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Nope Nope Nope.... Without olive oil it's not hummus.

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Hey, thanks ! I've been wondering about that. When my brother started CAS, he had bought his first match load of this. It seemed to work fine but I reload 45 Colt from mostly Starline brass. I've reused his AP brass, Starline and whatever the brass pickers think is mine without problems. AP brass is a little heavier that Starline. I reload for me and my brother. Horace

Pretty normal here in Colorado winters! Kinda wonder about the coat, around here a vest is usually sufficient! Regards Gateway Kid PS by the next day won’t need to shovel, but might want to avoid the deeper puddles!

When a hat maker won’t put brim or crown measurements I email them and ask for the dimensions for each hat I am interested in but in separate emails.

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5 days post op, the dog finally had a massive poop. Things are moving. We were really getting worried. He's had 3 doses of miralax, will get one more tomorrow, possibly 2. Gotta make sure he's ok.

A great example of "If it ain't broke, don't fix it."

Bandsmen's uniforms are almost always different than regular uniforms. Currently: US Navy USAF US Army USMC 19th century military bandsmen in Europe had "swallow's nest" shoulders and often a half dozen or more lace chevrons on the sleeves. Or the uniform and facing colors reversed, that is say the regimental colors were light green with red cuffs and facings, the bandsmen would have a red tunic with light green cuffs and facings. Examples of swallow's nest and chevrons: The reason was so they could be quickly identified by officers because it was the drummers or buglers were the ones that sounded the orders

These are the one's I have. They come in different sizes

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Generally, the stiffest hats are the best felt. It’s felted tighter and usually has a finer grade of fur. That allows the felter to press the hat body tighter and actually makes it more waterproof and it holds shape and size better,as well as producing a lighter weight hat. HOWSOMEVER!! It DOES take more effort to reshape a top quality hat. I wear a 7 7/8 hat in most instances. Having once made a living as a professional hatter, I learned a lot, but I’m by no means an expert! YES!! You DO need a good source for steam!! It also requires more time and patience because the hat body naturally tries to hold the shape it was previously given. An alternative to simple steaming a hat body is to soak it thoroughly and dry it to the new shape or size desired. It’s far more difficult and time consuming, but in the absence of a good steamer, it will get the job done. In the old days before modern steamers, this method was used along with “irons” of different shapes and designs. A leftover from that era is the “curling shackle”, used to put the “roll” or “pencil roll” in the hat brim. Today, they’re used in conjunction with the steamer to create that shape. When they were originally employed, the hat brim was soaked and the tool was heated and applied to curl and dry the brim into the desired shape. A thin, stiff hat body is often the sign of quality. I’ll qualify that statement with the following exception. Felt hats CAN be chemically stiffened. I used a mixture of shellac and denatured alcohol to stiffen older worn hat brims and, on occasion, even on the crown of an older hat that had begun to fail to hold its shape. I’m reasonably certain that some of the lower priced or lower quality products offered these days have been chemically treated to better hold their shape and size. Nothing wrong with it. It’s just their business in a time when the price of a high quality product is too expensive for the average buyer! For those who have difficulty with the size vs shape of a hat crown, (where the shape of your head isn’t compatible with that of your hat, despite the hat being the correct size) I recommend you buy a “hat jack”. It’s a necessity for many hats and the people who wear them. I have a couple of hats that I keep on a hat jack when I’m not wearing them, mostly because unless you wear most hats constantly, they attempt to return to whatever shape they originally had. The more you wear an individual hat the better it fits and the longer it retains that fit. Sweat bands also shrink naturally, so the hat jack also prevents that shrinkage. To compensate for various changes or shrinkage, I get my hat stretched and shaped to fit my head comfortably. Then I sand or file the hat jack to fit that shape and just keep a little tension on the hat’s sweatband when I’m not wearing it! The next time I choose to wear it, it’ll fit perfectly. A top quality, 100% beaver felt hats, given even minimal care, can easily last a hundred years. I’ve worked on a couple of them that had had the sweat band replaced several times due to age and wear. The hat body was still perfectly viable and, when cleaned and blocked, looked and felt like it was new! I used to joke that a pure beaver hat would last forever so long as you didn’t cut it up, grind on it, or burn it! Lesser quality hat bodies may not last as long, but proper care can extend the life of your hat greatly.

Get a wooden hat stretcher. Then take a sanding disc to it and reprofile the sides so that it creates the desired oval shape you want.

Navy Band members may be prescribed to wear "Choker" Whites for certain formal functions. The uniform is basically identical to the service dress white uniform worn by Chief Petty Officers (E7, E8, & E9) For Officers shoulder boards are added to the same uniform.

Good stuff, Maynard!

Whereas many, myself included, say that the writers of our Constitution saw the folly of that and internationally left out "perpetual," then reinforced it with the 10th Amendment. Witness that 3 times New England states threatened secession, and there was no talk about it being treason, unconstitutional, or illegal. Jefferson said, "the several states who formed that instrument (the U.S. Constitution), being sovereign and independent, have the unquestionable right to judge of its infraction…” That is, secession is an inherent right and the states themselves ought to have sovereignty over the decision to secede. John Quincy Adams opined "the people of each state in the Union a right to secede from the confederated Union itself.” As pointed out by @Sedalia Dave above, clauses are left out here and there. But, worse is when the entire thing is subtly reworked into "modern language" to supposedly make it more understandable, but presented as being the original text. Those are usually on various .Gov lesson plans and aimed at students.