HauteHippie

See, this is why liberals should stay out of education. They completely misinterpret everything. Government schools (here in the USA anyhow) should always be entirely neutral. And admitting there are things about the world that we don't fully understand yet is a perfectly neutral, undogmatic, and agnostic truth.

Get rid of the one on the left.

I'd prefer to see schools stay neutral: teach that evolution accounts for most of the changes we see in recent history, but also mention that it doesn't fully explain the way things came to be.

Not permanent. You use a glue that can be easily pried apart with a razor blade or case back knife, etc. Very common practice.

You must have skipped out on the reading comprehension drills in school. I clearly left the door open to the possibility that the blasphemers might be right. It might be evolution... it might be God... who knows. Neither should be taught as fact. Certainly, the Biblical creation story is not supported by the evidence.

If you can't dazzle them with brilliance.......

Yea, that's what I've been saying all along. Evolution can explain incremental changes fairly well, but there is no evidence that it is responsible for creating complex organisms. Maybe it is responsible, but the secularists want us to take it on faith. Looks like the "Jesus freaks" hired themselves a writer!

What kind of spacer ring are you using around the movement? And can you glue the dial to it? This would be preferable, IMO, to dial dots.

In the scientific community, the debate is whether temperatures rise as a result of increased CO2 or whether CO2 concentrations rise as a result of increased temperatures. The most solid scientific evidence to date indicates the latter. And we do know that temps are rising in some areas, but we also know the increases are very slight, and they're not occurring globally. In Hollywood and the political arena, there is very little debate and the case is essentially closed by junk science.

Yes!!! In fact they're currently claiming that in some places it's getting warmer, in some places it's getting cooler, extreme events occur, and the average temperature is rising ever so slightly!! Wait, though. Isn't that the way the weather has always worked?

Most schools here don't teach junk science. They leave that for the politicians and Hollywood stars. I have, however, heard the 'global climate change' term tossed around but not just 'climate change.' I'm happy to hear that they've dropped the 'global' part now, though. Since it isn't really global after all.

http://edition.cnn.com/2007/US/weather/12/...ref=mpstoryview I guess it's not just Antarctica that's getting colder instead of warmer. Poor Iowans.

Yea, they handled this sort of thing better in the old days: just beat the hell out of the perp.

Looks like OFrei has one for $175. I'm in the camp of not having been able to remove noob bezels without ruining them, as well.

Agree 100%

Yes sir, a new coating process... Future runs will as well. Details coming soon. Part of the story is available here: http://www.rwg.cc/members/index.php?showto...mp;#entry360640

Oops, I missed this post. So, please forward my contribution to RWG.

I've been out of town and am glad to see this came together. Thanks for coordinating this, folks. My contribution has been submitted.

cornerstone is right. The noob bezel is a ridiculously tight fit. I'm guessing that the roughly $300 Bergeon bezel extractor would make easy work of it, but that's kind of silly.

Hmm, strange. They send discount codes in their news letter, so there must be a method for using them. I don't see it either, though.

You can use the same tool you use to remove the bracelet. Just put the spring bar in at a slight angle and compress the other side as you slide the end link into place.

No takers. And I agree 100% with The Zigmeister. Even though reattaching the cyclops is technically possible.... I don't think it's a good idea either - for several reasons.

We are definitely using quite different AR processes. The extreme high temps required for long term durability of any coating will melt cyclops glue during the coating process and ruin the crystal, therefore in the past when I have done crystals with cyclopes, I have done a single sided non-durable coating only on the interior surface. This can be done without removing the cyclops and can be done to the two piece sandwich crystals also. But in this case, Lello has removed his cyclops for the durable double sided run and is going to reattach it to the coated crystal after the fact. This is something nobody has ever tried, so it will be interesting.

The Zigmeister, your participation will be truly missed. You are a big reason why RWG has been a mile ahead of the rest and things will not be the same. Your breadth of knowledge, attention to detail, sense of fairness, and willingness to help is unparalleled. Today ought to be known as Black Thursday in RWG's history, and I can only hope that it will merely be an extended sabbatical, as opposed to permanent leave, from the forum.

We want to see it Moi babes. Post pics pronto!