on the site and in the exhibit;
- organize an educational module for archaeology; elaborate upon the guide through the Rousse Lom river valley and produce a 27-minute movie entitled "The Unknown Valley: Journey Along the Rousse Lom."
The director of this project is Nikolay Nenov (Regional Historical Museum - Rousse, Bulgaria).
2012 SPCME Awarded Projects
Pistiros Exposition Hall – Presentation and Socialization of Cultural Artifacts ($45,000)
Finds such as Greek imported pottery, graffiti, and inscriptions are evidence of trade relationships and a cultural influence between Greeks and Thracians. Over 10,000 cultural artifacts are kept in the museum at Septemvri, and most of them could become part of the exposition in the museum. However, owing to financial difficulties, the Septemvri municipality cannot provide independent funding for facilities for an exposition hall. The goals of this project include:
- make repairs to the hall;
- design a layout for the museum exposition;
- publish a catalogue of the exposition;
- exhibit unique cultural artifacts from the museum for the public;
- promote the development of cultural tourism in the Septemvri Municipality;
- contribute to the work of the museum through schools of the municipality and universities where there is a specialty in archeology;
- improve the managerial capacity of the museum staff; popularize and advertise the archeological site of Emporion Pistiros.
The director of this project is Svedalina Popova (Archaeological Museum—Septemvri, Bulgaria).
Museum for Small and Grown-up ($49,137)
The Varna Educational Museum was established in 1986, and it is the first Bulgarian museum with its own specialized exhibit for children. The museum is accommodated in the ground floor chambers of the Archaeological Museum in Varna. The goal of the archaeologists at the museum was to assemble an appealing and accessible exhibit for children that would increase the schoolchildren's interest in history and archaeology. Their aspirations resulted in the creation of unique space where both older and younger visitors could have direct and immediate access to the museum components. The goals of this project include:
- expand and elaborate upon the existing museum programs and establish new programs, including "Archaeology – A History World under the Ground," "The Children of Roman Odessos," and "The Antique Mosaic Works of Odessos;"
- diversify the topical subject matters, forms, methods, and educational functions of the museum;
- optimize the accessibility and functionality of the museum exhibit; convert the Educational Museum into an attractive place for meetings, creative intercourse and artistic manifestations of schoolchildren and students, and inform both young and grown-up visitors about the importance of acquiring historical and archaeological knowledge.
The director of this project is Valentin Gueorgiev Pletnyov (Regional Historical Museum – Varna, Bulgaria).
Conservation, Restoration and Exhibition of Stone Architectural Elements and Pieces of Inventory of the Temple of the Pontic Mother of Gods in the Greek Colony Dionysopolis ($44,948)
This is the only temple from the pre-Roman period in Bulgaria that has a completely preserved ground plan. Twenty-seven Greek and Latin inscriptions discovered in the temple, allow the temple to be identified securely. The temple offers new opportunities to study ancient religion, architecture, and art, but also the social and economic life of the region throughout seven centuries. The goals of this project include:
- preserve, restore and exhibit architectural elements and pieces of temple inventory – 38 artifacts in total – that will be displayed in a separate hall in the Balchik History Museum;
- repaint the walls and ceilings of the hall, and install new lighting and air conditioning systems in the exhibition halls where the artifacts will be displayed;
- design a new permanent exhibition for the Museum, with an emphasis on the temple of the Pontic Mother of Gods; photograph and describe the artifacts, which have been conserved and restored, and publish them in a popular book.
The director of this project is Igor Lazarekno (Regional Historical Museum – Varna, Bulgaria).
Revivification of the Ancient Durostorum in the Archaeological Мuseum – Silistra ($38,750)
The goals of this project include:
- create a 1:150 scale model of the Late Antiquity fortress at Durostorum, including all the revealed stationary monuments (e.g., temples, residencies, baths, and churches);
- exhibit the model in a special hall in the Archaeological Museum – Silistra, which needs selected repairs;
- construct a video wall and projection installation in the hall for the presentation of films and digital reconstructions of daily life in Durostorum and the monuments of the city and region; compile a small album or guide-book in Bulgarian and English about the history of the fortress, in order to popularize the site.
The director of this project is Georgi Atanasov (Regional Historical Museum – Silistra, Bulgaria).


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Updates to model-data comparisons
It's worth going back every so often to see how projections made back in the day are shaping up. As we get to the end of another year, we can update all of the graphs of annual means with another single datapoint. Statistically this isn't hugely important, but people seem interested, so why not?
For example, here is an update of the graph showing the annual mean anomalies from the IPCC AR4 models plotted against the surface temperature records from the HadCRUT3v and GISTEMP products (it really doesn't matter which). Everything has been baselined to 1980-1999 (as in the 2007 IPCC report) and the envelope in grey encloses 95% of the model runs. The 2009 number is the Jan-Nov average.
As you can see, now that we have come out of the recent La Niña-induced slump, temperatures are back in the middle of the model estimates. If the current El Niño event continues into the spring, we can expect 2010 to be warmer still. But note, as always, that short term (15 years or less) trends are not usefully predictable as a function of the forcings. It's worth pointing out as well, that the AR4 model simulations are an 'ensemble of opportunity' and vary substantially among themselves with the forcings imposed, the magnitude of the internal variability and of course, the sensitivity. Thus while they do span a large range of possible situations, the average of these simulations is not 'truth'.
There is a claim doing the rounds that 'no model' can explain the recent variations in global mean temperature (George Will made the claim last month for instance). Of course, taken absolutely literally this must be true. No climate model simulation can match the exact timing of the internal variability in the climate years later. But something more is being implied, specifically, that no model produced any realisation of the internal variability that gave short term trends similar to what we've seen. And that is simply not true.
We can break it down a little more clearly. The trend in the annual mean HadCRUT3v data from 1998-2009 (assuming the year-to-date is a good estimate of the eventual value) is 0.06+/-0.14 ºC/dec (note this is positive!). If you want a negative (albeit non-significant) trend, then you could pick 2002-2009 in the GISTEMP record which is -0.04+/-0.23 ºC/dec. The range of trends in the model simulations for these two time periods are [-0.08,0.51] and [-0.14, 0.55], and in each case there are multiple model runs that have a lower trend than observed (5 simulations in both cases). Thus 'a model' did show a trend consistent with the current 'pause'. However, that these models showed it, is just coincidence and one shouldn't assume that these models are better than the others. Had the real world 'pause' happened at another time, different models would have had the closest match.
Another figure worth updating is the comparison of the ocean heat content (OHC) changes in the models compared to the latest data from NODC. Unfortunately, I don't have the post-2003 model output handy, but the comparison between the 3-monthly data (to the end of Sep) and annual data versus the model output is still useful.
Update (May 2012): The graph has been corrected for a scaling error in the model output. Unfortunately, I don't have a copy of the observational data exactly as it was at the time the original figure was made, and so the corrected version uses only the annual data from a slightly earlier point. The original figure is still available here.
(Note, that I'm not quite sure how this comparison should be baselined. The models are simply the difference from the control, while the observations are 'as is' from NOAA). I have linearly extended the ensemble mean model values for the post 2003 period (using a regression from 1993-2002) to get a rough sense of where those runs could have gone.
And finally, let's revisit the oldest GCM projection of all, Hansen et al (1988). The Scenario B in that paper is running a little high compared with the actual forcings growth (by about 10%), and the old GISS model had a climate sensitivity that was a little higher (4.2ºC for a doubling of CO2) than the current best estimate (~3ºC).
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Why Climate Models Lie
It has come to light that a number of climate scientists have been less than truthful with regard to climate data. As shocking and embarrassing as this has been to the scientific community, it serves only to emphasize the huge blind spot that scientists have for their computer models. It is a career ending offense to knowingly falsify data, yet the entire climate science community engages in even worse deception without a second thought. This is because lies are generated for them wholesale by their faithful yet duplicitous servants: computer climate models.
In a guest post on Roger Pielke Sr.'s web site, Hiroshi L. Tanaka of the University of the University of Tsukuba in Japan, reported on the results of a new paper he published with his student, Masahiro Ohashi (see "Data Analysis of Recent Warming Pattern in the Arctic"). In it they state "it is shown that both of decadal variabilities before and after 1989 in the Arctic can be mostly explained by the natural variability of the AO not by the external response due to the human activity." While this is an important finding in and of itself, that is not what caught my attention.
The implications of Ohashi and Tanaka's finding for climate modeling are even more dramatic, and even more damaging, for the climate alarmist cause. Why this new finding is so damaging goes to the heart of how modeling is done and how models are calibrated to reflect previously "known" conditions. Here is how Dr. Tanaka stated the implications of their research:
According to our result, the rapid warming during 1970-1990 contains a large fraction of unpredictable natural variability due to the AO. The subsequent period of 1990-2010 indicates a clear trend of the AO to be negative. The global warming has been stopped by natural variability superimposed on the gentle anthropogenic global warming. The important point is that the IPCC models have been tuned perfectly to fit the rapid warming during 1970-1990 by means of the ice-albedo feedback (anthropogenic forcing) which is not actually observed. IPCC models are justified with this wrong scientific basis and are applied to project the future global warming for 100 years in the future. Hence, we warn that the IPCC models overestimate the warming trend due to the mislead Arctic Oscillation.
This mildly worded warning belies the theory shattering implications it contains for all climate modelers who have depended on a strong ice-albedo feedback to calibrate their models. As the old computer programming saying goes, "garbage in, garbage out." Tanaka has just informed the world's climate modelers that that have been basing their models on garbage. More specifically, what the modelers and climate scientists took for a strong anthropogenically influenced feedback, albedo change due to changes in ice cover, has been shown to be mostly attributable to natural variability.
Comparison of trends in surface albedo from satellite observations and climate models.
In an interview with the UK's Guardian, green guru James Lovelock took the climate science community to task for over reliance on models. As he explained, this blind belief in models, even in the face of contradictory empirical evidence, has been going on for some time now:
I remember when the Americans sent up a satellite to measure ozone and it started saying that a hole was developing over the South Pole. But the damn fool scientists were so mad on the models that they said the satellite must have a fault. We tend to now get carried away by our giant computer models. But they're not complete models...
If you make a model, after a while you get suckered into it. You begin to forget that it's a model and think of it as the real world. You really start to believe it.
As I explained in "Seven Climate Models, Seven Different Answers," computer models are touchy, cantankerous tools at best. Even the smallest changes in configuration can cause wild changes in model output. Still, we are asked to trust them implicitly.
In 1997, two researchers from Argon National Laboratory published a paper that compared 108 studies of global climate change, each projecting a quantitative impact on global surface-air temperature due to a doubling of atmospheric CO2 levels. These predictions, documented between 1980 and 1995, were based primarily on climate modeling. Writing in Climatic Change, Kavita Kacholia & Ruth A. Reck, found: "[O]ver the past 15 years, the average (mean) temperature change projection due to doubled CO2 is +2.62°C, with a range of 0.16–8.7°C. General circulation models tend to estimate slightly higher values (2.98°C), compared with radiative-convective models (1.98°C) and energy balance models (2.54°C)."
Basically, 108 models yielded 108 different predictions, ranging from almost no change to almost 9°C, a much wider range than the current IPCC projections. Which, if any of them, was the correct? The answer is none of them. And climate models have not improved significantly since then despite a string of discoveries finding new factors or correcting old ones (see "Atmospheric Solar Heat Amplifier Discovered," "Climate Models Blown Away By Water Vapor," "New "Jelly Pump" Rewrites Carbon Cycle"and "Conveyor Belt Model Broken" for a start).
It has taken a public scandal—the revelations regarding data from CRU—to alert the media to the use of bad data in making climate change predictions. It should not have been surprising that some at the IPCC have played fast and loose with the data included in their reports (Himalayan glaciers melting, sea-levels rising, etc.). But more pernicious are the lies generated by climate models, models held up to be oracles of scientific truth—and nothing could be farther from the truth. The models lie because they are built on faulty assumptions, calibrated with inaccurate data and are, by their very nature, incapable of calculating "correct" answers.
If the lies being told by climate science were not threatening to cause major disruptions to environmental and economic policy world wide, most people would not care about the self delusional approach taken by climate scientists. This all comes back to the lack of professional integrity among many climate science practitioners, a sloth induced lack of ethical behavior. Letting a model do your lying for you is no excuse. Deception by proxy does not absolve those spreading the untruths anymore than saying "I didn't kill that person, the gun did!" With so much at stake, any sensible person would be skeptical of climate science's computer generated predictions.
Yet those brave enough to speak out about the incomplete theory, the questionable data, and the error prone computer models are called "climate criminals" and "sociopaths." If the skeptics' response has seemed like denial it is because fools like James Cameron, who know little or nothing of the science yet are in the public eye, threaten to "call those deniers out into the street at high noon and shoot it out with those boneheads." Rolling Stone magazine published a headline article identifying the 17 worst "Climate Killers" in the US. Fortunately, there are signs that the public has grown tired of these people, the aggressively ignorant, whose inability to explain why they believe in global warming only strengthens their conviction that they are right.
"We do need scepticism about the predictions about what will happen to the climate in 50 years, or whatever," said Lovelock. "It's almost naive, scientifically speaking, to think we can give relatively accurate predictions for future climate. There are so many unknowns that it's wrong to do it." Not just an error, not just a mistake, but actually morally wrong. I say morally wrong because there are consequences to these actions—real harm can be done to real people. The whole anthropogenic global warming scare is based on a foundation of computer generated lies. With apologies to NotEvilJustWrong.com, knowingly passing computer predictions off as science fact is not just wrong, it is evil.
Be safe, enjoy the interglacial and stay skeptical.
Modelling is fun
The best models are still made with balsa wood and glue.
To err is human
With regard to the computer models I am reminded of the old joke, "To err is human but it take a computer to really screw things up." I think we are seeing that now.
One proof of the fact that the models are wrong is the s on the word model. The IPCC has 11 models they use. I've heard people say if you average their answers it's pretty close to what's happening. But that means you don't have a model with any legitimacy at all.
And this is how the AGW thing began because the models they were using back 15 years ago couldn't account for the heating we were seeing then. So they added their factor of restitution (the answer you got plus the FOR gives you the correct answer). To do this you have to assume the models are correct on the natural forces so you get to add this extra in there to explain things. As Lovelock said in his recent interview,"The great climate science centres around the world are more than WELL AWARE OF HOW WEAK THEIR SCIENCE IS. If you talk to them privately THEY'RE SCARED STIFF of the fact that they don't really know what the clouds and the aerosols are doing. They could be absolutely running the show. We haven't got the physics worked out yet."
Good blog.
Not only wrong, its evil!
On YouTube you can find video
On YouTube you can find video of Boeing testing the wings of their 787s. I don't know why they do this, the wings are very heavily modeled. I am hopeful that their stockholders will vote their shares and force the CxOs out for wasting taxpayer money on empirical tests to verify models.
Real world testing
Gee when my husband, a physicist, was in school (1961 to 1965) he took much longer than anyone else to do his lab work. WHY??? because in EVERY case the equipment was broken and he had to repair it first! That means there was a least one whole year of physics (and chemistry) students who graduated WITHOUT doing the required real world lab work. These were open labs where the student could do the work at any time. It was also a Christian school where morality was supposedly taught. From what he could tell the equipment looked like it had not been actually used in years.
Is it any wonder that now that these supposed scientists have graduated they are still skipping the hard real world investigation for easy to do computer modeling???


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In 2012, there were 3,328 people killed and 421,000 injured nationwide in distraction-affected crashes. The University of Michigan's Transportation Research Institute reports that a quarter of teens respond to a text message once or more every time they drive, and 20 percent of teens and 10 percent of parents admit that they have extended, multi-message text conversations while driving.
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I have had some experience with the auto loader. Found this old photo from around 1988 of me firing my son-in-law's Sig Sauer .45 ACP. Copied it from a 35mm 4 x 6 print with my digital camera.
This pistol shot good enough, but strictly close range proposition, maybe 75 yards max.
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Friday, December 9, 2011
This Week in Books 12/9/11
Apple, E-book Publishers in EU Crosshairs Over E-book Sales
Justice Department Investigating E-book Pricing
I Write in Multiple Genres - How Do I Choose An Agent?
5 Reasons Why I Resent My Nook
The Bad Sex in Fiction Award Goes to David Guterson
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The 10 Best Amazon Reviews. Ever.
10 More of the Best Amazon Reviews. Ever. (via John Ochwat)
And finally, this is basically the most amazing video in the history of the universe:
Have a great weekend!
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- abc said...
That was gross.
But links are good!
- December 9, 2011 at 10:43 AM
- MacEvoy DeMarest said...
Darnit, Nathan. Some of us are trying to work here.
You have a bad habit of ruining my Friday mornings! :)
This is a great list. One more on the subject of choosing pen names can be found here:
- December 9, 2011 at 10:48 AM
- Julie Daines said...
Loved the Amazon winners. Hilarious!
And the Octopus video explains a lot about the Watcher in the Water!
- December 9, 2011 at 12:17 PM
- Rick Daley said...
That octopus video is cool!
- December 9, 2011 at 3:31 PM
- Laurel said...
I love that octopus video. It was fascinating in an icky way.
- December 9, 2011 at 5:12 PM
- JohnO said...
I was totally going to buy that uranium, until I saw that review mentioning product shrinkage after only 4.47 billion years.
- December 9, 2011 at 5:16 PM
- Lisa Shafer said...
Ah, the famous Amazon review of the three-wolf moon tee shirt. One of the great classics! Thanks for sharing. :)
- December 9, 2011 at 6:31 PM
- Bianca said...
So there is a scientific basis for the plot of the movie "Killer Octopi: Tentacles Of Death"...??? I take back what I said about it. By the way your video selections don't show up when I get your post via email. Thanks!
- December 9, 2011 at 6:50 PM
Here is a species of octopus that lives in trees.
- December 9, 2011 at 7:59 PM
I'm surprised Franzen wasn't on the bad sex list. I've read parodies of his sex scenes that were hysterical.
- December 9, 2011 at 8:38 PM
Hey, Nathan, it's your old buddy, Mike, speaking. I think it's high time that somebody said this to YOU:
Have a great weekend!
I love seeing that sentence on the Friday blog. All healthy people should at least try to have a great weekend.
- December 9, 2011 at 9:24 PM
- Livia said...
I saw an Octopus walk once. It had gotten loose at a Chinese street market and was crawling through the other seafood bins.
- December 10, 2011 at 12:57 AM
- Mira said...
Yay! Links, lovely links. Thanks, Nathan!
I read them, and I'm going to comment on them.
a. I'm very happy that the Justice Dept. and EU are investigating the collusion between publishers and Apple. I think that agency model IS price fixing, and thank goodness for government regulation of corporations, because corporations can't be trusted. Yay, e-book oversight! Very interesting to see this play out.
b. In terms of Rachelle Gardner's multiple genre thing, I'm sorry I don't agree. I know her intenstion is to be a good guide, but her main point is that someone can't market and social network for multiple books in different genres. Okay. But I think it's still important to remember that authors are best designed to WRITE books, not SELL them. There has to be a better solution than stopping an author from writing in order to have them focus on a marketing strategy that has not been proven to actually work anyway.
b. Cute article by Sharon Vakin. Love the picture. Someday, though, we'll wax nostalgic about e-readers and how they felt to hold in our hands, now that books are microwaved directly into our brains.
c. I wasn't sure if David G. got the Bad Sex award for the topic or for the writing. But since I have no intention of reading an extended sex scene between a son and mother, I guess I'll never know.
d. Didn't really understand how the Readmill site was different. But I like the creativity of new ways to form internet book clubs! Yay!
e. I think the Grossman article has a good point. Effort, stamina, refusal to quit huge ingredients to success.
f. John Green's article was interesting. I liked what he said about creating a project to involve people. I don't agree, though, that the problem in the future will be to be noticed. Not if you have a good product. Don't underestimate consumers, I think.
g. Why is Towers not doing interviews? The article didn't say.
h. Eeek! This poor writer found a pen name because her real name "Alison" is too middle-aged. OMG. I don't know where to start. Sheesh. Is there any actual research, btw, that the name of the author influences sales? Or is that just something someone made up because it sounded like the type of ageism and sexism that should be perpetrated by major corporations, and therefore, a good thing to do?
I. Those Amazon reviews were the funniest thing, ever. I laughed and laughed. Thank you for posting them!
J. Awesome video. I really think the Octopus wanted to eat the people. You could tell it was disappointed when it turned back.
Okay, that's it. Thanks for letting me share all my OPINIONS on these interesting links, Nathan!
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Surah Al Imran, Verse 134
Those who give in times of both ease and hardship, those who control their rage and pardon other people – Allah loves the good-doers –
"Those who give in times of both ease and hardship", even if they have very little money, they use it in the way of Allah. "They control their rage". A person may get angry, they may be taken unawares, but they have to exercise their will and overcome it, they have to calm themselves. "...and pardon people" Even if he is right, without having any feelings of revenge, he does not harbor any ambitions and renounce his rights. Let's assume that he has some money, but that money is taken from him unjustly. In this case he says, "All right, I give up that money to you." Allah loves the good- doers. What matters is to be someone deserving the love of Allah.
Surah Al Imran, Verse 139
Do not give up and do not be downhearted. You shall be uppermost if you are believers.
"…You shall be uppermost if you are believers." A verse that refers to the system of Hazrat Mahdi (as) and it gives the number 2016. You will definitely become the rulers of the world. "...uppermost" refers to this. When a person is "uppermost", he becomes politically and socially higher, because without determining any bounds, He says, "uppermost."
Surah Al Imran, Verse 140
If you have received a wound, they have already received a similar wound. We deal out such days to people turn by turn, so that Allah will know those who have faith and can gather martyrs from among you – Allah does not love wrongdoers –
"If you have received a wound, they have already received a similar wound. We deal out such days to people turn by turn." One party can be defeated, and then the other. Here Almighty Allah again talks about a struggle. For instance, Darwinism first prevailed, and now it is defeated. Allah has made Muslims instrumental in this.
"…You shall be uppermost if you are believers."
Surah Al Imran, Verse 146
Many a Prophet has been killed, when there were many thousands with him! They did not give up in the face of what assailed them in the Way of Allah, nor did they weaken, nor did they yield. Allah loves the steadfast.
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Looks fantastic Dave. Love the under skull detail!
LOOKS GREAT!! But instead of taking off 5mm. of clay for the underskull cant you just add 5mm. of clay to the negative mold, smooth it out, and then pour plaster into it?
But I decided to do it this way, didn't take too long and will be as effective!
This is incrdible, I can't wait to see how the face turns out
Here's the finished suit! Still needs a little tweaking (adding hair here and there) but very happy overall!
Will top out at approx 7'5", I'm 5'11", I'm giddy like a little kid at Christmas!!
I haven't been back here in a while, so I popped in for your updates. I'm glad I did.
You are doing an absolutely amazing job on this. You could hold your own with those
that made the real suits my Irish brother.
I'm so thrilled to see this in fact, that I'd offer you just about everything I had for that
thing !! :D
Phenomenal talent and execution :cheers
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Props ! I meant PROPS ! :lol
That thing is awesome! Great work!
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Yes you can, that's the way Daniel Tirinnanzi does it for his amazing animatronic gorilla head that was used in the Cadburys commercial.
But I decided to do it this way, didn't take too long and will be as effective!
i bet that thing is 1000x more amazing in real life. that looks so sick.
Dougie simply FREAKIN amazing! I never in a million years would have ever thought about owning a Chewie suit until I saw your build. Like i said before....if you decide on making another one please consider me on the list!
Hi Dave,
Have been following this build on other forums, have to say mate it's outstanding in what you have created, i'm intrigued to seeing the mask finished and you weilding your Wookie Bowcaster.;)
If the mask comes out as good as the suit, this effort may never be topped. Nice work
Ummmm. . . . W to the O to the W ! ! ! ! ! I think you could work for George Lucas! Most impressive build!
today is the first time I have seen this thread.....................That is one nice looking walking carpet
We'll always let you win now.
you're insane man!!! what a nice job
This is another amazing project, i really like the fact that the hair is different shades, looks really like chewee. Very well done mate, cant wait to see more progress pics!
Dougie this out standing so how long
for the mask to be finished
I seriously can't believe how you came up with this!!! I never would have been able to do the designing part, much less have the skill to put it all together!
Here's a few pics of the finished product, well it's never really finished!!
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Release Date: 4/17/2013
Clarksville, Ark. --- In conjunction with the University's Earth Week celebrations, the Enactus/PBL Distinguished Speaker Series will feature Kevin J. Igli, Senior Vice President and Chief Environmental, Health and Safety (EHS) Officer for Tyson Foods, Inc.
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In his role as Chief EHS Officer, Mr. Igli oversees Tyson's sustainability initiatives and the company's EHS compliance and risk management processes. He and his team of more than 180 EHS professionals assess, prioritize and manage all aspects of Tyson's EHS stewardship efforts.
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Mr. Igli is affiliated with a number of professional and trade organizations, and lead's Tyson's participation in The Sustainability Consortium, an organization that works to build a scientific foundation to drive innovation to improve consumer product sustainability. He is also a member of the External Advisory Council for the Iowa State University Department of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering and serves on the Academic Advisory Board for the University of Arkansas Biological and Agricultural Engineering Department, as well as the boards of The Nature Conservancy, Beaver Watershed Alliance, and Ozarks Water Watch.
He previously served as the Vice President for Environmental Affairs for Willamette Industries, Inc., a leading forest and paper company based in Portland, Oregon. In addition, he served as Director of Environment, Health and Safety for Packaging Corporation of America and as Vice President of Environment, Health and Safety for Chemical Waste Management, Inc. He earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in biological sciences from Malone University, in Canton, Ohio.


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Michael A. MgRdichian, Jr., 31, sped past a cruiser driven north by Trooper Juan Infante around 8:30 p.m., passing him on the right, according to a press release. The trooper clocked the vehicle at 115 miles per hour, and again at 110 miles per hour as it changed lanes, police said.
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I'm very excited to be part of the TDH. Cant wait to get to the Cargo hold and more. I hope I will get alot of information and help building my Fett. I have worked on few Star Wars outfits in the past but now I am planing to do a Fett. Thanks.:)


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Hello I am working on what I have dubbed my practice bucket. I Am working on a Don post 1995 that has been collecting dust on top of a bookcase since I purchased it in 1995. This project is mostly just to get used to different media and technique that I will later use to modify and finish a more high quality helmet. I have a few questions before I get started so that I do not make a mess of it from the very beginning.
1. What type of paints are safe to use one this project. I read somewhere (i can't find the thread now) that some paints will not dry properly thus leaving a sticky surface.
2. I've noticed that the back of my helmet is sunken in a bit on one side. My thought on fixing that was to heat it up with a heat gun then use something flat from the inside to push it into the correct shape. Is this a viable plan?
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The majority of local high schools were rated as distinguished in this year's state assessments, and several more schools were considered proficient in the second year of the Unbridled Learning For All Assessment and Accountability System.
Central Hardin High School, Elizabethtown High School, John Hardin High School and LaRue County High School are rated as distinguished based on the testing data, which was released today. Morningside Elementary School and LaRue County Middle School also are included on the distinguished list.
Elizabethtown Independent Schools is rated distinguished and Hardin County Schools is rated as a proficient district.
Schools and districts in the top 10 percent are considered distinguished, and those in the top 30 percent are considered proficient.
HCS was close to hitting proficient last year. Officials are happy to reach that distinction now, but HCS Superintendent Nannette Johnston said there are more important areas of focus.
"We are about growth and making improvements," Johnston said.
EIS Superintendent Jon Ballard said the district's distinguished rating is a culmination of a lot of hard work.
"We continued to keep improving," Ballard said.
Schools that are proficient are East Hardin, J.T. Alton and West Hardin middle schools, and G.C. Burkhead, Heartland, Lincoln Trail and Vine Grove elementary schools.
The remaining local schools are included in the "needs improvement" category. T.K. Stone Middle School, North Hardin High School and North Middle School are considered "focus" schools, which highlight them as schools that have areas that need extra attention.
Schools and districts receive one overall score, on a scale of 1 to 100, that is created using the data in up to five areas — achievement in various subject areas, student growth in reading and math, college and career readiness among students, graduation rates and the proficiency of at-risk student populations. Schools and districts also receive specific data in these categories.
The tests also are based on the new, more rigorous Kentucky Core Academic Standards in English and math.
The LaRue County Schools district scored highest with a 65.7, followed by Elizabethtown Independent Schools at 64.3, Hardin County Schools at 58.4 and West Point Independent School at 51.8.
About half of the local schools improved their overall score: Morningside, Howevalley, Rineyville, Vine Grove, Abraham Lincoln and Hodgenville elementary schools; East Hardin, T.K. Stone, J.T. Alton and West Hardin middle schools; and Central Hardin, Elizabethtown, North Hardin and LaRue County high schools.
Elizabethtown High had the highest score among area high schools at 68.9. LaRue County Middle's score of 65.5 was the highest among area middle schools. Morningside had the highest score among area elementary schools with a score of 70.5.
Johnston said this data serves as a tool to guide the district's instruction.
Once school officials receive it, "we have people diving into the data at very deep levels," she said.
But, she said, regular assessments throughout the year are as crucial to determining instruction.
"This is one small piece of what we look at," she said.
The testing system still is being tweaked, with an upcoming addition of program reviews for certain school departments and then a later addition of an employee evaluation piece. The system still feels new, Johnston said.
"It's still a huge change," she said.
Kelli Bush, EIS assistant superintendent of instruction and curriculum, said this year there was less time spent understanding the new data.
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The Musharraf power grab continues although 3,416 detainees were finally released from jail. It is estimated at least over 2,000 others are still being detained. The ousted Chief Justice, Iftikhar Chaudhry's house is still surrounded by over a 100 police making it difficult for anyone to see him. But, amidst these signs of control by the Musharraf government, a new vigorous student movement is beginning to demonstrate its power. Students at Punjab University are demanding the removal of favored Islamic student groups which are allowed to function while other student organizations are banned. The Islamic Jamaat-e-Islam bully boys have been using physical force to intimidate opposition students, but the entire student body is demanding they be compelled to end their intimidation tactics.
The editors of The Lahore Times put it eloquently: "It is time to listen to the growing dissent in civil society. These are not acolytes of the seminaries ordered y their clerical leaders to destroy property to protest cartoons published in Denmark, this is a movement still in its embryo, that can overwhelm the undemocratic, illiberal and intolerant state in time to come. These are the 'enlightened' and 'liberal' scions of those sections of society that don't dabble in politics but want democratic norms to be upheld."
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Arsène Wenger believes that previous frustrations are, in part, firing Robin van Persie to success this season.
The Dutchman underlined his fantastic form with a goal and two assists in the 4-0 win at Wigan on Saturday. It was his 32nd Premier League goal in a year virtually unblemished by injury.
Having been sidelined in previous seasons, Wenger knows his captain is revelling in his new-found opportunity.
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