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Anyone who doubts urban U.S. police departments’ capacity for military-style repression in the “homeland” should reflect on “liberal” Democratic Oakland Mayor Jean Quam’s pre-dawn assault on the Occupy Movement last October. In the still-dark early morning of October 26th, heavily armored and visor-wearing riot police from no less than ten Bay Area jurisdictions attacked Occupy [...]

A bead show, presented by the Stone Age Emporium, will be held Saturday, May 19, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., at the Cape Coral Arts Studio. Choose from a large assortment of supplies for anyone working in jewelry, glass beading, bead design, precious metal clay or gold/silversmithing. Items available include gemstone beads, glass beads, [...]

Renowned designer David Yurman, jewelry manufacturing executive Ann Arnold, retail jeweler Lex Graham and leading auction house executive Rahul Kadakia will be panelists at GIA’s (Gemological Institute of America) Jewelry Career Fair on July 30 at the Jacob Javits Center in New York. Aspiring jewelry professionals – including those in retail, design and manufacturing – [...]

Gemstones are really fascinating! Their rich colors, type diversity, and healing properties have started a hot trend all over the world. Many people now show great interest on pieces made of gemstone beads. Well, gemstones are widely used for making jewelry, such as, necklaces, earrings, bracelets, rings, and pendants etc. Colors and Shapes Gemstones used [...]

Part I of the Phantom on Emery Highway series appeared in The Telegraph newspaper on Sunday, May 6. It was going on 3:30 a.m. when the leader of the Old Soul Band nosed his 15-passenger van toward home. A minute or so earlier, Frederick Bivins had stopped the van to let a man out in [...]

“I have gone here a couple of times only to purchase one or two special beads. For anyone who makes jewelry, this would definitely be the place to go for all of their needs! What an awesome assortment of beautiful beads. The very nice owner told me they have classes on Saturday mornings at 10 [...]

Hey, remember when Terrelle Pryor selfishly and greedily took improper benefits, costing him his senior season of eligibility and relegating him to the NFL supplemental draft? Remember the incriminating pictures of him in loaner cars that would cost upwards of $20,000? Of course you do. It was pretty much the story of the Big Ten [...]

During an 8 a.m. class, an underage student got caught pouring himself a premixed margarita from a bottle stored in his desk. While opening a display case at a jewelry store so he could steal a few bracelets, a man put his bare hands all over the glass surface, leaving his fingerprints everywhere. Don’t they [...]

Global fashion accessories marketplace presents findings of a Pinterest vs. Facebook case study in an infographic Boticca, one of the first ecommerce players to integrate Pinterest across its website, releases a case study with the findings of a Pinterest vs. Facebook in infographic format. The study, based on a sample of 50,000 visits to the [...]

Plan to Go Red for Women when the American Heart Association holds its annual event beginning at 10:30 a.m. Friday at the Tulsa Convention Center. Men, this one is for you as well and joins in raising money for the fight against heart disease. A health panel will kick off the day with Dr. Frank [...]

A coffee shop in lzmir’s Konak district serves as a bead collecting place and gathers lots of bead collectors and buyers from all over Turkey. The coffee shop, Seyitogullari, has hosted guests with a love of collecting beads for 20 years. Instead of playing cards or okey games, the guests of Seyitogullari look at beads [...]

On a January afternoon, I looked up from the porch of our rented condo to see a rainbow stretching across the marina – a vibrant array of color stretching in a full arch from one end of the sky to the other. My husband ran back from an afternoon swim on the beach to tell [...]

Treasures of the Earth Gem, Mineral and Jewelry Show has been a fall tradition in Ocean City for more than two decades. Organizers presented their first spring show last April and it was well received by both vendors and attendees. “The spring show went pretty well last year. It’s a few weeks later this year [...]

Yesterday, Swiss luxury watch manufacturer IWC Schaffhausen celebrated the opening of its first US Flagship Boutique in New York City – the largest of its kind worldwide. IWC marked this new milestone with the launch of the Big Pilot’s Watch Edition Muhammad Ali – limited to 250 pieces and designated as a US exclusive. The [...]

Chances are slim that Betsie Roux, an elderly lady found dead in her house in Long Beach near Walvis Bay, was murdered. That transpired this week when Informanté consulted official sources, including members of the Namibian Police who said that despite “convenient” clues at the death scene to suggest a violent crime, only the forensic [...]

But it was while she was stuck in a tiny house in Windsor with her ailing grandfather and newborn son that she came up with her big idea – the same idea that has landed her on standby for Dragon’s Den. About a year ago, Latouf, 27, wouldn’t have dreamt she could make it onto [...]

I’m an old fashioned guy, so on my first visit to Bushwick Community High School a few years ago, I flinched when the students called their principal and teachers by their first names. Now that I’ve been back a few times, I don’t flinch anymore. These students look very young, but fate stole their youth [...]

How does electronic health information exchange work?Cheryl Stephens, president and CEO of the Duluth-based Community Health Information Collaborative, offered an example: “Your grandmother is in the hospital, and now she’s going back to the nursing home,” Stephens began. “And when she goes back to the nursing home, they don’t always get those discharge papers quickly [...]

To help customers minimize board space and costs of their navigation solutions, targeting emerging markets and cost-sensitive applications, the R-Car E1 SoC has a balanced selection of integrated peripherals and functions. With multiple channels of 10-bit A/D converters, customers can simplify the interface to gyroscopes and accelerometers. The R-Car E1 SoC also offers CD-ROM hardware-decoding [...]

Here we go, folks: As reported in Plastics News, researchers have developed skin-mounted electronics and published their findings last week in an issue of the Science journal. What the team of research engineers (from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, led by engineering prof John Rogers) have physically achieved is functional circuits embedded in a [...]