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PRESCOTT, Ariz. — The men were mostly born and bred in this city on the mountains, surrounded by thick forest of piñon pine and chaparral brush, parched by years of drought. They were young men, mostly, 14 of them in their 20s — outdoorsmen, fathers, heroes to the local high school athletes they themselves once were.
"Just kids," said Joe Peters, the assistant principal at Prescott High School.
Years ago, Mr. Peters taught math to some of them and coached others on the school's football and wrestling teams. "But they were highly trained, the elite of the elite," he said. "How could we lose that many all at once?"
Nineteen of the 20 members of the Granite Mountain Hotshots perished on Sunday, fighting a fierce wilderness fire outside the old gold mining village of Yarnell, 35 miles southwest of here. It was the greatest loss of firefighters in a single disaster since the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. The fire grew to cover more than 8,000 acres on Monday.
The Granite Mountain Hotshots had fought wildfires already this season, in New Mexico and on the outskirts of Prescott, a blaze called Doce that forced the evacuation of several subdivisions but caused no deaths.
They were trained and often expected to be on the ground for up to 21 days without a break, charging into fire with 40 pounds of gear on their backs. Using chainsaws and pickaxes, they were given the job of getting close to big fires, to dig deep trenches and clear the ground of dried branches and leaves, to try to keep the fire from spreading.
Their food might be brought to them by helicopter. Where they go, experts said, no one else can usually get to.
"It is just too dangerous," said Prescott's fire chief, Dan Fraijo.
But even as the fire continued to rage and the wider community of firefighters remained stunned and in mourning at the loss of life, longtime experts on Western fires said the Yarnell Hill blazes — and the 15 other large fires that remained uncontained from New Mexico to California to Idaho on Monday — were part of the new normal in an increasingly hot and increasingly dry West.
There are 110 hotshot teams in the country: wilderness firefighters, essentially, known for their exhaustive training, punishing standards for physical fitness and ability to work under difficult conditions far from roads. Prescott has the only municipally financed hotshot team, which is part of its fire department. That is largely out of necessity. Wildfires are common here this time of the year, when the temperature soars, the wind gusts fiercely, lightning strikes often and rain seems never to arrive.
The Granite Mountain Hotshots "were hardworking, well-trained, experienced people," Chief Fraijo said. They knew to pick escape routes and safety zones as they moved through the blazing forest, a lesson learned in the rigorous and repetitive training hotshot members undertake.
When the dead firefighters were found, several, at least, were outside their emergency shelters, which are designed to offer protection from intense heat for a short time and meant to be used only as a last resort. The authorities here were still trying to figure out why.
"We don't know the specifics at this time as to why the events added up the way they did," said Mary Rasmussen, spokeswoman for the Southwest Area Management Incident Team.
Austin Langham, 26, a Prescott firefighter, said he had worked alongside the hotshot team. The men teased one another about whose fire teams were faster or hardier, using the friendly rivalry to push themselves. He remembers, when he was growing up, how the high school boys would look up to the crew members who came by on career day, mesmerized.
"It makes you want to do what they do," Mr. Langham said.
The men trained constantly, mapping out escape routes in challenging terrain and using miniature figures and piles of sand to model out how different fires could spread. Chief Fraijo said they had a designated safety zone where they were supposed to retreat to if the fire worsened around them.
For some reason, "they never made it there," he said.
On their first distress call, the men said they were deploying the emergency shelters. It was then, Chief Fraijo said, that "we started praying."
The sole survivor, whom the authorities had not identified on Monday, might have been jockeying equipment and away from the rest of the men when flames overcame them, fire officials said.
Speaking to reporters, Marlin Kuykendall, the mayor of Prescott, said the 19 hotshot team members who died "still had years of their lives left and work to be done."
One of them was Kevin Woyjeck, 21, the son of a Los Angeles County fire captain who worked seasonally as a hotshot crew member here and in California. Another was Andrew Ashcraft, who lived here with his wife, Juliann, and their four children, one of them a baby.
Jesse Steed, 36, was the captain of the Granite Mountain Hotshots, which he joined in 2002, after serving in the Marine Corps and working as a Prescott firefighter. He, too, died in the fire, said his older brother, Cassidy, 38, a police officer in Washington State.
"Jesse always put his life on the line for people he knew he would never meet," said Cassidy Steed. He was also a family man — he left a wife and two children behind — and "an adventurer" who liked to ride his mountain bike through the some of the same terrain where he would die.
The hotshot team's supervisor, Eric Marsh, 43, was also killed. Last year, he told the Cronkite News Service, "There's really no way to prepare anybody for running in when everyone is running out."
Throughout the day Monday, several hundred local residents stopped in at Fire Station 7 in Prescott, where a memorial to the fallen firefighters had quickly sprouted. Dozens of bouquets of flowers, photographs and cards with messages like "Our heroes" were laid by the fence outside the parking lot, where some said the victims' cars were still parked.
Like many others there, Wendy Tollefsen said she often saw the members of the Hot Shot squad around Prescott, where they were well known. They were proud to be members of the elite squad, she said, and often wore, off duty, their Hotshot shirts.
"They were very proud," she said. "When I'd see them on my bike, they'd wave." She began tearing up. "And they're just all gone."
Bob Hoyt, a pastor at Heights Church, said officials gathered the firefighters' parents and spouses in the auditorium of a local middle school Sunday night to tell them their sons and husbands were gone. He accompanied Kristi Whitted there. Her husband, Clayton, a squad leader for the hotshot team, was among the dead.
Mr. Whitted had proposed to his wife during a hot-air balloon ride, said Mr. Hoyt, who officiated their wedding. He said Mr. Whitted lived to serve — "he did anything for anybody who needed it" — and loved fighting fires. He had once taken a yearlong break to minister to junior high students at the church, but could not stay away.
Fighting fires, Mr. Hoyt said, was what Mr. Whitted "was called to do."
"It's just what they all did," he went on. "You fight fires. It's very prestigious to be part of that."


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"There is something about the internet that isn't working anymore": a group of women hackers, artists, and theorists gathered at Carnegie Mellon University in December 2014 to answer the question of what, exactly, that disquieting "something" is.
Brewster Kahle is on a mission to save the World Wide Web, and build Universal Access to All Knowledge. Since founding the Internet Archive in 1996, the collection has grown into the world's largest online library, offering 10 petabytes of archived websites, books, movies, music, and television broadcasts.
An interactive documentary co-directed with James George
CLOUDS is an interactive documentary (co-directed with James George) that presents a conversation among fifty artists, designers, and hackers who use code, and collaborate on open source tool kits. It explores themes of creativity and invention, interactive art, simulation, computational design, data visualization, and the future of storytelling.
Filmed using a new 3D cinema format called RGBD and created entirely with open-source software, CLOUDS uses a data-driven Story Engine to present an endless, ever-changing conversation. The system allows viewers to navigate a web of ideas and engage with immersive visualizations.
CLOUDS is not a linear film, but a real-time executable which generates sequences of dialogue based on interactive input. Each of the interviews has been edited into individual fragments, and richly tagged. An algorithm then leaps from clip to clip, creating new conversations on the fly, while preserving continuity of ideas and themes. Viewers use gesture and spatial interaction metaphors to chart a course through the rhizomatic content space.
The interview subjects in CLOUDS are an intergenerational community of more than 40 artists, designers, hackers and thinkers. They discuss the challenges of developing new forms of expression that resonate at a deeper human level. The documentary captures the story of collaboratively inventing open-source tools that form the foundation of a global creative culture. Interview subjects include founders of free creative coding platforms, such as Casey Reas and Zach Lieberman, as well as critical perspectives from thinkers like Bruce Sterling and Regine Debatty.
Jonathan Minard
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Design Director
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Interview Subjects Include
Aaron Koblin, Andres Colubri, Bruce Sterling, Casey Reas, Chris Sugrue, Damian Stewart, Daniel Shiffman, Diederick Huijbers, Elliot Woods, Fernanda Viegas, Golan Levin, Greg Borenstein, Javier Fadul, Jen Lowe, Jer Thorp, Jesse Louis-Rosenberg, Jessica Rosenkrantz, Joel Lewis, John Maeda, Josh Nimoy, Julia Kaganskiy, Julian Oliver, Karolina Sobecka, Karsten Schmidt, Kevin Slavin, Kyle Chayka, Kyle McDonald, Lauren McCarthy, LIA, Lindsay Howard, Marcus Wendt, Marius Watz, Martin Wattenberg, Paola Antonelli, Patricio Gonzales Vivo, Philip Whitfield, Rachel Binx, Ramsey Nasser, Regine Debatty, Shantell Martin, Sofy Yuditskaya, Theo Watson, Vera Glahn, Zach Lieberman
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Lars Berg
Lead Interaction Developer
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Visual Systems Development
Patricio González Vivo, Reza Ali, Gal Sasson, Omer Shapira, Michael Allison, Jeff Crouse, Quin Kennedy
Interface Developer
Luisa Pereira, Charlie Whitney, Jack Kalish
Interface Design
Sarah Hallacher, Erica Gorochow
Commissioned Artists
Shantell Martin, Zach Lieberman, Nervous System, Marius Watz, Karolina Sobecka, Casey Reas, Satoru Higa, Josh Nimoy
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Julian LaPlace, Tony Lim
Sound Mixing
Brett Murphy
Foreign Language Translation
Keiko Uenishi, Luisa Pereira
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Jason Walters, Mike Ballard
Web Development
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Imagine a city in space -- a round structure miles across that millions would call home. Engineers working at NASA in the 1970s developed colorful proposals for permanent settlements in space, but their plans were shelved and forgotten. Decades later, a new generation of dreamers from high schools around the world aspire to mine asteroids, terraform other planets, and venture to the stars. The students have come together for a contest at NASA, and have big plans for the next millennium.
Space Habitat visualizations by Bryan Versteeg @spacehabs.com
Lowry Burgess, a pioneer space artist, has over 30 years of experience collaborating with NASA and creating visionary artworks in a cosmic context. In 2013, a robotic mission from Carnegie Mellon (the first commercially funded lunar expedition) will send his art to the Moon.
The Moon Arts Group envisions creative ways of establishing a link between the Earth and Moon, advances the presence of human culture in space, and facilitates never before realized opportunities for art and exploration.
A scientist studying the roots of consciousness finds her feelings reciprocated by a plant.
Winner of the 2014 Imagine Science Film Festival 48 Film Competition
Written and Directed by Jonathan Minard and Scott Rashap
Cinematography by Sam Heesen
Featuring Mari Meyer and Theodore Bouloukos.
Since 2004 artist Rachel Sussman has been researching, working with biologists, and traveling the world to photograph continuously living organisms 2000 years old and older. She approaches her subjects as individuals, taking their portraits in order to relate to deep time from a human perspective.
For the 2014 release of her best-selling photography book, The Oldest Living Things in the World, Sussman commissioned Minard to create a short video.
Music by Ben Rubin.
In 1991, a crew of eight astronauts embarked on a two year mission to live inside of an artificial habitat in the Arizona desert. The Biosphere 2 experiment was designed to test the viability of a fully enclosed ecosystem, simulating a space colony on the Moon or Mars. Beset by technical challenges, a depletion of oxygen in the atmosphere and insufficient crop yield to feed the crew, the mission was aborted and deemed a catastrophic failure. For more on space habitats, see Someday Somewhere Beyond.
Adam Zaretsky demonstrates DIY genomics on live pheasant embryos.
A search for two identical pieces of popcorn leads art student, Jesha Chen, to the center of a quantum paradox.
Does God play dice?
Past Perfect: Backing up life, one day at a time.
Past Perfect is a service offering individuals an opportunity to upload their most treasured memories to the cloud.
The creation of this speculative business consisted of promotional videos, and sample backups of actual people's memories. We solicited prospective customers on Craigslist who volunteered the memory of one day in their lives which we produced into short films.
In collaboration with Scott Rashap and Lauren McCarthy, the project was realized through the TriBeCa film Institute's Story hackathon, in May 2013.

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Oliver Peoples was founded in 1987 on Hollywood's Sunset Boulevard. The firm initially sold vintage American eyewear acquired at auction, but soon launched its own range and is now famed for ultra-stylish, vintage-inspired men's frames with minimal branding.
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Backyard Bowls is a revolutionary eatery specializing in acai bowls, hot porridges, smoothies, and much more. We provide a healthy, delicious, and fast meal option for the people of our community while striving to minimize our earthly impact and promoting a more conscientious form of business in general.
When you choose to dine at BYB you will leave feeling ready to go outside and play, as opposed to the all too familiar feeling of being ready to go home and take a nap. And you will be at ease, knowing that your decision not only was a personally healthful one, but one that cast a vote for a better world at large. And as a bonus, it will have been a whole heap of fun to eat.
Our food is mostly organic. What's not is at least thoughtfully sourced, often from a small farm or producer that is simply not certified.
Everything we serve we believe to be good for you. It's all about eating real food. We boast zero unpronounceable ingredients (as soon as you learn to say "Acai" that is), and dish out truckloads of fruits, veggies, nuts, seeds, n' grains.
In everything we do, we aim to minimize our earthly impact. The integrity of our plant-based menu has a particularly small footprint, and we strive to minimize our operation's impact in myriad other ways as well.
When Backyard Bowls opened their doors in downtown Santa Barbara in 2008, they were quite literally the first of their kind. Having developed a love for the Acai Bowl during a stint living in Hawaii, founders Pete and Dan combined that passion with their appreciation for quality food in general, their affinity for living an active healthy lifestyle, and their understanding of the environmental impacts of our food choices. What resulted was an entrepreneurial seizure that birthed an entirely new genre of restaurant, and ultimately a delightful alternative for breakfast or lunch.
At BYB we work to maintain a company culture that is an authentic representation of our values and our vision for the world in which we want to live. It's really a matter of caring. We truly care about the integrity of the foods we serve. We care about the merits of organic, sustainable, and locally produced foods. We care about serving food that makes you feel good, and food that we believe to be beneficial to your body. We care about our employees, our community, and the preservation of our environment. We care about a whole slew of things, but possibly most of all we care about serving the best damn bowls in the world, and providing our customers with a truly unforgettable experience.


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Based in Tucson, Arizona, Eleanor Moty is an American jewelry artist and a metalsmith.
Recently retired from a professorship at the University of Wisconsin, where she taught for 28 years, Moty is widely recognized for her interest in new techniques and interdisciplinary approaches to jewelry making. She is an authority on electroplating and photo-etching, processes on which she has published and lectured extensively. Her subtle, immaculately crafted work is inspired by architecture, geometry, chemistry and art. Combining complexly cut precious and non-precious stones, her supremely elegant pieces reward close attention.
Trained as an artist and metalsmith, Moty received her BFA from the University of Illinois and her MFA from Tyler School of the Art, Temple University. She is the recipient of two craftsman's fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and her works have been exhibited in museums and galleries all over the world; her most recent solo exhibition took place in 2012 at the National Ornamental Metal Museum in Memphis, TN. She is the subject of numerous articles and is represented in the permanent collections of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, H.W.D. Collection, the National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, in Washington D.C., and the Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Germany, among others.


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BRASILIA, Brazil, April 24 (UPI) -- Brazilian-U.S. talks on sharing defense technologies may prove central to the Obama administration's plans to reopen Latin America and the Caribbean region to exports by advanced aviation and defense manufacturers in search of new markets, industry analysts said.
Brazilian Defense Minister Celso Amorim scheduled talks with visiting U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta on a possible review by Washington of restrictive terms governing aviation and defense sales, specifically advanced technology transfers as part of future sales.
The talks followed Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff's meetings in Washington with U.S. President Barack Obama.
Amorim and Panetta talked in the framework of a new Defense Cooperation Dialogue agreed to between Obama and Rousseff in Washington.
The U.S. administration is pushing for a less complicated approach in response to defense procurement requests from U.S. allies and friends, as well as countries that have a track record of even-handed relationship with Washington.
Obama's strategy is to use defense-orientated diplomacy to rebuild previously close relations with Latin America that were neglected during previous administrations' preoccupation with the Middle East, analysts said.
While the U.S. role in the Middle East continues, defense cutbacks after the end of U.S. operations in Iraq have prompted defense industries to look elsewhere for new markets.
So far, complicated procedures in Congress have discouraged defense industries from competing in countries that are likely to be on one government list or other as potentially controversial recipients of U.S. defense supplies.
There are at least three lists of defense recipients in existence, two at the Departments of Commerce and State and a third at the Pentagon. Analysts said sub-lists might also exist and complicate the administration's efforts to push for sales promotion campaigns in support of hard-pressed defense industries.
A timely boost in U.S. aviation and defense sales would save jobs and create new employment opportunities, analysts said. Panetta has already talked on similar deals in Colombia and will pursue new opportunities for closer defense collaboration with Chile.
Brazil is in the last stages of a high-profile government decision on the purchase of up to 36 multi-role combat aircraft. Boeing is in competition with France's Dassault Aviation and Sweden's Saab for the multibillion-dollar tender.
Boeing's F/A-18 Super Hornet is up against the French Rafale fighter Saab's Gripen-NG, but the talks have snagged on costs and the extent of technology transfers on offer. In the initial stages of the fighter upgrade program Brazil favored Rafale but later on postponed a decision for a closer scrutiny of competing offers.
In the meantime, Boeing has created several partnerships with Brazilian defense and technology firms in apparent preparation for the final stage of the FX-2 competition. Brazil so far has interpreted technology transfer to mean the winning party agrees to joint assembly or manufacture of the aircraft in the country.


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Economists predict moderate growth in Michigan
ANN ARBOR –– University of Michigan economists say they expect the state to stay along a path of moderate growth during the next two years.
The annual November forecast of the Michigan economy came Friday from George Fulton and colleagues Joan Crary and Donald Grimes. The economists at the Ann Arbor school say the state will add 111,000 jobs during 2013 and 2014 after seeing about 165,000 job gains since the end of 2009.
Fulton is director of the school's Research Seminar in Quantitative Economics. He says: "For many reasons, it's not hard to feel upbeat about the Michigan economy."
Fulton notes, however, that the rebound from the recession hasn't been nearly as robust as most past episodes of recovery. He says the current recovery is a "long haul."


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Fellas: When you picture your hottest fantasy, do you think of a topless woman coughing while sweeping dust bunnies from under the couch or sponging thick layers of yellowed lipids off your stove? If so, there's a new business in Lubbock, Texas, catering directly to your literally filthy desires.
The Lubbock Fantasy Maid Service offers a coterie of women who would just love to scrub your dirty bathtub in the buff – for a price, of course. The going rate in this north-Texas town is $100 for one unclothed maid and $150 for two, which is darn reasonable given the price of house cleaning nowadays. This Dallas-based company's jobs begin at $49.95, for example, and you can bet your 10-gallon hat those guys and girls are keeping it all on.
The woman running this more-usual-than-you-would-think service is one Melissa Borrett, a former Occupy Lubbock protester who is using naked cleaners to pay off significant medical debts. The skin-bearing business, however, has not gone unnoticed by the local constabulary. Sergeant Jonathan Stewart has gone on record to say that he believes Borrett is running a "sexually oriented business." In Lubbock, such enterprises require a yearly $650 permit fee and a $5,000 letter of credit or surety bond.
Stewart and his fellow officers say they are watching the Fantasy Maid Service closely for "any violation, which would bring a $2,000 fine," according to a fun AP report that quotes the actual ordinance at play:
Such businesses are defined as any commercial venture whose operations include "providing, featuring or offering of employees or entertainment personnel who appear in a state of nudity, seminude or simulated nudity and provide live performances or entertainment" intended to sexually stimulate or gratify customers "and which is offered as a feature of a primary business activity of the venture."
The scantily clad maids are certainly in a gray area here. Borrett has vowed to legally defend her unclad handmaidens, if necessary. Perhaps to help swing public opinion toward the idea that this is a harmless, nonsexual service, she has outfitted her website with all sorts of disclaimers. These include:
Be warned that customers are not allowed to spontaneously strip while getting a cleaning. Unless they're nudists, that is, in which they can drop trou as long as their family is present. The servants, meanwhile, get to dress up as they please for the dirty work, whether that means donning a French Maid outfit or strapping on a pair of high heels that, as this Facebook commenter points out, "would help reach those high out of the way dust spots."
Borrett's business is by no means the only such service across the United States. Google these companies if you want to find their NSFW websites. In the Los Angeles area, there's A Little Bit Dirty Housekeeping – motto: "We are the next level in cleaning and entertainment" – whose maids go above and beyond the call of duty by hand-washing the woodwork and soaping down exterior windows (not sure how the neighbors react to that). Got It Maid serves southern Louisiana – "Your cleaning never looked so good" – and handles skin-chafing ordeals like move-ins and move-outs. Minnesota Topless Maids requires that all "cleaning supplies must be provided by clients." And the Bikini House Cleaners is a national enterprise that mines a vein of misogynism with this tagline: "[W]hat a great idea for those of us who always hate the fat, ugly cleaning lady coming over to our home to clean."
Jeez, these maids need to get a national union to represent them all!
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A comic artist's take on what the future of transportation might really feel like.
In the 1930s big auto dreamed up freeways and demanded massive car infrastructure. Micromobility needs its own Futurama—one where cars are marginalized.
Two new studies have revived the long-running debate over how police respond to white criminal suspects versus African Americans.
Ed Logue was a powerful agent of urban renewal in New Haven, Boston, and New York City. But his plan to build low-income housing in suburbia came to nought.
As WeWork crashes and Uber bleeds cash, the consumer-tech gold rush may be coming to an end.


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Nevada has been accepted as part of the State Authorization Reciprocity Agreement (SARA) through the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education (WICHE).
What is SARA: The State Authorization Reciprocity Agreement is an agreement among member states, districts and territories that establishes comparable national standards for interstate offering of postsecondary distance education courses and programs. It is intended to make it easier for students to take online courses offered by postsecondary institutions based in another state. SARA is overseen by the National Council for State Authorization Reciprocity Agreements (NC-SARA) and administered by four regional education compacts.
How can my institution join SARA? Any degree-granting institution based in the United States, holding proper authorization from Congress, a U.S. state or a federally recognized Indian tribe and holding accreditation from an accrediting association recognized by the U.S. Secretary of Education is eligible to apply to its home state to participate in SARA if that state is a SARA member. See "What does my institution need to do?" for additional details.
States and Institutions participating in SARA: NC-SARA maintains a list of states and institutions nationally participating in SARA.
Nevada Institutions: Institutions that meet the qualifications and whose home state is Nevada may apply to join SARA through the Nevada System of Higher Education (NSHE), the designated portal agency by WICHE-SARA. Nevada institutions may submit completed applications via email to Crystal Abba, NSHE Vice Chancellor for Academic and Student Affairs at firstname.lastname@example.com
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Is a SARA institution required to register with the Nevada Secretary of State's Office as a Foreign Corporation?
There is no blanket exception for SARA institutions under Nevada's business/corporation laws. Under Chapter 80 of Nevada Revised Statutes (NRS), a SARA institution may have to register as a foreign corporation, depending upon the type of entity and the activities conducted within Nevada. In addition, institutions may need a business license under NRS Chapter 76. Exceptions are provided under this chapter for certain types of entities, including certain governmental and tax-exempt organizations.
The Nevada Secretary of State's Office recommends that your institutional legal counsel review these statutes and contact them with additional questions on the requirements for registration in Nevada for your institution.
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Complaints regarding Nevada degree-granting post-secondary institutions participating in the National State Authorization Reciprocity Agreement (SARA):
As the designated portal agency, NSHE has the responsibility for managing and resolving student complaints arising under SARA. Absent applicable law or policy establishing another remedy, the first step in resolving student or other complaints or grievances is to attempt to resolve the matter directly with the administration of the involved institution under established institution complaint or grievance procedures.
With limited exceptions, a student or other person who contacts the NSHE office regarding complaints involving Nevada institutions participating in the National State Authorization Agreement (SARA) will be referred to college or university officials responsible for resolving those matters. In the event that institutional processes do not result in a successful resolution of a SARA complaint, two Nevada entities are responsible for final resolution of any such complaints originating at a SARA participating institution:
- Public Institution in Nevada: NSHE is responsible for final resolution of any such complaints originating at any public SARA participant institution. Title 4, Chapter 14, Section 25 of the Board of Regents Handbook establishes the procedures governing SARA complaints.
- Private Institution in Nevada: The Nevada Commission on Postsecondary Education (CPE) is responsible for final resolution of any such complaints originating at a private Sara participant institution domiciled in Nevada. Please contact the CPE directly for more information on the complaint procedures:
Kelly D. Wuest
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Conversely, if you are a Nevada resident attending a distance education program at a SARA (State Authorization Reciprocity Agreement) institution in another state, you will need to begin the complaint process at the institution you attend. In the event that institutional processes do not result in a successful resolution of your complaint, the SARA Portal Agency of that state is responsible for final resolution of the complaint.
With limited exceptions, NSHE does not review anonymous complaints or matters that are or have been in litigation. Further, matters concerning an individual's grades or examination results are the prerogative of the college/university faculty. Absent specific statutory authority for not allowing access or disclosure, all documents relating to public business in possession of Nevada employees, including complaints or grievances, responses to complaints or grievances and related documents are open to the public upon request. However, according to the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA), student information and records that contain personally identifiable information regarding students, including student complaints or grievances and related documents, are confidential, subject to limited exceptions.
The following contact information has been provided to assist you with directing your complaint to the appropriate agency/office:
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If you're tired of digging out your house keys when you get home, take a look at this brilliant workaround by Piet De Vaere. He hacked his doorbell to listen for a secret sequence of button presses that automatically unlocked the gate in front of his house. As long as you've got a great memory, you can shed a few of the keys in your pocket.
Like most hacks these days the system is based around an arduino-like device called the mehduino, which intercepts signals coming from the actual doorbell button. After listening to the sequence that's pressed it compares it against the secret code and if it matches, the door is unlocked. If it doesn't, the doorbell simply rings instead. It's not the most polished looking hack, but you probably won't care about looks the next time you get home with your hands full of groceries and don't have to dig through your pockets. [Piet De Vaere via Hack a Day]


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In accordance with the notification requirements stipulated in item 12 of Annex № 4 to the Statute "On importation and exportation of encryption (cryptographic) items implemented in the customs territory of the Eurasian Economic Union", Western Digital Technologies, Inc. or its affiliates ("WDT" or "we") hereby publishes the following information regarding its SSD products (including memory cards, wireless memory, mobile flash drives, USB storage devices and other solid state drives):
a) WDT confirms that its SanDisk® products will be generally available to the public by being sold, without restriction, from stock at retail selling points by means of any of the following:
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Technical documentation for our SSD products is accessible and will be provided by the manufacturer or its authorized agent, upon request, to the appropriate coordinating authority in the importer's country in order to ascertain compliance with conditions described in item 12 of Annex № 4 to the Statute "On importation and exportation of encryption (cryptographic) items implemented in the customs territory of the Eurasian Economic Union".
SanDisk SSD products contain encryption (cryptographic) items in the form of Marvell Controllers that use AES encryption algorithm, which complies with the AES standard as described in the FIPS-197 and NIST SP 800-38a document, and IEEE 1619 standard. Available key sizes include 128, 192 and 256 bits.
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February 22nd, 2007
Eating Your Way to Prostate Cancer
By William Faloon
Reviewed and critiqued by Stephen B. Strum, MD, FACP (Life Extension Scientific Advisory Board Member)
Cancer cells lurk in the prostate glands of most aging men, yet only one in six men is ever diagnosed with prostate cancer.1 If one looks at what is required for a single cancer cell to develop into a detectable tumor, it becomes obvious that natural barriers exist to protect people against full-blown cancer
Unfortunately, the dietary choices of most men living in the modern Western world circumvent the bodyâs natural protective barriers. The end result is that we unwittingly provide biological fuel for existing prostate cancer cells to propagate and metastasize.
Good news: If you understand the biological roles of diet and specific nutrients, youâll be able to achieve a considerable amount of control over whether isolated cancer cells in your prostate gland will ever show up as a clinically diagnosed disease.
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So keep reading, because what you learn here can make a difference between bad news and good news in your future.
The impact of the food we ingest on cell growth and death is so pronounced that it can be identical to the effects displayed by anti-cancer drugs. Unlike synthetic drugs, however, the proper dietary constituents produce no side effects and confer additional health benefits.
Prostate cancer with infiltration into bladder, lymph nodes, and urethra
All cancers begin when genes that regulate cellular proliferation become so damaged that they can no longer control normal cell division. For example, scientists are actively engaged in clinical research using selenium because it helps protect specific genes that enable cells to divide normally.2-5 The limitation of a nutrient like selenium, however, is that it may not be able to reverse accumulated damage (mutations) to such cell-regulating genes.
Prostate cell genes are especially prone to mutations early in the course of human life. This has been demonstrated by autopsy findings of prostate cancer cells in younger men who never knew they had the disease.6
Doctors continue to wonder why so many men with active cancer cells in their prostate glands do not progress to overt disease. One answer may relate to the discovery of a particular enzyme that prostate cancer cells use to propagate, infiltrate, and metastasize. A large volume of published research indicates that this enzyme functions via multiple pathological pathways to facilitate prostate cancer at various stages.7-21 The encouraging news is that this enzyme can be suppressed via dietary modification and the use of dietary supplements, many of which are already being utilized by health-conscious men today.
Omega 3 Fatty Acids: The First Line of Defense
Diets high in omega-6 fats and saturated fats are associated with greater prostate cancer risk, whereas increased intake of omega-3 fats from fish has been shown to reduce risk.22-29 Based on consistent epidemiological findings across a wide range of human populations, scientists have sought to understand why eating the wrong kinds of fat (saturated and omega-6 fats) provokes a stimulatory effect on prostate cancer.
To ascertain what happens after we eat bad fats, all one has to do is look at the metabolic breakdown pathways that these fats follow in the body, as shown in the chart on the right (Figure 1). For example, let us assume that for dinner, you eat a steak (a source of saturated fat) and a salad, along with a typical salad dressing of soybean and/or safflower oils (sources of omega-6 fats).
As can be seen in Figure 1, both saturated and omega-6 fats convert to arachidonic acid in the body, whereas the meat itself contains arachidonic acid. One way that the body rids itself of excess arachidonic acid is by producing a dangerous enzyme called 5-lipoxygenase (5-LOX). New studies show conclusively that 5-LOX directly stimulates prostate cancer cell proliferation via several well-defined mechanisms.2,26,30-36 In addition, arachidonic acid is metabolized by 5-LOX to 5-HETE, a potent survival factor that prostate cancer cells utilize to escape destruction.31,37-40
Figure 1 clearly demonstrates how consuming a diet of foods rich in arachidonic acid directly provokes the production of the dangerous 5-LOX enzyme, which can promote the progression of prostate cancer. In addition to 5-HETE, 5-LOX also metabolizes arachidonic acid to leukotriene B4, a potent pro-inflammatory agent that causes destructive reactions throughout the body and inflicts severe damage to the arterial wall.41-47
One reason that fish oil supplements have become so popular is that their beneficial EPA/DHA fatty acids can help reduce production of arachidonic acid in the body. As shown in Figure 1, if arachidonic acid levels are reduced, there would be a corresponding suppression of 5-LOX, 5-HETE, and leukotriene B4.
Prostate tumor confined to prostate gland.
Once one understands the lethal 5-lipoxygenase (5-LOX) cascades, it is easy to see why people who excessively consume foods rich in arachidonic acid, and those who do not reduce the production of excessive arachidonic acid metabolites, are setting themselves up for prostate cancer and a host of inflammatory diseases (including atherosclerosis).2,30,35,48,49
5-LOX Is Over-expressed in Prostate Cancer
Based on studies showing that consumption of foods rich in arachidonic acid is greatest in regions with high incidences of prostate cancer,26,30,35,49 scientists sought to determine how much of the 5-LOX enzyme is present in malignant versus benign prostate tissues.
Using biopsy samples taken from living human patients, the researchers found that 5-LOX levels were an astounding six-fold greater in malignant prostate tissues compared to benign tissues. This study also found that levels of 5-HETE (a 5-LOX metabolite that prevents prostate cancer destruction) were 2.2-fold greater in malignant versus benign prostate tissues.33
The scientists concluded this study by stating that selective inhibitors of 5-LOX may be useful in the prevention or treatment of patients with prostate cancer.
Figure 1. Flow chart showing how the body metabolizes common foods via the 5-lipoxygenase (5-LOX) pathway.
5-LOX Promotes Tumor Growth Factors
As the evidence mounts that ingesting âbad fatsâ increases prostate cancer risk, scientists are evaluating the effects of 5-LOX on various growth factors involved in the progression, angiogenesis, and metastasis of cancer cells.
One study found that 5-LOX activity is required to stimulate prostate cancer cell growth by epidermal growth factor (EGF) and other cancer cell proliferating factors produced in the body. When 5-LOX levels were reduced, the cancer cell stimulatory effect of EGF and other growth factors was diminished.30
In a mouse study, an increase in 5-LOX resulted in a corresponding increase in vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF), a key growth factor that tumor cells use to stimulate new blood vessel formation (angiogenesis) into the tumor. 5-LOX inhibitors were shown to reduce tumor angiogenesis along with a host of other growth factors.50 In both androgen-dependent and androgen-independent human prostate cancer cell lines, the inhibition of 5-lipoxygenase (5-LOX) has consistently been shown to induce rapid and massive apoptosis (cancer cell destruction).26,49,51-54
Nutrients That Suppress 5-LOX
Health-conscious people already take nutrients like fish oil that help to lower 5-LOX activity in the body.20,21 Studies show that lycopene and saw palmetto extract also help to suppress 5-LOX.51,55-68 The suppression of 5-LOX by these nutrients may partially account for their favorable effects on the prostate gland.
As humans age, however, chronic inflammatory processes can cause the over-expression of 5-LOX in the body. For maturing males, the result of excess 5-LOX may be the epidemic of prostate cancer observed after the age of 60.
Based on the cumulative knowledge that 5-LOX can promote the invasion and metastasis of prostate cancer cells, it would appear advantageous to take aggressive steps to suppress this lethal enzyme. The good news is that a natural 5-lipoxygenase (5-LOX) inhibitor is now available and has been added to a popular formula used to maintain healthy prostate function.
In addition to potentially suppressing prostate cancer, the successful inhibition of 5-LOX should also slow the progression of atherosclerosis.
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A fun thing happened during last night's Rockets-Mavericks game. Late in the fourth quarter, Dwight Howard got heckled by a very angry man who may or may not have been an extra in Wayne's World 2, and Howard responded by tossing the ball at the heckler.
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Michael Bloomberg and Mitt Romney aside, it's not that easy to switch from being successful in business to being so in politics. That's a lesson that two relatively successful businesswomen in California are finding out in the early days of their attempts at electoral office.
Of the two, Meg Whitmann is easily the more successful from a business standpoint. She turned eBay into a multi-billion dollar enterprise. She now hopes to succeed Arnold Schwarzenegger as governor of California -- and hopefully revive the Republican Party in the state in the process. Unfortunately, something that didn't apparently seem important to her as a businesswoman now looms large when she's seeking the vote of the people.
She's neglected to vote herself. Two days after announcing her candidacy, Whitman admitted that she's barely cast a vote over the last thirty years:
Whitman, the former eBay CEO and former adviser and surrogate for John McCain's presidential campaign, calls her own record "inexcusable" and "simply wrong."
Whitman...issued her statement after GOP gubernatorial challenger Steve Poizner criticized her for her lack of votes, and after an investigation by the Sacramento Bee newspaper that pointed to her failure to vote over several decades in five states where Whitman has lived since 1979.
CEOs, of course, are used to giving orders in a company and having his/her strategies carried out. They aren't necessarily used to having their own ideas pre-vetted. Unfortunately, that's exactly what political candidates need. Whitman's political team should asked her about her voting record. They should have done "opposition research" on their own boss. In the 21st century, asking a candidate how often they vote is as de rigeur as asking about whether they pay their taxes or
Meanwhile, another businesswoman -- also seeking a Republican nomination, but to take on incumbent Sen. Barbara Boxer -- is Carly Fiorina. Her tenure at Hewlett Packard was, obviously, not as successful as Whitman's at eBay. Indeed, she was dismissed by HP's board after six years running the company. However, her time there remains controversial -- meaning she has both champions and detractors.
But, you'd think that a woman who ran a computer company would have a better sense of what a good Web-site would look like, right? Nope, apparently not, Fiorina managed to permit a site for her impending campaign to go up that both the left and the right find awful:
The left leaning Huffington Post called the site "really the most insufferable thing she's ever done in her life." Democrats on Twitter bashed the site as "embarrassingly awful" and told Fiorina to scale back her use of exclamation points. And a YouTube video mocking the site has so far eclipsed 15,000 views.
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"It's the most singularly awful political website I have ever seen, and I am including all the old, basic HTML websites that were the rage 10 years ago," conservative blogger John Hawkins of the site RightWingNews.com said in an e-mail to CNN. "Why not toss in G.I. Joe vs. Cobra, Ninjas vs. Pirates, and Kennedy versus Kruschev if it's going to be a goofy joke? There's very little information on it to appeal to voters."
Blogger Dan Riehl joked about the site's color: "It made me think I had been re-directed to Macy's."
"Wheres the beef?," Riehl asked. "It's not on that Web site … If I were a high school senior and I designed that Web site, I would be extremely proud."
Fiorina's problem mirrors that of Whitman. She needs people around her that aren't afraid to tell her when she's wrong. Being in a campaign isn't the same as running a company. For one major reason: Candidates aren't CEOs. On the contrary, they're the product that is trying to get sold.
Whitman and Fiorina need to install a real CEO to run the campaign, examine all the positives and negatives of the "product" -- and then figure out a real strategy to sell it to the California "customer base."
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Corny- I went over to your site- and wow has she grown! so pretty and big-I love reading your story- wish I could get it together to start a blog- you are such an inspiration, and a wonderful writer.
Tuesday, Pulman was 5lbs 1 oz- doc said he should gain 1oz a day - today, he is 5lbs 6 1/2 oz at the docs this morning- and only a wee bit of jaundice left so no more bili blanket for him-exceeding expectations every day!:lol:
Gecko- yeah- seems like today is the 1st day we've had with no visitors...yet. Most have been good- bringing things over- food, preemie sized stuff as Pulman is so small etc, but it really cuts into my nap time- I was starting to get sort of punchy. Dh is home all week and my mom is here, so we are lucky to have the time to start figuring out what to do. I hope your time alone is great and relaxing. I'm sure you'll start to get into a routine. I'm definitely nervous about going solo.
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - In its first Northeast Fencing Conference (NFC) competition of the season, the MIT women's fencing team defeated Boston University (20-7), Tufts University (16-11), Wellesley College (18-9), UMass-Amherst (20-7), Smith College (21-6), and University of New Hampshire (21-6). Cordelia Link recorded the best individual effort for the Engineers as she won all 14 of her foil bouts.
The foil team notched the best ledger of the day, sweeping BU and UMass en route to a 47-7 finish. Nancy Hua followed Link's outstanding showing with a 14-3 mark while Lindley Graham amassed a 12-4 record. Xiyue Gao posted the team's second undefeated performance with a 7-0 total.
Stephanie Shin's 14-4 mark helped lead the epee team to a 35-19 overall ledger. Joanna Tong went 11-5 on the day while Zhenya Gu finished at 6-6. Stephanie Couch won four bouts, including the decisive match-up in MIT's 5-4 win over BU, while Erin Caulfield fell in her four pairings.
Yushin Chen and Heather Pressler had the best performances for the sabre squad. Chen totaled a 13-5 record while Pressler posted a 10-2 mark. Laura Evans (7-9) and Hareem Ahmad (4-4) rounded out the quartet's 34-20 ledger.


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I have rescued a kitten that walked through my front gate on Sunday. Unfortunately I cannot keep it as my dog is not good with cats & I live on a main road where cats are killed all the time. I am therefore keeping it in a cage for safety, but need it to go to a good home A.S.A.P.


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PTC necesitaba un nuevo diseño de página web y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 72 diseños de 23 diseñadores freelance.
We want a website design to appeal to the global business community. The primary aim of this website is to attract new customers and persuade them to get in contact. This will replace the existing out-dated website http://www.pathfinder-consulting.com.
The website will be continually updated using a CMS and the design must facilitate this.
Pathfinder Team Consulting (PTC) has a wealth of experience in a diverse range of industries in over 55 countries.
Pathfinder Team Consulting logo and color scheme must be adopted. (see existing site for logo). Positioned as best in class.
The design needs to be clean and easy to read or look at and should not be over cluttered.
Keywords that help to describe our approach with our clients include: Established, experienced, trustworthy, successful, approachable and practical approach.
Characteristics of an ideal PTC customer include:
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- Likely to be the owner, major shareholder or managing director
- Most likely to be aged 40 +
- Well educated to Degree or higher level
- Is likely to have some basic level of computer literacy (email, internet browsing) but not necessarily technically savvy
- Looking to expand internationally but with little or no experience of this or has tried and failed but sees the benefit. The tone of voice should be relaxed and confident and the design should be Distinctive and distinguishable from existing competitors. It should be Easy to navigate and memorable.It should consider the cultural differences of the target markets.
The design should incorporate:
PTC has 5 division that should be linked to at the top of the page, including (think of these as separate sites simply linked to):
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In GeoServer, how can I serve two types of WFS from one server? Setting the type of the service is done once in global settings. Is it possible to have WFS from workspace A and WFS-T from workspace B?
You should be able to achieve this using a either Data/Layer or Service level security rules (they cannot be combined). See http://docs.geoserver.org/2.1.4/user/security/index.html for exact details, but something like this in layer permissions:
I haven't tried this out, so I'm afraid I can't tell whether GetCapabilities will pick the correct rules up, but I think this is what you're after.
In GeoServer 2.2.0 you should be able to configure the WFS in a different way for different workspaces, give it a try
A workaround could be, if you are using a database as datasource, publishing the table as WFS-T in workspace B, and publish an SQL view (select * from table) on the workspace A.


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The Rocks Don't Lie: A Geologist Investigates Noah's Flood
David R. Montgomery
W. W. Norton & Company, 2012
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Science in Focus: Marjorie A. Chan
The Rocks Don't Lie
My father-in-law, a lifelong evangelical and a college anthropology teacher, read my copy of The Rocks Don't Lie before I got to it. He pronounced it "a good read!" As a geologist, I agree.
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In the 1800s, geologists who were also steeped in Scripture read the first chapters of Genesis as the story of creation without forcing this account to stand as a scientific treatise as well. Montgomery presents the opposing Young Earth creationist view as a more recent development. Its proponents, he charges, willingly embrace contradictory and outmoded theories and ignore many facts entirely, seeking to make the scientific evidence fit what they claim to be a literal narrative of the creation story in Genesis.
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This book raises interesting questions about how societies accept change, and how both secular and religious authority functions. Scientific thinking often challenges traditions and authorities and seeks new boundaries. Yet as Montgomery points out, science can also refuse to consider new evidence that challenges its own traditions. Not surprisingly, Christianity and science can be compatible and in fact supportive of each other—but that requires openness to evidence in the natural world.
If the rocks don't lie, then they tell the truth. Rocks are everywhere, and it is satisfying to know the truth is all around us.
Marjorie A. Chan is professor of geology at the University of Utah.
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Working out of the Box is a series of features presenting architects who have applied their architecture backgrounds to alternative career paths.
Are you an architect working out of the box? Do you know of someone that has changed careers and has an interesting story to share? If you would like to suggest an (ex-)architect, please send us a message.
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Margarita Mileva: Master of Architecture - UACEG, School of Architecture - Sofia, Bulgaria; Thesis award - Best Graduate Project for 1988 awarded by UIA, Europe.
At what point in your life did you decide to pursue architecture?
MM: As long as I remember I always wanted to be an architect.
People find it strange that even when I was 6 years old I already knew what I want to be. I grew up in a family of artists and surrounded by artists. My father was a painter and my mother is a sculptor. At home, it was like an open house where other artists came over on an everyday basis and passionately discussed art and quite often politics as well. For me, my dad was the best painter and my mom is the best sculptor, so I guess the other "real" artistic profession, in which I will not compete with them, was to become an Architect. I was good in math and loved problem solving, got fascinated by shapes and colors, so becoming an Architect was very natural path for me to choose.
When did you decide to stop pursuing architecture? Why?
MM: I don't think that I ever stop pursuing architecture. For me, one of the biggest values in architecture is the design – the creative aspect of our profession. I think that in a lot of ways architecture is very closely connected to the other creative disciplines, especially applied arts, where also process is involved as well as understanding of structure, utilitarian values and budget.
My husband is also an architect and we have a small architectural office, Milev Architects, PLLC located in New York. In our practice, we do architecture projects, but quite often, also we design furniture specific to the interiors, which we envision; so jumping from large to small scale was never an issue in our minds.
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Extension of Asplund Library, Stockholm, Sweden, Competition Entry, 2006
Design team: Vesselin Milev, Nikolay Simeonov, Margarita Mileva
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Beach Huts for Disabled Users, Boscombe, UK, Competition entry, 2009
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Milev Architects, PLLC – Vesselin Milev, Margarita Mileva
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Office Space at 399 Park Avenue, New York, NY, 2003
Design Architects: Milev Architects, PLLC – Vesselin Milev, Margarita Mileva
Personally, I always had an eye for jewelry, love to design clothes, knit, do collages, etc. So the creation of M2 jewelry line didn't come as a surprise to any one, but more as a continuation of a path that I followed in my life so far. There was also this "sparking" moment when friends of mine invited me to participate in a show, which they organized in their Manhattan loft. I decided that I have to come up with a concept behind my necklaces, so M2 was "born". The ever-changing character of the contemporary architectural office, where standard tools become obsolete, in lieu of digital technology, inspired this particular collection of necklaces, named "Recycling of the Architectural Office". I decided on reusing paperclips, punched business cards, eyelids, rubber bands, mosaic stones, presentation wire binding elements, ribbons, etc. I found joy in creating new experiences in this unique way of working with materials, textures and colors.
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M2 became the jewelry venture of Milev Architects. I am trying to create unique, funky jewelry that I would like to be seen as conversation openers.
On a funny note, recently I paid attention to an oil painting that my father made of my sister and I when I was four years old. We are two naked kids on the beach, but I had a purple necklace that I was even holding and showing with my hand. Who knows, maybe without knowing he predicted my future jewelry adventure!
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Petia & Margarita, 1967
Oil Paint on Canvas, 33" x 53"
Dimitar Arnaoudov
Describe your current profession.
MM: Currently, I have been pursuing my architectural practice in a slower pace considering the economic conditions, but also I have been actively developing the jewelry venture of our office with special attention to necklaces and pins made out of rubber bands.
When creating these accessories, I have the feeling of drawing and painting using rubber bands as my material and color palette. It is very interesting for me to follow the reaction of the people viewing my jewelry and trying to figure out the material, which has unique texture and pastel colors.
On my recent trip to Arizona, the beauty and the colors of the desert inspired me for the following necklaces. In these series, I am trying to recreate this in a contemporary way, with unusual materials.
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M2_Arizona Dream
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M2_Painted Desert
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M2_Second Mesa
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M2 Painted Desert and Rococo , are currently featured in The Gift Shop at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, as well as a collection of rubber band pins.
Currently, I am developing a collection of pins to be included in the Annual Holiday Catalogue of SFMOMA – Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco.
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M2 rubber band necklaces were shown in the exhibition a.DOT , Chicago. This exhibition was curated by Chicago Women in Architecture. Thirty architects were featured there with the goal to present their personal journeys between architecture and doing other things.
I am constantly seeking to expand M2 venture, and I am looking forward to new challenges.
Recently, I have designed a RB-dress which was selected to participate at the Indianapolis Museum of Arts' Project IMA: Fashion Unbound . "The theme for Project IMA: Fashion Unbound is uncanny silhouettes and unexpected materials. Utilizing re-purposed or used materials is strongly encouraged." Another interesting aspect of this venture is that I am working in collaboration with my younger daughter, who is currently a student of fine arts in the School of Art Institute of Chicago.
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RB Dress: by Margarita Mileva and Iva Mileva, 2010
Material: (4) pounds various colored rubber bands
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RB Dress: by Margarita Mileva and Iva Mileva, 2010
Material: (4) pounds various colored rubber bands
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RB Dress: by Margarita Mileva and Iva Mileva, 2010
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RB Dress: by Margarita Mileva and Iva Mileva, 2010
Material: (4) pounds various colored rubber bands
An exciting aspect in creating and developing the M2 jewelry venture is involving friends and family in the process. It is great to receive business advice from my older daughter, or chase my dreams and ideas with friends and colleagues.
What skills did you gain from architecture school, or working in the architecture industry, that have contributed to your success in your current career?
MM: One of the skills that I acquired from architectural school and later doing competitions, and working in architectural offices is that we always have to create different options and after that to make the decisions and choose which one is the viable design. It is taught to face the critic of your pears or in my case now – the customers, but one have to be prepared to stand by his/her ideas.
Working on architectural projects is process oriented, a lot of times experimentations are involved which is similar to designing of jewelry, or as a matter of fact to other design fields. Aesthetics, proportions, structure, presentation, marketing, promotion are all aspects of both architecture and jewelry design.
Do you have an interest in returning to architecture?
MM: I have never left architecture, and my jewelry design is a detour which gives me another prospective and is benefiting both my art and my architectural design.
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Painted Desert was featured in TIME OUT NY under Editor's Obsessions.
Time Out New York / Issue 752 : Feb 25–Mar 3, 2010
M2 were published in an article in MoCo Loco - Web Magazine for Modern and Contemporary Design and Architecture .
Ecouterre.com featured my work in the article:
NYC Architect Makes Jewelry From Discarded Rubber Bands, Paper Clips
Ecouterre.com is a website devoted to the future of sustainable fashion design. In this article, the writer compared my necklaces with "… multihued sculptures almost resemble strands of DNA or underwater coral..."
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I am really impressed by the idea of creating jewelery out of rubber bands. I must say they are great designs. However, I was a bit concerned about the feasibility and longevity of using rubber bands. As art pieces all the designs are great, but have you thought about the convenience of wearing them for long periods of time?
great work! i believe when you said,
"I have never left architecture, and my jewelry design is a detour which gives me another prospective and is benefiting both my art and my architectural design."
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