i'm about to begin the start-up of a metal sculpture workshop for a small class of high school students(6). the group is made up of juniors and seniors who are part of a 3-d art class. now besides all the obvious stuff about safety is there anything special that i need to know about that may act as a hindrance? the center offers shop classes in the same building(it's a career center or what we used to call the vocational technology center) and the plan is to conduct it like shop class using all of their safety guidelines with both the shop teacher and the art teacher involved. there will be welding with mig and grinding and cutting, but no torches or open flame. right now we're at the first hurdle of getting permission. has anyone ever done this before and can offer insight into what to expect and what to avoid?

  just got back a few days ago from the honeymoon from hell! we're still crazy about each other, but i'll just say that the trip was terrible. we stayed at one of those all-inclusive resorts down in jamaica and the brochures and website all told big big lies about what we were supposed to be getting. i'm not going to come out and say exactly which company this was for the sake of staying out of legal trouble so let's call them "flip-flops" at "eight rivers".

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