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Centered Earth needs your help. The ceramics arts studio and gallery is once again helping with the Annual “Soup and a Bowl” event, held by the Central Pennsylvania Food Bank. This event will be held on February 19, 2016 at the Genetti Hotel and Suites located in Williamsport. Besides the great food, raffles, for this this event, each participant gets a bowl to keep. “To Remind people that an empty bowl means that someone is going without food.” Pam Hicks, Programs and Events Coordinator…

A Single Shard This book that i read was about these three men who was potters. One day the master of the potter store who was named Min went out and had to go find another potter who was good at it.Because Min had a large order to get done for a good person he knew so he got this boy who was 13 years old and he was a really good potter. So the next day the boy came and started done pottery for the large ordered he had coming up so Min started the boy on the potting wheel and started working…

the wind to move through the whistle and come out of the pencil hole to create a sound. For my hippo I made the whistle on the side and bottom. The serrated rib tool allowed me to scratch and attach additive pieces so they would not come off in the kiln. The needle tool made it easy to draw in textures on my animals, even though neither of my animals have texture I still added texture on the mouth, eyes, and nose. For my whistle project I used a variety of different tools that helped the outcome…

The character Tree-ear in the story A Single Shard is a poor orphan boy from Korea who lives in Ch’ulp’o with a wise elderly man named Crane-man and worked for Min the master potter that had several different characteristic changes and also even mental changes. From the beginning from the end of the novel A Single Shard. In the beginning, he is more timid and hesitant than he was in contrast with the end when he is more brave and forward thinking. Tree-ear was a curious kid at the beginning…

Stoneware is similar to porcelain but is generally more plastic and good for throwing and hand building. This clay body is often sought for its firing color, which may vary in a reduction kiln. Most stoneware bodies contain grog or silica sand to add strength and…

within every beer: malt, hops, rice, yeast, and water (Anheuser-Busch, “Quality Ingredients”). Malt is known as the “soul” of beer. The process of creating malt includes soaking barley kernels in water, germinating the seeds and then drying them in a kiln (Anheuser-Busch,“Quality Ingredients”). Hops are known as the “spice” of the beer which adds the beer’s aroma and bitterness. The addition of hops balances the sweet malt flavors (Anheuser-Busch,“Quality Ingredients”). The clean, crisp taste in…

expected, many of the letters are correspondence related to military preparations for an invasion. The Science: The basic science which brought about the Cuneiform tablets is also behind the ostraca. Both are made from clay and both are fired in a kiln. The Cuneiform tablets are purposefully made for writing upon, while the ostraca are repurposed from broken shipping and storage containers. Occasionally the message was scratched on the ostraca using a harder instrument. However, the message…

by economic enterprises. There were no nations then, only small city-states The Sumerians built their villages on artificial mounds to protect them from floods. Very early they learned to make bricks in molds and dry them in the sun or bake them in kilns. Their sturdy houses were small and crowded close together on narrow lanes. Some were two or more stories high. The whole city was surrounded by a wall for protection.…

Caesar Stone was founded by Amos Amir, Gili Amir's father and CEO of Caesaria Marble, Sdot Yam's floor tiles plant, in the 1970s. Amir had come to the conclusion that the days of Terrazzo flooring, had passed. So he began searching for the next generation of flooring material that was thinner, lighter, and stronger, while being less labour intensive and polluting to produce. …??? Caesar stone is a stone manufactured to create surfaces such as benchtops, splashbacks, bathroom vanities, wall…

The upper class lived in the ornate federation styled houses which were a sign of prosperity. They were mainly built between 1900 and 1914. Skilled Italian stonemasons, mosaic and terrazzo workers were utilised in the building of the houses. The upper class lived far away from the city in spacious estates that could easily accommodate a family of 10 as well as separate rooms for maids, cooks, gardeners and butlers. The larger estate meant that illnesses were less easily transmitted due to less…