Jewelry Workshop 4

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There are muffins and coffee and tea available for the workshop participants.

“Hello gang. Sorry about last class, I seemed to have slept through it.” She shrugged slightly. If you knew Agatha well, you’d see she was a bit worried. “Last time we talked about metal. Today we are going to talk about stones. As you may be aware, precious, semi-precious and other stones get put into jewelry time after time.”

Agatha put sa wide variety of faceted and cabochon stones on the table for everyone to inspect. She separates them into several groups. “These here are completely fake. They are not real rubies and sapphires. This is cubic zirconium, not a diamond. These are cheap but look pretty.” She points to another group “these are synthetics. They are the real thing, real rubies, real sapphires. They wer ehwoever grown in the lab to be nearly perfect. They are not as cheap a sthe fakes, but they are muchcheaper then this next group.” She walks over a bit and points to the last group. “these ones were founding nature and cut or polished to the current state. The yare highly prized and very expencive.” She pulsl out several more cabochons from her pocket. “These are not stones at all. These are pine tree rasin. Also known as Amber, natures preservative. This one has a bug inside. The rest are just pretty. They are cheap, and hard to work with. You can not heat your metal with Amber in it. But they sure are pretty to look at.”

She looked over the class. “Take a look at the different stones, feel them. See if you can perceive a difference.”

Observational Astronomy -- August 2

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Week 4 - August 2 - Hercules, Draco, Bootes

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Star maps: East | West | North | South | Overhead

As usual, Ellie meets the class on the beach and begins her lecture.

( ''If you draw a line along the handle of the Big Dipper....'' )

Photography Workshop [8/2]

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Veronica was in a decidedly more cheerful mood than she had been the last few sessions

"Good morning," she greeted once everyone had arrived. "Today we're learning about Documentary Photography."

She gave a very brief, but informative lecture on the subject. "Now, you can spend some time in the darkroom, developing your photos."

After the darkroom, they returned to the classroom.

"Let's brainstorm on this week's prompts," Veronica said. "They are Red, Sparkly, and Fire."



[wow, sucky post but my brain hurts a lot today. slow play from me until after 5p EST.]

Lunch- Wednesday

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Steath and Deception #4, Wednesday Morning, Dangershop

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The students had received a handwaved e-mail to come to the Dangershop in the morning as opposed to Cafe Fina.

When the students arrived, they found themselves in the most varied landscape they had ever seen. Three kinds of forests, two kinds of swamps, a desert, two plains, a snowfield, and an urban environment.

A noticeably clean and shiny urban environment. Complete with a newspaper vending machine with a headline that read "Superman saves Metropolis from Giant Spinning Top!"


Then the students heard some cursing from the side. "How does Barbra deal with these things... wait, here we go."

The clean urban environment shimmered and was replaced by a dark, dilapidated cityscape. The newspaper headline was replaced with "Who is the Batman?"

A man stood up from the console and ran a hand through his hair. "Hi kids. I'm James Gordon, commissioner of the GCPD. I was also in the Special Forces when I was younger, so Alfred asked me to come talk to you guys about cameoflage."

He shrugged off his coat and walked over to the center of the danger room, where a table with a selection of military camouflage options in various sizes was sitting.

"The important thing to remember about camouflage," Gordon said, pushing up his glasses, "is that despite what television may tell you, there is nothing to make you disappear completely. Not even the Batman," he continued, nodding towards the newspaper vending machine, "can pull that off. All it can do is conceal you, force someone to actually look harder to find you. Ideally, you want to be harder to find than they are willing to put into looking."

Gordon looked down into his notes, pushed up his glasses again, and launched into a lecture on millitary camouflage.

"Alright then," he said. "I've got a bunch of environments up to practice on and a selection of uniforms here. Try to match the right camo to the right environment and see if you can find the best place to hide to make maximum use of the camouflage. I should have sizes for everyone here, but if you can't find something in your size, just tell me and I'll see what I can do."

He pulled out a small jar. "I also have camoflage face paint. See if you can figure out how to best use it in conjunction with your camouflage."

_{[[Wait for le OCD! Have fun kids! Don't break Gordon!]]}

Advanced Computers #4, Wednesday Afternoon 8/2

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The computer lab is set up with a webcam and a plasma screen, showing a lab with two people talking.

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2006-2007 Academic Calendar

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[OOC: All dates are subject to change. Players will be notified of major changes. This post will be linked to on the fandomhigh journal.]

( 2006-2007 Academic Calendar )