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Math prof has found formula for student success
In the decades old battle to help students overcome their dread of math, Antelope Valley College Professor Nabeel Atique thinks he's found a winning formula.
It starts with understanding and embracing various learning styles – some of which he encountered growing up in countries around the world. Then he challenges students about their math attitudes, followed with some innovative ways to help them succeed.
Mytisha Polidore volunteers to do a math problem on the white board while she gets encouragement from Professor Nabeel Atique.
"I never liked math, ever," said Andrea Zepeda, one of 35 students who enrolled in Atique's morning Math 60, Prealgebra class. "Now I'm not afraid to go to the next level. I don't feel embarrassed. I don't feel he would judge me in any way."
It's a powerful endorsement from a former math hater, yet it's a sentiment that is prevalent among students in the class.
"I understand the material a lot better. The instructor is hands on. He doesn't move on until everyone understands it," said Mytisha Polidore.
Atique's class is the lab for this experimentation. Thus far, the results indicate Atique has achieved success.
Students are staying in the class and they are learning.
A B for a major test grade would be seen as a positive for many with math anxiety. However, the students in his class had that as the class average for his first major test. The mid-term class average squeaked in at 78 percent, a C+.
The two-hour long class sessions are done in such a way to keep students engaged, including use of a PC tablet that projects math problems on the white board while the instructor faces the class.
"I'll lecture for roughly half the time, then students do group work for half the time with tutors walking around," Atique said. The two tutors are advanced math students that have the advantage of being able to relate to students on a peer level. A student who might be reluctant to call on the instructor could instead call on a fellow student.
Also, the tutors have the advantage of making connections with students to draw them to the Learning Center for additional help.
Atique calls upon students to do problems on the white board, which may sound threatening to those with math anxiety. Atique overcomes that by creating a nurturing environment and one in which he tries to relate to students on a personal level.
"I do my best to create an environment where they want to go to the board," he said.
His desire for personal connection even led Atique to learn Spanish so he could relate better to Spanish speakers in his classes. He spent several weeks living with a family in Costa Rica as part of an immersion program in Spanish.
"I've learned Spanish over the last 15 months. Now I'm very comfortable speaking it," he said. "I'm genuinely interested in their culture and where they're from."
Students, in turn, show interest in Atique's life.
There's more to Atique's intensive, multi-faceted approach to teaching than just his personal desire to succeed.
Atique is the math representative for AVC's Basic Skills Initiative, a statewide effort to cope with the large numbers of adult Californians not prepared for college-level work.
With thousands of students arriving at California's 110 community college campuses lacking the necessary skills in reading, writing and math, the state launched the program to provide training and support for professional development.
The ability of Atique and hundreds of others statewide to effectively address the basic skills needs of students will have profound implications for California beyond colleges and stretching into the workforce.
Atique believes it's a natural fit for him.
Atique is a native of Bangladesh. Since his father worked for an airline, Atique and his family lived in various places across Europe and Asia.
"It was a great way to experience different places, different cultures," he said. Thus, his own experiences with immigration, language barriers and various teaching styles have prepared him well for his current position.
"It's almost like a logical calling," he said.
He cited one example of his own challenges in grade school. Enrolled at a school in India, he received very low marks on his essays. His teacher informed him that the flowery, prose style of writing he'd learned at an American school in Italy was not suitable for his current school.
"Those days were very hard."
Atique prevailed.
"Growing up, I always liked the technical fields. But I also struggled with math."
By the time he was ready for college, he was focused on electrical engineering. He enrolled at the University of Texas at Austin where he earned a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical and computer engineering. He earned a master's degree in electrical engineering from Purdue University.
While employed for a chipmaker in Northern California's Silicon Valley he took a part-time job teaching – "for fun" -- at a community college.
"I realized after three semesters I loved teaching far more than my electrical engineering job," he said. "I just love teaching. I find it very rewarding."
Atique was offered a full-time teaching position at AVC in 2006.
When AVC launched its Basic Skills Committee in 2007-08 to develop solutions, Atique volunteered to represent the math department. His students are glad he did.
"It was a logical place for me to be. I knew it would be a commitment of time, but I was willing to do that," he said.
"I'm very up front with my students: 'I'm here to help you. My goal is to help you succeed in this class. I will find more than one way of explaining a problem'," he said.
Furthermore, he reinforces and, sometimes, even introduces students to the practical aspects of what it takes to be a good student.
What's the primary hurdle for students to overcome?
"Attitudes. My attitude or the student's attitude" can limit student achievement, according to Atique.
"Our job is to deal with it. We can't resign ourselves to say they had problems elsewhere. We have to help students the best we can."
Atique's goal is to expand his methods, including the use of in-class tutors, to more classes on campus.

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LAS CRUCES, N.M. (Oct. 9)-The New Mexico State swimming and diving team opens the 2012-13 regular season at home this weekend. NM State hosts Air Force, Saturday, Oct. 13 at 11:30 a.m. at the natatorium. The event is free and open to the public.
"Air Force is a much improved and solid team," head coach Rick Pratt said. "I believe they will matchup very well with us and provide us with some great challenges."
The Aggies returned 12 swimmers, including four seniors, and one diver from last year's team that broke 10 school records and a program-best 12 NCAA 'B' cuts in 2011-12. NM State also has 11 freshmen on this season's squad.
"They have good middle distance swimmers and freestylers, and it will have to be a team effort to win this dual," Pratt said. "We've been training great, and I am excited to see how we do in our first real competition. Our freshmen will really have to step up and put forth some good effort."


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Ithaca Climate Summary for January 1997
The month of January averaged 0.5 degrees warmer than normal.
This was 0.7 degrees warmer than the same month a year ago.
The warmest reading was 54 degrees on the 5th.
The coldest temperature of the month was -11 degrees on the 19th.
There were three days when the temperature dropped below zero-the 1st, 18th and 19th.
The total precipitation for the month was 0.87 inches, which was only 48% of the monthly normal.
It was the driest of any month since January 1989.
The monthly snowfall total was 13.5 inches, which was 3.4 inches below normal.
This total was 15.7 inches less than last January and the least during January since 1993.
The seasonal total stands at 31.6 inches, which is 6.5 inches less than normal through this point in the winter.
Through the end of January, Ithaca has received 40 inches less snow this winter than during the same period last winter, but 10.8 inches more than during this period in the winter of 1994-95.
The greatest depth of snow on the ground during the month was only 3 inches on the 28th and 29th.
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Game 28: Oregon State (21-6) vs. Portland (5-22)
April 1, 2014 | 3 p.m. PT
Portland, Ore. | Joe Etzel Field
Probable Starters: TBA vs. TBA
The Game
Oregon State steps out of conference play to visit Portland Tuesday afternoon at Joe Etzel Field. First pitch is slated for 3 p.m. PT.
The game will air live on the Beaver Sports Network and Beaver Nation Online (osubeavers.com). For more information on catching the Beavers on the radio, check osubeavers.com. All games air on the Beaver Sports Network with pre-game 30 minutes before first pitch. Affiliates include KICE 940-AM (Bend, Ore.), KEJO 1240-AM (Corvallis), KKNX 840-AM (Eugene), KLZS 1450-AM (Eugene), KAKT 104.7-FM (Grants Pass, Medford-weekends), KLAD 960-AM (Klamath Falls), Fox Sports Radio 620-AM (Portland), KSKR 1490-AM (Roseburg), KBZY 1490-AM (Salem - Weekends, Weekday Day Games) and KOHI 1600-AM (St. Helens, Ore.).
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Live stats for the game can be accessed by clicking on the live stats link located on the baseball schedule page on osubeavers.com.
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Stay informed with Oregon State baseball social media. Follow Beaver_Baseball on Twitter for all gameday information, including score updates and other facts found nowhere else. "Like" facebook.com/OregonStateBaseball to stay in touch with all OSU stories and to find pictures and other great information. Check out YouTube.com/OSUBeaversAthletics for all great baseball videos and Instagram.com/BeaverBaseball for the best in photos.
Last Game
Jace Fry tossed seven scoreless innings and did not give up a hit until the eighth inning in Oregon State's 11-0 series-clinching win over Arizona Sunday in Tucson. The Beavers rapped out 14 hits against six Arizona pitchers, and were led by Michael Conforto's three. Jeff Hendrix doubled, Kavin Keyes tripled and Dylan Davis hit his third home run of the season in the win. The day, however, belonged to Fry, who faced three over the minimum to improve to 5-1 this season. No Wildcats moved into scoring position against him.
27 Games, 9 Shutouts
Oregon State comes into Tuesday's game with nine shutouts on the season, second only nationally to South Carolina's 11. The Beavers have accounted for 39.1 percent of the Pac-12 Conference's 23 on the year, with no other club registering more than three. Three of the Beavers' nine have come in Pac-12 play, and account for 50 percent of the league's total.
The Streak
Oregon State is looking to extend its win streak over Portland to 20 games, which would be one shy of tying the school-record of 21 from 1959-69. Seven of the 19 wins during the current streak have come at Portland.
Strong Offensive Push
Scoring 37 runs and registering three double-digit hit efforts will certainly make for a good offensive push for the Beavers, who are batting .311 over their last five games. Thirteen of the team's 59 hits over that stretch have been for extra bases as the club has a .416 slugging percentage.
Peterson Pushes To 10
Andy Peterson went 1-for-5 in Sunday's series finale and extended his hit streak to a team-best 10 games. The senior is 13-for-42 (.310) with 10 runs scored during the streak.
In The Books
Kavin Keyes moved into sole possession of 10th in Oregon State history for hits and has 196. Michael Conforto is close behind with 189. Conforto, meanwhile, is also now third with 156 runs driven in.
• The Beavers have tallied three shutouts and held Portland to three runs or less 14 times during the 19-game win streak.
• OSU is looking for its 16th non-conference win of the season. That would put OSU shy of 20; the Beavers have 20 or more non-conference wins the last five seasons.
• Dylan Davis has 10 RBI and four extra-base hits during a five-game hit streak.
• Oregon State is 11-3 away from home.


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Parent Company of Le Cordon Bleu Culinary Schools Under Scrutiny
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|CEC's website shows off happy graduates.
This fall the New York Attorney General's Office subpoenaed documents from the for-profit CEC to see if the company followed state laws regarding consumer protection, securities and finance.
Last week CEC admitted that its own internal review of career placement after graduation discovered that several of its schools used "improper placement determination practices." Specifically, only 13 of its 49 ACICS (Accrediting Counsel for Independent Colleges and Schools)-accredited institutions had acceptable numbers of graduates finding work after receiving a diploma from one of its schools. The ACICS requires that at least 65 percent of graduates find work in fields related to their study. Dipping below that benchmark can cost a school accreditation and its students access to federal loans.
In response, CEC this month announced the resignation of its CEO and stated that it's taking swift action to fix the problem. According to the company's website, the Le Cordon Bleu in the St. Louis region has fared better than many of CEC's other schools, placing 89 percent of its graduates in jobs related to their studies. Its four Sanford Brown Colleges in the metro area have more mixed results.
As Daily RFT reported last month, CEC and Sanford Brown recently have been slapped with more than a dozen lawsuits in federal court in St. Louis alleging that students here spent thousands of dollars on highly specialized training only to learn the course credits didn't transfer elsewhere and that there were extremely limited opportunities for employment in the fields they'd been studying.
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Ex-Taft basketball star Carlos Mitchell charged with credit card abuse
Carlos Mitchell accused of stealing credit card from Gold's Gym
Former San Antonio high school star and professional basketball player Carlos Mitchell, 31, is now a criminal suspect, accused of using debit cards stolen from lockers at two Gold's Gym locations.
Mitchell has been charged with credit card abuse in connection with at least one case last month involving an elderly victim, according to an arrest warrant affidavit.
A 76-year-old man filed a report with San Antonio police March 12 saying that someone had broken into his locker at Gold's Gym in the 11800 block of Bandera Road, and stolen some cash and his debit card, the affidavit stated.
The victim told police he also found out that someone had used the card to purchase $180 worth of items at an HEB store.
Detectives said they obtained surveillance photos from HEB and identified the man seen using the card as Mitchell, the affidavit stated.
Police said they had already named Mitchell as their suspect in another case last month, also involving a stolen debit card.
The affidavit stated that the other case involved a victim who also had his debit card taken from his gym locker and used to purchase items at an HEB.
That earlier theft happened at a Gold's Gym near Interstate 10 and DeZavala Road, the affidavit stated.
Detectives said employees at Gold's recognized Mitchell as a gym member.
According to records on the internet, Mitchell is a 2000 graduate of Taft High School who went on to play college basketball for Stephen F. Austin State University.
Records also show he entered the 2005 NBA Draft and played for the Texas Fuel of the American Basketball Association.
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Oct. 27, 2006
SAN DIEGO - The San Diego State volleyball team evened the score Friday night against the Lobos, shutting them out (24-30, 27-30, 22-30) to successfully avoid the season series sweep. New Mexico, which fell to 7-16 overall and 3-8 in the Mountain West, won the season series opener in Albuquerque, 3-0.
Trailing by five (4-9) early in game one, sophomore Jeanne Fairchild put down three kills, sparking an 8-3 Lobo run. With the match tied at 19, the Aztecs outscored New Mexico 11-5 to win the game. Both teams hit well, with SDSU posting a .463 (23K-4E-41TA) attack percentage while UNM hit .387 (14K-2E-31TA).
New Mexico's hot hitting carried over to game two as the Lobos hit .500 (11-for-22) with no errors through the first half. Despite that, the Aztecs hung around, producing 10 ties and 10 lead changes in the game. The Lobos were up 26-24 when SDSU strung together a 5-1 run for the win.
The teams traded points to four opening game three, when Kelley Wahlin recorded two kills in a 3-0 SDSU run that gave the Aztecs a lead they never relinquished. The Lobos pulled within two twice but a 5-0 run for San Diego State put the match away. The Aztecs' hot hitting really guided them to the win, hitting .417 (19K-4E-36TA) while holding New Mexico to a .205 (13K-5E-39TA) attack percentage.
Fairchild led the Lobos with 13 kills while freshman Allison Suiter notched 12, hitting a match-leading .667 (12K-0E-18TA). Sophomore Sarah Kwasigroch dished out 36 assists, bringing her career total to 1,903. She also added the team's two aces. Classmate Gayle Tripp had a team-high 11 digs.
Four Aztecs hit in double-figures, including Melanie Greene, who posted a double-double on a match-leading 14 kills and 11 digs.
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Willamette Baseball Player > Business Economics Major > Arizona Diamondbacks Groundskeeper
By Jamie Timbrell '06, MBA'08
As a young teenager, Grant Trenbeath '93 would ride his bike down to John Lewis Field almost every summer day. His father, Willamette Head Baseball Coach Bill Trenbeath, had bought him the bike so he could get to his summer job as ballpark groundskeeper. Within a few years, young Trenbeath was playing second base for the Bearcats and maintaining the field as part of a work-study job. Now, twenty years later, what Trenbeath would learn on those hot summer days and rain-soaked winters has led him to a career as the head groundskeeper for the Arizona Diamondbacks Major League Baseball organization.
"Twelve to fourteen years on the field at Willamette eventually got me this position," he says. "I loved playing baseball and always enjoyed making the baseball field as nice as possible." Trenbeath graduated from Willamette in 1993 as the school's all-time home run king — a record recently passed by Kyle Stalker '09. He had spent the summer of the previous year maintaining Miles Field for the Southern Oregon A's, a minor league team in Medford, Ore., affiliated with the Oakland A's. Upon graduation, he returned to this position.
"You can look back at the end of the day and feel good about what you did."
Miles Field won the Northwest League Field of the Year award for the 1994 season and Trenbeath was promoted to head groundskeeper for the Oakland A's spring training fields in Phoenix, Ariz., later that fall. In 1996, the Arizona Diamondbacks' rookie league team worked out and played their home games at Phoenix Municipal Stadium — the spring training stadium for the Oakland.
A's — allowing Trenbeath a chance to showcase his fields tothe baseball operations staff of the Diamondbacks. In the fall of 1997, the team hired him to oversee construction of what was originally named Bank One Ballpark and to be the head groundskeeper for the inaugural season.
"When I was taking care of the field at Willamette, I wanted it to be the best. During my tenure there, Willamette's field was considered one of the best in the Northwest," he says. "I liked what I was doing, and once my playing days had concluded, I figured I should try to make it to the highest level."
On Sundays, Trenbeath's wife Trina Hettinga Trenbeath '95 and two daughters, Annika and Téa, can be found in the stands of now renamed Chase Field in downtown Phoenix watching their father work.
"You can look back at the end of the day and feel good about what you did as opposed to sitting in an office for eight hours and asking yourself, 'What did I just do?' There's gratification from looking back and seeing what you just accomplished," he says.
A business economics major while attending Willamette, Trenbeath's unusual career trajectory has benefited from what he learned in the classroom as well as from outside. "My education background has been fantastic," he says. "Come budget time, the accounting people joke that they have to worry about various departments, but they never have to worry about the grounds department."
Highlights from his years with the Diamondbacks include becoming friends and playing golf with some of the players, such as veteran pitcher Randy Johnson and slugger Luis Gonzalez. Trenbeath was there when the team won the 2001 World Series against the New York Yankees, and his father was on the field with him for the National Anthem at the Diamondbacks' inaugural game in 1998.
Grant's father, Bill Trenbeath, is a notable Willamette community member himself and served the school for almost three decades: as head baseball coach (1974–86), as a member of the alumni relations office (1987), and as director of athletics (1987–2000).
Jamie Timbrell '06, MBA'08 majored in classics and mathematics at Willamette and now works in the Bay Area as a freelance writer.


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My principal research interests are igneous petrology, tectonics, geoinformatics, and the geologic evolution of western North America. Tools employed in these studies include field work, whole-rock geochemistry, radiogenic isotope studies, U-Pb geochronology, structural geology, and database mining.
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Selected recent publications (*=student or former student coauthor):
*Putnam, R., Glazner, A. F., Coleman, D. S., *Kylander-Clark, A. R. C., Pavelsky, T., and *Abbott, M. I., in press, Plutonism in three dimensions: field and geochemical relations on the southeast face of El Capitan, Yosemite National Park, California: Geosphere.
Glazner, A. F., 2014, Magmatic life at low Reynolds number: Geology, v. 42, p. 935-938.
Glazner, A., Bartley, J., *Putnam, R., Coleman, D., Hildreth, W., Law, B., and Stock, G., 2014, Silicic magmatism: plutonism in Yosemite National Park and volcanism in Long Valley caldera: guidebook for field trip associated with the 2014 Goldschmidt Meeting, 40 p.
Matasci, B., Guerin, A., *Putnam, R., Stock, G. M., Jaboyedoff, M., and Glazner, A. F., 2014, Three dimensional geological mapping of the vertical rock face of El Capitan, Yosemite (California, USA), with field work, gigapixel photography, and terrestrial laser scanning: Vertical Geology Conference, University of Lausanne, Switzerland, February 2014, 5 p.
Bartley, J. M., Glazner, A. F., and Coleman, D. S., accepted pending revision, Dike intrusion and deformation during growth of the Half Dome pluton, Yosemite National Park, California: Geosphere, 19 ms. pages, 5 figs.
*Putnam, R. L., Glazner, A. F., Law, B. S., and Stock, G. M., 2014, Geologic Map of the Southeast Face of El Capitan, Yosemite Valley, California: Geological Society of America Maps and Charts, MCH106F.
Glazner, A., Bartley, J., *Putnam, R., Coleman, D., Hildreth, W., Law, B., and Stock, G., 2014, Silicic magmatism: plutonism in Yosemite National Park and volcanism in Long Valley caldera: guidebook for field trip associated with the 2014 Goldschmidt Meeting, 40 p.
Glazner, A. F., and *Johnson, B. R., 2013, Late crystallization of K-feldspar and the paradox of megacrystic granites: Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, v. 166, p. 777-799.
*Cordes, S. E., Stock, G. M., Schwab, B. E., and Glazner, A. F., 2013, Supporting evidence for a 9.6 ± 1 ka rock avalanche originating from Glacier Point in Yosemite Valley, California: Environmental & Engineering Geoscience, v. 19, p. 345-361. (AEG Best Paper Award for 2014)
Farmer, G. L., Glazner, A. F., Kortemeier, W. T., Cosca, M. A., Jones, C. H., *Moore, J. E., and Schweickert, R. A., 2013, Mantle lithosphere as a source of postsubduction magmatism, northern Sierra Nevada, California: Geosphere, v. 9, p. 1102-1124.
*Mills, R. D., and Glazner, A. F., 2013, Experimental study on the effects of temperature cycling on coarsening of plagioclase and olivine in an alkali basalt: Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, v. 166, p. 97-111.
*Putnam, R.L., Stock, G.M., Glazner, A.F., Bartley, J.M., and Coleman, D.S., 2013, Granite, glaciers, and rockfall in Yosemite Valley, California, in Putirka, K., ed., Geologic Excursions from Fresno, California, and the Central Valley: A Tour of California's Iconic Geology: Geological Society of America Field Guide 32, p. 13-35, doi:10.1130/2013.0032(02).
Glazner, A. F., and *Mills, R. D., 2012, Statistics of two-dimensional cuts through objects with a fractal size distribution: application to xenoliths, breccias, and enclaves: Geosphere, v. 8, p. 902-914, doi:10.1130/GES00731.1.
Coleman, D. S., Bartley, J. M., Glazner, A. F., and *Pardue, M. J., 2012, Is chemical zonation in plutonic rocks driven by changes in source magma composition, or shallow crustal differentiation?: Geosphere, v. 8, p. 1568-1587.
Bartley, J. M., Glazner, A. F., and Mahan, K. H., 2012, Formation of pluton roofs, floors, and walls by crack opening at Split Mountain, Sierra Nevada, California: Geosphere, v. 8, p. 1-18, 1 plate, 1 kmz file.
Glazner, A. F., 2012, Geologic setting of Little Lake rock art: in Van Tilburg, J. A., Hull, G., and Bretney, J. C., eds., Captured Visions: Rock Art at Little Lake Ranch, Owens Valley, California: Monumenta Archaeologica Series, p. 3-9.
*Mills, R. D., *Ratner, J. J., and Glazner, A. F., 2011, Experimental evidence for crystal coarsening and fabric development during temperature cycling: Geology, v. 39, p. 1139-1142, doi:10.1130/G32394.1.
Glazner, A. F., and Stock, G. M., 2010, Geology Underfoot in Yosemite National Park and Vicinity: Mountain Press Publishing Co., 304 p.
*Johnson, B. R., and Glazner, A. F., 2010, Formation of K-feldspar megacrysts in granodioritic plutons by thermal cycling and late-stage textural coarsening: Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, v. 159, p. 599-619, DOI 10.1007/s00410-009-0444-z.
*Mills, R. D., Glazner, A. F., and Coleman, D. S., 2009, Scale of pluton/wall rock interaction near May Lake, Yosemite National Park, California, USA: Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, v. 158, p. 263-281, doi: 10.1007/s00410-009-0381-x.
Glazner, A. F., Coleman, D. S., and Bartley, J. M., 2008, The tenuous connection between high-silica rhyolites and granodiorite plutons: Geology, v. 36, p. 183-186, doi: 10.1130/G24496A.1.
*Gray, W., Glazner, A. F., Coleman, D. S., and Bartley, J. M., 2008, Long-term geochemical variability of the Lat e Cretaceous Tuolumne Intrusive Suite, central Sierra Nevada, California: Geological Society of London Special Publication, v. 304, p. 183-201.
Glazner, A. F., *Carl, B. S., Coleman, D. S., *Miller, J. S, and Bartley, J. M., 2008, Chemical variability and composite nature of di kes from the Jurassic Independence dike swarm, eastern California: Geological Society of America Special Paper 438, p. 455-480.
Glazner, A. F., 2007, Thermal limitations on incorporation of wall rock into magma: Geology, v. 35, p. 319-322, DOI: 10.1130/G23134A.1.
Bartley, J.M., Coleman, D.S., and Glazner, A.F., 2007. Incremental emplacement of plutons by magm atic crack-seal. In: N. Petford and S. Sparks (Editors), Plutons and Batholiths. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (Wallace Pitcher Memorial Issue), v. 97, p. 383-396.
Bartley, J.M., Glazner, A. F., Coleman, D. S., *Kylander-Clark, A.R.C., Mapes, R., and Friedrich, A.M., 2007, Large Laramide dextral offset across Owens Valley, California, and its possible relation to tectonic unroofing of the southern Sierra Nevada: Geological Society of America Special Paper 434, p. 129-148.
Glazner, A. F., and Bartley, J. M., 2006, Is stoping a volumetrically significant pluton emplacement process?: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 118, p. 1185-1195, DOI: 10.1130/B25738.1.
*Mordick, B. E., and Glazner, A. F., 2006, Clinopyroxene thermobarometry of basalts from the Coso and Big Pine volcanic fields, California: Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, v. 152, p. 111-124, DOI: 10.1007/s00410-006-0097-0.
*Ratajeski, K., Sisson, T. W., and Glazner, A. F., 2005, Experim ental and geochemical evidence for derivation of the El Capitan Granite, California, from hydrous mafic lower crust: Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, v. 149, p. 713-734, doi: 10.1007/s00410-005-0677-4.
*Kylander-Clark, A. R. C., Coleman, D. S., Glazner, A. F., and Bartley, J. M., 2005, Evidence for 65 km of dextral slip across Owens Valley, California, since 83 Ma: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 117, p. 962-968.
Sisson, T. W., *Ratajeski, K., Hankins, W. B., and Glazner, A. F., 2005, Voluminous granitic magmas from basaltic sources: Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, v. 148, p. 635-661, DOI 10.1007/s00410-004-0632-9.
Coleman, D. S., *Gray, W., and Glazner, A. F., 2004, Rethinking the emplacement and evolution of zoned plutons: Geochronologic evidence for incremental assembly of the Tuolumne Intrusive Suite, California: Geology, v. 32, p. 433-436, doi: 10.1130/G20220.1.
Glazner, A. F., Bartley, J. M., Coleman, D. S., *Gray, W., and *Taylor, R. Z., 2004, Are plutons assembled over millions of years by amalgamation from small magma chambers? GSA Today, v. 14, p. 4-11, doi: 10.1130/1052-5173(2004)014<0004:APAOMO>2.0.CO;21996.


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This document describes how to address the problem in Finesse Version 9.1(1) where certain CLI commands do not execute properly.
In Finesse Version 9.1(1), these CLI commands fail to execute: utils finesse application_https_redirect* utils finesse notification* utils reset_3rdpartygadget_password
When you enter these commands, Finesse prompts you to enter a password. When you enter the Finesse console password, the system hangs. This behavior locks your current console session until the system is rebooted.
This issue is reported to be fixed in Finesse Versions 10.0 and 9.1(1) ES2.
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In order to prevent this problem when you reenter these commands, you can create an additional CLI account that uses the username "administrator" (in all lowercase letters) with limited access to CLI commands. This account will be able to run these commands without an additional password prompt that locks the session.
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Tracking GCC 4.4 related build errors
I started building the Debian archive with GCC 4.4 ten days ago to report build errors. I've completed the archive build now and reported about 220 bugs (the majority with patches). There are roughly 30 build failures left that I haven't analyzed yet. There are also about 35 packages that fail because the boost headers don't work with GCC 4.4. I'll try to build them when the boost headers get fixed.
The majority of GCC 4.4 build errors are trivial. The large majority of failures is because of missing #include statements. There are also about 20 build errors because of improved preprocessor checks.
I'll try to do another archive build when the gcc-4.4 package is in Debian.
GCC 4.4 related build problems: missing #include
C++ header dependencies got cleaned up in GCC 4.3, which broke a lot of code which relied on headers to be included indirectly through some other headers. I found some new build failures with GCC 4.4 related to missing #includes; in particular, #include <cstdio> is missing in a lot of code.
Typical errors look like these:
error: 'sscanf' was not declared in this scope error: 'EOF' was not declared in this scope error: '::fseek' has not been declared error: 'uint32_t' does not name a type
Below is a table showing which header needs to be included for a number of common functions:
|Functions and defines
|fopen, fwrite, fclose
|fread, fseek, feof
|sscanf, sprintf
|rename, open
|memset, memcpy, strdup
|int16_t, uint32_t
GCC 4.4 and better preprocessor checks
GCC 4.4 will show more preprocessor errors when compiling code, partly because some new checks have been added and partly because the full preprocessor directives are now checked. So let's review some common problems. Let's take some code like this:
#ifdef A #elif #endif
This will now give:
t.c:2:6: error: #elif with no expression
The reason is that an #elif always needs an argument. Looking at the code, it's obvious that a #else should be used.
Another common issue is this one:
#define B #ifdef A #elif B #endif
The problem here is that you're trying to check whether B is defined, so the third line has to be:
#elif defined(B)
Finally, the following code:
#ifdef A #elif define(B) #endif
will give:
t.c:2:13: error: missing binary operator before token "("
It took me a minute to see what was wrong with the code... but define is a typo and what you really want is defined.
Status of GCC 4.4 on Debian
I started testing GCC 4.4 ten days ago and the results are in. In total, I filed 28 new bugs and ran into 7 known issues. More than half of the bugs I filed have already been fixed and many of those that are still open have already received some attention (debugging, suggested patches). I sent a complete report to the GCC list, although I forgot to mention that I set optimization to -O3 to catch more problems.
I know that it's quite popular to complain about GCC, but I'd say that most impressions people have about the GCC community no longer hold true. The GCC community is very active these days, bugs tend to get a lot of attention and there are major infrastructure changes underway to improve the compiler.
Starting to test GCC 4.4
I've been too busy to follow GCC development recently and haven't done any testing of development snapshots during the GCC 4.4 development phase so far. However, GCC 4.4 moved to stage 3 yesterday, the development stage dedicated to bug fixes and documentation. Given that GCC is now in stage 3 and that Debian unstable has fairly little churn because of the freeze, it's an ideal time to do some archive rebuilds.
I started archive rebuilds on amd64 and powerpc last night and added ia64 today. I also tried to build GCC on armel, alpha and sparc but there are compiler errors during bootstrap. mips builds fine but I haven't started any archive rebuilds.
I found and reported 9 compiler errors so far. Most of them have already received some attention and one of them has been fixed in the meantime. I'm not looking at build failures of packages at the moment since that's very time consuming and I'm not sure whether I'll find the time to report build failures later as GCC becomes more stable, but we'll see.
GCC 4.3 porting guide
Benjamin Kosnik of Red Hat put together a guide on the GCC web site with information on porting applications to the upcoming GCC 4.3 release. He integrated some information from my blog and added a number of new items. If you run into any issues while moving to GCC 4.3, I suggest you consult this guide.
GCC 4.3 related build problems: duplicate function parameters
GCC 4.3 now prints an error message when C++ code contains duplicate function parameter names in function prototypes. You'd think that's a pretty obvious problem, but we still have about 15 packages in the archive that contain such code.
Anyway, for code like this:
class foo { foo(int w, int w); };
GCC will as of 4.3 show the following error message:
t.cc:2: error: multiple parameters named 'w'
GCC 4.3 related build problems: pedantic preprocessor warnings in C++
Update: This change has been reverted from 4.3 again and won't be in the final release of 4.3.
GCC 4.3 changed pedantic preprocessor warnings in C++ code into errors, in line with the C++ front-end. Because of this change, preprocessor warnings are now errors.
This change has caused at least the twofollowing errors which are all fairly common:
error: "xxx" redefined
It's not allowed to #define something twice, as in this example:
#define TEST "foo" #define TEST "bar"
This code will lead to the following error:
test2.cc:2:1: error: "TEST" redefined test2.cc:1:1: error: this is the location of the previous definition
Most typically, this occurs because something is defined in a header that is included and then redefined in the current source file. It can also happen when a #define is put in the code but also on the command line, e.g. via -DTEST="bar". This will lead to:
test2.cc:1:1: error: "TEST" redefined <command line>:1:1: error: this is the location of the previous definition
The correct solution is to avoid redefinitions directly or to use #ifndef to make sure that something has not been defined already.
extra tokens at end of #endif directive
While an #ifdef obviously needs a second parameter, it's not allowed to give one to #else and #endif. Unfortunately, this is commonly done as a reminder for what is being tested for:
#ifdef TEST #endif TEST
This code will lead to the following error:
test3.cc:2:8: error: extra tokens at end of #endif directive
GCC 4.3 related build problems: missing #include
In GCC 4.3 the C++ header dependencies have been cleaned up. In the past, compilation would often be quite slow because including a simple header would indirectly include a lot of other headers, even if they were not needed to compile the current code. Many headers have now been cleaned up with the result that compilation is quicker. The downside is that programmers cannot rely on indirect inclusion of headers they may need anymore. Instead, everything that is needed has to be directly referenced with an #include.
Typical errors look like these:
error: 'find' is not a member of 'std' error: 'exit' was not declared in this scope
Below is a table showing which header needs to be included for a number of common functions:
|Functions and defines
|find, for_each, sort
|isalnum, toupper
|atoi, free, rand
|strcmp, memcpy
|fd_set, mode_t
GCC 4.3: common build failures
Even though GCC 4.2 has seen many delays and still hasn't been released (although it's finally getting close), a lot of development has already been done on trunk for the release of GCC 4.3. I started testing 4.3 in March and in addition to finding and reporting compiler issues I have filed bugs on packages that fail to build with GCC 4.3. The idea is to give people an advance warning and to be ready for GCC 4.3 when it will be released.
We have almost 500 bugs related to GCC 4.3 already, mostly due to a clean-up of C++ headers in GCC that has exposed sloppy programming in many programs. Fortunately, these bugs are easy to fix. As I'm finding common mistakes in packages, I will document these problems and way to make sure a program is ready for GCC 4.3.
Common problems
Update: there is now a GCC 4.3 porting guide that describes the most common problems people will face when moving to GCC 4.3.


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Cal State Northridge senior Katie Holloway has received a 2008 Giant Step Award, the National Consortium for Academics and Sports (NCAS) announced Tuesday. A four-year letter winner on the women's basketball team, Holloway is being recognized as a courageous female student-athlete.
In addition to her accolades on the court, Holloway has excelled in the classroom and actively participated in the community during her time at Cal State Northridge. She was recently named to the Academic All-Big West for the third-straight year in addition to being named to the All-Big West Second Team.
"It is a tremendous honor to receive this award," said Holloway. "I have never thought of myself differently than anyone else and this award reinforces the hard work and perseverance I have undertaken in all aspects of my life, from athletics to academics."
"I hope this award serves to inspire others in similar situations, showing them that anything can be accomplished no matter what the circumstances."
In her senior year on the court, Holloway posted new career bests, averaging a team-high 14.5 points and 7.2 rebounds per game. Her 55.4 field goal percentage led the league and she finished second in school history with a .52.3 percent mark.
In the classroom, Holloway will graduate this spring with a degree in sociology. She has also served as a peer mentor and participated in the NCAA Leadership Council in the summer of 2007.
What makes Holloway's story so courageous is the fact that she was born without a fibula in her right leg and when she was 20 months old, her right food and ankle were amputated. Most people are unaware of the circumstances surrounding Katie, which is the way she likes it.
The 2008 Giant Steps Award winners will be honored during a banquet in November in Orlando, Fla. The 2008 Giant Steps Award winners include: Civic Leader Braylon Edwards, Cleveland Browns; Courageous Student- Athletes Martel Van Zant, Oklahoma State University, and Katie Holloway, California State University Northridge; Coach Joe Ehrman, Former NFL star and current Football Coach, Gilman School; Community Organization, The Travis Roy Foundation; Barrier Breaker Shamila Kohestani, Blair Academy; and a "Hero Amongst Us" Jon "Blazeman" Blais (posthumously), Ironman and ALS Warrior.


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Throughout his career, George Snively, M.D., was a dedicated clinician and researcher with a passion for training the next generation of primary care clinicians. In 1973, he was appointed Professor of Family Practice in the School of Medicine at the University of California, Davis, and in 1980 was appointed the Chair of the Department. He provided outstanding leadership in to the Department during the formative years of this new discipline of Family Practice. He was committed to the education of family physicians and family nurse practitioners/physician assistants, and was successful in recruiting faculty members with outstanding clinical, teaching and research skills.
To honor her husband and his passion for primary care and medical education after his death, his wife, Dr. Suzanne Snively, established the "George Snively Visiting Professorship in Family Medicine." Over the years, the Snively Professorship has provided wonderful opportunities for our faculty, residents, FNP/PA students and medical students to interact with some of the country's finest academic physicians.


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I'm still all aglow in the excitement of working with PMC STERLING. To me, this is the holy grail of jewelry clays. It's affordable, it's easy to work with, easy to fire, strong and most importantly, I'm working directly in a metal that is desirable all over the world.
According to the insert for PMC STERLING, a double firing is required to transform it from powdered to solid metal. The first firing is supposed to be on an open kiln shelf for 30 minutes at 1000F and then another 30 minute firing at 1500F buried in carbon. Since I'm lazy and since the open air firing sounded too slow, I decided to speed it up.
Skip the First Firing
I found that I can ignite the binder with a torch and skip the entire first firing, saving both time and energy. Here's how I do it: Turn the lights down. Make a soft, bushy flame with the torch and light the greenware on fire. Watch as the flame eats through the whole piece. If you can't tell if it's all burned out, light it again. Then cool and embed in coconut carbon and fire at 1500F for at least 30 minutes.
Here are some more tips for working with PMC STERLING.
Co-Firing Findings & Settings
Any item of sterling silver, as long as it does not contain solder can be embedded and fired in place. If something has solder, it could fall apart or be seriously weakened during firing. Wire, laser-welded and die-struck settings can safely be fired in place. I highly recommend torch burnout if you plan to co-fire sterling silver parts to avoid heating copper in the open air. When copper is heated above 1200F for more than 30 minutes, it becomes incredibly brittle. Heating to 1000F is going to cause deep fire scale that can be avoided by not heating unprotected for so long. And though it might not be 1200F, it's still going to weaken the metal, and that's unacceptable for jewelry. Carbon firing, on the other hand, protects sterling silver from the combined damage of heat and oxygen.
Using Paste as Solder
PMC STERLING dust makes fabulous paste that can be used to attach greenware to greenware, sterling to greenware, or any combination of unfired, burned out, or fired clay. I add a little water to make a thick paste and then glue parts together. Prime the places that will be bonded by painting them with thinned paste. Dry and then apply the thick paste to the primed areas. This helps it stick better.
Whatever paste you don't use, spread it thin so it's easy to rehydrate. To rehydrate, add water a bit at a time until you reach the desired consistency. It rehydrates beautifully over and over again.
Co-Firing Gemstones
Use my Gemstones in Metal Clay guide to find which stones are safe in carbon. If they are safe in carbon, they are most likely safe for torch burnout because the temperature is so low and it's so quick. What damages stones is the oxygen and heat combination for long periods of time.
Make sure you get the table level when you set stones. Crooked stones have a better chance of being ejected during firing.
You'll have to set glass after firing since it can't handle a carbon firing.
Firing Time
30 minutes is the minimum firing time for PMC STERLING. Firing time can be extended for extra strength. Pieces that were pasted on low dome wire and fired only 30 minutes broke off when I formed it on a mandrel. After re-pasting and re-firing for 2 hours, the pieces were as good as soldered on.
PMC STERLING is no different to solder than any other sterling silver. Use the type of solder that you are comfortable working with. Pickle and polish like any other sterling silver.
How Far Does it Go?
This photo represents everything I've made so far with one 25 gram package, and I still have some left. What you see in the photo is as follows, from left to right:
…and I still have about 5 more grams plus a bunch of dust and paste.
That's a nice pile of jewelry out of one package of clay. It's going a lot further because I know it's strong so I can make pieces more delicate and thinner, and that saves a lot of material.
Stay tuned for the results of the big diamond ring firing experiment!
Check out our FREE Gilders Paste video featuring application techniques. Find out how adding color to your creations can be fast and easy!
Our latest videos are all in high definition. Click on "360p" in the lower right of the video and select "720p" for high definition. You can even watch full screen.
Keep an eye out for more videos, projects, and Tools Demos featuring other Gilders Paste techniques.
Congratulations to Katherine Steinbring, our final Facebook Contest winner!
Thank you to everyone who participated in our Facebook Contest. We will continue to offer great contests, promotions, and inspiration through our Facebook page! Keep an eye out for something new and just post on our wall anytime if you have any questions when making your creations!
Introducing the metal clay art of Christi Anderson. Christi is the newest artist to be added to the Cool Tools Gallery.
Christi is a self-taught metal clay artist who has won numerous awards for her work. Her pieces are impossibly intricate and mostly hand carved from very thin sheets of metal clay.
One night during the 2009 Bead & Button Show, a group of metal clay artists met for dinner, including me (Mardel Rein), Holly Gage, Gordon Uyehara, Bill and Lacey Ann Struve and others. Christi had just won the Bead Dreams first place award and one of her magical pieces was being passed around. We were trying to decide if she had really carved the piece or not! It was so intricate and so detailed that we just could not believe what we were seeing. We thought it had to be a mold.
Christi is in a league of her own when it comes to creating in metal clay. Come by and see for yourself what a true artist can do with this material. We are honored to display Christi's work. Be sure and visit her Etsy site and purchase a treasure of your own.
The pictures shown here are from my own private collection. The top piece is a beautiful book that opens and has several pages, all with inscriptions and images. The bottom piece flips open to reveal a birds nest with eggs. See her amazing detail by clicking on the images to view a larger size. Then, visit the her gallery for a feast of metal clay artistry.
Introducing our new downloadable project guide available in our Learning Center for free - The Royal Treatment Pendant.
The Royal Treatment Pendant features a bezel set faceted stone with sterling gallery wire and fine silver clay. It is easily modified for any type of metal clay and adds a touch of sophistication and royalty to your designs.
The Royal Treatment Pendant was designed by our official Project Designer – Lisa Barth. Lisa's work is featured in our Jewelry Design Gallery and has now joined the Cool Tools team to help inspire others to create beautiful jewelry. Lisa Barth is a wire jewelry artist and metal clay instructor from Atlanta, Georgia. She teaches wire artistry and metal clay and draws her inspiration for her designs from the stone she is using.
Lisa uses a bezel set faceted stone with Sterling Gallery Wire. The texture on the Royal Treatment Pendant was made using our Jewelry Artist Elements Texture and cut out using a Jewelry Shape Template. This particular piece was made from Art Clay, but the project can be easily modified for any type of metal clay.
Find this project and many more available right here at Cool Tools. Keep an eye out for more free projects and many more to come from our new Project Designer, Lisa Barth.
Start getting the professional results you desire, and as always:
Learn. Create. Inspire.
Cool Tools is proud to announce our new Creative Rewards program for Cool Tools customers! With Cool Tools Creative Rewards you earn rewards points on every purchase you make. You'll receive points based on your total product purchase amount. Your account will be automatically credited with one point for every dollar you spend (not including shipping and taxes). With Cool Tools Creative Rewards it's easy to get rewarded for your creativity!
Cool Tools now offers an amazing rewards programs to go along with our Free Shipping on all orders over $150. Add in our FREE project guides, how-to videos, and jewelry making articles, to go along with all the tools, resources, and expert advice you need, you'll come up with the best place to shop for your next creation.
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Cool Tools Patina Gel is a unique stabilized form of liver of sulfur formulated by a metal clay artist, for a metal clay artist. Patina Gel is not only the most convenient and easy way to use liver of sulfur but amazingly it does not degrade in light and air the way the old fashioned lump form does. Cool Tools Patina Gel is stable so even if the container is left open the gel remains fresh.
Cool Tools Patina Gel is a tested product with proven results. Jewelry Artists are discovering the benefits of Cool Tools Patina Gel and Art Bead Scene writes "It's a dream come true!" The Cool Tools unique Patina Gel chemistry makes it non-flammable and safe for international shipping. It mixes quickly and easily in water, or it can be brushed on full strength directly from the bottle. Cool Tools Patina Gel is economical. Use only what you need. No more digging for the right sized chunk or wasting pieces that are too large. No more throwing out a whole container because the lid was not on just right. Patina Gel is always fresh and always ready to use. Just a few drops are all you need for a batch of patina solution.
The convenience and long life of Cool Tools Patina Gel speaks for itself. Patina Gel oxidizes just like any other sulfur-based oxidizing agent, but it has an extended shelf life, lasting years, even uncovered. Cool Tools Patina Gel is not only a stable form of liver of sulfur but saves you time and money while delivering fantastic results.
As the largest manufacturer of metal clay tools in the United States, Cool Tools has had a long history of developing and refining innovative products. Known worldwide as a leader in creativity and productivity tools for jewelry artists, Cool Tools has created an instant staple in Cool Tools Patina Gel Stabilized Liver of Sulfur. Patina Gel is an example of taking a difficult and inconvenient task and making it simple and easy to use, something Cool Tools works at every day. Cool Tools Patina Gel offers you the ability to get any finish you desire on silver and any other metal clay.
Cool Tools offers FREE patina videos showing you tips, tricks, hints, shortcuts and expert advice. The Learning Center also features FREE down-loadable instructions on how to use Cool Tools Patina Gel as well as A Jewelry Artists Guide to Liver of Sulfur Patinas with unique patina recipes. Discover the difference that Cool Tools Patina Gel can make on your jewelry making projects.
Ask an experienced metal clay artist if diamonds can be co-fired in silver clay and most will advise against it. This is because it was something few dared and even fewer succeeded in doing. It was not a good bet.
In my 2005 article, Gemstones in Metal Clay, I warned that firing diamonds was a risky proposition. Diamonds have been known to disappear in the kiln, and torch firing often results in a cloudy stone. But now, with the help of activated carbon, diamonds and many other heat-sensitive stones can be safely co-fired in all types of metal clay.
In my updated Gemstones in Metal Clay article (click the title to download), you'll learn about carbon firing and which stones can be carbon-fired sucessfully in metal clays. Heat-sensitive gemstones (those that darken or change colors when fired in metal clay) can often take hours of firing with no damage when protected in a bed of activated carbon, and they can withstand higher temperatures. Take the case of the Tanzanite CZ. When fired on a kiln shelf or embedded in fine silver clay, this stone can take no more than 10 minutes at 1110F before the color begins to change. But when the same stone was buried in activated carbon, it survived an amazing 16 hours at 1500F with no change in color or clarity!
I've created a video showing the making of my Diamond Burst Necklace. After firing several small diamonds in carbon, I needed to fire a larger one. I created the necklace in PMC PRO to document the test firing. The Antique Mold I used is called Mushroom Cap. I wet-set a 1/3 carat natural diamond and fired it in a firing box made with our exclusive No-Flake Firing Foil, and coconut carbon. The firing was a success and the diamond came out just as sparkling and clear as it went in! (I couldn't have been happier! that diamond was appraised at $900!) After firing, I burnished the necklace and added an antique patina with Cool Tools Patina Gel. To remove the unwanted patina and add a satin finish, I used a coarse Mini-Fiber Wheel. I polished the front with a 400 grit 3M Polishing Paper.
There are more details in the FREE downloadable project instructions and you can see the Diamond Burst Necklace video here. These and other videos can be found in our Learning Center.
I hope you will give diamonds a try with this wonderful method. Diamonds are more affordable than you may guess (unless of course you use a really big one!) and add scintillation and cachet like no other stone! Add beautiful distinction to your jewelry with diamonds.
Create this elegant Emerald Tea Ring with only 3 grams of clay and a few simple ring making techniques.
Explore our Learning Center and learn how to make amazing jewelry starting right here. The Emerald Tea Ring is an elegant & delicate ring designed by Mardel Rein. The ring features a unique prong-set stone that uses simple tools and very few supplies.
Mardel says, "I love delicate rings, and PMC PRO is the perfect material to use for creating a ring with the strength of sterling silver. I made the Emerald Tea Ring shank using my Ring Size and Hollow Rings Templates. I added texture to both sides of the shank and to the top of the prongs using my Carnations Texture Tile. I used a stone setting bur, a triangle shape cut-4 needle file and a V-Grove Dockyard Carver to cut a seat for the 6mm square stone. I refined the outside of the ring shank with a Sponge Sanding Pad and smoothed the inside of the ring with a Half Round Ring File. The Emerald Tea Ring was fired in a No-Flake Firing Foil Box in a bed of Activated Carbon. I finished the ring using a Brass Brush, 250 grit 3M Bristle Disc, the Half Round Ring File, Silicone Polishers and a Polishing Cloth. The emerald stone used is a 6x6mm square lab grown emerald. I set the stone using a riveting hammer.
The most exciting part of the Emerald Tea Ring is that I used only 3 grams of PMC PRO clay! I could never have made a ring this delicate and strong with fine silver clay. This is one of the great advantages of PMC PRO, it gives me the strength I need to make delicate, fine jewelry that will stand up to wear. "
Download the complete detailed Emerald Tea Ring Project Instructions and, as always, watch the Project Video FREE in our Learning Center and find all the tools and supplies you need right here. At Cool Tools you'll find Tools, Projects, and How-To Guides created just for metal clay artists. Express your inner elegance with help from Cool Tools.
This ring shows that you can make complex jewelry using simple techniques, tools and tricks - (and a little patience).
The Electric Birthday Cake Ring is a light-up ring made of fine silver clay. The candle flame was modeled from Jett Basic, which is semi-transparent so the light glows softly through it. Push down on the candle to turn it on, then push again to turn it off. The electronics are hidden inside the cake. The battery for the light can be changed by turning the cake counter clockwise to unlock it from the base.
I used a form for the cake, then "frosted" it with paste. All the roses were hand sculpted. All the leaves were modeled with a clay shaper. The draped bits were impressed with a clay scraper. I made a custom template for the platter. The shank is made with my Ring Shank Template. I used the AlphaDisc to impress "Happy Birthday" around the shank. The ring is a size 7.
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-Mardel (The Metal Clay Cake Boss!)


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In the 1860's 'gold fever' drew thousands to the Otago region to seek their fortune. These days it is the chance to marvel at the stunning scenery, view unusual wildlife up close, take to the trails on bikes and partake in all manner of other adventure pursuits that draws modern day 'prospectors' to this southern part of New Zealand.
A great base to explore the region is Dunedin, a university city with a lively atmosphere reflecting its scholarly youth. Accommodation in the heart of the city is readily available at Scenic Hotel Southern Cross, also home to the Dunedin Casino, and the Scenic Hotel Dunedin City. Both hotels offer high quality rooms with a southern welcome to match.
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Dunedin's largest and most prestigious hotel, the Scenic Hotel Southern Cross, enjoys a premium location in the heart of the city. Just a short walk... More Details
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