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Holiday gatherings dispersed weeks ago, and still no one seems to have excused the kids' table.
Talented youth has served the Chronicle-area girls basketball scene throughout the season, a theme that continued during both Tri-Cities rivalry games over the weekend.
On Friday, Batavia freshman center Hannah Frazier kept the Bulldogs close against Geneva with a 12-point, 10-rebound effort. The next afternoon, St. Charles North sophomores Nicole Davidson and Sam Novak combined for 28 points, nearly helping the North Stars upset Upstate Eight Conference River Division leader St. Charles East at home.
Recently asked about her assimilation alongside Bulldogs freshman guard Bethany Orman, Frazier might as well have been speaking for the whole group of high-achieving underclassmen in these parts.
"We don't feel like veterans," Frazier said, "but we're definitely a lot more confident than the beginning because of all that's going on."
With Batavia (4-3 UEC River) and Geneva (5-2) among the teams chasing East (7-1) in the conference, that comfort can only help during tense situations.
While the Bulldogs and Vikings certainly feature several strong juniors and seniors on their respective rosters, having a complement of other options never hurts.
Last winter, the Vikings welcomed Abby Novak, then a freshman, as a late-season call-up. She fit right in, emerging during Geneva's run to the 4A Hoffman Estates Sectional, and has continued her progression this season, even as lineup shuffling has taken her from the post to guard.
"I've got my whole team to back me up," Novak said, "so they're all pushing for me to come through and play my best."
East showed similar support to sophomore guard Katie Claussner on Saturday, its bench erupting each time the left-hander delivered a basket or hustle play during an energetic first-half on the other side of the river.
Claussner's seven first-half points helped the Saints lead by that many at the break. She scored five straight points in a 31-second span near the end of the half, following a tight-roping basket from the baseline with a three-point play on a putback.
Saints coach Lori Drumtra deliberated over re-inserting Claussner in the final minutes of a 59-55 win, but her decision to stick with her veterans did not signal any overall reservations about Claussner.
"She's a good ballhandler, she can take it to the basket. She's a lefty, which gives us a little bit different look," Drumtra said. "I feel very confident with the ball in her hands, and she's very good at the free-throw line."
Among Chronicle-area freshmen and sophomores, Claussner isn't the only one.
Still, the young guns arguably have reached their apex at the second-highest point in Kane County. Burlington Central is off to a 6-0 start in the Big Northern East behind a roster that includes seven freshmen and sophomores among 10 players.
Barring any significant changes, North's Feb. 5 visit to Rocket Hill to close the regular season will include just five just seniors out of 25 players dressed.
That's an easy enough fraction to reduce, even for the Algebra I set.
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• Kevin Druley is a sports writer for the Kane County Chronicle. He can be reached at 630-845-5347 or email@example.com.

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Dezso Rozsa
Born: March 19, 1885
Budapest, Hungary
Dezso was from a Jewish family in Hungary's capital, Budapest. His father had been a violinist. Dezso earned a university degree in English, and became a language teacher. He wrote a number of high school grammar textbooks. In 1914 he married Iren Hajdu, who was a mathematician. The couple had two children; a daughter, Eva, born in 1918, and a son, Pal, born seven years later.
1933-39: I fear for the worst now that the antisemitic Prime Minister Teleki has taken power again. Nineteen years ago, in 1920, he pushed through a law to reduce Jewish admissions to high schools and universities to 6 percent--my children have always felt pressured to earn top grades. Now Teleki and other right-wingers have passed a new law that obliges Jewish public school teachers to leave their jobs: I'm being forced to retire early.
1940-44: Today is my 59th birthday and Pal and I went to visit Eva. Last year, in 1943, Eva was arrested as a communist and sent to prison, but she contracted tuberculosis there and was sent to a sanatorium outside Budapest. When we arrived, she told us the news she'd just heard--the Germans have invaded! She insisted we leave right away, and that we take the path through the woods. She was worried that if we took the bus on the main road we might get shot by the Germans. We said goodbye and made a beeline for the woods.
Later that year, the Hungarian fascists drafted Dezso into a forced-labor unit. He died sometime before the end of the war during a forced march out of Budapest.


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D.E. Marvin, comp. Curiosities in Proverbs.
Fortune and Luck in Proverbs
(See Superstition in Proverbs.)
A bold man has luck in his train. (Danish).
Good courage breaks ill luck. (English). Fortune favours the brave. (Latin, Spanish, English). To the bold man fortune gives her hand. (English, Spanish, German, Portuguese, French). Cowards have no luck. (German). Fortune helps the daring but repulses the timid. Fortune smiles upon the brave and frowns upon the coward. (Latin). Fortune is not far from the brave mans head. (Turkish).
The Germans say: Fortune helps the bold, but not always.
A stout man crushes ill luck. (Spanish).
Everyone is the author of his own good fortune. (French).
Everyone is the maker of his own fate. (English).
Everyone is the maker of his own fortune; and an uneasy, necessitous, busy man seems to me more miserable than he that is simply poor.
Michael de Montaigne.
Every wind is against a leaky ship. (Danish).
Fortune comes to her who seeks her. (Italian).
Luck comes to those that look after it. (Spanish).
Fortune does not stand waiting at anyones door. (Dutch).
Fortune helps them that help themselves. (English).
Fortune is the companion of virtue. (Latin).
Some men are so sure that they are the creatures of luck that the combined force of religion, philosophy, education, and experience is unable to change their opinion. It never occurs to fools, said Goethe, that merit and good fortune are closely united.
The word Luck is said to be derived from an old Anglo-Saxon verb meaning to catch and therefore signifies something caught. Such a derivation seems reasonable in view of the fact that prosperity and adversity are thought by many to be dependent on fleeting opportunities that must be seized in passing; whereas they are the result of an overshadowing providence and the working out of fixed laws.
Good fortune ever fights on the side of prudence. (Greek).
Good luck comes by cuffing. (English).
Good luck comes by elbowing. (Spanish).
Industry is the mother of good fortune. (Spanish).
The goddess of fortune dwells in the feet of the industrious; the goddess of misfortune dwells in the feet of the sluggard. (Tamil).
Luck follows the hopeful, ill luck the fearful. (German).
Luck stops at the door and inquires whether prudence is within. (Danish).
Luck will carry a man across the brook if he is not too lazy to leap. (Danish).
Put your finger in the fire and say it was your fortune. (Scotch).
The devils children have the devils luck. (English).
There is no one luckier than he who thinks himself so. (German).
A drop of fortune is worth a cask of wisdom. (Latin).
A handful of luck is better than a sackful of wisdom. Half an ounce of luck is better than a pound of sense. (German). A grain of good luck is better than an ass-load of skill. (Persian). An ounce of luck is better than a pound of wisdom. (English). Who has luck needs no understanding. (German).
Adversity makes a man, luck makes monsters. (French).
Tribulation brings understanding. (Latin). Wind in the face makes a man wise. (French). Adversity makes a man wise, not rich. Wisdom is a good purchase, though we pay dear for it. (English). Misfortune is a good teacher. (German).
A good bone never falls to a good dog. (French).
The worst pig gets the best acorn. (Spanish, Italian, Portuguese). The worst pig often gets the best pear. (English). The worst service, the better luck. (Dutch).
Other rules may vary, but this is the only one you will find without exceptionthat, in this world, the salary or reward is always in the inverse ratio of the duties performed.
Sydney Smith.
A jackal gives luck to those he meets, but let him beware of a dog. (Hindustani).
To meet a jackal is regarded by the people as an omen of good luck.
A lucky man needs little counsel. (Scotch, English).
Sometimes the proverb is rendered, Lucky men need no counsel.
A man does not seek his luck, his luck seeks its man. (Turkish).
A meeting in the sunlight is lucky and a burying in the rain. (Irish).
An unlucky fish taks bad bait. (Scotch).
An unlucky mans cart is eithly coupd. (Scotch).
An unhappy mans cart is eith to tumble. (Scotch).
Bad luck, bad credit. (German).
Bad luck often brings good luck. (German).
Give a man but luck and hell run through all the dangerous difficulties, both of sea and land, with success, and seldom or never fail of being happy, even beyond his own hopes. Tis wonderful how some persons thrive an-end in the world, and seem to prosper upon their very losses.
Oswald Dykes.
Better be the lucky man than the lucky mans son. (Scotch).
Better be lucky born than a rich mans son. (English).
Born of a white woman. (Latin).
Used in referring to one who was thought to be lucky.
By land or water the wind is ever in my face. (English).
By the cats good luck the string is broken. (Hindustani).
It is lucky for the cat when the string breaks by which food is hung to the rafters.
This proverb is applied to people who are favored by circumstances over which they have no control, and are thus enabled to secure benefits that they have not earned and positions beyond their ability to fill.
Dirt bodes luck. (Scotch).
The cleanly are comfortable, the dirty are lucky.
Even the street dog has his lucky days. (Japanese).
Fair eyes, unlucky hands. (Modern Greek).
This saying is applied to people who prefer genteel poverty to thrift and comfort.
Few have luck, all have death. (Danish).
Luck is for the few, death for the many. (German).
For him who is lucky even the cock lays eggs. (Modern Greek, Russian).
The lucky mans bitch litters pigs. (Spanish). From twelve eggs he gets thirteen chickens. His hens lay eggs with two yolks. (German). He extracts milk even from a barren goat. He planted pebbles and took potatoes. (Greek).
Fortune and misfortune are neighbours. (German).
Fortune and misfortune are two buckets in a well. (German). Fortune and misfortune dwell in the same courtyard. (Russian).
Fortune can take from us only what she has given us. (French).
Fortune has wings. (German).
Then in blynde fortune put not thy truste,
For her brightness sone receyveth ruste;
Fortune is fykill, fortune is blynde,
Her rewardes be fykill and unkynde.
Old Rhyme,
Fortune is a woman, if you neglect her today expect not to regain her tomorrow. (French).
Fortune is round, it makes one a king another a beggar. (Dutch).
Fortune makes kings out of beggars and beggars out of kings. Fortune makes kings and fools. (German).
Fortune knocks once at least at every mans door. (English).
When fortune knocks open the door. (German, Italian).
The goddess (Fortuna) is said to have once appeared in a vision to the Emperor Galba, who reigned
6869, and to have informed him that she was standing weary before his door, and that, if she were not quickly admitted, everyone dear to him would become her prey. On awakening he found outside the entrance-hall of his palace a bronze figure of fortune which he concealed beneath his garments and carried to his summer residence at Tusculum. There he set apart a sanctuary for the image and offered prayer to it each month, keeping, moreover, in its honour an all-night vigil every year.
Robert Means Lawrence in Magic of the Horse Shoe.
Fortune rarely brings good or evil singly. (English).
Fortune sometimes favours those she afterwards destroys. (Italian).
The worlds a lottery, cries the losing gamester; and he that wins one while, perhaps, may have nothing to brag of at the foot of the account. The tables may turn again, and then he must come off a loser, notwithstanding all his former lucky hits.
Oswald Dykes.
Fortune wearies with carrying one and the same man always. (English).
Give a man luck and throw him into the sea. (English).
Pitch him into the Nile and he will come up with a fish in his mouth. (Arabian).
God send you luck, my son, and little wit will serve your turn. (English).
A little wit sers a lucky man. (Scotch).
Good luck is better than early rising. (Irish).
If fortune favours you, go and sleep at ease. (Persian). Have fortune and go to sleep. (Italian).
Good luck is not sold in the market. (Persian).
Hap and mishap govern the world. (English).
Tis a common saw, that time and chance happen to all men, but when we see a person prodigiously fortunate and prosperous, we are apt to make a banter of the blessing, and jest upon Providence, with the romance of Fortunatus cap, Luck in a Bag, and What says Pluck? Thus is heaven foolishly insulted; and the success either of living happily, of marrying well, or of making ones fortune fairly any other way in the world, chances to be often ignorantly lampoond and falsely attributed to a mistaken Deity.
Oswald Dykes.
He dances well to whom fortune pipes. (English).
He falls on his back and breaks his nose. (French, Italian, English).
He is a horse with four white feet. (French).
He is lucky who forgets what cannot be mended. (German).
He that has luck brings home the bride. (German).
He that has luck leads the bride to church. (Dutch).
He that laughs on Friday will weep on Sunday. (English).
See Superstition in Proverbs: Friday is cross day for marriage.
Friday has generally been considered unlucky, yet it was the birthday of Washington, Bismarck, Gladstone, Disraeli, General Scott, and Spurgeon. While many untoward events have taken place on Friday, the records of history show that numerous achievements in art, science, discovery, and beneficence took place on the day. In common with every other day of the week, it is marked with good and evil both in the affairs of men and nations.
He that sings on Friday will weep on Sunday. As the Friday, so the Sunday; as the Sunday, so the week. On Thursday youll see what Friday will be. Fridays in the week are never alike. Fridays hair and Sundays horn goes to the Dule on Monday morn. Friday in the week is seldom a leek. Fridays night dream on Saturday told is sure to come true be it never so old. Fridays moon, come when it will, comes too soon. If you hear anything new on a Friday, it gives you another wrinkle on your face and adds another year to your age. (English).
Whoever is born on Friday must experience trouble. (Tyrolese). Fine on Friday, fine on Sunday; wet on Friday, wet on Sunday. (French).
Sometimes in Old England a person whose visage was gloomy or who looked disheartened was said to be Friday-faced.
The widespread opinion that Friday brought ill luck is said to have been due to the fact that Jesus was crucified on that day. As the event seemed to men of old a good reason for regarding the day as ominous of evil, it was easy to imagine other reasons to confirm their opinion, hence it was held that Friday was the day on which Adam ate the forbidden fruit and on which he was driven out of Paradise, the day on which Cain killed his brother, the deluge began, the tongues of the tower builders were confused, the plagues of Egypt began, Stephen was stoned, Herod the Great slew the children of Bethlehem, John the Baptist was slain, Peter was crucified, and Paul was beheaded.
There is no evidence that the prejudice against Friday is due to the fact that Jesus was crucified on that day. It was regarded as unlucky long before the Christian era and looked upon as an unauspicious time to begin a journey, make a visit, undertake an enterprise, or perform a task.
There is an aversion to the day among the Brahmins of India, the peasants of Russia, the people of France, Germany, Spain, Italy, and other lands; indeed the aversion is well-nigh universal.
On the other hand, the day has not been without its defenders. It was selected by Mahomet for public prayer and is believed by Mohammedans as the most auspicious day of the week. In mediæval times it was considered by the Germans and Hebrews as the most suitable day for weddings. Egyptians hold Friday in honour. In Servia a child is considered particularly fortunate who is born on the day, for the reason that the fact will protect him in after life from the assaults of hogs and sorcerers; and among the North Germans it is held to be the best day on which to begin gathering the harvest.
He was born upon St. Galtperts night, three days before luck. (Dutch).
He who has bad luck hazards boldly. (Spanish).
He who is lucky passes for a wise man. (Italian).
He would break his neck upon a straw. (Italian).
He would drown in a spoonful of water. (Italian).
He would sink a ship freighted with crucifixes. (Provençal).
If an unlucky man becomes a cultivator, either his oxen die or there is a want of rain. (Hindustani).
If I went to sea I should find it dry. (Italian). Wherever the human wretch goes there will be famine. (Hindustani). When bad fortune becomes ones companion, he will be bitten by a dog although mounted on a camel. If an unlucky person goes to the river he makes it smokesets it on fire. (Persian). If I were to trade in winding-sheets no one would die. (Arabian). If my father had made me a hatter, men would have been born without heads. (German, Irish).
If eer you mak a lucky puddin Ill eat the prick. (Scotch).
If ever you become lucky, which you never will, Ill get nothing out of it.
If fortune assist you, your teeth can break an anvil; but should it desert you, your teeth will be broken by eating flummery. (Persian).
If he starts on Wednesday he will return at some time or other. (Marathi).
He will be sure to return as Wednesday is a lucky day on which to begin a journey.
If he threw up a groschen on the roof down would come a thaler to him. (German).
If it is to be luck, the bull may as well calve as the cow. (Danish).
If there be two sneezes from one nostril, Shadeva says the omen is good. (Marathi).
Shadeva was a celebrated astrologer.
If thou wert to see my luck, thou wouldst trample it under foot. (Arabian).
You are so unlucky that you would not profit by my good luck if it were yours.
Ill luck enters by arms full, and departs by inches. (Spanish).
Ill luck is worse than found money. (English).
It avails little to the unfortunate to be brave. (Spanish).
It is a bad omen to meet one with a high forehead and curly hair. (Tamil).
It is better to be born lucky than rich. (English).
Better be born lucky than wise. (English, Italian).
It is easier to win good luck than to retain it. (Latin).
It is lucky to see a wolf; it is also lucky not to see one. (Persian).
It is considered a good omen in Persia to see a wolf when beginning a journey; it is also considered unfortunate to meet another wolf on the way because of the fear and nervousness which would be excited.
It is not every man who is the son of Gaika. (Kaffir).
Gaika was a very wealthy South African.
Its no sonsie to meet a bare fit i the mornin. (Scotch).
It was my luck, my laddy. (Scotch).
Labour without luck helps not. (German).
Left and right brings good at night. (English).
The reference is to the itching of the eyelids. When the lids of the right eye itch, it is a sign of good luck; when the lids of the left eye itch, it is a sign of bad luck; when the lids of both eyes itch at the same time, it is a sign that good will come at night.
Left before right, youll cry before night. Left eye cry, right eye joy. (English).
Luck gives many too much, but no one enough. (German).
Luck has much for many but enough for no one. (Danish).
Luck has but a slender anchorage. (Danish).
Luck is better than a hundred marks. (Danish).
Luck perhaps visits the fool, but does not sit down with him. (German).
Luck meets the fool but he seizes it not. (German). Fortune often knocks at the door, but the fool does not invite her in. (Danish).
Luck seeks those who flee, and flees those who seek it. (German).
Maggots breed in his salt box. (Basque).
Mair by luck than gude guiding. (Scotch).
Marry in May and rue for aye. (English).
May has always been considered as an unlucky month in which to be married. The reason for the prejudice is unknown. Some have thought that it was because the month should be set apart and dedicated to the Virgin Mary, but the prejudice existed before Christ was born and in non-Christian lands.
No tapers then should burn, nor ever bride,
Linkd at this season long her bliss enjoyd;
Hence our wise masters of proverbs say,
The girls are all stark naught that wed in May.
The above quotation was placed on the gates of Holyrood Palace on the morning of May 16, 1567, when Mary Queen of Scots married Bothwell.
Let maid or widow that would turn to wife,
Avoid this season dangerous to life;
If you regard old saws, mind this they say,
Tis bad to marry in the month of May.
That the prejudice against May marriages is common is attested by many proverbs: Marry in May, repent always. May is the month to marry bad wives. The girls are stark mad that wed in May. Tis bad to marry in the month of May. (Latin). Marriage in May is unlucky. Good folks do not marry in May. (Russian). Who marries between sickle and scythe will never thrive. (English). May birds are aye cheepin,referring to the supposed physical weakness of children whose parents married in May. O the marriages in May, the bairns die o a decay. To marry in May is to wed poverty. (Scotch).
The proverbs teach and common people say,
Its ill to marry in the month of May.
Old Rhyme.
More luck than wit. (Dutch).
More unlucky than a dog in church. (Italian).
Neer luck when a priest is on board. (Scotch).
Andrew Cheviot declares that the superstition among sailors that it is unlucky to have a priest on board a vessel is still held in Scotland and that it probably originated with the story of Jonah.
See a pin and let it lie, youre sure to want before you die. (English).
There are various renderings to this proverb. Among them are the following: See a pin and let it lie, youll want a pin before you die. See a pin and let it stay, youll want a pin another day. See a pin and let it lay, bad luck youll have all the day. See a pin and let it lie, all the day youll have to cry.
The proverb is frequently lengthened by prefixing the statement, See a pin and pick it up, all the day youll have good luck.
The same thought is expressed in the English saying: He that will not when he may, when he will he shall have nay.
We are told that Sir W. Coventry quoted the maxim to Charles II, He that will not stoop for a pin will never be worth a pound, and declared it to be an English proverb.
She that pricks bread with fork or knife will never be happy maid or wife. (English).
It was thought to be unlucky in the middle ages to prick bread with anything but a skewer.
The bird of prosperity has lodged on his head. (Turkish).
The deils bairns hae aye their daddys luck. (Scotch).
The feet of mendicants drive away ill luck. (Persian).
The highest spoke in fortunes wheel may soon turn lowest. (English).
The lucky man has a daughter for his first-born. (Portuguese, Spanish).
The lucky man waits for prosperity; the unlucky man gives a blind leap. (Irish).
He that takes too great a leap falls into the ditch. Look before you leap, for snakes among sweet flowers creep. (English). Take care before you leap. (Italian). Before you leap look at the ground. (Malabar). First consider, then begin. (German). He that looks not ere he loup, will fa ere he wat. (Scotch). Look before you leap. (In many languages).
Look ere thou leap, see ere thou go.
Thomas Tusser.
And though they seem wives for you never so fit,
Yet let not harmful haste so far outrun your wit,
But that ye hark to hear all the whole sum
That may please or displease you in time to come;
Thus by these lessons, you may learn good cheap
In wedding and all things to look or ye leap.
John Heywood.
The melon and marriage must depend upon good luck. (Spanish).
The morning salutation to the bean-seller, and not to the druggist. (Arabian).
It is generally believed in the East that the luck of the day is dependent on the first object seen in the morning. It is more fortunate therefore to meet the seller of coarse horse-beans (used for food by the lower classes), who provides them for healthy peasants, than to meet a druggist, who is the common physician for those who may be ill.
The most friendly fortune trips up your heels. (French).
Theres no fence against fortune. (English).
There is no fence against a panic. There is no fence against a flail. (English).
There is no one luckier than he who thinks himself so. (German).
The son of the white hen. (Spanish).
A phrase applied to men who are supposed to be lucky.
The sun once stood still, the wheel of fortune, never. (Spanish).
See Josh. x:13.
The unfortunate are counted fools. (English).
The waur luck now, the better anither time. (English, Scotch).
If you had won it, certainly you had.
No, no; when Fortune means to men most good,
She looks upon them with a threatening eye.
King John.
The wheel of fortune turns quicker than a mill wheel. (Spanish).
Whats worse than ill luck? (English, Scotch).
What is worse than ill luck? The anticipation of ithence the wisdom of the Irish saying: Every man has bad luck awaiting him some time or other, but leave the bad luck to the last; perhaps it may never come.
When fortune opens one door, she opens another. (German).
When fortune reaches out her hand one must seize it. (German).
When fortune smiles on thee take advantage. (English).
When smiling fortune spreads her golden ray,
All crowd around to flatter and obey,
But when she thunders from the angry sky,
Our friends, our flatterers, our lovers fly.
When luck is wanting diligence is useless. (Spanish).
For theres nae luck about the house,
Theres nae luck at a;
Theres little pleasure in the house
When our gude mans awa.
W. J. Mickle.
When youre in ill luck, a snake can bite you even with its tail. (Martinique Creole).
Who changes country, changes luck. (Italian).
Who changes his condition changes fortune. (Italian). Change of pasture makes fat calves. (English).
Who has luck warms himself without fire and grinds without wind or water. (German).
Who has no ill luck grows tired of good. (Spanish).
Whom fortune favours the world favours. (German).
You must have good luck to catch hares with a drum. (Danish).
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WASHINGTON — Paul George had a career playoff-high 39 points and added 12 rebounds to lead the Indiana Pacers back from a 19-point deficit and past the Washington Wizards 95-92 on Sunday night to move one victory away from returning to the Eastern Conference finals.
The Pacers lead the second-round series 3-1 and can close it out Tuesday night, hosting Game 5.
George played 46 minutes and scored 28 points after halftime Sunday, including making six of his franchise playoff-record-tying seven 3-pointers.
"I kept wanting to try to get him a rest, and he kept saying, `No,'" Pacers coach Frank Vogel said. "And usually I'll override that, but he kept making big shots, too."
Roy Hibbert had 17 points and nine rebounds, continuing his recent surge after a poor-as-can-be start to the series, the zero-point, zero-rebound showing in a Game 1 loss. But he has responded with 28 points in Game 2, then 14 in Game 3, before helping Indiana win its third consecutive game Sunday, when Hibbert said he got a motivational boost from what he called a heckling fan.
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Hibbert helped Indiana overcome Washington's 32-2 advantage in bench scoring.
The Wizards were up 17 at halftime, then made it 57-38 on Nene's basket to open the third quarter.
That was thanks mainly to 30-somethings Al Harrington, Drew Gooden and Andre Miller, who combined for 28 points, 13 rebounds and six assists. Wizards coach Randy Wittman likes to call that trio of not-yet-retired, best-days-behind-them guys — Miller, 38; Harrington, 34; Gooden, 32 — the "AARP group," but they momentarily turned the game Washington's way with quite a second quarter and a key stretch of the fourth.
There even were chants of "An-dre Mil-ler!" when he made two free throws in the fourth quarter to make it 85-76. But George willed the Pacers back.
His 3 with 5 minutes left made it 85-79, and another 30 seconds later made it 85-82, giving him seven from beyond the arc, matching a mark held by Reggie Miller and Chuck Person.
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At the other end, Hibbert made a 12-foot turnaround hook shot with 1:02 remaining to put the Pacers up 94-91, the ball bouncing on the rim before dropping through. The 7-foot-2 All-Star center sprinted down the court, his arms spread apart and his smile as wide as can be.
Wall then passed up an open 3-pointer, instead passing to Bradley Beal, who missed a 3 try.
"John's going to close out games and this is part of his growing up," Wittman said.
Indiana's next possession ended with George Hill throwing the ball out of bounds for his team's 19th of 20 turnovers, but Harrington missed a shot at the other end. Yet another Pacers turnover gave the Wizards a second chance, and Beal was fouled. He made 1 of 2, and George — who else? — grabbed the rebound. Hill was fouled, and went 1 for 2 at the line.
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Porto Rotondo, Italy - Saturday marked the penultimate day for teams competing at the 2013 Melges 32 World Championship, hosted by the Yacht Club Porto Rotondo (YCPR) in coordination with Yacht Club Costa Smeralda (YCCS), B.Plan Sports & Events (BPSE) and Melges Europe.
Glorious sunshine mixed with light breezes and calm seas set the stage for three additional amazing races. Richard Goransson aboard Helly Hansen Inga From Sweden captured the win in Race Five, Alessandro Rombelli's Azimut by STIG won Race Six (his very first in the Melges 32 class) and lastly, Naofumi Kamei on Mamma Aiuto! gladly took the win in Race Seven.
But the real story of the day is that Andrea Pozzi aboard Bombarda now finds himself in the lead by two points, just in front of Jason Carroll on Argo. Carroll came on strong early on in the Championship to lead up until today. After discards went into effect after Race Six, the scoreboard was shuffled leaving Carroll in second, and Rombelli in third overall. Completing the top five standings are Deneen Demourkas on Groovederci, then Kamei in fourth and fifth respectively.
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2.) Jason Carroll/Cameron Appleton, ARGO; 5-4-6-2-[8]-4-8 = 29
3.) Alessandro Rombelli/Paul Goodison, Azimut by STIG; 4-8-9-[13]-2-1-9 = 33
4.) Deneen Demourkas/Francesco Bruni, Groovederci; 6-[20]-5-9-10-2-4 = 36
5.) Naofumi Kamei/Manuel Weiller, Mamma Aiuto!; 7-9-1-8-15-[21]-1 = 41
6.) Lanfranco Cirillo/Michele Paoletti, Fantastica; [27/DNF]-7-4-18-5-6-5 = 45
7.) Vincenzo Onorato/Gabriele Benussi, Mascalzone Latino; 8-1-3-11-13-[25]-19 = 55
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9.) Roberto Tomasini Grinover/Vasco Vascotto, Robertissima; [15]-15-12-15-6-3-10 = 61
10.) Malcolm Gefter/Steve Hunt, Celeritas; 16-5-17-12-9-[23]-7 = 66
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Our hot water smells bad. the cold water is alright. Does this have anything to do with the anode rod in the hot water tank?
Our hot water smells bad. the cold water is alright. Does this have anything to do with the anode rod in the hot water tank?
Last edited by Charles Pennell; 07-03-2008 at 05:02 PM.
That could be the case. A sulfur reducing bacteria is also a cause for that rotten-egg odor.
You can remove the rod and put some bleach in the heater to kill the smell.
Andy Christensen, CWS-II
You can also raise the temp on the heater to 140*f. That will kill the bacteria responsible for the creation of the odor.
True, raising the temperature to 140-F (medium setting on most heaters) can kill bacteria but whenever I give this as a treatment, I append it with a very strong caution against scalding. Without this warning, one must assume that a very dangerous situation can be created.
Furthermore, to avoid disaster, this should only be done with a heater that has a functioning pressure release valve. After about eight to ten hours, the heater should be drained and temperature setting returned to normal. This should always be included when giving instructions in raising temperature as a method of treatment to prevent injury.
The odor will temporarily go away but can quickly return unless more permanent measures are taken. Removing the anode rod will eliminate the problem but can shorten the life of the heater. Zinc or aluminum rods can be used with better results than magnesium rods.
A prefilter housing can be installed before the heater and, occasionally, a small amount of bleach or hydrogen peroxide can be supplied. This makes the treatment easy and can be very effective.
Please be careful with handling this in half-way measures.
Andy Christensen, CWS-II
IIRC, up until the '80s, all water heaters in this country were factory set at 140*f. People would check the temp of the water before using it. I believe that people still do that, but maybe not since there is no requirement for a CAUTION label on faucets...
Raising the temp (and adding all the stick on caution labels necessary) is a much better solution than finding some way of putting bleach into a water heater once in awhile.
All water heaters have a T/P relief valve. Rarely to never do they fail to open when needed; although some do not like to shut off afterwards.
There is no need to drain a heater after raising the temp but along the lines of SAFETY; CAUTION, you must turn off the power or gas or oil before doing so AND remember that the water will be hot and can cause garden hose to fail and the hot water can kill plants, fish, worms, bugs etc. etc. etc..
I sent you a private message with a web site. I hope that makes things clearer and easier to understand.
thank you,
Andy Christensen, CWS-II
I forgot to mention that all water heater T/P relief valves are factory set at 180*f.
Thank you Gary. That was helpful.
Andy Christensen, CWS-II
Thanks Andy, sorry to say that your PM wasn't helpful.
PM stands for private messge.
And on some forums it's a DM.
Sorry, I don't know what that means. Perhaps you could elaborate.
Sorry no, it's true with most things in life that you learn more if you figure things out on your own.


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A creature that inhabits the rural areas of the Baltic, most commonly found in Estonia. It resembles a hamster with a tail of a skunk and the head of a hippo. In nature they are considered to be very shy, unsocial with very bad eye sight. When compared to other creatures in the animal kingdom what stands out most about these little critters is that they never ever, EVER, leave their parents and are directly in need of them even when they have offspring of their own. The main reason why this creature is so rare is due to its lack of the " social gene " which limits their mating capabilities to pure dumb luck. The creature even though considers it self superior to every other creature in fact is the most inferior being in the entire tree of life. Scientists are still baffled at how it is still alive. Oh well " Dumb Luck " right ?
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The United States Army Pigeon Service was a unit of the United States Army during World War I and World War II. Signal pigeons for the Army were procured, bred, trained, and issued under the supervision of the Pigeon Service, an element of the Army's Signal Corps. Their assignment was the training and usage of homing pigeons for communication and reconnaissance purposes.
The beginning of World War II found the Armys pigeon center located at Fort Monmouth where it had been since 1919 when the latter-then named Camp Alfred Vail began a program for developing the type of pigeon most suitable for military purposes. During 1942 this center, including its veterinary personnel which had just joined, moved to Camp Crowder, Mo., where it remained until after V-J Day when it was reestablished at Fort Monmouth.
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During World War II the objectives of the Army Veterinary Service concerned with signal pigeons became the protection of pigeon health, the preservation of their physical efficiency, and the safeguard against introducing or disseminating pigeon-borne diseases affecting other animals and the human being.
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Jake Owen got some unexpected onstage help during Sunday's show in West Springfield, Mass. While singing 'Eight Second Ride,' the singer was joined by Carson, a young fan with some old-school moves. "I've seen a lot of kids onstage before, but I've never seen a kid rock out like Carson," he said after their impromptu duet was finished.
As seen in the video below, the kid holds nothing back. He mixes break dancing with air guitar, until Owen gives him a real guitar to finish the song with. Although it's not plugged in, the tyke works the strings like he's been doing it for years. Owen can't stop laughing, but Carson is serious about his work until the moment he's lifted back to his spot in the audience.
"Now that is exactly why I love YouTube right there," Owen tells the crowd. He may have gotten the idea to bring kids onstage after watching his summer tour partner Keith Urban do the same during his set. Urban's fans only got to sing along, however. There weren't any reports of one rocking out as hard as Carson did on Sunday.
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Konya is a city in Central Anatolia in Turkey, known as the city of whirling dervishes and for its outstanding Seljuk architecture.
Konya was once the capital of Sultanate of Rum, known in Turkish as Anadolu Selçukluları, a situation which resulted in much of the architectural heritage visible today. The poet and Sufi thinker Rumi [11] also settled in the city during this period.
Despite rapid growth in recent years, and the arrival of many students from out of town in the Selçuk University (Selçuk Üniversitesi), founded in 1975, Konya still retains the air of an Anatolian provincial town. Even though the influx of tourists from the west has increased considerably visitors are still left in peace, and do not have to suffer the hassles they get in Istanbul. On the downside perhaps is the fact that fewer people speak English (or any other foreign language), but the natural hospitality of the people of Konya usually makes up for that. Be careful with taxi drivers, who sometimes have no scruples about ripping off visitors to their city.
Konya is also one of the most conservative cities in Turkey with more women covering their heads with headscarves (though visitors will notice that the number of women covering is perhaps slightly above 50%). Dress modestly if you want to fit in with the local population, although not many people will bat an eye lid if you choose not to.
The city lies on a totally flat ground, with the sole exception of a small hill called Alaattin Tepesi in the very centre of the city—which is actually a man-made hill, erected during the Seljuk period so noble residents could easily watch the city below from their palace. Almost nothing remained of the palace and the hill now serves as the central park, which is a quite pleasant and shady one.
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By plane
Turkish Airlines [12] and Pegasus Airlines [13] offer flights from Istanbul to Konya Airport (IATA: KYA, ICAO: LTAN), located about 18 km out of city. In the summer period it's also possible to fly from various European countries, such as Netherlands, Germany, Norway, Denmark. The easiest and cheapest way to get to the city centre from the airport is to take the shuttle buses provided by Havaş, which takes around 30 minutes and costs 9 TL pp [14].
By train
Until recently trains constituted a slower alternative to travelling by bus or car. However with the new high-speed trains (Yüksek Hızlı Treni, abbreviated YHT) all that have changed, journey time from Ankara have been massively reduced to just 1:40 h, down from almost ten hours (in pure theory, though, as Turkish State Railways never offered passenger trains between Ankara and Konya before, due to the absurdly long de-tours across the country the rail network formerly took between these two neighbouring cities)! Although not offering the charm of travelling while enjoying the landscapes slowly changing on the other side of the window, these new trains makes it much more practical to reach Konya. As of now there are fours trains every day, however more depatures will be added in the near future.
From Istanbul, there are still two nightly sleeper services (via İzmit, Eskişehir-Enveriye station, Kütahya, and Afyon), the Meram Express departing at 7:40PM from Haydarpaşa station and arriving in Konya just before 9AM the following day. İçanadolu Mavi Treni departs later in the evening at 11:50PM and is a bit slower, not arriving until afternoon to make its brief stop-over on its way to Adana (via Karaman). Fares starts at 35 TL for second class, 77 TL for first class sleepers.
The Konya railway station is located in the suburb of Meram, some distance from the centre; it is easy enough to take a taxi from the station to the centre, but surprisingly some of the taxi drivers are not familiar with the locations of the main hotels. Alternatively it is about 30–40 minutes' walk to the city centre, given you don't have heavy backpacks.
As all the rail works is not finished yet, expect (temporary) cancellations of many inter-city train services. There is usually a replacement bus waiting but there will be delays. Always check with the Turkish State Railways [15].
By bus
Ther are a number of travel agencies on Mevlana Caddesi, Konya's main street, where you can buy bus tickets. The destinations they deal with are written outside.
Konya's bus station (otogar) has good connections to a wide range of destinations, including Istanbul (~10 hours, 40 TL.), Izmir (~9 hours, 30 TL.), Ankara (3.15 hours, 20TL), and Cappadocia (~3 hours).
When you are issued a bus ticket you will be told which gate at the station your bus will leave from; you need to be vigilant, however, as the buses sometimes park at another gate close by.
The bus station is several kilometres (7km) away from Konya's main sites of interest, most of which are located around Alaaddin Tepesi in the city centre. A number of minibuses depart from outside the bus station, of which some stop in or near Alaaddin Tepesi: these take about 30 minutes and should cost less than 2 YTL. Alternatively, Konya's tram line—which conveniently has a stop at otogar—terminates in a loop around Alaaddin Tepesi: this also takes about 30 minutes and costs 1 YTL per person.
Check [16] for timetables.
By car
Konya is a 3-hour drive from Ankara and 10 hours (660km) from Istanbul. From Izmir you will get in 7 hours in Konya. Also it takes 3 and half hour from Antalya by car.
Get around
In the city of Konya you can travel with the dolmuş minibuses, public urban buses (belediye otobüsü), tram or taxi. Most sites of interest, though, with the notable exception of the suburb of Meram, are clustered in the city center and are walking distance away from each other. Via tram, though, from Alaadin (the heart of the old city), you can take the tram all the way to Selçuk University on the outskirts or the city and pass a few sites of interest (Japon Parki being one of them). The tramvay has close to 25 stops on it and from Alaadin to Selçuk University (the end), it takes an hour.
1) Necmettin Erbakan Üniversitesi at the Karatay Kampusu. Coming from Alaadin, get off at the Kule tramvay station and take a right. Walk for several hundred meters until you reach the next main road and then take a left. Keep going for two to three hundred meters until you see the statue of the five or six dervishes at the round about - the university is there. Otherwise, call 03322362144. Make sure you call after 1:30 and listen to the recording before an employee (who doesn't speak English) picks up. Keep saying "Tömer" until they transfer you to a Turkish teacher who usually speaks broken English. Turkish is offered for $300US paid in Turkish lira per level (A1.1, A1.2, A2.1, A2.2, B1.1, B1.2, B2.1, B2.2, C1.1, C1.2). Each level is 70+ hours of classroom time spread out up to six weeks. Classes are offered in the mornings and evenings and start when there are 10 students enrolled. Passport holders of Arab and Turkic nations are given a 30% discount.
2) Mevlana Üniversitesi On the edge of town in Bosna Hersek, easily accessible by tramvay. Significantly more expensive than Necmettin Erbakan, only offers full time classes in the mornings. Cohorts begin at the beginning of the school year, though with 15 students, new classes will open up. http://www.mevlana.edu.tr/
Pretty much all the work available to foreigners in Konya is relegated to teaching English or subject teaching at a university in English. If you have some credentials (i.e. a BA and a CELTA/TEFL cert or a BA and some experience), you can easily land a job in a university making some hefty coin by local standards that allows you to live high on the hog. There are four universities in Konya:
1) Mevlana Üniversitesi: private university located on the outskirts of the town. 2,000+ students. About a kilometer from Selçuk Üniversitesi. http://www.mevlana.edu.tr/
2) KTO Karatay Üniversitesi: http://www.karatay.edu.tr/ Located in the downtown, focuses on industry and business.
3) Selçuk Üniversitesi http://www.selcuk.edu.tr/English/DefaultEng.aspx This is the largest university in Turkey with about 80,000 students. It's main campus is on the edge of town, a kilometer far from Mevlana Üniversitesi
4) Necmettin Erbakan Üniversitesi: http://www.konya.edu.tr/ Government university that was part of Selcuk University in 2011. They have at least two campuses in the downtown. They offer Turkish lessons to foreigners.
Traditional local cuisine mainly depends on wheat/bread and mutton - the major agricultural products of Central Anatolian steppe on which Konya is situated.
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What makes a Jew? It's what you do
This article originally appeared at forward.com, Oct. 1, 2013, reprinted with permission.
There's a classic story in my family about the time many years ago when we sat around the table at Aunt Sarah's house loudly debating what it meant to be a Jew in America. Bubbe Esther, my husband's grandmother, sat quietly in the corner until someone thought to ask her.
How do you define being a Jew, Bubbe?
I'll never forget her answer: A Jew is what a Jew does.
For the religiously observant, Yiddish-speaking immigrants of her generation, the outlines of what "doing Jewish" meant were clear and defined. But no such clarity existed for my generation, and my children's. Ever since I became editor of the Forward in 2008, I became more and more convinced that too many people claimed to speak for American Jews politically, religiously and culturally without much proof for their assertions. The surveys that existed were suspect. The last major one, the 2000 National Jewish Population Survey, was so rife with problems that the version expected in 2010 was cancelled.
That's when I approached some folks I knew at the Pew Research Center with the idea of conducting one of their trademark national surveys on a group they'd never researched in the past in such detail—American Jews. Or, as Pew refers to us, Jewish Americans.
There's a reason why this was a long, complicated and expensive undertaking: Jews comprise such a small percentage of the American population but are so diverse and dispersed that surveyors must reach out to an incredible number of people just to ascertain a representative sample. An even larger task was deciding how to categorize Jews. Are we a religion? An ethnic group? A modern tribe? All of the above?
Pew's first, understandable predilection was to think of Jews as they do Catholics, evangelical Christians, or Muslims—that is, a group defined by religious beliefs and practices. But there is a proud history of secular or cultural Judaism (whatever you like to call it) that doesn't fit that definition at all, and Jews who identify that way needed to be counted, too. So the decision was made to allow respondents to identify themselves as Jews, however they chose to, and then probe their attitudes and behaviors without judgement.
Pew could do this with authority not only because of its stellar history of conducting nonpartisan, first-rate surveys on religion, but because, well, it's not part of the Jewish community. It had no agenda here. The results would be what they would be, without concern for the public perception or policy implications. That's for the Jewish community to worry about. (And we should be worried.)
There was another benefit in Pew's experience with surveying other religious groups: being able to ask similar questions, and so adding a richer level of analysis by comparing Jews to other Americans. Hence Pew's term "Jewish Americans." Being Jewish is the descriptor, the adjective, to the core identity of being American. Substitute "Christian" or "Muslim" and you see where we are on the continuum.
But "American Jews", the term you see used at the Forward and countless other places in the Jewish community, has a different connotation. We feel no less American, but we recognize that being Jewish transcends nationality in time and space, connecting us to Jews in Israel and the world over. It's a semantic difference, but a powerful one. Whether it will remain so—whether American Jews will continue to prioritize being Jewish over assimilating into a more amorphous American culture—is one of the profound questions raised by this study, one I hope we will all grapple with in the days and weeks to come.


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In January 2007, WHOI scientists Jian Lin, who grew up in China, and Chris German, who grew up in England, became the new chair and co-chair of an international organization called InterRidge. The group helps coordinate research activities of roughly 2,500 scientists from 25 countries who study mid-ocean ridges. InterRidge will be based at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution for the next three years.
"InterRidge helps facilitate partnerships to accomplish what any one country would be hard-pressed to do on its own," Lin said. "Cutting-edge ocean sciences in the 21st century require increasing international cooperation and resources. We are honored to have an opportunity to lead the international community in promoting and coordinating scientific research and exploration of the fascinat-ing deep-ocean geological, hydrothermal, and biological processes along the global mid-ocean ridges." (For more information, visit interridge.whoi.edu.)
German and Lin collaborate closely on research and recently returned from an expedition to the Indian Ocean where they contributed to the discovery of the first deep-sea hydrothermal vents along the ultraslow-spreading Southwest Indian Ridge (see "A Ridge Too Slow" http://www.whoi.edu/oceanus/viewArticle.do?id=26106§ionid=1021).
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Lin, a marine geophysicist, was elected a Fellow of the Geological Society of America in recognition of his "innovative, significant, and continuing contributions to the understanding of global ocean ridge processes and earthquake interactions."
WHOI scientists Chris German (right) and Jian Lin (fourth from right) took part in an expedition, along with WHOI researchers Dana Yoerger (third from right), Al Duester, and Andy Billings, (sixth and seventh from right) aboard the Chinese research ship Dayang I, where they helped discover the first deep-sea hydrothermal vents along the Southwest Indian Ridge. In January, Lin and German became chair and co-chair of InterRidge, an international organization of mid-ocean ridge researchers, which will be based at WHOI for the next three years. Lin and German also won prestigious awards recently. (Photo courtesy of Dana Yoerger, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)


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if I had to go whack 25 pounds of onions to a fine dice ala' a restaurant prep station, no quibble in my mind I'd be looking for a bigger knife _and_ a bigger cutting board <g>
can't think of when I need to attack more that one large onion.... oh, did onion soup - actually, got out the mandolin and whacked'em real fast.
About the mandolines, Cooks Illustrated tested mandolines in the last couple of months and liked the $50 Oxo best---better than the $300 All-Clad. That sure caught my eye. I'm in the market for a mandoline but haven't pulled the trigger yet.
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if I had to go whack 25 pounds of onions to a fine dice ala' a restaurant prep station, no quibble in my mind I'd be looking for a bigger knife _and_ a bigger cutting board <g>
can't think of when I need to attack more that one large onion.... oh, did onion soup - actually, got out the mandolin and whacked'em real fast.
2-3 carrots and a clip; perhaps two stalks of celery... the odd parsnip or turnip.... on a "home" scale the 10" is really big enough, methinks.
I like the six inch chefs for small tasks because it is very easy to control - not so much "aiming&hoping" involved - radishes, 2-3 scallions, smashed garlic clove or three, shallots, skinny chilies.... rarely rarely used on meat cuts, come to think of it.
the eight inch chef is my all purpose - disassembling chicken, trimming meat cuts / fat, larger qty of veg prep, etc.
Where I cook it's more like dicing a 50# sack of onions,then florretting 2 cases of broccoli and in the afternoon there's that 8 10# sacks of half frozen beef,and a dozen buns of fresh basil. My slicer is also important.
I recommend the Kershaw Wasabi 8 1/2" Deba for a "brute force" knife. The single edge stays sharp through some very rough work and it won't chip. It's steel is probably around a 58 rockwell,close to a Forschner which is also rugged,but not quite as burly as that deba.
Shun does make very good knives,it's another brand of Kai/Kershaw.
The various Shun lines are typically laminates with a core of VG 10 (aka VG Gold) steel which is usually treated to 59-61 rockwell and is relatively tough and corrosion resistant for being that hard. Several other Japanese premium knives also use a VG 10 core. The only step up beyond that is a powder steel super alloy like Cowry X but that is VERY expensive.
Even with VG 10....you have to EARN it. For home use, I'd probably do a touch-up sharpening once a month. At work...it's more like twice a week.
Learning to sharpen WELL is almost a rite of passage if you want to have a premium Japanese knife. Until your skills on the stone are pretty good.....my $30 Forschner will out cut a $130 Misuno. The advantage of a HARD core is you can lay down a very LOW angle,more acute,and that very fine edge won't quickly blunt. Many knives can take a sharper angle than the factory edge,Forschner's are a good example.
A blade that is relatively thin can sharpen up more than a thicker spined blade. The premium Forged Forschner can't get as sharp as the stamped type,which has a much thinner blade. The forged model may last 100 years....but I won't. MAC has favored a rather thin blade. The round tipped 7" in their original series is a knife that can get VERY sharp and is light. It's not as hard as a VG 10 but costs less and is sweet as a fast/sharp/lightweight. I have a Kershaw 7" 7700 clad. It has a VG7 core..which is like VG 10 minus the cobalt. It's a bit like a Shun for poor folk. Very nice,very sharp,ergonomic,not real easy to find them. I got mine on a special at about half price.
I like having a workhorse chef's 8 or 10",a big Deba that can take abuse,a sharp flexy slicer (no dimples) a fast/VERY sharp light "small" chef's or Santuko, a boner-utility and a small decent parer. The full size Chef's and the small Chef's/santuko is where I'd be willing to spend a bit extra.
A serrated bread knife may also be useful. No point in spending a lot on a serrated. My Forschner slicer is sharp enough that it serves me as a bread slicer rather well.
For a paring knife, a good grip is probably more relevant than fancy steel.
I don't use a parer much and the one in my kit is rather generic but the handle is just right for agility and control.
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