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I am going to be living in Florence for five months starting in late August as an art student studying marble carving and metalsmithing. Needless to say I won't have alot of money. Can someone please tell me where I can find 1) cheap food, and 2) carving supplies – chisels, et cetera?

Also, is there a good place to ship things like smallish marble statues back to the USA without costing a fortune?

I can't speak for Florence in particular, but I can speak for general Italian life. in terms of balacing quality and price, the best place to buy fruits and veggies is big supermarkets like Auchan, Carrefour and big GS locations. Street markets strategically display produce to hide moldy / rotten / yucky bits, and you're not allowed to touch the food before you buy it. These big supermarkets are generally the best place to buy all your food except for bread (which is best from the neighbourhood bakery). The myth of the little alimentari (food store) is exactly that- a myth. Prices are super-inflated at independent grocers- for the convenience of shopping within a half-block of your house (in my Italian apartment, I had more than ten small supermarkets or food stores within a five minute walk). however, Di per Di and Crai supermarkets (small neighbourhood franchises) tend to be comparable in price for packaged foods (cookies, soup mix, rice, pasta, sauce, etc) to the big places- but THE WORST for produce.

If you're eating out, look for bars/cafes with lunch specials. I used to eat across from my house and get bread, a bowl of pasta, a salad and sauteed peppers for EUR 4.50! There are lots of deals like these to be found from 12.00 to 14.00.

For general info about Italian life, check the travel website I made when I lived in the north of Italy (link below). you can join the site and find REALLY good info about Florence (obviously, it's free).

  Modern and historic automation entertains the masses as hundreds get their geek on at Maker Faire 2011 in California.

Automation engineers get to optimize processes or solve complex motion control problems all day, every day

If its not already casted & stamped how do u know its really gold and not a fine ylw brass or bronze for that matter. What tests can u do and what supplies are needed and how dangerous are the chemicals needed for the experiment.(other than taking it to a jeweler or sending it into some lab…I am willing to learn the simplest to the most meticulous process-I just dont know of any of them-especially that I can understand w/out having to cross reference the terminology-basically I need layman's terms. thanks!!

Find out the object's density. to do this, find its volume and its mass. you can find the volume of an irregular object by completely submersing it in a liquid of known volume. the change in volume of the liquid is then the volume of the submersed object. This is best done in a graduated cylinder or beaker.
You can find the mass of the object using a spring balance or a quality electronic scale (not one you would weigh yourself on).
Compare your mass/volume ratio to the numbers on this page: 24carat.co.uk/densityofgoldan… . Good luck.

u can but testing kits at mining shops if you look in the encyclopedia it will tell u an old way

Archimedies solved this problem a long time ago by using displacement. Read up on him, and you'll learn a lot about how he figured it out, and how you can do it yourself. It is really good history to know.

education.yahoo.com/reference/enc…

The trick is that you can weight it, and measure the amount of water that it displaces when you put it in something that allows you to measure volume. by knowing the weight and volume, you can calculate its density, if it is the same density as gold, then it is probably gold. A more sophistocated method would be to use a spectrometer (which I assume you don't have access to) and study how it absorbs light.

An original by me. January 21, 2011. Please be kind.

I look around as everyone scatters
Carving out their own paths with every step
They are certain of what they want
Certain of where they are headed
Yet I am left behind
Tossed and turned by violent winds
Salvaging pieces of a fractured future…
Long ago I was full of life
Content with farfetched dreams
I was young and, ultimately,
Happy.
But now it seems like I am drowning
Stranded in a sea of inferiority
My soul hollowed out by continuous disappointments
My spirit plagued by expectations that so often come unmet
They are endowed with supremacy and splendor
My supplies run destitute as they continue to thrive
I long to belong
Yet abhorrence follows them around like disease
I admire them and loathe them deeply, simultaneously
While they bask in glory, I am tossed aside
Food for their mockery
Fuel for their success
I am cursed with indecision
Caught in between two worlds:
A wilting rose among the thorns
The years have droned on but nothing has changed
The vivid pain remains all too clear, still the same
Time heals all wounds but sometimes
It just opens new ones
A burgeoning realization comes to me
And to my horror I know I will amount to nothing.

someones angst-y.

Im sorry, but im not nearly as good at poetry as prose. Its much more expressive and less dependent on conventions, so just write whatever feels right and don't try so hard. oh and don't try so hard.

"A wilting rose among the thorns"
"Stranded in a sea of inferiority"
"my supplies run destitute as they continue to thrive"

don't try so hard.

The Phone will Ring Right after you do This. just read the little stories and think of a wish as you scroll all the way to the bottom. There is a message there then make your wish. no attachment on this one. Stories…….. I’m 13 years old, and I wished that my dad would come home from the army, because he’d been having problems with his heart and right leg. it was 2:53 p.m. When I made my wish. at 3:07 p.m.(14 minutes later), the doorbell rang, and there my Dad was, luggage and all!! I’m Katie and I’m 20 and I’ve been having trouble in my job and on the verge of quitting. I made a simple wish that my boss would get a new job. that was at 1:35 and at 2:55 there was an announcement that he was promoted and was leaving for another city. believe me…this really works!!! my name is Ann and I am 45 years of age. I had always been single and had been hoping to get into a nice, loving relationship for any years. While kind of daydreaming (and right after receiving this email) I wished that a quality person would finally come into my life. that was at 9:10 AM on a Tuesday. at 9:55 AM a FedEx delivery man came into my office. he was cute, polite and could not stop smiling at me. he started coming back almost everyday (even without packages) and asked me out a week later. We married 6 months later and now have been happily married for 2 years. what a great email it was!! just scroll down to the end, but while you do, think of a wish. Make your wish when you have completed scrolling. whatever age you are, is the number of minutes it will take for your wish to come true (ex. you are 25 years old, it will take 25 minutes for your wish to come true) however, if you don’t send this to 5 people in 5 minutes, you will have bad luck for years!! go for it!!! STOP!!! Congratulations!!! your wish will now come true in your age minutes. Now follow this carefully….it can be very rewarding!!!! If you send this to 10 more people, other than the 5 that you already have to send to, something major that you’ve been wanting will happen well this ones good