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This summer, Emily will work with Camp JCCchildrenn to help create a square foot mosaic that will become part of the retaining wall at Columbus Park in downtown Binghamton. Emily can often be found working with underprivileged youth, helping to expand their horizons through art. Published in Southern Tier Business Journal.


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  6. Broome County initiated a mass evacuation. In addition to her inventory, machinery, and equipment the flood also put her balance sheet under water. I had loved mosaics since my grandmother gave me a mosaic to assemble when I was five. While she still has debt to pay off from the duet of the Irene and Lee deluge, today the business is thriving. Small Business Administration, one sign of her growing success. I am currently working with a client in Sweden who wants glass tiles that glow in the dark in his swimming pool.

    The residential side of business is our bread-and-butter: Glass tiles are popular in kitchens, on floors, in bathrooms, and yes, even in swimming pools … our tile designs are also popular with commercial customers, such as casinos, schools, spas, hotels, restaurants, and airports. We are an internationally recognized design studio: The potential for growth both domestically and internationally is huge.

    Today, Susan Jablon Mosaics owns and occupies a 37,square-foot building located in Binghamton and also leases , square feet in New Jersey to store inventory. Jablon says she was an early adopter of the Web and has used it to grown her business. Most mosaics sold today are a commodity item, with standard shapes and muted colors. The company advertises on Google and converts 30 percent of the Google clicks. Jablon is no shrinking violet. Back in , a year after launching business, she promoted her unique designs to national publications such as Better Homes and Gardens, Designer Dream Homes, Goodlife, and New Old House.

    On my 5 th birthday, I decided it was time to strike out on my own and gave myself a present by forming Susan Jablon Mosaics. I began by teaching how to assemble mosaics and immediately had students. In our tile-designing software, we already have thousands of tiles and more than 50 layout… [templates] to choose from. So I commuted to Corning [Glassworks] and studied the process. We now buy some handmade glass from Oregon, but we also manufacture handmade glass on site … I guess that makes me the research-and-development are of the company. Jablon reserves high praise for her employees as the real key to her success.

    Fortunately, over the years the company has hired and retained a great staff. They have learned the product process, and our employee longevity ensures our quality and consistency. We have the talent, a facility with room to expand, and the option of adding another shift. My job is raise awareness of the brand, so we stand out from those who offer a commodity item.

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    In the same territory, the eruption of Monte Nuovo in , was the cause of a massive change of the coastline in the area of Lucrino lake and Portus Julius. In this way the scientiic community, which had already started to mobilize a few years before, during the congress Forma Maris Pozzuoli, , and a part of citizens aware of the im- portance of their common past, have actually tried to stop the shameful damages that the Phlaegrean Underwater Cultural Heritage was suffering because of human action: on one hand, the indiscrim- inate plunders started already in the s and s, when diving activity began to become pop- ular and when hundreds of divers began to explore the ancient structures and to take away with them all the precious items that the sea had protected during millennia.

    On the other hand, the presence of some factories on the waterfront of Pozzuoli some of them are still in activity and the commercial harbour in the bay of Baia, connected with extraction and export of pozzolana the same excellent volcanic ash used by the Romans to build their concrete piers underwater men- tioned by Vitruvius , were responsible for a daily trafic of ships that, heavy with their cargoes, often scraped with their keels against the archaeological structures. Not to mention the rusty, mod- ern shipwrecks, abandoned in the bay, with risks not only for the heritage, but also for the envi- ronment and the safety of people swimming in the area now inally removed Fig.

    There is no need, here, to retrace all the steps of the archaeological research in the Gulf of Pozzuoli, suficiently covered, in recent times too, elsewhere Stefanile, ; It is however the case to remember that the discovery of submerged structures in this area is very old and sure- ly not connected with the WWII as sometimes it has been written , as evidenced by the indings recovered in the half of the 18th century, today in the collections of the Archaeological Museum of Naples, or by the voices of English poets such as P.

    Shelley and travellers of the Grand Tour. Figure 2. The diicult situation of Baiae in the 80s, before the creation of the Marine Park. In Baia for the irst time has been tested the system of creating underwater plans by dividing the area in regular squares; in Baia, moreover, for the irst time has been used the airlift in submerged buildings.

    During the s, a part of this expert volunteers worked together with important archaeologists such as F. Zevi, P. Gianfrotta and B. In , synthetic copies of the statues were replaced in situ, for the entertainment of diving visitors that can swim within a highly suggestive environment Fig. Nowadays, after the creation of the Marine Protected Area, the Superintendance for An- tiquities is directly engaged in the works through new researches, starting a fruitful collaboration with Institutions, Universities and Associations. A copy of a statue in the nymphaeum of Punta Epitaio. In a cooperation of the Authorities with Naumacos group, sonar bathimetric and seabed hardness maps have been realized and updated in recent years, delivering a useful tool for plan- ning new operations in the area.

    The same research group was involved also in some new dis- coveries, like a precious marble statue from the lacus Baianus Caputo In this same con- text, fruit of an agreement between Naumacos and the association Fillirea, LAB is a new reality, aimed at converting the Visitor Center into a Center for the coordination of research and valori- zation projects in the MPA of Baia, under the control and supervision of the Superintendance. In one of the most active moments in the recent history of research on the city of Pompeii, i.

    Recent changes in the management system and several unfortunate events drove this season to an end, but the example of a long international cooperation in a big area, with the possibility to experiment all together new solu- tions and technologies in archaeology, can surely be considered as a highly positive one.

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    While the research can move some steps forward, the effort towards a good musealiza- tion of the structures goes on: the involvement of diving centers see before is creating a grow- ing number of visitors; as announced in more than one occasion, new systems to improve the enjoyment of the site are ready to be realized, waiting for the necessary funding, among which the creation of an underwater video-control network, the opening of the nymphaeum to noctur- nal visits and the setting up of a multimedia room on the mainland, from where the non-diving visitors will be able to watch their relatives or friends diving, and listen at the same time to the explications of the guide, who wears a mask with microphones.

    Currently, the divers can visit ive submerged spots, equipped with guidance ropes and explanatory PVC panels Fig. Due to the shallow depth, four of these spots can be visited also by snorkeling or on glass bottom boats; this latter solution is more and more popular among primary school groups. The submerged structures also allow to organize underwater archaeology training courses easily and ield schools with activities of underwater survey, drawings and photos Fig.

    In recent years a lot of expe- riences like these have been carried on by the diving centres, with the collaboration of profes- sional archaeologists, or by training organizations with the authorization of the Superintendance see for example NAS courses or REITIA activities : more than two hundred people from differ- ent countries have received so far a training, basic or advanced, in underwater archaeology in Baiae, with courses of few days or even some months. Sometimes these activities are combined with seabed cleaning operations Legambiente activities or even with real research, with the inal delivery of the results to the Authorities.

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    Figure 4. The first five diving spots in the park of Baiae. Figure 5. Activities directed to the general public in the park of Baiae. As it was expected, and as already seen in similar experiences, like in Sicily, the diving clubs have learned that heritage can constitute a source of inexhaustible wealth; for that reason, they converted themselves in the irst and most fervent defenders of the underwater sites: they keep away unauthorized intruders, they report to the Superintendance every damage or problem, and, when necessary, they even check if anything from the seabed is in the pockets of visitors jackets.

    In this moment there are ive underwater spots open to the public. Visitor center and Superintendance are working together to make possible the opening of new fascinating trails. Figure 6. A mosaic preserved in situ in the submerged Villa con ingresso a Protiro.


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    In the other side of the Marine Park, the Secca Fumosa, characterized by the huge piers in opus caementicium on the external border of Portus Julius, which, from a depth of 12 meters reach the surface of the sea; here, following the line of the Roman structures, in an environment incredibly rich in life, with sargoes, octopuses, moray eels, and brown meagres in every corner, the tourists can reach an amazing concentration of volcanic fumaroles, which heat the sand of the seabed with continuous emissions of hot bubbles, making the context unique for the prolif- eration of sulfobacteria, which sprout on everything creating a white layer.

    Finally, the middle area of Portus Julius, the harbour built by Agrippa in 37 B. These three largest groups were among the first to be established at San Lorenzo, founded after a period of prolonged, high-energy all uvial activity that remade the Mopan floodplain and buried houses located there Holley et al. Founding households apparently laid claim to the productive resources of this remodeled landscape, and their wealth and status increased over several generations.

    Inequalities became pronounced, as these families likely profited as intermediaries between the community and the rulers of Xunantunich. The abandonment of San Lorenzo is just as illuminating as its founding and growth. Almost all of the structures at San Lorenzo were occupied in the Hats Chaak phase, but only one-third were occupied in the Tsak phase Tab le 1. Although the pattern is not entirely black-and-white, the groups most likely to be occupied into the Tsak phase were those of the village leaders.

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    The poorer farming families either left or did not reproduce. We could envision many reasons why this might have been the case: if yields fell because of soil exhaustion, environmental degradation, or drought, poorer farmers would feel the subsistence shortfalls most acutely. If tribute demands rose in the context of growing elite competition, they would have been least able to meet those added demands.

    They also had the least to lose by moving, as they had th e least invested in their houses and in the local productive landscape. Instead, those families who had the longest-standing presen ce in the community and the greatest access to resources and labor tended to remain in the community the longest. Their control of local resources likely allowed them to weather the political and economic upheavals of the Terminal Classic period, while their investment in the physical means of production and institutions of the political economy disinclined them to leave.

    They may have also been linked to the entrepreneurial nonroyal elites who seem to have taken advantage of the diminishing power of royal families and their control of lucrative trade networks to become important power brokers in the Terminal Classic across the Maya Lowlands also Helmke The presence of molded-carved vessels and a Terminal Classic carved shell pendant at San Lorenzo suggest that the families there were tied into these new pan-Maya elite networks.

    Discussion The data presented above support several observations relevant to the Classic collapse in the Mopan valley. First, a severe demographic decline resulted in the valleys nearly complete aba ndonment by the end of the Terminal Classic period. Second, this abandonment apparently occurred gradually a lso Ashmore et al. Although some zones, like the Callar Creek zone, were abandoned well before the collapse, most groups in the Mopan valley settlement zones were abandoned during the Hats Chaak phase, and the rest during the Tsak phase.

    At San Lorenzo, we found few items of value or utility associated with 18 PAGE 28 Jason Yaeger abandoned structures, suggesting they were scavenged by people who continued to live in the valley. This pa ralleled Xunantunichs gradual abandonment, where different sectors of the site ceased to be used over the course of a century or more LeCount et al. Third, this abandonment was well underway before the Terminal Classic period.

    The absence of Terminal Classic Tsak phase ceramics in most residential groups indicates that those groups were no longer occupied at the end of the Hats Chaak phase, radiocarbon dated to around AD LeCount et al. Fourth, the processes leading to abandonment did not impact all families equally. At San Lorenzo, the first houses to be abandoned were those of the poorer residents, and Robin found that the poor farming hamlet of Chan Nohol was abandoned prior to the Tsak phase.

    The space afforded in this paper does not permit a full discussion of the collapse in the Mopan valley or its possible causes. The above observations, however, suggest that one important factor was anthropogenic environmental change, evidence of which is accumulating in the valley.