Shalke is a jewellery designer with a natural approach to design. Her work represents symbolism, mysticism and is very personal. She uses semi precious stones, sterling silver, Gold filled findings, leathers and other precious materials in her designs.
Meeting Shalke in real life was an absolute joy. She has this amazing warm and open personality, we happened to share our motherland and we found so many other mutual grounds in our perception of life. We met in Black Swan Yard, one of my favourite coffee spots in London Bridge on Bermondsey street and gathered around the antique rosewood table, where she showed me the process of her intricate jewellery. Travel, nature and her own cultural upbringing have become the centre of her imagination and this shines through in her collection which ranges from Lotus earrings to Chakra pendants. I love her Chakra necklaces which I spotted straight away when visiting the Manuka Life Store the first time. If you're looking for a magical gift to someone special or yourself (no shame in that…) look no further.
Hmm, this tends to relate to how I feel and which season I find myself in. During Summer I would say my style is relaxed with a Boho vibe. Come the Winter period it becomes more classic but casual with fine bits of jewellery and a splash of colour here and there.
Jewellery that is personal, luxurious simple and for everyday wear. My recurrent inspirations are nature and symbolism.
What made you decide to design jewellery?
I have always loved crystals and their properties. Over the years traveling as a model I managed to gain quite a collection of gorgeous gems. At some point during my pregnancy of our first son I started wrapping crystals in metal to wear for myself. From then on it became a hobby and more and more friends asked me to make them something with feathers or wrap stones but to pick something that would suit them according to the properties of the stones. This is where it all started. Years later I did a short course at Camberwell college and followed up this thirst for technical knowledge to underpin my design aesthetic with many courses at Flux Studios, which were fantastic. The meaning of stones symbols and to create something meaningful and personal for someone or within a collection is what it is all about for me.
Most of the times it is nature itself or an element within nature. I see so many symbolic meanings in it and want share this, so the journey of translating this into a design story begins. Other times it happens that I will be playing around with some materials and certain shapes develop naturally that I find interesting and this way the design process evolves organically.
I try as much as I can at present. I make all my own pieces and where I get support on larger orders I have some wonderful people in Hatton Garden that help me out. This way I keep work here in the UK and support local businesses whilst keeping the carbon footprint low. I go to reputable people to source my precious and semi precious stones and use as much recycled silver as I can. But am also aware that there is always more that can be done and my aim is definitely to have an even more sustainable approach.
My favourite element has to be the design process during which the initial idea and inspiration progresses into the 'play' stage where I start mocking up shapes, to eventually creating something with materials that manifest into a final piece. The beauty is when someone loves it and it's perfect and personal to them, that's when I feel really humble.
The challenge for me as a creative is to stay on top of the website and business side of things and I am sometimes not sure as to where to push it.
My label has been an organic process from the start and I often have moments of just wanting to create. In the near future I will be delegating this side so I can keep focused on the creative process.
I love Yoga, it has helped to centre me. It reminds me to breath and I feel lighter and stronger. I can definitely do with a bit more yoga in 2017.
Yes I do this through all that I have learned from practising Buddhism during courses I have done, Reiki and currently by deepening my knowledge on using shamanic tools for healing and guidance. Mindfulness to me is being present. It is to have grace and compassion for yourself and others and understanding that we are all a reflection of each other and are inter -connected. It's about being conscious and aware of your actions and how you stand in the world.
It is a practise and I have times when I feel so in flow with it all and times when I don't. I suppose that's called being human right? As long as we keep trying!
In Canterbury or near there is a lovely Ayurvedic Spa called Tor Spa Retreats, it has gorgeous gardens. An occasional spa date there is lush. They do lovely massages and great wholesome food.
I like Shoreditch, the Old Spitalfields Market used to be one of my favourite markets. I love walking around town and enjoy seeing London in its great diversity. As nature is one of my biggest inspirations I used to be drawn to London's great parks whilst living in London and after having moved to Folkestone by the coast can now find nature at my own doorstep.
I go back and forth to some old school tunes from Erika Badduh, Elvis Presley, Otis Reading to James Bay. It is a bit of a mix.
We have a little Vegetarian cafe in Folkestone called Beano's. It does really lovely food.
Where do you go to shop for clothes / accessories / personal gems?
Actually I love shopping vintage or second hand now and where I can I get pieces from local artists or friends of mine that design.
I used to go to Mysteries in Covent Garden for all things metaphysical and of recent I have visited Buddha on a Bicycle on Endell Street in Covent Garden.
Whether you are looking for beautiful jewellery, crystals to resonate with you, books to inspire you, music or chakra meditations, candles, incense or oils to indulge your senses you will find them here.
In both of these shops they also offer readings. We have a lovely shop in Folkestone called the Cauldron on the old high street in Folkestone, Kent.
I always pay a visit to Neals Yard for the acupuncture in Covent garden. I also love a session of Metamorphic Technique. In the holistic practice of the Metamorphic Technique the practitioner uses a light touch on the feet, hands and head. Metamorphic Technique practitioners do not impose their will or seek to direct the recipient's life force in any way. An environment can then emerge in which the power and intelligence, that are already inherent in the life of the person, will be the best guiding factor for the unique life that the person already is. It is absolutely lush.
I have a very gorgeous friend Axelle Bonapart who is a Metamorphic Practitioner and Tsubuki practitioner. The work she does it beautiful.
At the moment I have really loved the process of making a dandelion root tincture and nettle seed tincture.
In October I dug a good bunch of dandelion roots out of our garden, I cleaned the roots with water and cut them finely. You can leave out the stem and leafs although this is optional.
Add the brandy to a level so the dandelion root can soak and absorb in it.
I then left it for 6 weeks in a dark space and every couple of days shook the jar. The particles will settle on the bottom otherwise.
After 6 weeks I used a muslin cloth to separate the tincture from the root and squeezed out the roots and then bottled them. This way you can have as much tincture to bottle and have it ready to go!
This was such an amazing process as it came right from the garden and is now bottled up to be used for us. It also make as great gift for friends!
Thank you Shalke for sharing all this, I can't wait to try a couple of things on your list!


It's official The Pirate Bay is now blocked across Australia.
Telstra, Optus and a host of other popular ISPs have received a court order to block TPB and other popular Torrent sites.
Australia is fast becoming one of the most restrictive countries in the world for internet use. Not content with introducing a requirement for ISPs to log every website users visit for 24 months the Aussie courts have stuck the knife into the heart of online freedoms further and introduced a requirement to block all your favourite torrent websites.
The Pirate Bay being the biggest name to be hit by the ban is joined by other popular torrent websites IsoHunt, SolarMovie TorrentHound and Torrentz.
While movie execs are probably rubbing their hands with glee right now the excitement of this landmark court case may be short lived because tech-savvy Aussies are already realising that it's incredibly easy to bypass such blocks.
So how can you access The Pirate Bay in Australia?
You may have heard of the term VPN because many Aussies used them to access US Netflix before the service was officially released in the country.
A VPN is a way of protecting your internet connection by encrypting the data and passing it to another location.
Basically, it acts as a middleman between you and the torrent website.
You connect to the middleman (VPN Server) which then passes the requests on to the torrent website that you want to access.
To access The Pirate Bay, IsoHunt or any of the other blocked websites in Australia all you need to do is sign up for a VPN service from a provider such as IPVanish, ExpressVPN, Overplay or one of the many listed in our VPN Comparison Guide.
Simply download the provided VPN software and connect to a country other than Australia.
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Will Aussies move to VPN services?
Foxtel and Village Roadshow brought the original court case to have the leading Torrent websites blocked in Australia back in February and now their wish has been granted it seems their co-chief executive Graham Burke is unconcerned about VPN use to bypass the blocks.
Downplaying the ability to use a VPN to bypass the Australian torrent blocks Burke claimed that in countries such as the UK which leads the way in torrent website blocking and has been doing so for many years that not many people make use of VPN services to access blocked websites and mainly because they cost money.
Realistically it's impossible for anyone to know how many people use VPN services to access Torrent websites because the connection is completely encrypted meaning it is impossible for internet companies to know what people who use VPN services are doing other than accessing a VPN service.
Not only are VPN services completely legal in Australia even using Torrents themselves are not illegal per se.
If you downloaded a large official file like a free operating system such as Linux via a Torrent site then you have committed no crime, you are only breaking the law by downloading copyrighted material and while granted that Torrent websites are generally awash with illegal content the actual use of Torrents breaks no laws.
The same for VPN services. Encryption and using VPNs are completely legal within Australia and many businesses use them to allow workers to connect from remote locations and access company networks securely.
VPN services are used for a multitude of other purposes which include protecting your internet connection both at home and while mobile, allowing you to access geo-restricted websites and protecting your online privacy.
The small price tag of AUD$8 – $13 a month for a VPN service may deter some Torrent fans but with average costs of official content increasingly higher and slow release dates in Australia, it would appear that all but the most tightfisted Aussies are likely to consider a VPN service in the near future.
If you're the kind of person who opens their wallet or purse and cobwebs fall out then an even cheaper option (aka free) is possible by making use of the Tor network. While not quite as easy for the novice user and not suitable for downloading the torrent files directly due to slow speeds it is another avenue that may just spoil the early celebrations of the movie execs.
The last possibility is you've enjoyed your free run of movies and shows for long enough and it's about time you cough up and pay for an official service.
As a VPN service will protect what you download and your ISP and movie execs will never know leaving only your conscience to decide whether to go the legal route or stick it to the man in a sign of disdain for the recent The Pirate Bay blocks by grabbing a VPN.


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Edna Campbell (Filadélfia, nascida a 26 de Novembro de 1968) é uma jogadora de basquetebol feminino reformada que jogou na Associação Nacional de Basquetebol Feminino dos EUA (WNBA). Jogou no Sacramento Monarchs, bem como em três outras equipas, é conhecida por ter continuado a jogar apesar de ter de câncer de mama . Em 2004, ela foi eleita A Mulher do Mês pelo National Women's History Project . Campbell nasceu em Filadélfia, no estado da Pensilvânia, nos EUA .

Anos de faculdade
A carreira universitária de Campbell começou na Universidade de Maryland, College Park, mas alcançou o  sucesso na equipa feminina da Universidade do Texas, que era conhecida como Lady Longhorns e onde foi nomeada Revelação do Ano pela Southwest Conference em 1990. Ela formou-se em 1991, enquanto fez parte da equipa esta bateu o recorde de vitórias.

Basquetebol norte-americano
Campbell foi nomeada para a equipa que representou os EUA na competição William Jones Cup de 1987, em Taipei (Taiwan). A equipa venceu os sete jogos necessários para conquistar a medalha de ouro do evento. Os EUA estavam a perder no intervalo do jogo de abertura contra o Japão, mas venceram na segunda parte graça aos 15 pontos ganhos por Campbell. Ela manteve uma média de 9,7 pontos por jogo durante os sete jogos e foi nomeada para a equipa que jogava em de todos os torneios.

No ano seguinte, em 1988, Campbell foi nomeada para a equipa da Jones Cup. A equipa dos EUA não teve tanto sucesso nesta taça, com um recorde de 3-2, garantiu o suficiente para ganhar a medalha de prata. A média dela por jogo foi de 5,6 pontos e empatou na liderança da equipe com 15 roubos de bola. Campbell foi seleccionada para representar os EUA nos Jogos Pan-americanos Femininos dos EUA de 1995, no entanto, como apenas quatro equipas se comprometeram a participar o evento foi cancelado.

Campbell foi nomeada para a selecção dos EUA em 1998. A selecção norte-americana, viajou para Berlim (Alemanha) em Julho e Agosto de 1998 para o Campeonato Mundial da Fiba. A equipa dos EUA venceu o jogo de abertura contra o Japão 95-89  os outros próximos seis jogos. Na semifinal contra o Brasil, a equipa dos EUA estava a perder por dez pontos na primeira parte, mas acabaram por vencer. O jogo para a medalha de ouro foi uma vingança contra a Rússia. No primeiro jogo, a equipa norte-americana dominou o jogo praticamente desde o início, mas a equipa russa acabou por assumir a liderança. A menos de dois minutos do final, os EUA estavam a perder por dois pontos, mas conseguiram dar a volta ganharam a medalha de ouro por 71-65. Campbell jogou durante pouco tempo, mas obteve dois roubos de bola.

Carreira ABL
Campbell jogou pelo clube Colorado Xplosion na American Basketball League (ABL) de 1996 a 1999.

Carreira WNBA
Campbell foi a décima a ser escolhida, tendo sido seleccionada pelo Phoenix Mercury durante recrutamento de 1999 da WNBA, no ano seguinte foi recrutada pelo Seattle Storm.

No ano seguinte, o Storm escolheu Lauren Jackson como sua primeira estrela, e Campbell foi negociada com o Sacramento Monarchs e trocada por Katy Steding. Em 2002, durante a segunda das suas quatro temporadas em Sacramento, foi diagnosticada com cancro da mama. Recebeu tratamento e regressou no jogo final do Monarchs contra o Seattle durante a temporada de 2002.

Campbell continuou a jogar apesar do  diagnóstico e tornou-se um símbolo para as sobreviventes da doença. Ela tornou-se na porta-voz nacional da WNBA pela a sua luta anti-cancro em conjunto com a Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation. Ela recebeu o Prémio Kim Perrot de Desportivismo atribuído pela liga em 2003.

Campbell assinou um contrato com o clube San Antonio Silver Stars em 2005. Ela jogou com o Silver Stars naquela temporada, antes de anunciar que se ia reformar da WNBA, em 28 de Fevereiro de 2006.

Durante a temporada da WNBA de 2006, que comemorou os nove anos de existência da liga, o regresso de Campbell após o cancro da mama foi nomeado pelos fãs como o momento Mais Inspirador e um dos quatro melhores  Aniversários da WNBA.

Vida depois do basquetebol
Pouco depois de se aposentar do basquetebol, foi contratada como comentadora televisiva dos jogos da equipa San Antonio Silver Stars durante a temporada de 2006 da WNBA. Edna formou-se em enfermagem em 2008.

Fundou o programa Breathe and Stretch que procura ajudar sobreviventes do cancro da mama a recuperarem.

Em 2017, Edna foi incluída no Multi-Ethnic Sports Hall of Fame.

Obra
Escreveu o livro "The Breast Cancer Recovery Manual", publicado em 2012 pela Createspace Independent Publishing Platform.

Ligações externas
Apple Podcasts - Breathe & Stretch-breast cancer recovery por Edna Campbell

Entrevista com Edna Campbell

Referências
Basquetebolistas da Pensilvânia
Pessoas vivas
Nascidos em 1968
Desportistas afro-americanos

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Q: python: backtrace.hook does not work with backtrace.print_exc() I can't figure out how to color a backtrace I print myself.
This colors my backtrace:
#!/bin/python3
import backtrace
backtrace.hook()
raise Exception('here')

But if I catch the exception and print it... then no color:
#!/bin/python3
import backtrace
backtrace.hook()
import traceback
try:
    raise Exception('here')
except Exception:
    traceback.print_exc()

I know these are 2 different packages, but they should be able to work together.
How do I catch and print exceptions (and a stack trace) in color?

A: backtrace internally uses sys.excepthook do the trick. When an exception is raised and uncaught, the interpreter calls sys.excepthook with three arguments, the exception class, exception instance, and a traceback object. In your first case, when you call backtrace.hook(), the backtrace library essentially set the sys.excepthook to a custom function which can do all sorts of magic with the exception instance(coloring etc....)
>>> def custom_hook(*args):
...     print(args)
...
>>>
>>> import sys
>>> sys.excepthook = custom_hook
>>>
>>> 1 / 0 # No exception raised, instead it calls `custom_hook`
(<class 'ZeroDivisionError'>, ZeroDivisionError('division by zero'), <traceback object at 0x000001FA502B98C0>)

The excepthook does not call if the exception is raised and caught(using except).
>>> def custom_hook(*args):
...     print(args)
...
>>>
>>> import sys
>>> sys.excepthook = custom_hook
>>>
>>> try:
...     1 / 0
... except: # Since the exception is caught here, it won't call `custom_hook`
...     pass
...

The exact scenario happened in your case. You have to re-raise the exception once it's caught to get the excepted behavior.

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February 2, 2017 – Congratulations to Sargent & Lundy's Erin O'Keefe on being named to the Engineering News-Record Top Young Professionals of 2017 Midwest Region. The annual ENR Top 20 competition celebrates the excellence and accomplishments of outstanding young professionals working in the engineering, design, and construction industry. The winners are chosen by a panel of industry judges based on their career experience, professional leadership, and commitment to the industry and their communities.
ENR Midwest announced the 2017 winners on its website, and the honorees are profiled in the January 30 issue of the industry publication.
O'Keefe is a nuclear program manager and lead structural engineer, who is leading modifications at three stations implementing Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) requirements in response to the Fukushima accident. She has an extensive volunteer history working with the ACE Mentor Program of America, Inc. (ACE) Chicago chapter, which helps mentor high school students and inspires them to pursue careers in architecture, construction, and engineering.


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The making of the work_Part I
The Art of Piranesi: architect, engraver, antiquarian, vedutista, designer.
View the different elements prepared for the exhibition:
Objects: Isis Tripod
Objects: Candelabrum
Scagliola workshop
Objects: Fireplace
Objects: Fireplace: fire furniture
Objects: Altar
Objects: Helix Tripod
Objects: Coffeepot
Objects: Vase
Objects: Chair
Santa Maria del Priorato
Virtual Carceri
Factum Arte has collaborated with Fondazione Giorgio Cini on the production of a exhibition, curated by Michele De Lucchi, about Italian printmaker and connoisseur Giambattista Piranesi. The exhibition, The Art of Piranesi: architect, engraver, antiquarian, vedutista, designer (Le Arti di Piranesi: architetto, incisore, antiquario, vedutista, designer), has been showcased at Venice Biennial of Architecture, in the Sale del Convitto on the island of San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice, from 28th August until 9th January 2011.
The Italian artist Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720 -1778) was a man of exceptional skill whose vision contributed greatly to our understanding of Classical art and architecture. Initially Piranesi trained as an architect but went on to become an inspirational print-maker, publisher, archaeologist, antiquarian, dealer and, most importantly for the theme of this exhibition, a designer. His eclectic taste has had widespread and profound influence in particular on the Neoclassical styles that emerged in England and France in the 18th century.
The Art of Piranesi: architect, engraver, antiquarian, view-maker, designer has been built around Fondazione Giorgio Cini's remarkable collection of the artist's prints. It presents Piranesi's Prisons within a virtual reality installation, the Caffè degli Inglesi as a full-scale evocation, as well as a touch-screen browser to interact with Piranesi's sketchbooks. However, central to this exhibition are the objects made from Piranesi's designs using the most advanced digital technologies and output methods (3D printing).
These objects selected from the artist's designs have been chosen by Adam Lowe, Alessandro Martoni and Michele de Lucchi in conjunction with the leading authority on Piranesi's work, John Wilton-Ely. The objects primarily come from Vasi, Candelabri, Cippi, Sarcofagi, Tripode and from Diverse maniere d'adornare i cammini ed ogni altra parte degli edifizi. Whilst others are based on antique fragments discovered in Hadrian's Villa.
One of the prison etchings from the Carceri d'invenzione series
Factum Arte, voxelstudios and a team of specialist craftsmen working in Madrid have produced these objects. Some have been made using traditional modelling skills while others have been made digitally using 'organic modelling' software. This mix of technology combined with traditional craft skills and materials will hopefully result in a meaningful C21st re-interpretation of Piranesi's interests in an excessive and incorporative sense of design. The output from the digital file to the physical object is achieved by using a variety of fabrication technologies including stereo-lithography, milling, fused deposition modelling and 3D printing.
Each object has been finished in the original materials specified by Piranesi – these include bronze, marble, silver and gold leaf. There are seven objects that have been produced in small edition, these include a marble chimney, a coffeepot, two bronze tripods, a chair, a vase and a candelabra.
Piranesi's fantastical prisons series Carceri d'invenzione is presented as a walkthrough installation designed by Michele De Lucchi with a series of 16 virtual 3D environments created from the artist's prints by Gregoire Dupond at Factum Arte. These are projected onto large screens within the installation. The task was especially complicated as the spaces inside the prisons are not logical or coherent, but are 'prisons of the imagination'.
Etching of Piranesi's Egyptian decoration in Caffé Degli Inglesi
The final element produced by Factum Arte for this exhibit is a printed reconstruction of the Caffé Degli Inglesi. Piranesi designed the interior of the Egyptian-themed Caffé Degli Inglesi in Piazza di Spagna, Rome. These designs were originally painted onto the walls of the cafe but are now only documented in two etchings in the Diverse Maniere. The reconstruction of the cafe also contains a selection of prints, mainly focusing on Piranesi's fireplace designs which highlight his great interest in Egyptian decoration.
On June 2010 The Giorgio Cini Foundation along with the curator of the forthcoming exhibition, Michele De Lucchi, came to Madrid to view the progress of the pieces that Factum Arte are making for the show.
Adam Lowe, Pasquale Gagliardi and Emilio Quintè in one of the Factum Arte workshops viewing one of the enlarged prints which shall be showcased at the forthcoming exhibition
Guiseppe Pavanello, Pasquale Gagliardi and Alessandro Martoni at Factum Arte, Madrid.
Alessandro Martoni, Giovanna Latis, Michele De Lucchi and Adam Lowe at Factum Arte.
Pasquale Gagliardi in front of the Piranesi fireplace at one of the Factum Arte workshops.
Adam Lowe and Michele De Lucchi viewing other Factum Arte projects.
Isis Tripod
This tripod is one of the objects being produced in 3D from Piranesi's designs.
A preview of the rotating 3D model corresponding to the tripod
The 3D virtual version of one of Piranesi's etchings is shown here as a STL file (left) and produced by voxelstudios in Madrid, after which it has been prototyped by Materialise (right) based in Belgium . The process used to build this prototype from a STL file is called sterolithography, the tripod was divided into sections and then each part is built slice by slice from bottom to top, in a vessel of liquid polymer that hardens when struck by a laser beam. The prototype surface is then reworked by hand in order to add the more intricate details and after which a silicon mould is made from which the tripod shall be cast subsequently.
A wax positive of the foot of the Isis Tripod - part of the process of lost wax casting. The foundry work is being carried out at Fademesa, Madrid.
A wax positive of the leg of the Isis Tripod - part of the process of lost wax casting.
A wax positive of the 3 sphinxs from the Isis Tripod - part of the process of lost wax casting.
The prototype leg section of the Isis Tripod, cast in bronze in the Fademesa foundry in Madrid.
Selecting a ball of Alabaster from Antonio Soro's quarry in Fuentes del Ebro. This Alabaster will be used as the top part of the Piranesi Tripod.
Cutting the Alabaster
Section of Alabaster.
Sanding the alabaster top in a basin of water
Comparing the resin prototyped leg of the tripod to the newly cast bronze legs.
Welding the inner side of the legs together in the foundry, Fademesa.
Blow torching the bronze creates chemical reaction which adds a patina to the surface.
Adam Lowe experimenting with different chemicals to further develop the patina.
The tripod after it's patina has been adjusted.
The Isis tripod as seen in the exhibition
Original Piranesi etching of the candelabrum
A close up of the central section of the candlabrum in plaster before the final carving of the details
Ángel Jorquera adding the details to the surface of the plaster cast from a clay model.
A plaster cast section of the candelabrum in the process of re-carving to add extra detail
Ángel assembling the mould for the Candelabrum
Assembling the parts of the full Candelabrum
The Candelabrum as seen in the exhibition
Shapes and texture in white vein scagliola with gypsum crystals and natural wax.
Making of marble scagliola
This is a screen shot of the 3D fireplace being modeled at voxelstudios in a programme called Zbrush, here it is being compared to the original Piranesi etching.
3D scanning of sculpted clay which shall form the decorative freeze around the fireplace
Face models applied to relief details.
This screen shot of the fireplace was done by Materialise, Belgium, before being rapid prototyped. The cuts indicate where the fireplace was divided into sections to fit the prototype tank.
A short animation of the virtual modelling of the fireplace designed by Piranesi. The video is a result of voxelstudios organic modelling work
The resin prototype prepared by Materialise.
The resin prototype in front of the high quality print of the fireplace.
The resin prototype and print of the fireplace next to the print of Piranesi's Caffé Degli Inglesi
A mold of one of the faces on the fireplace made from the resin prototype.
Factum Arte's team working on the composite marble fireplace
Juan Carlos Arias applying the composite marble to the inside of the mould
The composite marble fireplace removed from the mould and being hand finished.
The hand finished fireplace and the composite marble's qualities in different lighting.
The fireplace as seen in the exhibition. With the establishment of the scagliola workshop, it was decided it would be better to make the fireplace in white vein scagliola
The fireplace in white vein scagliola and gypsum crystal
Holding the fireplace's interior to it's structure
Fireplace: fire furniture
The cast iron fire furniture before surface finishing
Lauren welding the cast iron fire furniture (left). The fire furniture being assembled (right)
The fire iron before the final black patina
The fire iron after the final black patina
Original etching of Piranesi's altar
The basin part of the Piranesi altar, modelled in a programme called Zbrush at voxelstudios
The finished altar will be made out of a combination of bronze and marble
Different parts of the altar being assembled in prototype materials.
Detail of the winged lion head on the Altar.
One side of the altar during assembly and prior to moulding
Details of the base for the legs and the animal heads
The altar cast in a resin marble mix as seen in the exhibition
Following the ex hibition, it was decided the altar should be made in bronze with a scagliola top
Sebastián Beyró and Silvia Rosende working on scagliola tests for the altar
The bronze altar after patination
The lion leg being remodelled
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Dems lash out after minimum wage bill defeat
05.01.2014 | Daily Surge |
A Democratic bill to raise the federal minimum wage failed to pass the Senate Wednesday, falling six votes short of the necessary 60 to avoid a filibuster.
Iowa Democratic Sen.Tom Harkin's Fair Minimum Wage Act would have forced employers to pay their workers at least $10.10 an hour. The current federal minimum stands at $7.25 an hour.
The vote was largely divided among party lines (54-42), with Republicans arguing that mandated wage hikes would put an excessive monetary burden on businesses and would result job loss.
Members of the GOP point to a study by the Congressional Budget Office that projects raising the minimum wage to the bill's standard would eliminate at least 500,000 jobs from the labor force.
A Wednesday morning report released by the Commerce Department showing the economy grew at just a 0.1 percent rate in the first quarter, bolstered the GOP's claim that now is not the time to raise the cost of doing business.
The president, who has vowed to make fighting income inequality a defining pillar of his presidency, criticized Republicans for blocking the bill.
"By preventing even a vote on this bill they prevented a raise for 28 million hardworking Americans. They said no to helping millions work their way out of poverty," President Obama said during a press briefing.
Democrats also warned Republicans that they would face consequences at the ballot box come November if they did not get behind the legislation.
"I'm confident that if we don't raise the minimum wage in Congress before the election, the American people are going to speak about this at the ballot box in November," said Harkin. "They'll hold their elected officials responsible and accountable."
"We're not going to compromise on $10.10," Senate Majority Leader Reid told reporters after the vote. Democrats promised to reintroduce the bill later this year, most likely sooner rather than later, reports Reuters.
However, even if the bill does make it out of the Senate, it is unlikely to pass in the Republican-controlled House.
Recognizing the lack of support on the Hill for hiking the minimum wage, the president and Democrats have focused much of their efforts on campaigning for wage increases on a state and local level.
Since the start of the year, Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, Minnesota, West Virginia and the District of Columbia have all approved legislation that will raise their mandated hourly wages above the federal hourly minimum.
On Tuesday, Hawaii was added to that list, passing legislation that will raise the state's minimum wage to $10.10 per hour over four years.
And so far in 2014, 34 states have or are now considering hiking their local minimum wage.
Some conservatives fear that Democrats are using the minimum wage as an election season tactic, and that their proposed policies will actually hurt impact the individuals they were intended to help.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell called out Democrats, saying: "They don't even pretend to be serious about jobs anymore."
He added, "Washington Democrats' true focus these days seems to be making the far left happy, not helping the middle class."
Indiana Sen. Dan Coats, the senior Republican on the Joint Economic Committee, noted in a statement following the vote, "Raising the minimum wage creates winners and losers — it will raise the wages of some but result in job losses for many low-income workers."
He added, "The true problem plaguing impoverished Americans is not low wage rates but a lack of good job opportunities."
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Seattle, Day 4: Crabs, convicts, and gigantic toes.
He was a feisty one. Probably would have clawed my eyes out if he had the chance.
It's called the Toe Truck - a tow truck that has a GIANT foot with GIANT toes on it! It's amazing!!! It's like the ice cream truck except without delicious ice cream! I have to be honest - if I came out and discovered I was being towed by the Toe Truck, I would be the happiest man alive. It's a brilliant move by the company who owns it. How can you be mad at a Toe Truck with ginormous toes on it?
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Dentists need to optimise their websites to ensure that potential customers can find them. If you need to update your website or are setting up a website for the first time, there are some tips that you need to know. This advice will ensure that you get off on the right foot and that your website is picked up by the search engines.
There are 2 types of search engine optimisation that you need to be aware of. General SEO is the one that most websites will use and allows you to be found anywhere. The SEO that you should focus on for your dental practice is local SEO.
As the name suggests, this type of SEO is focused on local traffic to your website. This is the type of traffic that you want because it will likely turn into paying customers. To get started with local SEO, you will need to have your physical address on your website and look at opening a Google My Business account.
In the past, it was possible to rank well on the search engines based on the number of backlinks that you had. A backlink is a link to your website from another website. However, this led to people buying backlinks to boost their SEO and the search engines changed their algorithms based on this.
Now, you need to focus more on the quality of your backlinks instead of the quantity. Having one backlink from a high authority website will be worth more than multiple links from low-quality websites. If you are focusing on local SEO, these links are also important to establish your reputation and authority in your local area.
To get started with backlinks, you need to place your website in online directories. However, you should focus on dental business directories instead of general directories. Posting quality content will also help with backlinks because people will reference your website or share this with other people.
A lot of dentists believe that a simple website is the best solution. While this will provide all the information that your potential customers may need, it may not help you with SEO. When you have a static website that does not regularly get updated, the search engines will not crawl it as often and may deem it inactive.
To avoid this, you should have a blog attached to your website. You should use the blog to post information that you know will be valuable to your clients. The better your content, the more people will share it and the higher your search engine rankings will be.
Another benefit of having a blog is the fact that you will have more pages for the search engines to index. The more content you have and the greater the range of subjects, the more chances of getting traffic. Of course, you should always ensure that you provide valuable information and do not try to stuff keywords into the content.
This short guide to dental SEO has been contributed by Dental Marketing Ideas. You can visit their website here – http://dentalmarketingideas.agency – the UK's leading dental marketing consultancy.


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This exciting playground improvement is replacing an old wooden playground structure dating back to the early 1990's. The scope, funded by through the Penny for Parks program and Park Impact Fees, includes the replacement of the existing tot lot and the expansion of the playground footprint to include equipment for all ages. The Starr Farm community has been working hand in hand with BPRW, which included a community-wide meeting (or charrette), to develop the design features of the playground. The expanded play area will feature the City's first-ever tensile climbing structure, along with several other awesome features. Installation is slated for July. Look for grand opening details later this summer!


When is the last time you treated yourself to new bath towels? If your towels are more scratchy than they are soft, it's time to upgrade. There is something extra comforting in the winter months, about getting out of a hot shower, and wrapping yourself in a luxurious towel. This also goes for hand towels and bath mats. Upgrade the quality and you upgrade your whole bathroom experience.
Having nice products in the bathroom is a luxury – and an achievable one at that. You will enjoy spending time there and its a nice touch if you have guests visiting.
Shower radios are out (a long time ago actually) but do you know what's in? Waterproof bluetooth speakers. Accompany your long hot showers with music from your iPhone, iPad or iPod.
What to do when you jump out of the shower and want to stay warm? Robe up. Having a lush dressing gown hanging at the ready in your bathroom, will help you transition from shower to bedroom in comfort.
Many men love technology and gadgets. It's a fact! And unless you're a hipster, then you shave. Whether clean shaving or stubble or wet or dry, there are some pretty impressive shavers available that will change the way you shave forever.
It happens to the best of us, and more often than not, when we are run down, a nasty virus can take hold. Colds, flus and muscular pain are the worst, so to be prepared to beat winter sickness so you can get on with life, I highly recommend stocking your bathroom some pain relief.
If you ask me, every bathroom should have a candle, whether you are male or female. It adds ambience, a nice scent and is especially nice when you are entertaining. Worried it may be a little feminine for you? Never fear, there are some fantastic man candles on the market.


BSA Troop 185 has been active since its charter in 1960. To date we have over 100 Scouts that have achieved the rank of Eagle Scout. We are raising funds to build a 30′ x 36′ x 12′ pole barn for our sponsor, Oakland County Sportsmen's Club. We will use the pole barn to store our Troop trailers and equipment, and will share the space with our partners in scouting Pack 185 and Crew 2185. We would appreciate your support.
For questions regarding our engraved brick campaign, please contact Jeff Egner at jeffegner@aol.com.
A donation to the BSA Troop 185 brick fundraiser gets you in on the foundation of their cause, and with Fundraising Brick that's not just a phrase. Your name is literally set in the foundation of the entrance way to mark your contribution.


When we started building media systems integrations many years ago Enterprise Service Buses (ESBs) were all the rage and a good alternative to old point-to-point integration methods.
Things change though and on one of our projects it was time to get off that trusty old steed: Mule ESB.
ESB code can be very hard to unit test fully, especially if it's in a proprietary language. We wanted to increase code quality and increasing the unit test coverage was one of the ways.
ESBs want to you to use its specific libraries, but we increasingly found that the ESB provided libraries didn't have the functionality we needed or contained bugs that were rare but affected our code.
ESB locks you into a single deployment alternative and any upgrade to the ESB itself affects ALL applications. The ESB had become a single-point-of-failure.
We'd had enough of proprietary languages and development environments that couldn't keep up with the rest of the development community.
All in all it took about a month to migrate 6 integration apps, including continuous code review and system integration testing.
Surprisingly, we found that the standalone Java applications had both lower CPU and memory usage. After running the old and new implementations in parallel for a few days the total memory footprint for the standalone Java applications was stable around 500 to 530 MB, while the ESB memory usage varied from 280 MB to 1.8GB!
Otherwise, the biggest advantage we found when moving away from an ESB was control over dependencies, thread management, and exception handling. With this increased control we could then change to a microservices architecture where each application could be packaged up and deployed in the cloud on AWS EC2 Container Service.
We plan to follow up in a later blog post with more details on how we use Packer and Terraform to create AMIs deployed on AWS EC2 Container Service.
For dependency injection, Guice was chosen to completely remove the ability to configure DI externally from the code. It is also our subjective opinion that Guice has a better abstraction model than Spring.
Archaius v2 was chosen for configuration management, because of its simplicity of usage and the ability to dynamically load configuration from other sources in the background, for example from Consul.
Embedded Jetty was chosen for the server because it is the easiest HTTP server implementation to work with, and because we want the all applications to be deployed as a single package per application, without external dependencies on an HTTP server. Resteasy was selected for JAX-RS because it requires far fewer lines of code to get up and running, and Feign was selected for the client because of its simplicity and small footprint.
The JMS communication we chose to write ourselves, simply because there are no maintained JMS client libraries available anymore. We also wanted to build a system where we can easily swap to using AWS SQS, or another alternative messaging solution, at a later stage.
Guava was already a part of the libraries we use in the project, so that was an easy choice for service management. Guava already has support for recurring tasks, though only rate based, not cron expression based.


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Out in Berkeley: reed expert Steven Lugerner
by Guest contributor May 19, 2011, 6:00 a.m. October 4, 2022
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By Andrew Gilbert
In a recent, much commented upon East Bay Express cover story, Rachel Swan detailed the various reasons why there's a steady flow of jazz artists from the Bay Area's relatively small pond to New York City's teaming sea.
One fish that Swan missed in her list of the many Bay Area musicians who have traveled east is Burlingame-raised reed expert Steven Lugerner, a rising force on the Gotham scene who performs at Berkeley's Jazzschool on Monday with trumpeter Itamar Borochov, pianist Glenn Zaleski and drummer Max Jaffe (the same band also plays San Francisco's Red Poppy Art House on May 26).
The quartet is a distilled version of the New York septet featured on "Narratives," one half of his ambitious debut CD, a double album that includes "These Are the Words," a stellar quartet session featuring pianist/composer and UC Berkeley professor Myra Melford, trumpeter Darren Johnston, and drummer Matt Wilson.
Lugerner is back in town to celebrate the release of the new albums, which are both dedicated to his incisive original compositions, tunes that provide sturdy structures for rambunctious, melodically inventive improvisation.
As a multi-instrumentalist who plays soprano and alto saxophone, bass clarinet, Bb clarinet, oboe, English horn, flute and alto flute, Lugerner is clearly an artist comfortable with multiplicity.
After collaborating as a sideman with heavyweights such as pianist Fred Hersch, percussionist John Hollenbeck, East Bay saxophonist Dayna Stephens and SFJAZZ Collective founder Miguel Zenon, Lugerner is more than ready to step forward as a leader in his own right.
Among the most consistently exhilarating albums released so far this year, Lugerner's debut immediately establishes his status as a heavyweight himself.
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Vol. 5, No. 3
Ford's Better Idea for Service In 1968
by Ken Wilson
Around 1968, Ford's big advertising slogan was Ford...has a better idea! And they weren't just spinning words, either, as some of their ideas put them way ahead of the competition. Better ideas like reversible keys, which allowed the key to be inserted into the lock with either side up. Identical bits were cut into both sides of the key, so as long as you held it vertically, you were in business! Keyless door locking was another. Push the plunger down before you close the door, and hold the door handle knob in while you close it. It stays shut and locked! No fumbling for the lock in the dark, or in the rain. How about the famous 3-way doorgate on station wagons? Roll the window down, open the tailgate as you normally would on any station wagon by pulling it down so it lies flat. Or, on a Ford wagon, you could use the handle on the right side and open it like a door, using hinges on the left side. And you can open it this way with the window up, too. Better ideas, all of them.
But Ford's better ideas went past the features they put on their cars and trucks. They also extended into the corporate thinking at Ford. For instance, have you ever heard of the Ford Service Research Center? I didn't think so, most people probably haven't. One of their better ideas in 1968 was an attempt to address complaints from customers about how their car was fixed (or not fixed, as the case may be!) The problem was identified as one of communication, where the mechanic wasn't able to fix the problem because he wasn't told what was wrong.
The typical automobile service scenario goes like this: the customer feels something is wrong with their car, so they take it to the dealer's service department to have it repaired. The customer is greeted by a service advisor, who writes down all the pertinent information on a service ticket. The advisor has to interpret the issue and write it down in a limited amount of space to the best of their ability. Keep in mind, this was before computer print outs, so everything was written by hand and not much space was provided to do it.
If the customer didn't explain the issue adequately, or the advisor didn't write it down correctly, the mechanic was often left guessing what the problem was. So, the Ford Service Research Center devised a way to let the customer talk directly to the mechanic—even in a big dealership. Here's how it was envisioned to work: the customer drives into the service department and meets with the service manager, advisor, or whoever, and instead of filling out a service ticket, they pull out a tape recorder and turn it on. The customer explains in their own words what the problems are, exactly what they want done to the car, or where they think that pesky rattle is located.
The service personnel ask the customer, on tape, any questions that they feel are pertinent to the work requested, as well as making verbal notes on the recording of anything they see wrong with the car after a visual inspection. The car and tape recorder go back to the service area, and the mechanic assigned to work on the car listens to the tape and does the work. The tape can be rewound for clarification, and to make sure everything was attended to. When finished, the mechanic speaks into the tape recorder, explaining to the customer and service manager what work was done, what problems were found, and anything else he may have noticed that would require attention. This created a bond between the customer and the person who worked on their car.
J. A. Kordick, Ford Service Research and Operations Manager, said at the time, "We foresee this verbatim customer problem description as a potential asset in our continuing struggle to diagnose and repair cars properly." Once the details were worked out by service research, limited testing was performed in a handful of dealerships.
The outcome was that the recordings could be difficult to hear, due to background noises associated with a busy service department. (Again, remember this was the late sixties, so they were likely holding a portable cassette tape recorder with corded microphone to make these tapes.) Also, some customers seemed reluctant to be recorded, for whatever reason. Ultimately, this idea was shelved, but it does show what went on behind the scenes in an attempt to improve customer relations, and make the experience at the service department less frustrating.
It was one of Ford's better ideas that you may not have heard about, until now.
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Have You Hugged Your Money Recently?
The brokerage statements are piling up on the piano. The bank statements, if you still get them by mail are over in that basket, unopened, and if you get them digitally, you haven't even opened the email informing you that they are available. Yes, I know you say, I check my balance a couple times a day, balances are good, but it doesn't have enough money management mojo.
Made an error on your tax return? You can fix that error by "amending" your tax return. File the correction on IRS Form 1040 X. Currently you have to make amendments on paper.
Make sure you indicate on the 1040 X, the year of the return that you are fixing. If you want to fix errors for several years, you will need to submit separate forms for each year that you are fixing.
Pay Yourself First is just a Platitude?
Pay yourself first. You have heard this phrase many times before I am sure. What does it actually mean? Well for me it means, removing from your spending plan, funds necessary for saving and investment before you satisfy your other operational expenses.
I have been told by acquaintances that are regularly in financial trouble that "pay yourself first" is simply a platitude. Is it? I gently suggest that they rethink their position. If you operate from the other end of the deal where you wait until you have satisfied all your expenses, you could often find yourself with nothing left to save or invest. We are very comfortable in our consumer culture and so we really must discipline ourselves to offload income ahead of time to make sure that it isn't "accidentally" or "purposely" spent, on everything else besides savings or investment.
As the CEO of your own economy, make sure that you are first on your own payroll. The responsibility is on you to make these savings and investment decisions. Spending decisions are often made unconsciously, and they can occur often. You must make conscious decisions to save and invest and only you can do it. You will need that stream of income in your future, you really don't want to be caught without it.


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An online petition calls for the removal of its principal and the school's governing body is accused of violating the state's open meeting law.
Bloomfield Hills — The International Academy is used to getting attention with its ranking as one of the top public high schools in America since 2003.
Just last year, the school's Bloomfield Hills campus was ranked 30th in the top 100 schools nationwide by U.S. News & World Report.
But this year, the school is getting attention for a different reason: An online petition is calling for the removal of its principal, and the school's governing body faces allegations it has repeatedly violated the state's open meeting law.
A petition, started by a former student on Jan. 27 at change.org, calls for the removal of Lynne Gibson, principal of all three International Academy campuses in Oakland County. An initial form of the petition indicated it is in response to concerns raised by teachers, former students and parents over Gibson's involvement in the establishment of a private school in China known as the Qingdao Okma International Academy.
The IA sister school was established in 2015 by Gibson's husband, Bert Okma, who started the International Academy in Oakland County. It was closed in June 2017 after it failed to thrive, school officials said.
The petition has been signed by at least 1,100 people.
"Several involved parties have tried to bring concerns surrounding the QIA Project to the attention of the (IA) Joint Steering Committee, but feel they have been largely ignored," the petition states.
"These concerns include inconsistencies and lack of transparency regarding funding, legitimacy of licensing of the school, issues with retaliatory behavior, and drafting and execution of contracts," the petition says.
The petition alleges officials haven't been upfront about IA's exact role in the foreign school and that IA resources were used to drive decisions at the school in China.
The IA is a tuition-free countywide magnet school with three campuses that educates about 1,554 students. It is run by a consortium of 13 Oakland County districts. The Bloomfield Hills Schools district is the fiscal agent for the IA campus in Bloomfield Hills.
To get into the school, students must enter a lottery and take a math placement test.
Gibson, chairwoman of the Joint Steering Committee, is also an employee of the Bloomfield Hills school district and oversees all three IA schools. She has been principal since 2009.
Gibson said last week the superintendents of each of IA's consortium districts are actively addressing the Open Meetings Act allegations.
"This is an issue that is not within my level of responsibility. ... The consortium districts of the IA are in the process of finalizing their own investigation of the situation," Gibson said in an email.
Gibson declined to comment directly on the petition but referred to a Feb. 13 letter from her attorney, Jackie Cook.
Cook sent a letter to the Bloomfield Hills board of education requesting that members use its bylaws to prevent a former IA teacher from "personally attacking and defaming" Gibson and Okma during public comment at board meetings.
Steven Eschrich sued Okma and the IA school in China inOakland County Circuit Court alleging Okma fraudulently induced Eschrich to leave his teaching position at the IA and move to China to open up the sister school. The lawsuit was dismissed on Nov. 21.
"Enough is enough," Cook wrote in the letter to the school board. "As the allegations presented by Mr. Eschrich to the Board over the last month are nearly identical to allegations dismissed as baseless by the District in 2017 and the Circuit Court in 2018, we respectfully request that this Board cease giving him a platform lodging his personal attacks against Principal Gibson and Mr. Okma."
Bloomfield Hills school board president Paul Kolin said Friday he has reviewed Cook's letter with district attorneys and they feel it is inaccurate.
"We think everything said at public comment was not a personal attack against an employee," Kolin said.
Attorneys for the district also reviewed allegations that the IA's Joint Steering Committee meetings were violating the Open Meetings Act, he said.
"In the meetings, they were making decisions in violation of the Open Meetings Act. Our attorney concurred. They will be open to the public. ... We agree they should be open. The next meeting will be open," Kolin said.
On Feb. 7, Kolin announced a task force is being formed to examine allegations involving the IA and to review documents provided by the public.
The Bloomfield Hills school board president has invited all 13 consortium districts to participate in the task force, which will ultimately produce findings, Kolin said.
Bloomfield Hills Schools superintendent Rob Glass said an investigation was done by the district's legal counsel in 2017 into allegations that the district, the IA and Gibson violated Michigan law or district conflict-of-interest standards.
It found no wrongdoing against Gibson or IA, he said.
"Due diligence was undertaken," Glass said.
No taxpayer dollars were spent to establish or staff the sister school in China, Glass said. No students came from China to attend the IA either, school officials said.
According to a letter from Robert Lusk, an attorney for the Bloomfield Hills district, Eschrich took a voluntary leave of absence from his teaching position to accept a position at the school in China. There was no written employment or other contract with the school or Okma, Lusk said.
"Unfortunately for all concerned, QIA did not thrive, was not always able to meet its commitments to its employees and ultimately closed," the letter said.
"The District believes, from an educational perspective, there are positive and negative considerations to an exclusive sister school relationship between IA and another international academy. These considerations will be taken into account should the opportunity for another sister school relationship arise," the letter said.
Eschrich attended a Feb. 4 meeting for the Bloomfield Hills Schools board of education to ask for a continued investigation into Gibson and conflict of interest issues.
He called the district's investigation "farcical" and accused the IA and Gibson of using IA school resources such as teachers' time and lesson plans for the school in China.
"I am here today, not solely as an aggrieved party, but also as a resident who is deeply concerned that lack of transparency and effective oversight of IA administration, almost since its beginning, has cost the IA ... its students ... and the community some of its most valuable assets," he said.
Nancy Costello, director of the Michigan State University First Amendment Law Clinic, says the Joint Steering Committee has violated the state Open Meetings Act for years, thwarting the public's right to know what decisions are being made to operate the school.
Costello alleges the body held meetings to conduct official business without a quorum, failed to make meeting minutes available to the public and closed meetings that should have been open.
On Tuesday, Costello said the law clinic is filing a complaint with the state Attorney General's Office against the Joint Steering Committee and the IA for violating the Open Meetings Act.
"I think there's evidence there is intentional violation of OMA and also some community members have submitted a FOIA request and were charged in excess of $8,000," Costello said.
Ken Jackson, who has two children in Bloomfield Hills Schools, says the bigger issue rising from the controversy is why officials used school time and resources to support the creation of a private school in China when districts in Michigan are facing school closures and competition from for-profit charter schools.
"This is a case where a consortium of districts supported a private school venture in China," Jackson said. "That is the height of hypocrisy when you are spending resources to stop privatization on one hand and on the other hand you are asking for taxpayers to foot the bill for Okma and Gibson.
"To me, it's completely nuts," Jackson said.
IA graduate Nicole Valdivieso said she tried emailing Gibson to get her side of the story and was told by Gibson that she had been "advised by my superiors to not engage in a back and forth dialogue in regard to these accusations."
Valdivieso, who graduated from the school in 2013, said she cares deeply about IA and what it stands for.
"I know it's troubling both to myself and to many other members of the IA community to think we might not have the entire story," she wrote in her email to Gibson.
Valdivieso attended the Feb. 4 meeting to ask again for information from Gibson and the board.
"We have been unable to get any comment from the other side — that was my attempt to get something from her, and she basically said nothing," Valdivieso said.
Glass says he has confidence in Gibson to do her job. The school pursued a school partnership in China, Glass said, because the International Baccalaureate program is about global mindedness and there are Chinese students who want to come to the United States to study.
According to a website explaining the IB, its focus is on teaching students to "think critically and independently, and how to inquire with care and logic."
"Anything new that comes into question, we will certainly look into it .. .We will not shy away from that," Glass said. "There are no plans (by us) for any new schools" in China.


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'My Friend Pinto' is a tribute to all comedians: Prateik
Added by harini on Oct 02, 2011
In a short period, the Bollywood actor Prateik has managed to establish himself as an actor with substance.
The actor, who made his debut as a supporting character in Aamir Khan's 'Jaane Tu… Ya Jaane Na', has played intense characters be it in 'Aarakshan' or 'Dhobi Ghat'.
For the first time Prateik will be seen in comic role in his upcoming movie 'My Friend Pinto'.
"All of us together can say that for all the comedians of the world, be it Mr. Bean, Roberto Benigni or Raj Kapoor, this film is like a tribute to their art and genius," Prateik said.
This is also Prateik first movie as a solo lead. Kalki Koechlin plays the female lead in the movie.
Prateik said that he doesn't have any similarities with his on screen character.
"I don't mess things too much. I mess up a little whereas he is always messing up things," Prateik said.
The movie is directed by Raghav Dar and produced by Sanjay Leela Bhansali. It releases on October 14.
Celebrities: Kalki Koechlin , Prateik Babbar
Movies: My Friend Pinto


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Aharon Cohen (; 1910-1980) was a senior member of Mapam, a pro-USSR Israeli political party which existed during the first two decades of statehood.

Born in Britchany, Bessarabia in what was the Tsarist empire, now Romania. He came to Palestine in 1929 where he joined kibbutz Sha'ar Ha'amakin, near Haifa. Four years later he was sent back to Romania as a Zionist youth movement organiser. He returned to Palestine in 1936 where a year later he was elected to the executive committee of Ha-kibbutz Ha'artzi and was involved in organizing political work in Haifa and illegal Jewish immigration. A talented and efficient organizer he was given the task of setting up Hakibbutz Ha'artzi's Arab Department. Party policy advocated an undivided and Socialist Palestine and to this objective he gave lectures and issued bulletins to party members advocating good relations with Arabs. In 1942 he pressed his party into joining the League for Jewish Arab Rapprochement and Cooperation. That year he joined the Histadrut's Arab Department which had a budget of £P 1,800. He had been, and remained, sceptical of Histadrut policy of creating its own Arab trade unions rather than working with existing organizations.

In 1948, he became head of Mapam's "Arab Department". He was the author of "Our policy towards Arabs during the War" a Mapam policy statement endorsed by their Political Committee and distributed to all party workers on 15 June 1948. It opposed the expulsion of civilians and advocated a return of refugees after the war. In the 1949 elections he supervised the Popular Arab Bloc, Mapam's party for Arabs, which failed to gain any support.

In 1964 he published "Israel and the Arab World". An English translation was published in 1970. He argues that during the 1920s and early 1930s the British administration encouraged local resistance to Zionist activities. He gives accounts of negotiations, some of which he was active in, with senior Arab figures from the second half of the 1930s up to 1945. He claims that these initiatives failed to make progress due to the refusal of the Jewish Agency to commit to any definite proposals. Referring to contacts made in 1943 he writes:  "Advocacy of negotiations was ridiculed, even vilified. The Arab negotiators could not fail to note the indifference and even hostility with which the attempt had been received by official Jewish leaders and by the Jewish community."

Notes made by Cohen at meetings of the Mapam Political Committee were used by historian Benny Morris as a primary source for accounts of atrocities committed by the IDF in the autumn of 1948.

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"If your supporters aren't supported by you, what use is of supporters supporting you"
There is a movie called Kurukshetra in which Sanjay Dutt plays the lead role, that of a top cop. In the movie, a poor girl gets raped and murdered by a politicians son. Then starts an epic battle between good and evil (hence the title of the movie) and Sanjay Dutt fights on behalf of the poor parents of the girl. Naturally, politicians being politicians, have a nexus with mafia, and then there is a "good" politician (Oxymoron? You bet) who eventually betrays Sanjay. Throughout the movie, there is an enormous effort put by him, he almost dies, fights bravely and doesn't know whom to trust. Towards the end of the movie, Sanjay Dutt is invitied by the politicians to settle matters. On reaching the home of the politicians, he is taken aback by seeing the father of the girl present there - the politicians try to convince Sanjay to stop fighting this case, fighting for this dead girl, when even her own father has given up - No, he did not yield to threats. Rather, the politicians gave him a lot of money and an apartment in a prime locality. The father says - "So what if she is dead? She can't be brought back to life. But now, we (family) are better off, thanks to the money and the apartment" and the politicians in the backdrop share a smug grin as Sanjay Dutt feels the ground slipping beneath his feet.
But note the point I am making here - If you are being supported by someone for a cause that you had been fighting for, and this person is a strong force, not yet another brick in the wall, and has been devoting a lot of time and energy for YOUR cause, and is also making progress......... and when you have such a person doing good for YOU, it would be highly unfair when YOU yourself give up on the cause or the person.
The best example that can be given at this juncture is Anna Hazare... The man has been putting enormous efforts for our cause - We have seen all the scams of 2011. The sheer sizes of amounts is greater than money most countries might posses, equals our yearly budget (only one scam was enough!!) and there were several that came out. It is OUR money that these people are stealing - and finally, there has been a movement that seems to be putting pressure on the politicians. And the politicians are coming up with really cheap antics to escape getting caught.
Like introducing reservation - this is perhaps the dumbest and most obvious escape route - What does caste and religion have anything to do with corruption? Corruption is spread evenly across people of all castes and religions, and we don't have to bother. But, by introducing this concept, now the debate starts getting shifted, with some people supporting reservation and some don't, and there is naturally going to be a divide. What we should remember is that we are all fighting for one cause, OUR cause, and Anna Hazare being the mascot, the leader, the face of the movement, we should all support him in all the ways that we can... I was surprised when I saw a Facebook group that asked Anna Hazare and his companions to go to hell, and today's headlines showing a decline in number of people following him.
If this movement fails, and if it doesn't go through - I won't be surprised if a group of people end up getting frustrated like Dutt did in the end of the movie and go about gunning down these politicians, taking law into their own hands, or as in Rang De Basanti, because the law does't support them and the people for whom this movement was for, didn't support the movement. And when that happens, don't call the shooters extremists. Call them as people who did what you didn't have the guts to do, people who took action.


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October 17, 2011 · 12:40 pm
Digital Public Library of America Plenary Meeting
The Digital Public Library of America project appears to be an American version of the Europeana project described in other posts. I will be posting more about it here as I get the opportunity. Exciting!!
from ProfHacker – The Chronicle of Higher Education:
Many of our readers may have seen mention here and there about the idea
of creating a genuine digital public library for the United States,
something many countries around the world have done. One of the most
active advocates of this idea, and the one who has left the greatest
trail of articles related to the proposal online is the historian and
director of the Harvard University Library, Robert Darnton (see for
example, this piece).
I have watched Darnton speak about the DPLA on several occasions and I
think he strikes the perfect balance between the pragmatist and an
advocate for creating a library that isn't afraid to reach for its true
potential. The topic has also found mention here at the Chronicle, both in longer articles and in several postings over at the Wired Campus.
Through their new website and not so shadowy mailing list, I read with excitement about the results of their recent "Beta Sprint"
which invited various projects to submit code and concepts for the
platform and functionality of the DPLA. Those chosen, which include an
ongoing project of metaLAB (at) Harvard
that I have been fortunate to get to know well in recent months (I'll
save that for another posting), will have the chance to present their
ideas next week.
On October 21, at the National Archives, there will be an open
meeting that brings together many of the stakeholders and interested
parties. I'll be up here in Boston for THATCamp NE
and unable to attend, but I urge anyone in the DC area who is
interested in being part of the conversation about this important
initiative to attend. Read more about the event here, and register for the plenary meeting here.
Filed under Digital Collections, Digital Humanities, digital repository, DPLA, Library science
Tagged as DPLA
Research Librarians Consider the Risks and Rewards of Collaboration
from Wired Campus – The Chronicle of Higher Education:
Big-scale collaborations and digital-era collection strategies took center stage at the Association of Research Libraries' membership meeting, held here last week. The library directors and others who attended heard about ambitious research and preservation projects like the HathiTrust digital repository and the proposed Digital Public Library of America, plans for which are moving ahead.
Filed under Digital Collections, Digital Humanities, digital repository, Library science
Tagged as ARL, Digital Public Library of America, HathiTrust
Unit 7 – Digital Humanities Centers and libraries as "Third Spaces."
I found this 2008 report, A Survey of Digital Humanities Centers in the United States, on the Council of Library and Information Resources website. It is a massive document, describing the survey's goals, methods, and findings, as well as identifying trends, issues, and placing DHCs in the broader context of other models, including the sciences. I can only pick out a few ideas to talk about here, but I recommend the report for anyone interested in the state of the digital humanities in the U.S.
The foreword to the report identifies DHCs –and libraries– as examples of
"interdisciplinary 'third places'—a term sociologist Ray Oldenburg has used to identify a social space, distinct from home and workplace. Third places foster important ties and are critical to community life. Familiar examples are barbershops, beauty salons, and coffee shops where, in the age of wireless, we see tables of students hunched over laptops, textbooks, and notepads. The academic library plays a role similar to that of a third place, providing resources, seminar rooms, and collaborative work spaces. It probably should not surprise us that both centers and libraries are frequently cited as elements in the emerging cyberinfrastructure to support advanced research in the sciences, technology, and humanities."
Such third spaces are an important part of the "emerging cyberinfrastructure" precisely because of the issues we have been identifying in class: the insular nature of traditional humanities research and reward structures, and institutional inertia or resistance. Thus "the centers, whether virtual or physical, effectively become safe places, hospitable to innovation and experimentation." Such shared infrastructure "requires compromise, negotiation, and, ultimately, trust" since they are "cooperative social systems." I think the idea of "trust" goes back to the way the humanities (and academic institutions in general) create cultural capital: and a new model is needed, one that values cooperative research, as in the sciences. The third space approach may be the beginning, as third spaces provide "safe" places outside disciplinary and institutional boundaries to forge new alliances and to foster trust, to forge new structures of cultural and academic value.
However, humanities funding and research structures/sources in the U.S. tend to work against the idea of a third space. DHCs are almost exclusively associated with universities in the U.S. The executive summary identifies the tendency for DHCs in the U.S. to be "silos" that, because they "favor individual projects that address specialized research interests," do not "effectively leverage resources community-wide." This silo effect is an "inefficient use of the scarce resources available to the humanities community," and leaves these projects at risk for "being orphaned over time." The executive summary concludes that "new models are needed for large-scale cyberinfrastructure projects" and suggests that "the sciences offer a useful framework. Large-scale collaborations in the sciences have been the subject of research that examines the organizational structures and behaviors of these entities and identifies the criteria needed to ensure their success. The humanities should look to this work in planning its own strategies for regional or national models of collaboration."
Section 6.3 of the report suggests that regional and national centers will be a necessary future development for the digital humanities, since "the form of collaboration that takes place in today's centers is also inadequate for future scholarship. The differences between the small-scale, narrowly focused collaborations common among DHCs, and the more coordinated, large-scale organizational collaborations characteristic of regional and national centers are more than just differences in size and degree. They involve wholly new processes of management, communication, and interaction." Thus suggests that this third space will become itself standardized and institutionalized (much like the internet itself as a third space) and require the development of a fourth space (as some researchers are now developing alternate internets). But I digress…..
The executive summary does not address where the funding for such regional and national models is to come from. In section 4.5.2 of the report, centers could often not account for all of their funding sources, which were a hodgepodge of grants, funding lines, and other sources. "It is, however, certain that universities, followed by grants and foundations, are the most frequently cited funding sources for centers." So long as funding comes from such heterogeneous sources, and especially from universities whose narrow interests will dictate which projects get funded, it seems that a larger model will not be feasible. But getting funding on the state or national level will be difficult, given the current financial/fiscal crisis in this country. It seems that the European Union is ahead of the U.S. with their Europeana initiative (which is an immensely-scaled cyberinfrastructure project funded by the EU). Of course, if the EU goes broke bailing out its weaker members, perhaps all bets are off. But I think even the effort will have been worthwhile because of the way it has intensified the development of protocols and standards, and raised international awareness.
The report addresses the issue of motivation: many DHCs did not see the need for large-scale collaboration or regional/national centers. Section 6.4 asks, "As digital humanities computing becomes an integrative, multi-team endeavor, the motivations, support structures, and reward systems that make for successful collaboration become critically important. What aspects of collaboration may be critical to the success of regional or national centers?" (emphasis mine). The report suggests several aspects:
Compelling, Community-Wide Research Needs – examples such as digital preservation issues, developing repositories for digital collections, and the creation of large datasets
No Center Left Behind – clarification of the role of individual DHCs in the context of regional and national centers, so that current investment is not lost.
Trust as the Tie that Binds – The ability to trust the level of prestige/cultutal capital associated with a center: "Academic tenure-and-review committees have long been accused of failing to give credence to digital scholarship. Michael Shanks, codirector of the Stanford Humanities Lab, believes the reason for their hesitation is rooted in trust. These committees want to know if an individual on a team has done the work, or if he or she is simply riding on someone else's coattails." The report suggests regional and national centers will confer more prestige and thus, more trust.
Individual Motivations – suggests that web 2.0 technologies to give feedback and confer prestige to contributors will help, since "reward systems that enhance the personal reputation of contributors are important." The report also suggests that structural motivations/requirements such as exist in the sciences will help (i.e., requiring the sharing of deposits of data in repositories as a prerequisite for publication and/or funding).
The Nature of the Work – "successful large-scale collaborations occur most frequently when the work is easily divided into components."
So the report assesses where we currently are and suggests a needed direction; but it doesn't really have much in the way of concrete suggestions except to look to the sciences for institutional and structural models. This is probably because it appears that the digital humanities are still building consensus that such regional and national centers are needed, and that such institutional and disciplinary changes are requisite.
Where does the library fit in? The report refers to libraries as other examples of such "third spaces," and it seems that libraries as a whole are much more aware of and committed to developing such regional and national structures/centers. It seems that libraries can thus take the lead in developing such centers; which would put them squarely in the center of the developing cyberinfrastructure in the U.S. But the study's author is not a librarian per se, but a museum specialist; according to the website, the report's author, Diane M. Zorich, "is a cultural heritage consultant specializing in planning and managing the delivery of cultural information. Her clients include the J. Paul Getty Trust, the American Association of Museums, the Smithsonian Institution, RLG Programs/OCLC, and many other cultural organizations and institutions . . . . [She] has graduate degrees in anthropology and museum studies." So libraries need to really work on developing such resources and connections with cultural organizations in order to make this work.
Filed under Digital Humanities, Library science, SIRLS 675
Tagged as digital humanities, library
Fear of Repression Spurs Scholars and Activists to Build Alternate Internets – Technology – The Chronicle of Higher Education
Fear of Repression Spurs Scholars and Activists to Build Alternate Internets – Technology – The Chronicle of Higher Education.
Since Egypt cut off its internet completely during the Arab Spring uprisings, this idea is getting a lot more play.
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News: The Promise of Digital Humanities – Inside Higher Ed.
I want to play "Desperate Fishwives"!
"While we have been anguishing over the fate of the humanities, the humanities have been busily moving into, and even colonizing, the fields that were supposedly displacing them," wrote Stanley Fish, the outspoken professor of humanities and law at Florida International University, on his New York Times blog in June.
Some were oriented to teaching history via role-playing games. Heidi Rae Cooley, an assistant professor of new media studies at the University of South Carolina, presented one such project, called "Desperate Fishwives." The game "intends to introduce students to the kinds of social and cultural practices that would have been in play in a 17th Century British village," Cooley explained. Students will be tasked with accumulating resources, completing social rituals, and solving some societal ill "before church or state intervene," she continued. Afterward, students would render a prose account of their experiences — "and thereby learn of the nature and complexities of historiography."
Lisa Rosner, a professor of history at Richard Stockton College of New Jersey, presented her concept for a role-playing game called "Pox in the City." The game has similar educational goals to "Desperate Fishwives," although Rosner's has to do with public health in 19th-century Edinburgh. Players can assume the roles of doctor, patient, or smallpox virus.
October 4, 2011 · 10:27 am
DuraSpace | Open technologies for durable digital content
DuraSpace | Open technologies for durable digital content.
This is the home page of the non-profit organization that runs DSpace and Fedora Commons. I wanted to link it here for future reference.
Filed under Content Management, Digital Collections, Digital Humanities, dSPace, SIRLS 675
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Myzosiphum  — род тлей из подсемейства  (Macrosiphini). Восточная Азия (Китай, Япония).

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Мелкие насекомые, длина около 2 мм.
Ассоциированы с гречишными растениями Polygonum. Близок к тлям рода Myzus.

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Ex-Premier League defender hails SSFC after Southampton's tournament win
Former Premier League defender Radhi Jaidi praised all connected with South Shields after leading Southampton to victory in the inaugural South Shields FC International Tournament over the weekend.
The Saints' Under-23s team defeated hosts Shields 3-0 in Saturday's semi-final before seeing off the challenge of Olympique de Marseille with a 2-0 victory in Sunday's final.
Ex-Bolton Wanderers, Birmingham City and Southampton defender Jaidi – who won 105 caps for Tunisia during his playing days – manages the impressive young Saints, and was full of praise for the hosts after a successful weekend.
He posted on Twitter: "Thank you for the warm welcome and hospitality, South Shields FC.
"Great atmosphere and good experience for our boys.
"Happy to win the tournament."
Southampton's academy is renowned, having nurtured the likes of Gareth Bale, Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, Theo Walcott and numerous other top-flight stars over the last two decades.
The future continues to appear bright at St Mary's, with a number of youngsters catching the eye over the weekend at Mariners Park, including Jake Hesketh, who scored twice against Shields.
The club would like to thank all involved with Southampton, Marseille and Celtic for visiting Mariners Park, and we hope they all enjoyed the weekend.
IMAGE: Kev Wilson.