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Cricket's answer to the Premiership and NBA came this year in the form of the Indian Premier League. With its celebrity owners from Bollywood - Shah Rukh Khan and Preity Zinta - as well as scantily clad cheerleaders (um, blondes in India?), alliterative team names, and fireworks, the IPL promised to bring cricket into the 21st century.
The bidding war, otherwise called the player draft, saw players being bought for millions of dollars and in may ways aroused the same kind of interest as drafts in other sports. (Here is a chart of who went for how much). To top it off, the fancy website actually live-casts the matches so I, TV-less and unable to afford satellite anyway, am not beholden to going to various Indian and Pakistani restaurants in the middle of the night and pleading to let me watch a game.
The best part, for many, is that the league embraces the Twenty/20 form of cricket, considered to be the most exciting, and concluding under three hours, comparable in length to games in most other sports.
Anyway, enough with the introduction. I'd like to get to why I am writing this article: I do not like the IPL. (Just to be consistent, I also don't like the ICL, a sort of second-class IPL.)
First of all, I oppose the expansion of Twenty/20 cricket. It takes away from the balance of power between bowler and batsman, turning the bowler into a ball-machine. It's like having the US without Russia or the UN.
Any format of the game where sharpshooters like McGrath and Asif and Warne often end up bowling at an economy rate of more than a run per ball (last night Warne gave up 27 runs in an over to a guy I've never heard of), has to be deemed completely absurd. Twenty/20 has been rightly compared to baseball's home-run derby. Except, with baseball, the home-run derby occurs once a year and no one acts as if it is the best way to train future stars (in fact, only a handful of the biggest stars get to participate).
On the IPL's opening night - the very first innings mind you - Brandom McCullum of New Zealand scored 158 off 73 balls, an innings featuring 10 fours and 13 sixes. An astonishing feat of super-human skill? Hardly. In the 27 matches since, there have already been at least four or five innings comparable in comprehensive domination (Symonds, Gilchrist, Hussey and Sehwag). Many more are on the way. Yawn.
Does no one, any longer, care to see wickets getting torn out of the ground and twirling end over and end for 20 feet until they nearly impale the catcher? Does no one, any longer, care to see batsmen hopping around like kangaroos from nasty yorkers that break their toes? Does no one, any longer, care to see a googly, or a doosra, or the other one, turn like Hillary Clinton's campaign strategy and baffle everyone? I am sorry, but in cricket, batsmen get hit in the head and ribs and groin and the bowler is the intimidator and the jerk. It isn't cricket when the bowler is the butler. Seriously, why even bother paying the bowlers? I'll be more than happy to serve up softballs that the batsmen can crank for sixes and I'll be OK with getting paid in rupees. Shah Rukh, I want to be on your team so you can teach me to chaiyya chaiyya with Malaika Arora.
I will admit that earlier in the year when the Twenty/20 World Cup took place in South Africa, I watched with a great deal of interest. This is because I thought that tournament was a novelty item - like baseball's home-run derby. Not only that, but it featured the national sides, many of them giving their younger players a chance, which introduced all the elements of history and bad blood and vengeance and getting even that come with the national sides playing each other. The final was amazing, because it featured India and Pakistan, and for no other reason.
This is what brings me to my second issue with the IPL. Who are we supposed to root for? I suppose some Indians have it easy, because they can root for their home teams, but the rest of us internationals have to find quixotic and eccentric reasons for picking a team. Maybe I'll do it in the basis of most Pakistani players in a team? How about what I do with soccer - by my favourite player?
Oh sorry, that won't work, because in the IPL the players keep leaving in the middle of the tournament, to you know, play in matches that actually count. Symonds, my favorite player, played a couple of matches and then went off to play a real series against a real team. Umar Gul didn't play the first couple of matches. I think Vettori played for a little while, but he's gone. The only ones who are consistently there are the five "icon" players and some of the old guys like Warne, McGrath and Pollock - which is great, because I haven't already spent the last 20 years watching them.
Then there is a bigger problem, there are so many Twenty/20 leagues now, there is no way of knowing how the IPL compares. The ICL, for example, which features players like Lara and Inzamam ul Haq, probably has a few teams - like the Lahore Badshahs - that could give the best of the IPL a run, but we will never know, because there is no Champions League type of format. If these Twenty/20 leagues want to have a future, they have to put things like the Bartercard Index - which compares teams across various leagues - front and centre. (By the way, if someone knows where you can get up-to-date Bartercard rankings, let me know.) Still, an index tells us nothing about things like team chemistry and desire, because the true test of competition isn't number-crunching, but actually competing against one another.
The IPL puts money, fashion, and theatrics above professionalism and excellence. It happily promotes ripping out the guts from the fundamentals of the game. It willingly sacrifices the training of future cricketers for the sake of entertainment, thereby robbing the entertainment we deserve of its quality and class.
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'Down' and pulling when there's another dog
Juice is growing up so fast! He's nearly 5 months now and is as insane as ever.
We've been doing clicker training for a little while now and he has mastered 'sit' and is decent at 'stay'. He's even a pro at loose leash walking already! However, the main issues we have are 'down' and pulling/barking when there's another dog nearby.
When we try to do some training exercises I ease him in with the things he knows better, and we've been trying to work on 'down'. I have watched video after video, and called up a few of my training pals for some advice. Whenever I move the treat down from his face to the floor he picks his butt up from sitting. Does anyone know any ways to combat this?
And the worst part: Whenever we're on a walk if there's another dog, or an outside cat, he loses his mind. Lately he has been a little under-socialized because he's been battling Giardia for nearly a month and we didn't want to risk getting other dogs infected. Does anyone have any tips to not pull when there's another dog in the area? Nothing I do seems to work. He completely ignores me, food, and everything else around. He can go from sitting and completely focused on me, to lunging, pulling, barking, and trying to get to the dog/cat in a split second.
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The more you do this, the more he's going to start offering up the behavior, and at that point you can put it on cue by naming it - saying the cue right before you see he's about to lay down. When he does, mark and reward.
Thanks for the videos and advice. Sorry for the late response, I've been incredibly sick with bronchitis. Terrible spring for allergies here. =[
Unfortunately Juice doesn't respond to anything when he sees another dog, which is very common. He is very food driven, but will entirely ignore it when there's another dog in the area. It's also completely impossible for us to walk anywhere without seeing dogs (there are tons in my neighborhood).
I'm just worried because he's getting much bigger and pulls so hard he has a hard time breathing.
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Federal authorities backed a NSW Police decision to advise Tony Abbott not to attend a debate on voluntary student unionism (VSU) because of security concerns, NSW Assistant Commissioner Bob Waites said.
The federal health minister withdrew from today's debate with Labor MP Julia Gillard at Sydney University's Manning Bar after NSW Police advised him the configuration of the venue made it unsafe if things got out of hand.
Mr Abbott said he was concerned NSW Police could not control the campus and did not like the idea that intimidation was stifling a free debate on the controversial VSU legislation.
But Mr Waites said the decision to advise against the debate was supported by commonwealth authorities.
"Our protective security people in fact raised it with the commonwealth protective security people and with the federal attorney-general and they were openly in support of the decision to advise Mr Abbott not to go ahead," Mr Waites told Macquarie Radio.
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I usually just park the cars end-to-end and my simple method is like this:
- I use a high pressure washer where I can add foaming soap in a separate tank. I spray, foam and spray once more in one operation. This removes a lot of dirt. The wheels are cleaned with an old wash-up brush, sometimes I use a special spray here if they are very dirty but usually this is not required.
- I also use the two bucket method, actually four buckets when I do both cars at the same time. Microfibre mitt for applying some good quality shampoo. This goes very fast because of the prep in step 1.
- After spraying once more with clean water I use a special silicone blade to remove the water (there are many pros and cons to using this but I have stuck with it - just make sure there is no dirt on the blade) and finally a microfibre cloth to soak up what little water is left.
This is actually done in just about 30 mins as long as I do it regularly. Add the time for hooking up the high pressure washer and of course everything takes longer time if the cars are very dirty.
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Kip Moore's "Hey Pretty Girl" [VIDEO]
I'm not alone when I say that Kip Moore's latest single, "Hey Pretty Girl" is one of my favorite songs on the radio right now. It's sweet and just about everytime I hear it, I cry.
I'm not exactly sure when the video was released, but I just watched it for the first time about five minutes ago. And, on cue, I cried within about the first 15 seconds, ha!
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Splitting a laminate counter top to install a dishwasher?
My dad and I were kicking around theories on how to install a dishwasher in my new home, without losing the storage space. The kitchen counter top is L-shaped with a bar, but only covers about half the room to leave space for a breakfast nook. There isn't really enough room, or spare cabinets, to just knock out a section for the washer.
We were thinking one option might be to actually cut the laminate/formica and move the bar and a set of drawers over 24" to make room, and try to find a matching section of counter top to fill the hole, once we frame it back up.
First off, are we crazy? Is there a better way to do this? Are there any tips out there about how to blend the new seams?
Maybe someday we'll do a full redesign/remodel, but I need to do with what I have for now.
Why not make a butcher block top on the dishwasher and make it look intentional, instead of trying to hide a seam.
I thought about that and it might work. The front of the countertop is curved (waterfall?), so if the block was square it would stick out, but... maybe I can put a radius on it with router.
You could make the new top just a little pronounced, so it would stand out a little to look intentional but not be a focal point. Rounding the edge would be nice also. If I went that way I would seal the bottom of the top so moisture wouldn't affect it.
So where the heck do you find a 24" by 24" piece of butcher block?
Not sure about in VA. but I would look for a localish sawmill. They might be able to sell you some scrap slabs from their cutting operations. Obviously you should consider the kind of wood you are going to use in regards to its hardness as a cutting and cooking surface.
Some place like a restaurant supply or even a home kitchen supply place should have butcher block 24x24. You might think of bamboo, by the way. For example from a quick search.
Found this just googling butcher block along with many other possibilities.
Depending on how long that section of counter is you might be better off just putting new countertop on the entire section instead of trying to splice in a news section. No matter what you do if you just put a new section over the dishwasher it's going to look like that's what you did instead of looking original.
First, dishwasher should be next to the sink, so you may end up cutting near the sink. Water from sink and steam from dishwasher is going to get between the laminate and the plywood no matter how you seal the edge, let alone it's almost impossible to find matching laminate and cutting the edge smooth enough.
I would not cut the laminate. Make 24" wide space next to the sink and add countertop elsewhere, island on wheels or use the portable dishwasher until you are ready to renovate. Portable can be installed permanently later.
If you go the butcher block route, just don't plan on ever using it. We used to have one - not long before it started to look like crap. And they're a real PITA to keep clean and sanitized. Almost guaranteed to become a salmonella village.
Is replacing the countertop out of the question? Laminate countertops are pretty affordable.
If you like butcherblock you could replace the whole schebang with butcherblock also - it is also pretty affordable. I put 13' of butcherblock in my kitchen and love it. 4 coats of waterlox and you can leave red wine on it overnight and nothing absorbs.
Right, I can't imagine using an imbedded butcher block...as a butcher block. We would probably use it as a general prep surface, but I have my own cutting boards.
My dishwasher is a portable that we want to convert to built in, but maybe I'll keep it rolling until the full remodel happens. The full counter is actually C-shaped (long center section with two legs, one with a radius), so I didn't know how much effort/cost it would be to do a full replacement.
Do you have a picture you could post? It may be better to just hold off on doing anything till the full remodel since you are planning it anyway.
I don't cut on my butcherblock either..... frankly I think it's weird when people do - you don't chop food on your laminate countertop, so why start just because its' butcherblock.
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My grandpa has a 1980 BMW 320i. He used to drive it around all the time, but one morning he goes to start it up and it wont start for nothin. He tinkered with it for some time now and so far he's replaced the rotor, distributor cap, plug wires, and fuel filter. The fuel sending unit in the tank works fine. IT JUST WONT START!
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Navyblue's 22G Custom Rimless
This is my fist attempt at planted tank.
About 2 years ago I custom made a 2'x1.5'x1' shallow rimless tank, with the intention of housing a pair of clownfish and anemones.
However the project was soon neglected after it had started. This is as far as it went.
Anemones, corals and even the lighting were never added. Fast forward to last few months, I have mostly finished filling up my main reef tank which fell into a similar state of neglect. I moved the fishes to the big tank and the tank is left pretty much empty for a while.
The tank was plumbed to the sump of my main tank to share a common filtration system. I wasn't entirely happy with the way it was plumbed. It wasn't loud, but it wasn't dead silent either. I decided to rectify the plumbing or to remove it altogether. I decided with the later.
However, what should I do with the tank after it was disconnected? The easiest thing to do is to turn it into another reef tank, as I already own most if not all the necessary equipments. But now that it is disconnected from my main tank, all options are suddenly on the table. But the two options that stood out the most are a low maintenance soft coral tank versus a low maintenance low tech planted tank.
It took me a while to make the decision but I decided against a reef tank. Having a simpler and smaller reef sitting right next to a larger and more elaborate reef would just make it look lame. With a planted tank, it would at least be something different and provide a nice contrast to the reef tank.
I went hunting for a suitable lighting. After looking at a few pretty typical light strips in LFS, I decided that the look isn't quite what I was looking for.
Since I made the decision to go for fresh water planted tank. I thought it is a good time to empty my store room of salt water equipments that are no longer needed. Also I could use them to fund the this tank. While digging out stuffs from in store room I found this.
I was somewhat amused as I had no idea what it was. It looks like my handiwork, but I have no recollection of ever using it. May be it's a sign of age. It might be what I made for the refugium of my reef tank, but it probably never saw action. I am lazy and on a budget so I decided to use it.
I slapped it on a wooden plank.
The plank was unnecessarily large. I bought it for a somewhat different purpose, which is to make the tank lighting when I planned to set up the tank as a reef. I use it anyway so I didn't have to buy another one. I am lazy, and cheap. And of course I also didn't bother to trim it. The distance between the bulbs isn't optimal either, but I can't figure out how to dismantle it, despite I am the one the built it. :D And also I find the prospect of having to pay a visit to a hardware store to get more wires unappealing.
I also slapped together a light stand. The materials was bought for somewhat another purpose too. It was meant to hang a 150W MH when I planned the tank as an anemone tank more than 2 years ago, which never got built. After some measurement/calculation error and finding out I didn't have enough fittings to build the original design. I ended up with this, because as mentioned, I find the prospect of having to pay a visit to a hardware store unappealing. :D
Substrate is in. I might have gone overboard with the Seachem Fluorite. If my weighing scale is correct, it is 23kg. :D. Less than 1" at the front, slopes to 5" at the middle of the tank. I planned to get about 3" but I don't know what to do with those extra Fluorite.
I also have no idea on the aquascaping. For now, the slope stays this way. I'll have an anubias on driftwood at the middle of the slope. On the plateau I'll have stem plants and ferns, possibly some emersed plants as well.
Symmetry are frowned upon in all genre of aquascaping. With the substrate sloped this way, I can't think of a way to decently scape it in a non symmetrical manner. I think this is a "rule" that I am going to break. Any advice would be appreciated.
This tank will be filterless. To provide circulation I am going to use a Seio M620.
Thanks to the 5" substrate, I found a good place to hide the Seio. :D
The intake is under the substrate. I don't know if this would create problem though. I imagine the substrate particle is too heavy to be sucked in and the substrate is porous enough to allow water movement. But if it turns out to be a problem I can wrap a layer of filter material around the intake. This would also prevent shrimp/fish fries from getting sucked into the pump.
Nice SW setup. That will be interesting how the Seio works in the substrate.
Thanks, but that SW setup is really a forgotten piece of mess. :D
I filled up the tank half way and fired up the Seio. It works, but the water splashing makes a lot of noise. Filling up the tank all the way would help, but I have a feeling that it would still be too splashy for my taste.
The LED light bulbs came in.
I filled it up with water, it was cloudy. I ran a filter on it hoping to clear the cloudiness, and also do a total water change everyday. It is getting better, but still far from crystal clear. Today I even tried one of those water clarifier which is supposed to coagulate the suspended particle into bigger pieces where they then can be removed by filters. I am not sure if it does anything though.
I have no clue why but so far this has got to be one of my favorite tank progress journals. I think it's because you're working with what you've got. It's pretty interesting and I look forward to your updates :P
Thank you. :)
I tend to improvise a lot, I think it has to do with my personality. However, in terms of setup, only the minimal are involved, so there is nothing to see here. Basically only the tank, light, powerhead, and the substrate.
Next step would be plants and woods. I visited a few LFS just now but came back empty handed. This is the first time I am doing this and my idea is extremely limited. My current plan is to have a rather large anubias nana tied to drift wood, somehow elevate the wood so that at least some of the leaves emersed at the back of the tank. I plant to place the powerhead underneath the wood, and I'll have some Java ferns cover up the powerhead. I think tubes, pumps and what not are ugly. The rest is rather fuzzy now, but I imagine I need some fast growing stem plants to absorb nutrients.
Any suggestions would be welcome. :)
After numerous total water changes over the days and all the precautions that I can take not to disturb the substrate, I finally have what I'd call an acceptable clarity.
I finally got some plants. I did a final (I promise) water change before putting the plants in. I did all I could to minimise cloudiness. I drained the substrate. with airline tube. I use airline tubing to siphon the water back into the tank for the first few inches, then with a small cup cushioned with plastic bag, then with a pump cushioned with a cup. It was crystal clear right from the start, right until I turned on the Seio that is buried in the substrate. :D Water has since cleared up a bit, but still cloudy.
There are two problems. The first is the plants are bigger than I thought. :D I should have gotten the smaller ones. I thought it was a "first stage" purchase, but it ended up as "almost done". This may seem anti climatc.
The light has poor spread, pretty much all the lit area are filled with plants. The unplanted area are what I'd call the "light spill" zone.
The second problem is, I think it is harder to aquascape a riparium-ish tank, since I have to take care that it looks good both from the front and the top. The front view part is basically regular aquascaping. The top view part is more like floral arrangement.
I think the look isn't what I wanted. I don't quite like the jungle look, but I have since learnt that whatever you do with anubias, ferns and wood it is going to have that jungle look. :D And the front view is quite crappy. Since when I stand in front of the tank I actually looked at it more from the top that from the front, so I prioritised the top view. Any advice would be appreciated here.
Also the anubias is in a bad shape. I heard that they are grown emerged at the farm. But I guess being out of the water for too long the leaves are rolled up. The leaves that has shorter stem seems to look better than those with a longer stem, even if those short stem leaves are actually not in the water. I hope it recovers/adjusts.
More plants. I don't know half of their names. I hope they would work in a low tech setup.
Still, I think the front view doesn't look as good. I thought the rows of stem plants make it look like some kind of backyard farm (not in a good way). :D
Plant wise, I think I am almost done. Next would be fishes and possibly shrimps.
I think adding the other plants was a good choice. It doesn't look too bad as you think it does. I'm not sure which plant that is on the left side (the long ones) but I feel like it might look better if you pushed it back into the background some more so that maybe it's on the same level as the giant anubias. Same thing with the fern attached to the rock on the left. I think it's a bit weird to me because it's elevated.
Either way, I'm looking forward to you adding some fish and shrimp!
I agree that it is unconventional to place tall stuffs in front. However I have a tendency to do that. :D
In my other tank, I also made it a point to have something taller to obscure the frontal view of some shorter things at the back. However they are not completely hidden, by changing the viewpoint, the hidden shorter stuff would become visible. IMHO, this kind of layering adds depth. I think I also read some who advocate this for smaller tank.
To me it kind of gives the impression that there are more stuffs beyond the back wall. However, in this case it might be a bit overdone. As the tank is too small and the plants are too large.
Another reason that I did not put that plant (I have no idea what that is too) further back, is that I want to keep a distance between it and the anubias/java fern cluster. IMHO it looks too similar with the Java fern that it would blend in if placed too close to one another. Or do you mean that I should put it to the left of the wisteria?
As for the split ends Java fern at the right, I do think it is quite a mistake, along with the anubias and the Java ferns at the back. I think they were too large and overwhelming for the tank. I didn't put it at the back because the split leaves look similar to the wisteria on the left, so it would look too symmetrical.
I do think there is a lot of problem with the aquascaping. Firstly, the plant choices made is kind of like grocery shopping, basically making do with what's on the shelves. Not only that I grabbed the wrong stuffs from the shelves. I suppose my inexperience with the plants shows. Secondly, I think the way that I slope the substrate (pleteau+slope) made the choices limited and difficult. I don't really know what to do with the substrate too. I am not sure if flat or a constant slope all the way to the back would be a better idea. I think random hills and valleys would be nice, like iwagumi, but I don't know if the shape would last.
So, I'll either leave most of it intact, or do a total makeover. I hate to disturb the substrate and cloud the water.
My plan for the fishes was 10 neon or cardinal tetra. If I don't do shrimp, I'll have oto as well. But with shrimps, is it better to do without the oto?
I tore everything apart and put it back together again, although it doesn't look to different. I kind of took your suggestion to move the tall plants further back. I also removed one of the java fern, I think they are too overwhelming.
I think I'll add just one more small plant and move on.
Ooooh it doesn't look too different but I think it is a bit more visually appealing. This one makes me perceive more "depth" with the plants. I really like it! I like the addition of the smaller plants to the right too. Are those microswords?
If you make it a shrimp tank you can absolutely add an oto in. You just need to make sure there is enough food for both the shrimp oto since they eat the same thing. Otos like company so I suggest two (or one now and one later) but then you definitely have to make sure there is enough food. They're really the only safe fish for baby shrimp.
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In a white paper on Canadian e-commerce opportunities, published in October, Purolator International, Peerless Research Group (PRG) and Logistics Management noted that a rise in B2C, as well as B2B e-commerce, has brought challenges to businesses exporting products to Canada.
Among these are transit times that can be difficult to measure in days or hours, lengthy delays at the border due to incomplete or incorrect customs paperwork, and multiple handoffs among carriers that are not uncommon, said the paper.
The belief that the Canadian logistics market is an extension of the US market is another common misconception as well as the "root cause" of most mistakes made in crossborder shipping.
E-commerce shipping to Canada is growing. Canadian consumers represent a $292 billion export market to United States retailers, Purolator revealed.
But logistics and transportation managers say they continue to experience higher costs and some level of dissatisfaction in crossborder logistics.
They cite the lack of a coordinated Canadian freight network, additional paperwork and related transactional costs, and damaged goods as persistent problems, said the paper.
John Donahue, a director in Price Waterhouse Coopers' (PwC's) transportation and logistics practice, said that many of his clientele deal with a significant import-export imbalance on the north-south lanes.
"Dealing with costing models and strategies for asset utilization around these issues is key. We're very active in these conversations. It's an ever-changing model-what worked one year may not work the next year. It's about understanding the bottom line cost and what you can do with vendors to make that sit correctly. Most of it is around cost and vendor modeling and developing good relationships so that they have the background to pull in the right people at the right time," he said.
"Asset management and route management are probably the two largest issues we're approached with. The regulatory issues north-south are more informational, with regard to the transition of information to a system, although it's not as big of a challenge today as it was four years ago. Putting that information into a consolidated environment is probably the best thing that's happened in the last four years," he added.
Canada's total population of nearly 35 million is spread across a large geographic area, so logistics costs can also be higher because of the difficulties in building freight "density" into operations.
Of some 218 US operators surveyed who conduct business in Canada, of these, about 40% currently take orders over the internet from Canadian customers, and, of those, nearly one-fourth (22%) maintain a website specifically geared to the Canadian market. The majority of these operators claim their Canadian sales volumes have either grown in the past two years (51%) or stayed level (37%). And, the Canadian market should continue to be fertile territory for US businesses. Two-thirds of respondents (65%) expect Canadian sales volumes to increase in the next two years, the Purolator study said.
Those doing business in Canada ship across the US-Canadian border with relatively high frequency. Nearly two out of three (62%) ship at least weekly with more than one in four companies (27%) dispatching goods on a daily basis. Slightly fewer than 20% of those interviewed ship at least a few times per month.
These Canada-bound shipments tend to be handled by a variety of carriers. Small package carriers, either express, courier, or postage are widely used. In addition, LTL (57%) are also a provider choice when shipping to Canada. Postal services (35%), freight forwarders (31%), 3PLs (26%), full truckload providers (25%), or air freight services (23%) are also common solutions for those shipping to Canada.
Four in 10 respondents say they have experienced problems at some point shipping from the US to Canada, including shipment delays resulting from improper paperwork, noncompliant packaging, or just a failure to satisfy border procedures.
Border interruptions were most common at (63%), transit time delays (47%), or incomplete or incorrect customs paperwork (47%). Non-compliance with customs regulations (28%), unexpected expenses (22%), and tracking multiple parcel handoffs (19%) were also common impediments, said the study.
Two-thirds of these shippers (65%) say carriers submit a full "landed" cost-that is, total cost to include complete shipping fees, taxes, and tariffs. Some contend this information varies by carrier while others assert they were hit with additional, unexpected costs in trans-border shipments.
Business-to-business and business-to-consumer US manufacturers shipping both domestically as well as to Canada believe their level of service to US customers is superior to what they are able to provide their Canadian customers. Nearly all (93%) rate their service to US clients as excellent or very good. In comparison, roughly three out of four (73%) consider the quality of their service to their Canadian clientele to be as strong.
Canadian customers' most common complaint is the high cost of shipping (40%) followed by problems with returned (26%) or damaged (14%) merchandise, unforeseen or unexpected shipping costs (22%), and lack of inventory or too many back orders (6%).
In terms of solutions and strategies for navigating border issues, the survey found that about 7 in 10 organizations relied on a third-party such as a customs broker (39%) or logistics provider (30%) to help solve the problems. Another one fourth work to resolve these hassles in-house.
In a related survey looking at product returns, John Costanzo, President of Purolator International, noted that e-commerce merchants and retailers "can add value and a level of comfort to Canadian customer purchases through a free and easy return policy across the border."
Total returns from Canada to the United States were valued at $8.6 billion in 2011.


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Question: When both of my twins are invited to a friend's birthday party, should they each bring a gift?

If you have preschool or school-age twins, they're likely invited to birthday parties from time to time. Hopefully, both twins are invited to join the fun, as it can be disappointing when only one is invited. However, when both twins are guests at the party, the issue arises of how to handle gift-giving. Should each twin bring a gift for the birthday child, or is a single gift acceptable?

Twin Etiquette: Twin Gift Giving

Answer: It depends on the situation. Generally, the answer is yes ... each twin should bring a gift for the birthday child, just as they would if they were two guests who were not twins. They are both attending the birthday celebration, and enjoying the event. The birthday family has expended the cost of entertaining and feeding both twins, and it's appropriate that each guest bring a gift.

However, there are situations where a single gift would be appropriate. Sometimes a gift is given on behalf of the whole family, in which case it would be from both twins. Or, if the gift is of great value, greater than or equal to the value of two single gifts, it could be from both twins.

The double gift-giving can certainly be an economic burden, but it's one of the costs of having twins. One way that I handled the giving of birthday gifts with my twin girls would be to give them the option to choose how they'd like to present the gift. I would set a budget, for example $20. As we shopped, I would allow them to choose two $10 gifts for the birthday child -- one from each twin -- or a single gift valued at $20. Of course, sometimes this technique backfired; they couldn't always agree on a gift! And, this strategy is limited to twins who are old enough to select a reasonable gift. In some cases, this approach led to competition and comparison ... which gift would the birthday girl or boy like better?!?

More Twin Etiquette Issues:

 Do I Have to Invite Both Twins?

Ten Things Never to Say to Twins

In the Public Eye: Handling Unwanted Attention

Are They Natural?

Buying Gifts for Twins


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I'm continually amazed at the number of people, educated people even, that have no idea how government works, but point the finger of blame right to President Obama. Consider the following analogy.
If you were in a romantic relationship, and the other person said "I want your full commitment, in exchange for six weeks of my commitment, and I will then re-negotiate my part in 6-weeks but your commitment is set in stone."
Would you accept such a ridiculous offer? No, surely not.
Why would you expect our President to accept a crappy arrangement where they can hold our country hostage every 6 weeks? I would be disappointed if he accepted such an unbalanced situation. I WANT the entire country funded, I don't want it pieced together like broken patchwork, funding for programs decided upon by extremists with a vendetta. It is the job of the US Congress to pass a budget and they are failing America in an attempt to retaliate for the loss of the 2012 Presidential election. Nothing more.Click here for reuse options!
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Vintage Motor Cars in Arizona
19 January 2007
Lot 252
1969 Gurney-Eagle Race Car
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As a 2001 David Barry article in "Vintage Motorsport" describes, it is at least partially Dan Gurney's fault that Indy cars don't have their engines up front anymore "where they belong", and that in the process he helped start Ford's record of powering Indy 500 winners.
That was in 1962, when Dan brought Colin Chapman to Indy and introduced him to Ford. It was a period of non-stop activity for Gurney, who was intimately involved with Carroll Shelby in the development of the Cobra and Ford's subsequent efforts to capture the Sports Car Manufacturers' Championship and win the 24 Hours of Le Mans. Gurney was driving for Brabham in Formula One when he introduced Chapman to Indy and Ford, and in 1965 established All American Racers with Shelby to build cars for Formula One and Indianapolis.
The first Indianapolis Eagle achieved success in 1966 when Roger McCluskey drove to victory at Langhorne.
Dan scored the first grand prix victory by an American driver in an American car since 1921 when he won the Belgian GP in 1967. In America, Eagle-Fords made their presence known in 1966 when Lloyd Ruby qualified his All American Racers' Eagle-Ford fifth, one of five Eagle-Fords to make the show in the team's first year. In 1967, Denny Hulme drove an Eagle-Ford entered by the colorful Smokey Yunick to fourth overall and the entry increased the number of Eagle chassis entered by five different teams to seven.
It all came right for AAR in 1968 when Bobby Unser's Eagle-Offy entered by Bob Wilke's Leader Cards team won the 500 on his way to capturing the USAC National Championship. Dan Gurney pursued Unser home, finishing second in his Eagle powered by the Ford-based naturally aspirated Gurney-Weslake V8. Dan repeated that performance in 1969 when he drove his Gurney-Weslake powered Eagle-Ford to second in the 500 behind Mario Andretti's winning STP Hawk-Ford.
AAR won the 500 in 1975 with Bobby Unser in a field loaded with Eagles. Sixteen of the 33 starters, in fact, rode in Eagle monocoques. AAR's successes also include the famous AAR 'Cuda Trans-Am race cars, Lola Can-Am cars, Formula A/5000 and the Goliath-slaying IMSA GTP Toyota Eagle which captured seventeen consecutive wins in 1992-93 while winning both the Daytona 24 Hours and Sebring 12 Hours.
The early Gurney Eagle-Ford USAC Indy cars such as the one offered here demonstrated their performance on the ovals of the USAC National Championship circuit as well as at the Brickyard. Adaptable by design to both ovals and road courses and powered by variants of the production small-bloc Ford V8 engine, it is an ideal vehicle for collectors who want to experience the thrill of competition in purebred open wheel race cars on both vintage ovals and road circuits. At the time of cataloging the specific history or configuration of the 1969 Gurney Eagle-Ford offered here was not yet known, however it comes from a well known collection where it has been looked after among some of the most important automobiles in America. Prospective purchasers are encouraged to contact an RM Auctions specialist for complete information.
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Heya all. This is my second post as I made a foobar with the last upload. Here is the full working version. The theme contains 4 themes and I'll put screenshots of them all on. The first two have different clock backgrounds, and the second 2 are copies with an alternative lock slider + fitting unlock/lock sounds for those who don't want an animation running to conserve battery. The animation is set in place of the slider to give it the look that your running the slider accross the animation. This is my first iphone theme and it took me all of a week to do, as I was a total modding noob when I started. I will be making this a full theme when I can get around to putting the icons on and such. You need to hide the clock really to use this lockscreen, else you will have two clocks.
It was made for use on iPhone4 running 4.3.3 so may have compatibility issues with older versions. The carrier is designed for ATT US, T-Mobile, Orange UK and T-Mobile UK. To get this working on orange uk use FakeCarrier to rename your carrier to Orange UK or T-Mobile UK when on Orange T-Mobile.
I take no credit for the making of the images and sounds used, they were all gathered through public sources. However I personally edited them for use of this lockscreen, except for the barret firing sound and reloading for the alt lockslider.
The first screenshot is the theme with clock 1 in the name, the 2nd with clock 2 in the name and the 3rd screenshot is the alternative slider which has alt in the name.
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So, the next day, Leah was ready. And after lunch, when the 15-minute recess break came, she set out for the monkey bars.
Leah's focus on recess is typical for elementary school children, and a good thing. Because there is a lot of learning that goes on at recess, and a lot of learning that goes on because of recess, according to experts.
Recess is an opportunity for children to develop physically while also learning critical social skills. It is also an important change of pace for early elementary school children, who are at a key time in their physical development, and who need regular breaks from the sedentary routines of a classroom.
"Children are meant to move, run and play, not just sit inside at a desk just doing work. Research shows that's not the best way to improve learning," says Kathleen Schroeder, a professor from the Department of Movement Sciences at University of Illinois Chicago.
Recess helps children form lifelong exercise habits, as well as studying skills. "Learning is accentuated by physical well-being," Schroeder says.
Still, as researchers are learning more about the importance of recess, the time to play is ebbing away at many schools. Access to even a short recess is absent at many Chicago Public Schools. In the 1960s, many schools eliminated recess because of safety concerns and changes in teacher contracts. And today, standardized tests are often cited as the culprit.
Who needs recess?
South Loop Principal Patrick Bacciellieri says since schools are increasingly centered around meeting local and national testing standards—in accordance with the No Child Left Behind Act—there simply isn't enough time in the school day for a recess break at his school.
The school's test scores have risen over the last four years, and last year it was ranked in the top 20 of Chicago schools on the Illinois Standards Achievement Test (ISAT). Baccellieri says that success is partly due to a tightly organized school day.
But are test scores the right measure for the health of students?
The American Association for the Child's Right to Play claims that among children ages 5 to 8, 40 percent show signs of cardiac stress from obesity, high blood pressure, high cholesterol and inactive lifestyles.
Meanwhile, the Illinois Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance, based in downstate Jacksonville, advocates for more recess in Illinois schools. And the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's School Health Index recommends at least 20 minutes of recess each day.
"I don't think it's any secret that obesity and lifestyle diseases are on the rise," Schroeder says. "There's not a whole lot we can do about our genetic disposition. We can control them, though, with exercise as well as diet."
Marc Atkins, a professor of psychology at University of Illinois at Chicago, and Elise Cappella, a post-doctoral research fellow, have been studying what no recess means to students.
"Inmates in Joliet get an hour a day to exercise," Atkins says. So why not schoolchildren?
But in Chicago, Atkins and Cappella are going up against a 35-year trend away from recess and prolonged lunch periods.
In a 1998 assessment by the Consortium on Chicago School Research, BetsAnn Smith reported that Chicago Public Schools began shifting in the late 1960s from open campus schedules, which often sent students home in the middle of the school day, to closed campuses. The shift began in high crime neighborhoods—for safety reasons—but quickly spread across the city.
"This allowed teachers to leave school at the same time as their students," Smith wrote. "Very quickly, then, a schedule intended as a safety measure for schools in the most troubled neighborhoods of the city evolved into a CPS standard. Over 90 percent of Chicago's elementary schools continue to operate on this schedule."
Contractually, the shift moved the 45-minute lunch and recess time, allotted for teachers, to the end of the day. That effectively closed schools at 2:30 p.m. and left only a half-hour lunch period to break up five hours of instruction.
Phyliss Pickett, a member of the Illinois Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance, says the elimination of recess in Chicago schools "leaves kids basically with no activity during the school day."
It's also mental health
But recess not only helps with a child's physical well being—it also contributes to a child's mental health.
"They need to be able to run and try and figure out what kinds of skills they can do," says Terri Thorkildsen, a professor of educational psychology at University of Illinois at Chicago. "Their skills are all very much developing. With desk and indoor routines all the time, they don't get to test that."
Especially in the lower grades before middle school, Thorkildsen says, children need unstructured playtime to help develop physically and mentally. Thorkildsen believes physical education classes and afterschool athletics simply aren't enough.
"Imaginative play can't be underemphasized," Thorkildsen says. "The absence of recess does make it difficult to make children learn social skills on their own."
Thorkildsen once worked with a Montessori school in Milwaukee, and remembers when a fifth-grade boy punched a female classmate during recess. None of the kids told their teachers, Thorkildsen remembers, but that didn't mean the boy, regarded as a class bully, went unpunished. Afterward, the rest of the class refused to let the puncher work with them on class projects—but he steadfastly refused to apologize. Finally, after being shut out of the social lives of his peers for weeks, Thorkildsen recalls, the student relented.
"As soon as he apologized, he was back in the fold," Thorkildsen remembers.
And if kids don't get a break, they find a way to take it.
Atkins and Cappella found that even in tightly structured schools, kids fit in downtime. During the 2004-05 school year, the researchers watched students at the National Teachers Academy in Bronzeville.
During breaks, Atkins sometimes monitored the students in the bathroom, and he says they often ended up jostling each other in lieu of an outside break. Sometimes, he says, students turn a quick bathroom trip into a 20-minute break.
"They'll all be in there, fooling around and having a good time," Atkins says.
Larry Nucci, a professor of educational psychology at University of Illinois at Chicago, says, "Social interactions occur primarily in recess. If you eliminate recess, all of this social, moral education becomes artificial."
And Nucci believes that recess breaks are critical for academic achievement. In Japan, Nucci says, 10-minute breaks are allowed throughout the day. He says periodic breaks allow students "cognitive downtime" critical for processing classroom instruction.
Beye School students in Oak Park use their break for a variety of physical and social activities, ranging from pickup games of soccer and tag football to more freely structured affairs.
Fifth-grader Conrad Schillinger-Robinet plays kickball and soccer during recess, and says most of the girls in his class jump rope.
"The girls usually go together," third-grader Matthias Pergams explains. "They sit down and play in random places and play weird games."
Sometimes though, recess is less a teaching moment and more a chance for students, like anyone else, to have a brief break from the pressures of the school day. Beye school third-grader Mari Kaczkowski says she uses recess to catch up with her friends.
"I like playing with my friend," Kaczkowski said. "We talk about where we've been."
And fifth-grader Christopher Johnson has a favorite recess memory: "This one time, I found a grasshopper in the field," he says, motioning to the grassy stretch behind him. "I was trying to catch it. It was hard."
At Perspectives Charter School, officials take students' need for an active lifestyle very seriously.
All middle school students in the South Loop school take at least one quarter of yoga a year. In addition, school officials prohibit consuming soft drinks and junk food in the lunchroom, and instead rely on fresh meals cooked on school grounds. And after lunch, Perspectives administrator Glennese Ray says, students can use the rest of the break for recess.
During morning yoga classes, instructor Hugo Navas uses New Age music to relax his students. After a half-hour of instruction, Navas ends the class by asking the students a series of questions about the benefits of exercises, exhorting them to eat less fast food, ride their bicycles and run more. While the students are quick to shout back the benefits of exercise—"you get an endorphin rush," one student yells out—they're stumped when Navas asks them what happens when you don't exercise. After a moment of silence, he explains to them the dangers of being sedentary.
Genesis Villalobos says she appreciates the strenuous morning yoga sessions at Perspectives, along with the midday recess breaks.
"Yoga's fun," Villalobos says, "it gets tiring."
And Villalobos and Anthony Davis, both sixth-graders last year, say they typically end up with 15 or 20 minutes outside during each lunch break. Most middle school students, they say, go outside regardless of the temperature.
But Villalobos used to attend Cooper Dual Language Academy in the city's Pilsen neighborhood, where, she recalls, students were not let out for recess. Exercise was limited to a weekly physical education class, and Villalobos recalls a rigid routine with few opportunities for movement.
"We were always sitting down," Villalobos recalls. "They didn't let us go outside."
Haydn Bush is managing editor of Chicago Journal, a sister publication of Chicago Parent.
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So this is the former RebYank! Was the original auditorium split into four sections or were the other auditoriums added on? 2009 photos of the Manassas Cinema: 1, 2
Unfortunately the balance of the photos I made of the interior didn't turn out as well due very little lighting in the sanctuary/auditorium. The rear of the sanctuary continues with the theatre motif (note the projection booth in the top balcony and theatre seating rather than pews) whereas the pulpit is about the only area distinctively,…..churchy.
What is the verdict on this building; was it ever a theatre or has it always been a church? Both the exterior and interior strongly suggest that it was initially intended to be a theatre. Here are a few shots from 2009: 1, 2
Here is a 2009 photo of what remains of the Ewing Theatre.
Here are a couple of photos of the interior made during it's final days of operation: 1, 2
Here is a 2008 photo of what remains of the Northway Theatre.
Here is a 2008 photo of what remains of the Northway Theatre.
The Roxy/Buckhead Theatre has closed and it's fate is uncertain. Since LiveNation/Clear Channel terminated their lease of the theatre in February 2008, bookings for the venue have been few and sporadic. The Buckhead area is currently in limbo with plans to make it into the "Rodeo Drive of the South†on hold. The jewel box Garden Hills Theatre located just down the street shuttered in 2007 and remains vacant.
Absolutely nothing remains of the Foundry Cinemas. Retail space in this very high end community does not sit vacant for long.
Here is a 2008 photo of the former Broadway Theatre
Here and here are 2009 photos of the University Mall Theatres.
Here is a 2009 photo of the former 62nd & Broadway Cinema.
In 2009, the Washington Theatre Preservation Society is seeking to purchase the building and register it as a landmark. Owner Marco Matteo believes this step will allow the theater to prosper.
Nothing at this address (50 Dalton Street) resembles a cinema either in the interior or exterior. The building is currently leased to the Summer Shack, a restaurant and billiards hall which features a smashing Salmon burger.
Here is a 2008 photo of the former Bayne Theatre.
The Rivoli was located on Mulberry Street and East Jackson approximately one quarter of a mile from the Strand. Here is a 1930 photo of the Strand.
The historic 1938 Strand Theatre now presents a variety of live performances throughout the year and showcases the work of local artists and those of interest to the local community.
The historic 1938 Strand Theatre now presents a variety of live performances throughout the year and showcases the work of local artists and those of interest to the local community.
GCC ran a quad on this site in 1983 know as the Naugatuck 1-4. It is a good chance this cinema started off as a twin or triple with one of the auditoriums later split to expand the number screens to four.


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Public school teachers in Ontario plan to launch court action today to challenge the Liberal government's legislation that imposes a contract and takes away their right to strike for two years.
Unions representing teachers and school support workers plan a news conference outside a Toronto courthouse to talk about their challenge of the law that freezes wages for many of them.
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Sheriff Wayne Gallant said the pickup driver, who was not seriously injured, may have been blinded by the setting sun.
Gallant said the accident happened just before 8 p.m. Monday on Rt. 117 in Buckfield. He said the girls were thrown from the buggy. A man driving the buggy suffered a broken leg.
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It's unlikely to be an issue unless the drifting is like this.
How does one differentiate between drift and a hive that is overheated? I thought that when the bees cling to the outside of the hive it lacked ventilation.
Mine are all touching. Do they drift? Probably. Do I care? No.
QuoteMine are all touching. Do they drift? Probably. Do I care? No.And I was told you couldn't learn beekeeping on the internet and viewing videos. Videos and discussion afterwards blows away any form of publication when it comes to learning. Academia would be lost today without graphic representation.
Countryboy has a lot of good videos there. Just watched maybe half and ran out of time before bed. I really like the queen hive tool test.


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Judge Harvey has stepped down from the Megaupload extradition hearings after a comment in which he called the US "the enemy" had brought his impartiality into question.
Judge David Harvey, the judge who was overseeing the extradition case of eccentric Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom and other employees of the file locker site, has stepped down from the case after a comment he made brought his impartiality in the case into question.
The comment was made at the NetHui internet conference on July 12th in Auckland, where he had been part of a discussion about the Trans-Pacific Partnership. The Trans-Pacific Partnership is a controversial intellectual rights agreement in the works, much like ACTA in Europe, involving the US and a dozen other countries. Judge Harvey mentioned that, under current laws, citizens of New Zealand could legally hack the DVD region codes designed to restrict DVDs to specific countries in order to watch those movies; this would no longer be true if TPP were to become law. "Under TPP and the American [DMCA] you will not be able to do that, that will be prohibited," he said. "If you do, you will be a criminal, that's what will happen. There are all sorts of ways this whole thing is being ramped up and if I could use Russell's tweet from earlier on: we have met the enemy and he is US."
For those who didn't catch it, Judge Harvey was making a play on words for the quote "we have met the enemy and he is us," itself a parody of a message sent by Commodore Perry in 1813 after the Battle of Lake Erie, saying "we have met the enemy and he is ours."
The quote didn't garner much attention or controversy until three days later when the New Zealand Herald quoted Professor Bill Hodge, a law professor at Auckland University, as saying that the comment could possibly "be seen as probably an extra-judicial comment that isn't helpful." The story was then picked up by several other media sources, including some US-based tech blogs.
Judge Harvey has ruled several times in Dotcom's favor, including having his internet access restored and ordering the US to hand over evidence gathered against him. His most recent involvement with the case came a week ago when he delayed the extradition hearing from August until March in order to allow more time to resolve various legal arguments revolving around the case. Judge Jan-Marie Doogue, the chief district court judge of New Zealand, gave a statement explaining Judge Harvey's decision to remove himself from the case, saying that "[he recognized] that remarks made in the context of a paper he delivered on copyright law at a recent conference could reflect on his impartiality and that the appropriate response is for him to step down from the case."


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BTW....my father has been deceased since 1969 and no other relatives are alive that might have the answer I'm seeking.
Hello everyone.......
I have a Marlin bolt action 22 rifle that belonged to my father. This 22 has no serial number nor model number anywhere on the barrel or any other associated part(s). My father was born in 1928 so I'm guessing my grandfather bought him the "squirrel gun" around 1944 when he made the age of 16.
How can I date this 22 more accurately?
The only stamping on the barrel is "Marlin Firearms Co.,New Haven,Conn. - 22 S-L-LR".....and that's it period....nothing else.
Thanks all,
Paul Sr.
BTW....my father has been deceased since 1969 and no other relatives are alive that might have the answer I'm seeking.
However complicated the issues become... it comes down to one simple question. Which is more important to you Life or Liberty? I've made my decision long ago.
"Is life so sweet or peace so dear; as to be paid for at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it Almighty God I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me Liberty or give me Death." Patrick Henry
You have a Model 100, they were made from 1935-1959. But I looked at the catalogs and the the style stock was used
between 1935-47. But the front sight that you have was used between 1939-47. Also civilian guns were not made during
WWII, so take 1942-44 out of there. The triggergard is the earlier style used from 35-38 .And if he did got it in 44 it could have been on the self for some time.
So the gun was probably made 1939 and bought in 44, give or take.
That is about as close I can get.
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La'i-be'eeldoh=(many guns)-NRA Life - Marlin league #16, Minnesota MarlinOwners--Team's= Marlin Express, Levermatic, 35 Rem #68, 32 Special #4, 45-70 #28, 1894 #94,30-30 #131, 39 #39, 38-55 #39, X7 #47, 60 #120, Shotgun #3, 366-44 #2, 44-40 #37, 22 Mag #006, 356 #?, MR7 #3 pending-Finally an Updated Marlin Dates and Production sheets.-Marlin Model 32-38 Pump Project-LEVERMATIC Catalog pages 1955-69 -This is how I converted a Marlin pump 22, to new type mag tube.
Did Marlin make this gun for Sears? I have a JC Higgins that I've had since I was a kid that looks just like the ones in the pictures. That is except the one I have had been chromed before I got it. I gave $20 for it in either 1966 or 1967. I'll try to get a chance to take a picture. When I get home and look at it more closely it might not look as identical to the one in the pictures as I thought.
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Yes...Marlin has made rifles for larger store chains. I have a 1971 Marlin 30-30 lever action sold under the name of "Revelation" at Western Auto Supply Co.. As per other store chains and names I'm sure other members can tell you more. Good luck
Thanks Paul
I got home and got buisy on something and forgot to look closer at my single shot. Maybe I will remember this afternoon. I really think it is the same gun as the one in the picture.
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image.jpgimage.jpgimage.jpgimage.jpgI hope I am not hijacking your thread Paul. Mine is a JC Higgins Model 10318. It looks like yours except for the front sight.I have pictures on my IPad but can not figure out how to post them here. I will attach them tomorrow.Paul I have my Dads .22 that was the first gun I ever shot ca. 1956 or so. It is a treasure to me. I hope you are equally proud of your single shot.
Okay I think I figured out the IPad.
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It's all gun talk...not hijacking...lol.
I see one other difference between our .22's. Your trigger guard is of plastic and mine's metal. I have a Mossberg,model 183 Dc,.410 bolt action shotgun that has that same style trigger guard.
I am very proud of this ole .22 single shot. First because it was my dad's when he was just a teenager and 2nd because it's one mighty fine accurate little rifle. My son will get this .22 passed down to him when I expire...(along with my other firearms).
Yes, this single shot is dead on accurate. It is missing the step piece in the rear sight, but that has never kept me from driving nails with it.
It sounds like you agree that it is basically the same rifle as yours. Your original Marlin is more desirable than mine. I got this one when I was in high school and it had already been chromed. I believe it would be worth more if it were an Unchromed Marlin like yours. For me dollar value is academic anyway since my son learned to shoot with it, before moving to a scoped Marlin 780 as a squirrel gun.
The gun I have that is the same situation as yours is a Stevens 87A automatic. My dad got it right after WWII and it is the first gun I ever pulled the trigger on. I lost my Dad three years ago and have the Stevens now.
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My 8 yr old Maltese has sticky urine. I noticed this when she missed her pp pad and went on the wood floor. By the time I found it, it had dried.
Estee was rescued from a puppy mill at 5, so I don't know much about her, although she was diagnosed with INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASE about a year ago, and takes 1.25mg of Prednisalone every other day. Her blood was tested about 3-4 months ago, and there were no problems other than some slight irregularities, due to her steroid use. She has always been a heavy drinker and urinates a lot, and I haven't really noticed any issues with her. I don't know if her urine is always sticky, as she usually hits the pad, or I get the mistake right away.
Does this sound normal? I see my vet a lot, and I think she is beginning to feel that I am a bit of a hypocondriac when it comes to my little animal children. Does anyone have any input on the situation?
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The UN has to address three crucial issues. One is the quality of the sovereignty transferred. Will it be genuine or cosmetic? The second is the procedure for giving Iraqis responsibility for their own security so foreign forces can withdraw. The third is a system for ensuring that Iraqis themselves approve of what the international community is doing, for without a mechanism to get Iraqi consent the UN will be endorsing a paradox. Sovereignty will be handed to people on a take-it-or-leave-it basis - in other words, in a non-sovereign way.
On points one and three the resolution is vague. Until there is greater clarity, there should be no rush to pass it. Artificial deadlines, such as Mr Bush's desire to come to Europe for the D-Day anniversary next week with a deal under his belt, should not be imposed. The resolution declines to specify whether Iraqis will have a veto over the actions of foreign troops. It leaves this to an exchange of letters to be drafted later.
At his press conference yesterday Mr Blair said the new Iraqi government would have a veto, so that operations such as the US assault on Falluja could not be repeated unless agreed in advance. This is a welcome statement, which seems to go against Washington's instinct. If it is an example of a new willingness by the prime minister to disagree with the US in public as a way of pressing for changes, it is an important shift. But Mr Blair's point needs to be spelled out clearly in the resolution itself.
The draft gives Iraqis inadequate control over their oil resources, as some members of the Iraqi governing council pointed out yesterday. By all means, insist that there should be international auditing but to give Iraqis only one seat on a board of five is derisory. The UN also needs to wait until an Iraqi government has been appointed. The UN special envoy, Lakhdar Brahimi, is busy selecting names but until he has announced a team and allowed it to consider the resolution and comment, no vote should be rushed through. The new government is going to have a hard time establishing its credibility. It will start on the wrong foot if it is unable to approve the UN resolution in advance.
The heart of the matter remains the presence of foreign troops, and how long they stay. A transfer of sovereignty will mean little to ordinary Iraqis if they continue to see heavy-handed foreign troops all over their streets, at checkpoints, in convoys, and in action against their cities. In many parts of Iraq foreign forces are seen as the problem rather than the solution. They incite violence rather than reduce it. Even before the scandal of Abu Ghraib, their actions were creating resentment, anger and kindling a desire for revenge.
The draft UN resolution fails to address this problem. In one breath the US and UK governments say foreign troops will stay no longer than needed. In another, they ask the UN to endorse a full year's mandate for the foreign forces with an option of further renewal. France is right to object. Unless a relatively early date is announced for a troop pull-out, there is no incentive to rebuild Iraq's forces quickly. Nor is there any pressure to produce a clear and phased plan for Iraqi forces to take over from US units.
In London yesterday the Iraqi defence minister talked of Iraqis replacing foreign troops within months or no longer than a year. That means beginning a troop pull-out well in advance. The minister's view fits well with French suggestions that the UN should not mandate foreign forces beyond the election date of December or January. It could be reversed if security conditions worsen in Iraq this autumn, or if Iraqis ask for the troops to stay longer. In the meantime, a clearly expressed determination for the troops to leave makes psychological and political sense.


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- The beauty consultant is expected to give demonstrations of how to use our new products.
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