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CARL KOLOGIE: Missed George by a hair
You knew it was bound to happen, again.
Anyone who has ever been to a Pittsburgh Pirates baseball game with Homer City's George Coury knows that the longtime season ticket holder, at times, is not paying real close attention to what is happening on the playing field.
Sunday afternoon, with Pedro Alvarez at bat, the Bucco power hitter turned on a fastball and scorched a two-hopper into the first base seats headed directly at Coury.
He was engrossed in conversation with Indiana's Chris Guerrieri and Homer City's Joe Medvetz and was facing them when they shouted, "look out!"
Seated next to him, I raised my hands in self-defense and in a split second the ball glanced off the top of the padded railing in front of us and grazed Coury, who ducked.
Here is the incredible fact.
Coury has had season tickets for 44 years and in that time has missed only 18 home games. That means, not counting playoffs, he has been to 3,546 games and has been hit twice with a batted or thrown ball — his seat alongside the first base dugout. Fortunately, the ball did nip the railing or it could have been a missile shot into the stands, and who knows what could have happened. But Coury came away unscathed and some lucky fan about five rows back got the ball.
And, as far as the game goes, the Pirates came from five runs down to defeat Cincinnati. Our party of four was all smiles as we headed for Big Jim's in Greenfield, Coury's usual after-the-game stop.
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That was quite an entertaining production of the musical "Hair" at IUP's Fisher Auditorium last Sunday evening. I had seen the show back in the 1970s at the former Nixon Theater in Pittsburgh when the controversial musical was touring the country.
It tells the story of a group of young, long-haired hippies living the Bohemian lifestyle in New York City.
Strong language and brief nudity, along with a multi-cultural cast, the show was considered as the groundbreaking musical to define the rock musical genre.
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As a sidebar to last Sunday's column on breakfast at Jerry Buffone's with members and coaches of the Shannock Valley High School football teams of the early 1960s, here is a postscript on the two coaches, Ron Zucchelli and Tony Bernardi. Zucchelli went on to coach at Elders Ridge, where he continued to feed players to Louisville, having sent Jerry and Doug Buffone and Bill Lettie from Shannock.
Jim Zamberlan of Elders Ridge went to Louisville, where his achievements earned him induction into the university's athletic Hall of Fame in 1991 and the Indiana County Sports Hall of Fame in 2000. Since retiring from the education field Zucchelli operates his own busiess, Zuchelli Invertments.
Bernardi's claim to fame came as a basketball coach, where he tutored a very successful high school team at Shannock and later as an assistant at IUP.
Herm Sledzik, retired basketball coach and athletic director at IUP — who also coached at Shannock Valley in his early years — hired Bernardi for his knowledge on defense.
"Tony helped turn our program around with his defensive coaching ability. He also was an assistant to Carl Davis and Tom Beck," said Sledzik.
Carl Kologie is a columnist for The Indiana Gazette.
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yeah i was using a car mounted pod.
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- Jessica Simpson and Sean "Diddy" Combs duke it out on the red-carpet at the CDFA Fashion Awards.
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- Jessica Simpson and Sean "Diddy" Combs duke it out on the red-carpet at the CDFA Fashion Awards.
- Celebrities love their weed! It's time for another edition of Celebrity Potheads!
- Janet Jackson may have lost a ton of weight recently but why is her cleavage so weirdly shaped?
- Britney Spears registers for Sean Preston trademark!
- Lindsay Lohan likes her Coke Diet
- Jennifer Lopez is publicly denying the ongoing pregnant rumors
- Michelle Rodriguez: Death Never Looked So Hot
- In a new video interview, Angelina Jolie talks at some length about her incredible experience having a baby in Africa.
- Katie Holmes' father, Martin, a divorce lawyer, has negotiated for her a $33 million prenup, with an extra $3 million in spending cash and a home in her name in Montecito, Calif., Life & Style Weekly claims.
- Donald Trump is shopping a new reality TV show based on the popular board game Monopoly.
- Angelina Jolie's tattoo has been deciphered! It reads N11º 33′ 0" E104º 51′ 00" and N09º 02′ 00" E038º 45′ 00" — the latitude and longitude coordinates for Maddox and Zahara's birthplaces (Cambodia and Ethiopia, respectively).
- Teri Hatcher has been cast to star in the boxing drama Resurrecting the Champ. Hatcher hasn't been cast in a movie since Spy Kids in 2001.
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Overview of Georgia Aquaculture Regulations
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Regulating Agencies in Georgia
Basic Requirements to Raise and Sell Fish
The table below gives a basic overview of the types of licenses and permits that may be required for raising and selling various fish species or invertebrate organisms (i.e. freshwater prawns/shrimp and crawfish) in Georgia. Contact details and links to additional information are provided where necessary. Please be aware that definitions play an important role in determining what licenses or permits may be required. Links to appropriate definitions have been provided where necessary.
The information below provides additional information and descriptions of the most commonly required permits and licenses referenced in the table above. It is not all inclusive. Potential fish dealers and aquaculturists should consult the more detailed "Summary of Permits and Licenses Required for Georgia Aquaculture" for full license and permit information.
Definitions of terms related to aquaculture licensing and fish sales are presented here (click for link to definitions) for reference.
Aquaculture Registration (obtained from DNR Special Permits Unit)
Aquaculturists producing and selling or re-selling domestic fish may register (free) with the Department of Natural Resources. "Domestic fish" are lawfully obtained farmed fish which are held in confinement in private ponds, but only if they are fish species which are either indigenous to Georgia or are fish species which have been recognized before 1992 as having an established population in Georgia's public waters. White perch (Morone americana) cannot be considered a domestic fish. A Commercial Fish Hatchery License, Wholesale Fish Dealers License (DNR), or Retail Fish Dealers License are not needed to sell domestic fish if the seller has registered as an aquaculturist. Persons in possession of domestic fish from registered aquaculturists must have a bill of sale or lading which provides the date of the sale, identifies the seller and which details two of the following three criteria for each species of fish: number, weight, or average length. Grocery stores do not have to register to sell domestic fish. Aquaculture Registration certificates expire on April 1 following two years of registration. Information provided by the aquaculturist for registration must be updated if there are changes during the registration period. Registration certificates should be displayed in a prominent location at the place of business, and a copy should be in possession of the owner or his agents when conducting business off the premises.
Examples of fish species that may NOT be raised or sold with an Aquaculture Registration and which require additional licenses include tilapia and grass carp, although these are not the only species. All grass carp dealers must be licensed through DNR (Wild Animal License).
Examples of species of fish that ARE included on the Aquaculture Registration application:
Fish Dealers Licenses (obtained from the DNR License Unit)
A Wholesale ($59 annually) or Retail ($10 annually) Fish Dealers License is needed to sell live fish or fish eggs. Exceptions include persons with a Commercial Fish Hatchery License, persons selling fish for use in aquaria, and registered aquaculturists selling only domestic fish (see definition of domestic fish under Aquaculture Registration above). A Wholesale License is needed for persons selling fish to others for the purpose of resale, and for those persons importing live fish or eggs into the state. A Retail License is needed in other instances. Nonresident persons may sell and import live fish and eggs into the state without purchasing a license if they sell to a Department of Natural Resources licensed wholesale fish dealer. Fish sold from licensed dealers must be accompanied by a bill of sale or lading which provides the date of the transaction, identifies the seller and which details two of the following three criteria for each species of fish: number, weight, or average length.
Wild Animal License to sell regulated fish (obtained from DNR Special Permits Unit)
This license ($236 annually) is required to possess, import, transport, transfer, sell or purchase any wild animal including exotic fish species. No license is needed for exotic fish (see exceptions below) if they are held in containers for holding fish from which no water is discharged, except during periodic cleaning, and which discharged water is passed through a filtering system capable of removing all fish and fish eggs and is disposed of only in a septic tank permitted by the county or in a waste water treatment system permitted by the Environmental Protection Division. Exotic fish are all fish species not native to Georgia. However, rainbow trout, brown trout, common carp, goldfish, and fathead minnow are examples of non-native fish that are not considered exotic fish for regulatory purposes. Exceptions: A wild animal license is always needed to possess:
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I'm headed up to Maine to visit the in-laws the week of November 12th. Currently I live in Kentucky which leaves a lot to be desired as far as bird hunting. I'm planning on bringing some gear with me and hope to do a bit of hunting. What I would be most interested in is chasing some partridge. Used to do a lot of Blue grouse hunting when i lived in New Mexico, but I have yet to even flush a bird after hunting for two years here in Kentucky. I was hoping that someone could point me in the general direction of a WMA that might be worth checking out. I'll be in the Augusta area but I'm willing to drive a couple hours. I'll have my lab with me who has some upland experience.
I'll also be bringing a few decoys with me. I'd love to back a nice Black duck since we rarely see them here in Kentucky. But I'm smart enough not to ask anyone to give up their duck holes. I figure if I can find some water and some food I'll be able to find any ducks.
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Tom grew up in Milwaukee, bartended in Wauwatosa in the '70s and moved here in 1984.
Commentary, observations and musings about the outdoors, life in general and maybe Tosa politics and personalities will be the order of the day. He savors a lively debate as much as terrific cooking.
Sullivan and Vukmir - The Campaign
Regarding modern-day political campaigns if there was one thing you could change what would it be?
I happen to have my own views about how to run an election campaign and I was particularly curious about having an opportunity to find out from Vukmir and Sullivan what they felt about this subject and what, if anything, they would change if given the opportunity.
Here is what the candidates had to say.
Vukmir and I talked at length about modern day campaigns - particularly how they've taken on an edginess and meanness that was not as common years ago. It would be nice to get rid of the misrepresentations and lies - was how she described it. Yet, how do you do so without infringing on free speech?
I suggested that this cuts both ways. The reality is everybody does it.
We talked about the role that campaign strategists play. The candidate reminded me that people are passionate about what they believe and she was disappointed that the passion, on occassion, reached what she described as - new levels of low.
Vukmir explained that she felt she has been on the receiving end of a disproportionate amount of deceptive campaign advertising. She also made it clear to this blogger that she, in no uncertain terms, was definitely not playing 'the victim'. She admitted that it's a tough problem to tackle.
Calls to reign-in the way we campaign always runs the risk of infringing on our First Amendment right to free speech.
My takeaway? For Vukmir it's a frustrating dilemma for sure but you take your lumps. That's the price you pay.
What she will not support is public financing of campaigns. I still believe attempts to control campaigns through finance or other laws will infringe on that precious right.
She was unambiguous on that matter.
Sullivan, on the other hand, shared a couple of differing perspectives.
The impact of of outside money in swaying elections and redistricting policy.
Clearly frustrated by how monied interests can shape events - We need to end the anonymous flow of money into campaigns. I am concerned that without accountability, elected officials respond to the big contribution groups and not to the centrist concerns of their constituents.
As Sullivan explained it to me the way the system works nowadays - both parties have a strangle-hold on the way things are done. There are long-term Democrats and Republicans securely ensconced and in control of generally safe positions.
The system is essentially rigged because the two parties have collaborated with one another to ensure that the lion's share of the legislative seats can only be elected by one party. The consequence of this is that most seats are essentially out of play.
We need to change the way we draw legislative districts.
Sullivan makes the case that a high value should be placed on competitive races - with districts drawn so as not to reflect one party's base over the other.
He suggests that the 5th Senate, which has alternately been served by Democrats and Republicans, is pretty competitive. Sullivan was adamant that there be more of the same statewide.
On deck for Saturday - The Arcane.
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Graffiti Art
Beneath the perfectly preserved ruins of Pompeii, archaeologists discovered graffiti that, when deciphered, rivalled modern street art in humour and vulgarity! In ancient China, it was hard to find a wall that wasn¿t completely scrawled over.
Modern graffiti art has its origins in the 1970s, when spray-painted tags, predominantly political messages, began appearing in New York City and Philadelphia. Since then, graffiti has spread to cities worldwide, evolving into complex, stunning artwork on trains, subways and urban walls.
For years, civic authorities frowned upon these colourful, sometimes subversive but always eye-catching works executed in secrecy with great panache. Today, with ordinary citizens wholeheartedly endorsing the validity of informal street art, urban authorities even commission graffiti artists for specific murals.
Strategically placed, interesting graffiti art can brighten up the most boring of localities. A famous example, the graffiti art of Banksy in Bristol (UK) that became a tourist draw.
Graffiti art has its own lingo and specific styles. The most basic style is the single coloured tag, typically, the writer¿s name, executed with spray cans, pens or markers. Throw-ups consist of large, colourful bubble letters. Stencils, favoured by graffiti artists like Banksy and Blek le Rat, portray detailed, multi-coloured images.
Wildstyle, a complex, stylised writing technique with 3D effects in fluorescent hues was created by New York artists like Stay High 149, Tracy 168 and Zephyr. A ¿piece,¿ shorthand for masterpiece is a full-blown painting, requiring much time and effort.
Blockbuster graffiti features enormous block letters, executed with paint rollers and 2¿3 colours. ¿Heaven¿ is graffiti art done in inaccessible locations like freeway signs or near the top of high buildings. Such risky sites win graffiti artists¿ considerable respect from their community.
In 2005, Sony recruited graffiti artists to spray-paint images on urban walls in several American cities, marketing strategy for its Playstation Portable (PSP). The campaign encountered enormous protest and criticism.
Graffiti has come a long way from its origins as a primitive form of expression to a school of art that is recognised and feted in art galleries for its breakthrough techniques and ability to make powerful statements.


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Worldwide IT spending is on pace to reach $3.6 trillion in 2012, a 3% increase from 2011 spending of $3.5 trillion, according to the latest outlook by Gartner, Inc.
"While the challenges facing global economic growth persist — the eurozone crisis, weaker U.S. recovery, a slowdown in China [2]— the outlook has at least stabilized," said Richard Gordon, research vice president at Gartner (Stamford, Conn., USA). "There has been little change in either business confidence or consumer sentiment in the past quarter, so the short-term outlook is for continued caution in IT spending."
However, there are some bright spots for IT providers. In contrast to the rather lackluster growth outlook for overall IT spending, Gartner expects enterprise spending on public cloud services [3]to grow from $91 billion worldwide in 2011 to $109 billion in 2012. By 2016, enterprise public cloud services spending will reach $207 billion.
"Business process as a service (BPaaS) still accounts for the vast majority of cloud spending by enterprises, but other areas such as platform as a service (PaaS), software as a service (SaaS) and infrastructure as a service (IaaS) are growing faster," says Gordon.
Worldwide IT services spending is forecast to reach $864 billion in 2012, a 2.3% increase from 2011 (see Table 1). Demand for consulting services is expected to remain high due to the complexity of environments for global business and technology leaders. Gartner [4]analysts said consulting itself is becoming increasingly technology-based with the rise of analytics and big data, having deep implications on the future of consulting services.
The global telecom services market continues to be the largest IT spending market. Telecom services growth is expected to come not only from net connections, especially in emerging markets, but also in mature markets from the uptake of multiple connected devices, such as media tablets, gaming and other consumer electronics devices, says Gartner [4].


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Trends, fashion, celebrities, events, music, and all things only Vegas
'Tis the season to be jolly - to take a holiday trip to Las Vegas and get into the spirit of having fun!
The Venetian Resort-Hotel-Casino and The Palazzo Las Vegas welcome the second annual Winter in Venice holiday celebration. This year's festivities include an exclusive six-week run of Mannheim Steamroller Christmas - Vegas by Chip Davis and feature a schedule of memorable Italian-inspired experiences that include an enchanting winter parade, whimsical tree-lighting ceremony, stunning new 3-D light projection show, an elaborate Winter in Venice fantasy scene at Palazzo's Waterfall Gardens and the return of the picturesque skating rink above The Venetian's romantic outdoor Grand Canal. To cap off the winter fete, the Venetian's Doge's Palace hosts the stunning 3-D holiday light show "Lights of Venice" every night. The dazzling display concludes with a live finale that illuminates the iconic plaza and 65-foot Christmas tree. Winter in Venice runs through Jan. 6, 2013.
Holiday-themed prix fixe menus and specials will also be offered at the following restaurants inside The Venetian and The Palazzo; AquaKnox, B&B Ristorante, Bouchon, Canaletto, Canyon Ranch Café, Delmonico, FIRST Food & Bar, Grand Lux Cafe, Pinot Brasserie, Postrio, Table 10, LAVO Italian Restaurant and Valentino.
The entertainment capital of the world will be even brighter this season as Las Vegas bedazzles and transforms itself into a winter wonderland for the holidays.
Ring in the holiday season at Bellagio's Conservatory & Botanical Gardens, which is home to a 45-foot-tall holiday tree and a family of floral polar bears and penguins. Guests will have the perfect photo opportunity with a large floral card inside a 6-foot-tall elaborately carved frame. Visitors will also be greeted by the sounds of music with live performances by a harpist and the wondrous sight of a classic gingerbread village created by the Bellagio pastry chefs. The Conservatory's holiday exhibition is open 24 hours per day, seven days a week and will be on display the entire month of December.
While enjoying the yuletide decor of the Bellagio, visit one of the most iconic attractions in Las Vegas, the Fountains of Bellagio. With a diverse repertoire of musical tunes, the holiday selection includes classic hits such as "Hallelujah Chorus," "Carol of the Bells," "O Holy Night," "It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas," "The Most Wonderful Time of the Year" and "Santa Baby." The Fountains dance for visitors every 30 minutes beginning at 3 p.m. Monday - Friday and noon on Saturdays, Sundays and holidays. After 7 p.m. daily, performances are every 15 minutes until midnight.
The holiday classics come to life at The Orleans with concerts by the Trans-Siberian Orchestra on Dec. 2. They'll perform "The Lost Christmas Eve," part three of the Christmas trilogy by Paul O'Neill. Concerts are set for 3 p.m. and 7 p.m.
See The Nutcracker as you never have before in a brand-new, original production featuring new sets, costumes and surprises yet to be revealed. See this highly-anticipated rendition at the Smith Center for the Performing Arts Dec. 15-16 and Dec. 21-23.
Terry Fator: Ventriloquism in Concert presents "A Very Terry Christmas," featuring holiday-themed performances by Terry Fator at The Mirage Hotel & Casino. During the run of special performances, the stage is transformed into the Fator Family's "living room" in a journey featuring all of the show's loveable puppets as they come home for Christmas. "A Very Terry Christmas" will take the stage at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday - Saturday through Dec. 22.
Sam's Town Hotel and Gambling Hall will once again transform its Mystic Falls Laser Light and Water Show into a magical holiday experience with festive lighting, decorative snowflakes, garland streams, wreath-adorned lamp posts and snow-covered trees that fill the atrium. For the first time ever, Sam's Town will present the 15-minute laser light spectacular hourly during the holiday season. The show can be seen 5-10 p.m. through Jan. 1, 2013. Cowboy Santa will appear Nov. 25 to Dec. 23 beginning at 4 p.m. Thursdays and Fridays and at noon Saturdays and Sundays.
The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas will transform its iconic Boulevard Pool into a winter wonderland overlooking the heart of the Las Vegas Strip. Special evening programming will offer a night for everyone, including "Date Skate" Mondays, when visitors will experience a date night on ice as scenes from beloved holiday movies play on the resort's 65-foot outdoor digital marquee. Every Wednesday, the most renowned DJs in Las Vegas will turn The Ice Rink into an outdoor club scene during "Industry Skate on The Strip," creating a nightlife experience unlike any other. Finally, "Throwback Thursdays" will give guests the opportunity to dig out their leg warmers and disco gear as they skate the night away to music from the '70s, '80s and '90s. The Ice Rink will be open Nov. 30 through Jan. 20, 2013. Hours of operation are 3-11 p.m. Monday - Friday and 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays. Holiday hours will be in effect Dec. 24 to Jan. 4 and will be 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. daily. Visitors to The Ice Rink are allowed to bring their own skates and rental pairs are available for $5.
Speed up to the Las Vegas Motor Speedway to check out Glittering Lights, Nevada's largest drive-through Christmas light show. With more than one million lights along the 2.5-mile course, the festive holiday event is an "only Vegas" spectacular to behold. Glittering Lights is open nightly through Jan. 6, 2013. Motor through 5:30-9 p.m. Monday-Thursday and 5:30-10 p.m. Friday-Sunday.
Holiday celebrators will be able to start the countdown to Christmas with a special tree lighting ceremony at the Fremont Street Experience. On Dec. 3 at 5 p.m. the holiday lights will glow for all visitors to see. A Menorah Lighting Ceremony will follow on Dec. 9 at 4 p.m. at Fremont and 4th Street.
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I don't currently give him any vitamins. He's almost 23 months.
At his 2 year appointment Dr will ask if he's taking any (I never filled the prescription she gave me at the 18 mo appt).
I feel like they're all filled with extra stuff he doesn't need.
He has a pretty round diet and eats lots of fruit, veggies, meat, grains, etc, and very little junk food. So I feel like a supplement is unnecessary. But I'm sure I'm wrong.
Do you give your toddlers vitamins? What kind? Are there any that are better than others?
Yes i do, i buy the animal parade ones. I also give him an extra vitamin C. There are no artificial flavors/colors ect in them. I figure that it helps to cover the bases if he misses anything in his diet.
SAHM to 4 cats, DS 5/09, DD 3/12 and 3# due 4/15. Home birthing, non vax, anti circ, co-sleeping, breastfeeding, real food eating pretty darn crunchy mama.
Why are you sure you are wrong? What kind of vitamin did your dr want you to give? Most common are vitamin d and iron. So, make sure you have lots of iron and vitamin d! I've never given my kids vitamins on a regular basis.
I give my son, 3yrs, half of a Flinstone complete (the ones w/iron) and 1 vit D gummy. I give him these because my uncle, a doctor, recommended that my sister and I give our sons a multi-vitamin w/iron, vit D and Omega-3 (we're still looking for a good kids Omega-3). He gave us actual mg amounts for each thing (don't have the #s with me right now) and we chose brands/amounts based on the 3s he gave us.
I didn't give my son vitamins, or think I would ever give him vitamins, until my uncle recommended it...he has been taking his vitamins for about 4 weeks now.
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I give my DS vitamins just b/c I figure it can't hurt and he loves gummies. His iron is great, so he can have just a gummy vitamin. My gummies don't have iron. I give him Clifford gummies and they have omega-3 in them. He loves it b/c with the Clifford gummies, he can have two. We were giving him Go Kids and they are just one per day. He always signs more and tells me more either way b/c he loves his gummies. It's so funny to me b/c I use these vitamins as a bribe to get him to eat more vegetables (eat 4 big bites for 1 gummy, 8 bites for 2 gummies). So, for us it's a win, win :)
My 22 mo takes Catalyn Chewable (from Standard Process, they have a website). Serving is 3 a day for 4yo, so I give him one. It's whole food vitamin.
Alicia, wife to an loving and faithful DH, and mama to three fantastic though nutty children (cs, then a fast HBAC, then a fast VBAC!!). Planning a third VBAC, again at home, in February 2016.
I give my 2 year old son Flintstone vitamins and gummy vitamins as well. He loves them and I haven't had any issues with them.
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My daughter just turned two last week and I started her on a gummy vitamin. I never worried about it while she was nursing and really the last several months she has loved a variety of foods. But recently she's become a lot more picky about what she eats, so it makes me feel a little better to give her a vitamin.
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I give my toddler Rainbow Light Nutri Stars. They're chewable and the only children's multivitamins I can find in our grocery store that don't have tons of artificial ingredients, sweeteners, colors, etc. He seems to like them. I also give him Vitamin D3 drops on occasion because we live in a very cloudy and wet climate.
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No vitamins here. Unless the doctor can show me that DS is lacking in something, I won't arbitrarily decide to dose him with supplements. He's doing just fine on his own with the food we provide and he eats.
If it looks like I'm trying to pick a fight... I'm not, I'm rarely that obvious.
I found DS did start eating better after we started giving him vitamins (he used to be at about 90% milk/10% table food)... doctor thought it might help and I guess it did... Once he is closer to 80% table food I will probably feel more comfortable backing off on the vitamins if he's still eating a varied diet.
I give my daughter Nordic Naturals chewables. I looked into the company and they seem to be pretty responsible, for lack of a better word! They are free of articifial colors, preservatives, etc. also.
I give my 2 year old Trader Joe's brand vitamins. He doesn't eat a well-rounded diet though. Plenty of fruit/whole grains/protein, but almost zero veggies.
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Our two year old takes a supplement. I've always turned my nose up at vitamins for myself, feeling like they were a bit silly if you're eating a well balanced diet and living a healthy lifestyle, which I try to do. But when I was pregnant I re-examined my thinking. I don't believe that a daily multi-vitamin is going to do any damage and that few people have a diet so spectacularly well rounded that they can't benefit from a daily supplement. I say go for it.
Currently growing number two!
I don't do any vitamins here EXCEPT VITAMIN D. I just don't think that she needs them if she is still nursing and eating a balanced diet (minus greens which I can't get her to eat but I eat lots of greens so I am sure she is getting the folate, etc in my breastmilk.)
I give her Carlson's D drops every day though because we live in a very cloudy place and I know that even though I mega dos myself with D, I am still always borderline deficient so I know she needs another source.
When she stops nursing one day depending on her diet I probably will start her on a multi vitamin if she still isn't eating greens, but for now I think my BM is a good multi!
We do gummies. DS eats like crap. He's super fussy and will just skip eating altogether if he does not like what is being offered. We try variety, try to keep offering, but he mostly eats yogurt. So I figure a vitamin is pretty much needed since his diet is not balanced.
Plus he loves the gummies. If I forget vitamins, he will remember!
Many parents give their kids gummy vitamins if they are picky eaters.
While most kids don't need a daily vitamin, it is important to keep in mind that for those that do, gummy vitamins don't have any iron, which is actually one of the more important things that some picky eaters miss out on in their diet.
For those parents that are giving their kids vitamins, make sure the vitamin they are taking actually includes the vitamins and minerals that you think they are missing in their diet.
Vincent Iannelli, MD
About.com Guide to Pediatrics
DS takes Vitamin Code chewables. There is a guy at the health food store that often helps me to find exactly what I'm wanting in terms of a supplement and this is the one that we found that is whole food based (I was hoping for a New Chapter but they didn't have one for kids and the guy at the HFS said that the companies are similar.)
He also takes 1000 IU of Vitamin D a day and drinks Emergen-C when he's getting ill or just when he wants it instead of plain water (that happens about once a week I'd say.)
Are you still nursing him?
I don't currently give him any vitamins. He's almost 23 months.
At his 2 year appointment Dr will ask if he's taking any (I never filled the prescription she gave me at the 18 mo appt).
I feel like they're all filled with extra stuff he doesn't need.
He has a pretty round diet and eats lots of fruit, veggies, meat, grains, etc, and very little junk food. So I feel like a supplement is unnecessary. But I'm sure I'm wrong.
Do you give your toddlers vitamins? What kind? Are there any that are better than others?
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MAHOPAC – Corinne Florie won three individual events and the Mahopac High School girls' track and field team captured a thrilling 81-76 victory over Yorktown on Monday.
The Mahopac boys lost to Yorktown, 90-67.
And the Carmel track and field team turned in several outstanding performances over the weekend at the Red Raider Meet.
Florie was spectacular in winning three early running events that helped stake Mahopac to an early lead. She took the 1,500-meter run in a time of 4 minutes, 54.8 seconds, easily winning the event by more than 15 seconds.
Florie also won the 800-meters in a time of 2:28.8, edging out a Yorktown runner by just 1.2 seconds to claim the event. And she won the 3,000 meters, covering the distance in a time of 11:32.1.
Teammate Meaghan Simmonds won the 400 dash with a time of 65.6 seconds, almost four seconds better than the runnerup. Simmonds also ran the opening leg of the victorious 1,600-meter relay, while teammate Johanna Dundan finished things off by taking the shot put event with a toss of 26 feet, 4 inches.
In the boys' meet, Mahopac's Josh Lewis was a double individual winner and a relay event winner as well. Lewis won the triple jump with a leap of 34 feet, 10 inches; won the 200-dash in a time of 24.7 seconds; and ran the anchor leg of the victorious 400-meter relay team.
At the Red Raider Meet, held on Friday and Saturday at North Rockland, Carmel turned in several solid performances.
The boys' spring medley relay team took first place with a time of 3:39.48. The team featured Eric Holt, Ben Muniz, Louie Velazquez and Tyler Wong.
The boys' distance medley relay team also took first place as the same quartet ran the event in a time of 10:31:95, just .57 of a second off the meet record.
But Holt got his meet record in the 3,200 meters with a time of 9:18.47.
Grayson Wright placed second in the pole vault at 10 feet for the boys Freshman/Sophomore category.
The girls distance medley relay team took third place with a time of 13:32.18, featuring Andrea Cortina, Cameryn Curry, Katherine McCormack and Clare McNerney.
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Photographing steel structure...how?
I've seen lot's of photographs of steel structure. How do you do that?
Kevin R. Cashen
It is not as easy at it may seem and I get a lot of makers asking if all they need is the microscope they are looking at buying. I often puzzle them by meeting this question with another, "why on earth do you want a microscope?" Allow me to first explain this. Metallography is a very expensive and time consuming sideline of mine that actually contributes little in a direct way to my making of knives; it certainly wont save you any time while it eats up all your spare moments. I actually didnt initially get into metallography to help with my knives but to get answers to questions that I couldnt get elsewhere about so many of the myths and misconceptions in knifemaking. Instead of relying on trust, faith or assumptions of others about what was happening inside the steel, I asked myself why not go straight to the source and actually see for myself what is happening inside of the steel? What I have found has changed the way I approach the craft and make my knives but it actually hasnt helped to make them in any way, like a power hammer or good grinder could. So unless one is ready to expend a lot of money on a huge time vampire I would go for a new kiln, a new forge or something more practical, but enough of that now on to how cool it can be to seen inside the steel
Metallography is an art unto itself and a whole subsection of material science. The first consideration is how and where you will be looking based on what you may be looking for. You want a true representation of the internal structure of the steel so most often the best perspective will be perpendicular to the cross section. Just looking at the sides of the blade will tell you almost nothing. So the first thing you will want to do is cross section the steel. The problem is that you want to know you are studying the untouched condition of the steel and must not affect if by the preparation process, so cross sectioning and grinding can be tough since you must generate no heat in the process. Very thin specialized water cooled blades are used to cut the steel, the cheapest are simple abrasives but are VERY fragile and the work must be very rigidly held to avoid blowing up a blade, you can also get more durable diamond blades made specifically for hardened steel but they are incredibly expensive.
Kevin R. Cashen
Anyhow after the piece is cross sectioned and you have a wedge or sliver of material to mount up you are ready to begin preparation. One quick note first- you want the samples as small as possible, for ease of mounting, ease of polishing etc..., I like nothing wider than 1" at its largest dimension, if it is blade shaped and around 10 mm x 10 mm if square. I have a special cabinet I built that holds the resins and moulds for mounting. It has a glass topped vibrating table to work on. The sample is placed in the glass face down and then a mould ring is placed around it. The ring makes all my mounts the exact diameter of the holder on my microscope stage. Next a resin is mixed and poured around the sample and vibrated to remove air bubbles. The bubbles are bad as they leave pits in the front surface that trap abrasives and cross contaminate my polishers (very bad).
The hard resin mounting is important for holding the piece, in polishing, on the microscope and for final storage.
I have file drawers full of catalogued boxes filled with holes to hold all the 1.25" mounted samples. But the most important reason for the mount is so that you can observe the edges of the sample, without it you would undercut and round the metal edges in polishing and never be able to focus on them with the scope.
After the resin is set, I begin polishing. Polishing starts at 200X, then 400X and 600X (all with water feed) and then I move on to hand lapping on wet paper- 800X, 1500x, 2000X. The mount is then rinsed and I move on to 3000X diamond paste on a leather horizontal power lapping wheel, followed by 8000X and then 14,000X with a thorough rise in xylene or alcohol in between. If the is any cross contamination from one wheel to the next you need trash that wheel and get a new one. I even keep my wheels sealed in a Ziploc inside a cabinet when not in use to keep all dust off from them. Next I go to soft felt wheels to finish at 50,000X or 100,000X grit.
The sample is now put on the scope and examined for defects or scratches; I will most likely be going back to the felt wheels for some touch ups. When all is ready I can now etch.
Kevin R. Cashen
Etching is essential for metallography; just looking at unetched polished steel will only give you a view of total white on white with no details. Every detail you may want to observe will have its own specific etchant you must use to reveal things, and none of them involve ferric chloride. Many make the mistake of thinking they can use FeCl but it will not reveal the microstructure at all under the scope. I mostly use a 2% nital etchant; it is a mixture of pure alcohol and nitric acid.
The sample is rinsed cleaned with denatured alcohol (being careful to rinse more that rub it clean as even a cotton swab will scratch it at this point.) and then immersed in the nital face up. The nital should be slowly agitated so that nothing can settle on the prepared surface. It normally takes from 30 seconds to a minute for the bloom to form when you can see the darkening of the sample from the etch occurring.
It is very easy to under-etch or over-etch, and in either case you will lose the details you are looking for, only practice and intuition will help you judge when you nailed it. The sample must then immediately bet rinsed under clean water. I then place it in alcohol to remove any water and have a hot air dryer ready to dry it off as soon as I take it from the alcohol. If liquid is allowed to sit on the surface it will form a film that will ruin the sample, and you CANNOT touch it now with anything but gentle air.
Kevin R. Cashen
If all went well you are now ready to look at the inside of the steel with a microscope. I have several but my favorite is my Olympus PME metallograph. It has very good inverted stage and was made for taking pictures. Inverted stages are good since they view from below and sort of self level the pieces, if you view from above you need to mount the mount on a slide in such a way that insures the sample is absolutely level, so that one half of the view isn't always out of focus.
I can view from 50X up to 1500X magnification with my PME and use a good cannon Camera on the camera port to take pictures of stuff I feel is important to document. I did use an A95 point and shoot with very good results for years but had to use special adapters to mount it up. I now have an 18mp T2i EOS that mounts directly with a T-ring but the images are so darned detailed I now need to upgrade many of my microscope objective since the camera can exceed their image quality.
On the PME if I want to take a picture I pull a knob below the eyepieces to open the port and send the light down to the lower unit when another knob will enable a prism to send the image to the cameras image sensor. The image is then seen on my 20" LCD computer monitor and I can refocus and arrange the shot and shoot using the remote interface with the computer. This can be important since touching the camera can result in blurred images due to the slightest movement (it is also a good idea to lock the mirror up for shooting).
Here is an image of my PME using my laptop before I upgraded to the new computer and better monitor.
That is pretty much all of it, but there is one last thing to mention about microscopes- they must be of the reflected light variety. Of course this requires special optical arrangements that send the light through the body of the scope and through the same objective you are observing with. Steel is opaque so a regular microscope that illuminates from below will not work.
J. Doyle
Kevin, I know you've said before that it was a lot of work. But now that you've explained it some........all I can say is WOW. That sounds very tedious and time consuming indeed.
Just want to say thanks for sharing your findings with us when those of us who do not have the time or equipment ask our questions. It's pretty cool that you will share your educated explanations with us so that all of us can try to approach our craft from the best angle possible.
It would be easy enough for you not to care or bother explaining to us, especially when there are many guys who don't care about the best end result. Fortunately, I do not see many of those folks here. Smaller minded people with your equipment and findings would tell us to 'Get lost'.
Kevin R. Cashen
Well, I really need to be honest that I am no saint and altruism is probably not my motivation, but instead I am insanely stubborn and am incapable of backing down from a challenge. Years ago when I decided to do something as radical as to verify some of the things I have been told were beyond question in knifemaking, I was astonished at how upside down the traditional wisdom was in just the few areas I had scratched the surface to see. To be honest I felt a bit betrayed by the experts to whom I had blindly listened to for so long, and I vowed then and there to give back to this business by sharing as many facts as I could to help others from being victimized by bad information.
I had no idea, however, how emotionally attached, in a very personal way, so many makers were to their beliefs and assumptions and was not prepared for the venom and animosity they could greet any contradictory facts with. Believe it or not there are people in this world who will hate another human being simply for not supporting the way they heat a piece of steel. I guess this was the wrong approach to take with a guy like me because that type of intimidation only raised my determination to a whole new level, and I built a metallurgical lab onto my shop just to provide me with the data I needed to combat the misinformation. Believe me it wasnt easy, some like to portray me on the wealthy elitist extreme from their poor mans approach, but I can assure you they no doubt make many more dollars a year than I do. I built my own shop and took 30 years scraping up and assembling what I have. Like so many others, I started out with a ball peen hammer, a chunk of railroad track and an old sink for a forge, but I just never quit learning or improving what I had.
Somewhere along the line changing my profession/craft for the better with solid information became my main goal, and if there were people who would see me as an enemy for that, then so be it that is between them and their creator, and, despite how heavily the loss of their friendship weighs on me, I cant help them.
But there are so many others who have been as kind and encouraging with their words as you Mr. Doyle and them I can help, and will, whenever possible. The people who violently deny facts to preserve their own world view dont need to get lost since they already are, but on the other hand folks such as yourself dont need to build a metallurgical lab if I can share whatever knowledge mine produces.
Kevin R. Cashen
More about metallography
In this logo banner are just a couple of the things you can see after following the steps outlined above:
The first image (after the logo) is coarse pearlite that you will find in 1095 if it is heated above critical and cooled very slowly. The next is our necessary friend, austenite, the phase you get when you heat the steel until is glowing red and very soft. Third is or very best friend and the goal of our efforts, martensite, the hardened phase of steel (what happens if you cool the second image fast enough to avoid the first image;). Next is what you get if you have a lot of carbon, overheat it and then cool it, a bit of a troublesome mixture, at very high magnification (over 1000X) . And lastly, an image of steel that doesn't have enough carbon to make martensite or pearlite without big blobs of unused iron (ferrite) left over.
wow...I had no idea the surface preparation was so detailed. I am impressed and amazed. Thanks for the recap. You have just shared knowledge (again) that maybe no one else in our industry has or least that I've never seen. Thanks Kevin.
The sample prep is standard analytical lab work but the difficult thing is interpreting the photos. You can throw a lot of money at getting samples prepared and not understand what it all means.
As for people spouting nonsense, You are 100% right! Last summer I went to the ABS meet in Auburn, Maine. It was very difficult to listen to big name "experts" say things that I know to be wrong. If only they knew a little chemistry!
Kevin R. Cashen
It is indeed standard, and I only make it sound so Herculean because I have had to build much of my own equipment to do it and improvise ways to accomplish what guys do in no time with the proper tools in labs every day. The aggravating thing to me is the number of characters that have foisted an impressive line on a public that isn't familiar with the process. Like your experience at the ABS hammer-in, I have to bite my tongue all the time when I read and hear well known "experts" say they know their grain size, microstructure or other features from "lab testing" but don't seem to have access to or know anything about these procedures. Etching and looking at the outside of the blade doesn't tell one anything many are led to believe. I work hard to get to the truth while others just sort of pull their own truth from thin air, that can be aggravating.
As for the ABS, I used to be a very big critic of much of what they taught, but how they won me over was how they received my information. Instead of shutting me out, shouting me down or going after me, they did a very rare and noble thing, they gave me a platform from which to speak and teach. Many are quick to give lip service to free speech, but how many groups will give a stage to opposing viewpoints? I have taught metallurgy to mastersmiths eager to learn, I have spoken freely at hammer-ins, and the ABS now offers many of my lectures on DVD. I know the group's history and its faults, as well as the damage to knowledge many of it's smiths have done, but the group has my undying respect for how it handled my "heresy".
clancy/ernie this is not to say that I don't know exactly what you are talking about, believe me I have dealt with it for years, there are many smiths who hold a rating with the ABS that still need to be reached, and some who won't be reached, but I welcome their time in the podium as much as mine, so long as there is a level playing field and the people have an opportunity to weigh all the facts and sort reason from hype.
Folks I must apologize for all this preachy talk on my part, but I started the New Year by having to deal with yet another rather vicious personal attack at another web site for simply suggesting that each steel could benefit from its own specific heat treatment for its unique chemistry. As always it effects me and dominates my thoughts even in other conversations, forgive my preoccupation with the trying politics of our business, but as I mentioned earlier, I tend to deal with such things by intensifying my sharing of information and thus this thread was most welcome.
Dan Pierson
Thanks for the details about how you do all this Kevin. I'm sure it's standard prep to those
who understand these things but it's new to many of us.
Now, how did you get a picture of austenite?
Kevin R. Cashen
Thanks for the details about how you do all this Kevin. I'm sure it's standard prep to those
who understand these things but it's new to many of us.
Now, how did you get a picture of austenite?
:biggrin: Great! Somebody asked the question I was hoping for:biggrin:, I am not surprised it was you that caught that Dan!
Indeed how does one micrograph a phase that is only stable above 1335F? Once again there would not be a story if I simply had access to the best labs where they actually have the ability to look at very hot things, but I had to get much more "creative".
I was writing an article for the ABS about austenite an realized that I really needed some images of the phase. Obviously I couldn't go to austenite at 1500F and do all the polishing handling and prep, or have my equipment survive, so I made austenite come to me!
With more and more alloying the stable temperature of austenite gets lower and lower, until you have things like "austenitic stainless steels" which are nonmagnetic at room temperature.
Now this may sound like the problem was solved as soon as I sectioned of a sample of 304, but it was not that easy. The stuff is stainless so nital etchant won't touch it:2:.
I have more than a couple metallography books setting around so I looked up the appropriate etchant for austenite and stainless steel. Remember I mentioned that you needed to choose your etchant according to what you wanted to look at, well there are literally entire books devoted to all the combinations of chemicals to make different etches containing everything from potentially explosive compounds to potentially lethal gasses. In the later half the 20th century a man by the name of Beraha added a whole new level of sophistication to the types of color contrasting etches, so it is really a science unto itself.
I did find one electrolytic recipe for stainless that used items that were both safe and obtainable, but where could I find oxalic acid?? I looked at my wifes rhubarb patch and the mounds of oxalis growing near my house but thought that would be way too much work (don't laugh I once produced a potassium based mix I needed from nettle ashes). Something chewed a the back of my brain that I should go to the lumber yard, and when I was there it clicked... WOOD BLEACH! (pure oxalic acid).
I brought it home, made a solution and then stripped the wires on the end of a little AC/DC adapter I had and voila! I could see austenite with my own eyes for the first time! All these years I could make it and feel it under my hammer I knew it was there but to see it with my own eyes was pretty cool!
Wayne Coe
Thanks, I have seen similar pictures but did not know how they got there. This is information that I will probabaly never use but interesting to be exposed to. Again thanks and you have just convinced me that If I need to know about the interior of the steel I need to check with you and not start trying to do it myself.
Doug Lester
Ya, I know the type. In the health care field they are the one's who go by what their gandmothers, who didn't even finish high school, said over what someone with an M.D. and a passle full of contunuing education credits says. They're the same ones who claim that you can't weld in a gas forge and the only people who do hollow grinds are those who don't know how to use a grinder (little gems that I ran across when I was researching knifesmithing) even though people weld in gas forges all the time and that hollow grinding goes back around a thousand years. It all falls under the heading of you can't cure stupid.
That said, thanks for the info, it explains why its hard to find someone to do this for you and that you'd probably not be able to afford it if you did.
Doug Lester
James Terrio
I'm one of those curious/cantankerous sorts who hears the conventional wisdom and says, "Ok, but why? Can you show me?" Not as a challenge, simply because I really do want to know. It's fascinating stuff! I very much appreciate how much some makers do to encourage reasonable questions and look for real answers. Thank you Kevin!
I was wondering how you got that austenite picture but I thought I'd already worn out my welcome..:biggrin:
Mike Carter
What? Do you mean packing the edge of a blade by pounding it under a full moon with the tip pointed north doesn't really make a superior blade?!!!!
Seriously, I too appreciate the information you share and the efforts you put into your research. I never really thought much about the process of what you do but I had no idea it was so complicated.
Sean Cochran
Well, I really need to be honest that I am no saint and altruism is probably not my motivation, but instead I am insanely stubborn and am incapable of backing down from a challenge. Years ago when I decided to do something as radical as to verify some of the things I have been told were beyond question in knifemaking, I was astonished at how upside down the "traditional wisdom" was in just the few areas I had scratched the surface to see. To be honest I felt a bit betrayed by the "experts" to whom I had blindly listened to for so long, and I vowed then and there to give back to this business by sharing as many facts as I could to help others from being victimized by bad information.
Thank you for that.
Please dont take this as sarcasm (I hate typed language, no inflection at all and things are often taken the wrong way). For a guy like me to get info from you is like a model rocketeer getting to talk to Dr. Von Braun. Not that you are a saint or anything like that, but I appreciate the years of work you have put into your craft and the fact that you so unselfishly give what you have learned. I hope I dont sound like Im placing an offering at the alter of Cashen. :) Just wanted to say thanks. My learning curve has been greatly reduced thanks to reading your work.
Kevin R. Cashen
Thanks, I have seen similar pictures but did not know how they got there. This is information that I will probabaly never use but interesting to be exposed to. Again thanks and you have just convinced me that If I need to know about the interior of the steel I need to check with you and not start trying to do it myself.
I am not trying to discourage anybody from doing whatever they can to increase their own personal knowledge, I just always like to make it clear that if somebody just wants to make nice knives a metallographs is extreme overkill and not at all necessary. Also, as has been mentioned, what is revealed in the microscope eyepeice still needs interpretation by somebody who knows what they are looking at and what they are looking for. Kind of like even if you gave me a X-ray of somebody with internal problems despite having a picture of everything inside I would still not be able to diagnose a thing.
Kevin R. Cashen
I'm one of those curious/cantankerous sorts who hears the conventional wisdom and says, "Ok, but why? Can you show me?" Not as a challenge, simply because I really do want to know. It's fascinating stuff! I very much appreciate how much some makers do to encourage reasonable questions and look for real answers. Thank you Kevin!
I have noticed that about you James, and I like it. I am pretty much the same, My friend Roman Landes like to stress the importance of the word "why?" if we were all like annoying children with that word, continually asking for clarification and verification, what wonderful filtration would occur in information and much grain would immediately be separated from chaff.
James Terrio
That's encouraging Kevin, thanks. Sometimes I have asked the right questions of the wrong people and ending up with both of us looking like stubborn mules. I'm learning to pick my battles a bit better ;)
Kevin R. Cashen
Metallography is just one more method of analysis in getting what I often refer to as the big picture. What we are doing with all the thermal and mechanical treatments on our steel leave it in a certain condition, trying to determine the exact nature of that condition is like assembling a jigsaw puzzle to make out the details of this picture it represents. If all you want to do is make a reliable knife then you don't need every puzzle piece to get an idea of where you are at. But if you want to really get into every property you are messing with in the steel you need more and more pieces of the puzzle to make out more of the picture.
The more variables you have to contend with, the more pieces of the puzzle you need. Many people feel that digital controllers and using known steels with exact chemistry are for geeks like me who insist on most of the puzzle, but in fact it is the guys who work with only portions of the puzzle that need tighter controls with less variables; I can handle quite a few more variables and mysteries by being able to see more of them.
In experimenting I often get odd Rockwell readings. That test only gives me a number for a specific property (just one piece of the puzzle) but it can't tell me why I got that number; the microscope can then fill in a large chunk of the puzzle and help explain the numbers. But all of them will remain unrelated bits if you don't have the most powerful puzzle solving tool of all- the knowledge to interpret all the results.
Interpretation of the results is the key to it all. One of the biggest pitfalls and the source of the vast majority of misinformation in our business is misinterpretation of the results, and tests that give us very small pieces are easy to misinterpret. And, of course, when pieces that don't even go to our puzzle get mixed in misinterpretation is inevitable.
That's encouraging Kevin, thanks. Sometimes I have asked the right questions of the wrong people and ending up with both of us looking like stubborn mules. I'm learning to pick my battles a bit better ;)
As it probably quite evident, I love questions of all kinds. Well all kinds except one, I don't appreciate insincere questions, the ones people ask when they already have the only answer they want and will dismiss any information that doesn't fit that template. Indeed the only thing learned in that situation is how stubborn we can be.
Denny Eller
Why are the intelligent so uncertain and the ignorant so cocksure?
Hay Kevin thanks for all input. After thirty years of knifemaking and reading every thing I can about what takes place in the hardening tempering forging ect. I thing that I still dont understand but a small percent of it but I am still learning thanks to people like you . Keep it coming!!!!
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Hands-on Metal-shaping Workshop
I had fun. What a great bunch of guys showed up. There is a lot of interest in metalshaping! Here are a few pictures:
John www.ghiaspecialties.com
If you ever consider coming to Michigan's Upper Peninsula I could probably set you up with a facility and interested participants for the workshop. Heck of a long way to travel though :D
Just maybe we will do one here in the PNW..when John gets ready for another one...
Bob, Thanks, but I'm not going to be traveling that far!
OMT, I'm planning a Seattle workshop now.
I updated the album with some more pictures:
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yeah, the 227s are 150...
i have the OEM clears... of course you can get the 180s and use the amber carriers in the clears too.
Are you sure your 227s are 150' and not 180'? My 228s are 150 degree offset Pins.
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When you say 'offset', do you mean 150 (as opposed to 180)? I took out the dead bulb and the platinumvisions are 180 offset. Also, has anyone ever had the problem of a bulb getting stuck in the socket? When I removed the socket for the bulb which I thought was dead, the platinumvision was stuck inside the socket and no amount of pressure could get it off. Because I still had the original ambers, I simply took the socket from the original amber turning light and placed an amber bulb inside. The original socket (with the amber bulb) is 150 offset.
The 228s Osram bulbs I got were 150 degree offset as opposed to the 180 degree.
If the bulb gets hot it can melt the bulb carrier. Several aftermarket bulbs have done this.
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I was reading and the people say that the Maya color picker works in sRGB, but the output render must be Linear sRGB, therefore I need to connect a gamma node 0.454 to the color channel, every time I have a new material to have a correct render. Anyone know if there is another no-time-consuming-method to avoid this process.
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EBENSBURG — Following a nine-day layoff, Ligonier Valley girls' basketball coach Valerie Ray was right to be concerned.
Playing for the first time since Feb. 15, the Rams never quite got going offensively, but they did enough on defense to eke out a 30-27 win over Bellefonte in the District 6 Class AAA quarterfinals at Central Cambria High School on Monday.
Ligonier Valley started the fourth quarter on a 6-0 run to take its biggest lead of the game, 27-20, and from there, the Rams hung on down the stretch for a less-than-impressive win, but first-year coach Ray knows style points don't matter.
"It was an ugly one, but the score came out in our favor," Ray said with a laughter. "We were trying to slow it down in the fourth quarter, but we had a few turnovers and let them come back on us.
"We hadn't played since the 15th. We've had a tough winter, and I know everybody has, but we've had a few stretches where we didn't play for a week or more. It's easier to play when you're consistently playing on a regular schedule. But I felt confident that, since we've played with this kind of scenario, that it wouldn't bother us, but it did."
Ligonier Valley mustered just four points in the opening quarter and trailed 10-4 after the opening eight minutes. But the Rams only yielded 17 points the rest of the way, slowly climbing back into the game with defense.
Bellefonte led 16-12 at the half before Ligonier Valley took a 21-20 lead into the fourth quarter.
Taylor Rudnik scored nine points and pulled down eight rebounds to lead the Rams, and Madison McLaughlin chipped in seven points. Olivia Miller added seven rebounds.
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