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One of the first questions that you should ask yourself when buying boating insurance is what the best cover is for you to protect your boat if something goes wrong? In this article we have prepared a short guide which may help you to choose the most appropriate cover for you and your new purchase. Asking yourself why you need boat insurance is a fair question and surprisingly it is actually not a legal requirement to have insurance for boats on the water. Having appropriate cover makes sound financial sense for you especially in the case of an accident so looking into what you need is paramount.
There are marine mortgage companies that offer compulsory insurance as part of their money lending process however there are two reasons why boat insurance is not a "would like to have" but a "must have". You have to protect your investment against loss or damage which could ultimately result in a large and costly repair bill if the worst were to happen. This is something you definitely don't want! Secondly if you don't have adequate insurance you cannot be protected against third-party liability for injury or damage caused by you or the boat. Companies like www.ribshackmarine.co.uk who sell boats will mention this during their sales pitch. This can be very pricey if you're not insured. A lot of things can influence the premium that will be payable whether you buy a tiny little boat to large superyacht or a fast jet ski, each boat will attract a different level of risk. Insurance for boats is categorised according to the boat type it goes about saying that a large boat with a powerful engine costing several hundred thousand pounds will be far more expensive to insure than a smaller less powerful craft like a JetSki.
A super yacht will have a very different risk assessment for the JetSki or a tiny wooden boat or a dinghy and you should consider the type of vessel and any potential repair bills before calculating your premium. The area in which you intend to keep and use the boat will also have an influence on the level of premium you pay. This can actually have restrictions on your cover for as it needs to be assessed for local weather conditions. If your boat is able to be trailered and spend a large amount of time tucked away on your drive you will likely pay something different than if it is stored at a marina. Make sure that you are aware that trailered boat can actually only be covered under your car insurance so if you're trailered boat causes an accident it is your car insurance that will take the hit not your boat insurance. When looking for a policy the level of premium is obviously very important but it shouldn't be the deciding factor. Try and strike a balance between costs versus benefits and ask are there any replacement costs issued on the new for old basis and ensure that your policy covers any cruising round.
You can get third party insurance that provides protection for you or somebody using your boat from claims made by other people for death or injury or damage to third-party property for which you can become legally liable. Whether you buy your policy from a specialist insurance broker, from existing car insurance companies or just online, they all have their own merits the main point is that you only insure the appropriate and don't scrimp on the cover if your demands are likely to be high.


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A FORMER vet accused of killing a man during an extreme sado-masochistic sex session has told a jury the man did not respond as he carried out a variety of acts on him.
Kirk Thompson said he cut David Kochs with knives, as well as stapled his lips together, dripped hot wax on his stomach and private parts and burnt him.
The 46-year-old said he only became concerned when he made the last of several cuts to David Kochs' buttocks, because the wound did not bleed as others had.
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But after checking his vital signs to check that he was still alive, Mr Thompson claims he covered him with a duvet to sleep it off.
Mr Kochs, 43, who is originally from the Bishop Auckland area of County Durham, was found dead under the duvet in Mr Thompson's flat at Dulverton, Jesmond, Newcastle, on March 2 last year.
Newcastle Crown Court has been told that Mr Kochs died after suffering severe internal injuries. Mr Thompson is also alleged to have inflicted at least 44 injuries with a riding crop.
He has denied the manslaughter of Mr Kochs, 43, after they met via an internet site and engaged in drug-fuelled sexual activity - which he said was consensual.
Speaking in measured tones, Mr Thompson today (Wednesday, March 26) told a jury how that activity had involved a rolling pin, candles and knives.
Asked if he concerned that nothing was being said by Mr Kochs, Mr Thompson replied: "I assumed it was his style. Some meetings might be very vocal and very verbal others less so."
Mr Thompson said at one point he used a scalpel from a dissection kit to inflict skin wounds on Mr Koch's armpit and also cut his private parts with a kitchen knife.
He used a surgical stapling gun to staple Mr Kochs' right nostril closed and removed it before inserting eight staples across his lips.
Mr Thompson said: "I made a total of seven cuts to the right buttock the final one made me stop.
"The reason it made me stop was because it did not bleed in the way the other cuts had bled. . . that made me concerned."
Mr Thompson said he covered Mr Kochs with a duvet and checked his vital signs - and twice more later.
He said: "One of the most unfortunate and terrible aspects is there were no signs of any internal injuries that were apparent.
"And from my perspective I have not done anything which should have or could have caused a tear."
Mr Thompson has also denied an alternate charge of wounding and a third charge of causing actual bodily harm. He has admitted possessing crystal meth.
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HOLIDAYMAKERS from Holland were involved in a two-car smash on a Hampshire road.
Police were called to a collision involving a van and a car in Pilley Street, Pilley, near Lymington, at 10.08am today.
Officers offered assistance in exchanging details due to the language barrier.
No one was hurt in the incident.
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Partnership Develops Affordable Housing at YMCA
LOS ANGELES-The $21-million, 49-unit community will serve low-income adults and youths transitioning from homelessness to independent living, including those living with mental illness.
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WASHINGTON, DC-Delinquency rates in commercial real estate continue to drop. You'd almost never guess that at one point distress real estate had breached $200 billion.


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SAO PAULO, Dec 1 (Reuters) - Brazil exchange operator BM&FBovespa SA said on Monday it was considering adding a shopping mall company to the benchmark Bovespa stock index as of January and removing a power company.
It said shares of shopping mall developer Multiplan Empreendimentos Imobiliarios SA could be added while preferred shares of electricity distributor Eletropaulo could be removed.
BM&FBovespa issued this view in what it termed a "preview" of changes for the index for January through April 2015.
Customarily, the listing of shares in three rounds of previews prior to the changes increases the likelihood that they will be added to the benchmark equities index for January through April of 2015. (Reporting by Asher Levine and Marcela Ayres Editing by W Simon)


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Senator Rivera Hosts Third Town Hall of the Month at Twin Parks Apartments
Senator Gustavo Rivera (D,WF-Bronx) hosted his third town hall meeting of the month at Twin Parks Apartments on Wednesday, May 18, 2011 from 6:30pm to 8:00pm. He was joined by staff from Assembly Member Stevenson's office and Council Member Joel Rivera's office as well as over 30 building residents and community members.
"I am excited to continue holding town hall meetings throughout the 33rd Senate District," said Senator Rivera. "I want to make sure that if anyone has any concerns or problems they need addressed, that they know how to get in touch with me and my staff. That also means going out to where folks live to talk to them when they are free: after work and on the weekends."
Topics related to housing, crime and social services were addressed at the town hall meeting. Previous town hall meetings have been held at the Kingsbridge Heights Community Center and the Bronx Works Morris Senior Center. Senator Rivera will be hosting a town hall meeting on May 25th from 6:30pm to 8:30pm at Tracey Towers in Community Room B at 40 West Mosholu Parkway South, Bronx, NY.


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Offshore yacht racing may seem like a gentleman's sport, but underestimate it at your peril. Leave the polo shirt and leather boat shoes in your shore bag for the yacht club after-party. Here's the kit Jason Heaton used for the Rolex Big Boat Series while crewing for Escapade Racing.


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Wishes Stored Up
Stock options are a wonderful real world counterpart for the metaphor of life options. Use it or lose it. The options are given by life freely and if unexercised they disappear again, just as abs under a pleasant poof of insulation. What is not used goes back into the universe from which it came. The universe is large and can accomodate much more than any one life. Any one life has more flexibility than sometimes we realize, perhaps because every moment is rife and ripe with life going on at simultaneous levels and the mental tabletop of what we can attend to can't hold that much.
We live in something akin to an electronics store gone mad with woofers, sub-woofers, TVs and radios all set to different stations. Hearing the channel we choose to attend to takes the bulk of our concentration. Is it possible, in time, to stand in the ruckus and forget how to perceive anything but our focus? What about being able to perceive other voices in turn, bu habitually dismiss or denegrate them as unintelligible, inconclusive or useless? We can tune out what else is going on effectively (which is a useful skill) but if we don't divert out attention occasionally, we can screen out smoke alarm warnings, our favourite songs, or other vital data that might be more useful than our usual station. Radio silence and motion are a balm. As is laughter. Life easily gets too all-important or trivial. Sometimes we need to stop listening from outside of us, outside of this moment, let the voices remembered, the notions fall to silence and motion of body. Shush oneself as many times as it takes to give a chance for lesser heard dreams to be audible, palpable.
Sometimes life's journey is physical, sometimes spiritual, sometimes interpersonal, and sometimes these aspects intersect as they did for Brooke Broadbent on the walking the Camino in Northern Spain. His books and seminars on Beyond Fear: Recapturing Your Life (pdf) and his exploration of laughter (pdf) are enriching. To get in touch with ourselves, that quiet voice within is just the first step.
We need our unrealized wishes. One needs dreams to keep us reaching. Dreams without a need and plan to succeed in them are just hopes and wishes — liabilities that enable our inactions. We also need our realized actions and connections to be complete.
By a swift movement of the wist, instead of moving your can, dropping your cant of can'ts, one can be locked in a tower of hope by one's own choosing. One can shut ourselves up there, and strand ourselves for rescue, instead of pragmatically bucking up, getting a move on and fixing what needs to fixed or Accepted as is unconditionally, no astericks allowed.
It is a journey finding, basking in and exploring the bliss that is particular to you and share-able for its universality. For some it may be whatever you conceive of as family, for some, a job. The concrete feedback on how you know when you've achieved it provides some accountability and whets the appetite to go on. The key is the journey. If you don't get regular satisfaction, gratification at sustainable intervals, something has to change. It may be you. You're the easiest thing to change because you can control you if nothing else on this planet. You, your restlessness to settle, your settling for restlessness, your resting in settlements, etc.
Garrison Steelle points out, "A life too tightly bound by rules and regulations is not free. Ideological slavery is every bit as limiting as though we were shackled by chains and beaten with whips. To that end, there is only one answer. Save your life: Break the rules."
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Cromwell: The Irish Question
Cromwell's military campaign in Ireland is one event that the British can never remember and the Irish can never forget. Tom Reilly questions one of the most enduring and troubling topics in Irish history.
Timecheck: September 2012. A primary school teacher somewhere in Ireland faces a class of 11-year-olds. The teacher reaches for the textbook Earthlink 5th Class, published by Folens in 2004. On page 87 the following words are printed: 'Cromwell captured Drogheda. About 3,000 men, women and children were killed.' No ambiguity there. The teacher then picks up a second history book, Timeline, published by the Educational Company of Ireland in 2008, also on the school curriculum, and crosschecks.
A paragraph reads:
He [Cromwell] first laid siege to Drogheda. He was determined to make an example of the town. When he captured it he slaughtered the entire population.
Compare this with a British school workbook, Presenting the Past: Britain 1500-1750 published by HarperCollins in 2002, where the veracity of the civilian atrocity stories is debated at some length and alternative interpretations presented.
Genocidal maniac or honourable enemy? The name 'Cromwell' is so talismanic that its very invocation still causes Irish hearts to stir. The theme of British versus Irish interpretations of Cromwell's time in Ireland is as prevalent today as it was in the 19th century. While on one level Ireland seems to be coming to terms with the dying embers of centuries of anti-British sentiment, below the surface it is a different story. Cromwell is easily Irish history's most resistant figure to a favourable re-evaluation.
A member of a long-standing Drogheda family, I grew up close to where the walls of the town were breached on 9/11 1649. I, too, was taught the horror story that the entire population was wiped out there and at Wexford. At school I had a rebellious teenage mindset. Others were studious, I was not. As a young adult I joined the Old Drogheda Society and a short glimpse into local history later I began to question the truth about the massacres. It was the indiscriminate slaughter of women and children that bothered me most.
Incredibly, the first document I consulted was the only one that was missed by almost all other Cromwellian scholars – Drogheda's municipal records of 1649. Here I read about the activities of hundreds of Drogheda people who went about their daily business in the days immediately after Cromwell's visit. So it couldn't have been the 'entire population' of Drogheda then. Yet there was a written tradition of generations of academics promoting this as historical fact.
And so the journey began. I became familiar with all of the usual sources and those not so usual. As I read more about Cromwell, it became difficult (although not impossible) to reconcile how a man with such lofty moral ethics could engage in the senseless slaughter of Ireland's innocents, even amid the frenetic environment of 17th-century warfare. I wiped the slate clean and evaluated the evidence of those people who were actually in Drogheda and Wexford at the time the massacres took place. It was shocking to realise that not one person in either town left written details of the deaths of even one unarmed civilian. Obviously small numbers of male civilians could have died as the result of collateral damage. To argue otherwise is folly. But there was no policy to kill the innocent either before, during or after the sieges of Drogheda and Wexford.
After Ireland Cromwell, king-killer and the darling of his soldiers, became the chief actor on the mid-17th-century stage when he assumed the role of Protector of the Commonwealth. The documented evidence for the period is fraught with inconsistencies as contemporary writers sought to convince with motives that were either genuine or ulterior. This reached a peak after the failure of the Commonwealth when the ensuing (vitriolic) Restoration propaganda directed at the Interregnum began to queer an already muddy pitch. Much later, at the end of the 19th century, the abundant anti-British sentiment from the pens of Irish nationalists helped to create an almost impenetrable layer of misinformation about the sack of Drogheda and Wexford and the conquest of Ireland.
My study Cromwell – An Honourable Enemy: The Untold Story of the Cromwellian Invasion of Ireland was published in 1999, the 350th anniversary of the 'massacres'. The inflammatory title had the flexibility to infuriate the diehard nationalist and intrigue the steadfast loyalist. Its publication was followed by public displays of outrage in Ireland, because it exonerated Cromwell of war crimes. A dismissive review in the Irish Times concluded that 'None of this is convincing'. But the UK edition of the Sunday Times said: 'This is an important book, it humbles us all.'
In 2000 an exhibition of Cromwell's death mask in Drogheda caused the then deputy mayor of the town to organise a public protest during which the walls of the exhibition centre were daubed with tomato juice to represent the blood of Cromwell's civilian victims. Councillor Frank Godfrey was quoted in the Irish Daily Mirror as saying:
Bringing Cromwell's death mask to Drogheda is like asking a Jew to meet Adolf Hitler. The people of this town are in no doubt that Cromwell was responsible for putting thousands of innocent civilians to the sword, no matter what some authors might say.
Since 1999 little has changed in Ireland regarding Cromwell's murderous legacy. Many Irish historians of the 17th-century refuse to accept the arguments outlined in my book and insist that its methodology is flawed and that therefore its thesis is rendered useless. Jason McElligott (Cromwell, Drogheda and the Abuse of Irish History, 2001), Micheál Ó'Siochrú (Propaganda, Rumour and Myth: Oliver Cromwell and The Massacre of Drogheda, 2007) and Pádraig Lenihan (Consolidating Conquest, 2008) still take the view that large numbers of unarmed civilians, men, women and children, were deliberately slaughtered under Cromwell's orders at Drogheda and Wexford. The Irish graphic novelist Dermot Poyntz' Curse of Cromwell: The Siege (Moccu Press, 2010, recommended for those aged ten upwards) explicitly illustrates the killing of ordinary civilians. Cromwell in Ireland (2008) and The Story of Ireland (2010) were major RTE documentaries, both of which conclude that Cromwell was guilty of wholesale civilian atrocities and almost completely ignore any revisionist work.
Conversely, Simon Schama's BBC TV series, A History of Britain (2000-02), takes a different view. His book of the series states: 'Only recently have Irish historians like Tom Reilly, a native son of Drogheda, had the courage and scholarly integrity to get the story right.' A Channel 4 documentary, Cromwell, New Model Englishman (2002), also introduced balance to the debate by highlighting the non-massacre theory. In his Civil War: The Wars of the Three Kingdoms 1638-60 (2004), the historian Trevor Royle embraces my argument. The English author Philip McKeiver's A New History of Cromwell's Irish Campaign (2007) concludes that 'most of the allegations against Cromwell are at best dubious, and, in the most part, not supported by original primary documents'.
Cromwell experts in England are slightly more circumspect. Peter Gaunt wrote: 'I am broadly sympathetic towards, and in agreement with, the line that you take'. And although John Morrill has cast (justifiable) aspersions on my methodology, he writes:
I am totally convinced by your evidence that no civilians died in cold blood at Drogheda. I am not quite clear that some would not have been caught up in the crossfire and died in hot blood.
History has a habit of not going away in Ireland, as the Irish know to their cost. It has defined and divided us. Surely it is the obligation of those early modern experts who preside over the Irish educational system to set the records straight and introduce a sense of balance. These words of Cromwell himself somehow seem very relevant: 'In the bowels of Christ I beseech you, think it possible that you might be mistaken.'
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Hi Wendy. So sorry to hear about your hand, hon. I know you said in the past how you had trouble with it hurting which curtailed your puzzle making and solving. I think it probably needs a good rest. You've been pretty busy making and solving puzzles lately. When it's better, sure, zip on over here and enjoy. For me, it's my back. It doesn't affect my puzzle making, etc., at least not yet, lol, but it sure hurts every time I do the dishes or cook. There's something about standing at the kitchen counter for a long time that it just doesn't like. Oh well, such is life, eh. Things could always be worse. So you rest that hand, hon, and we'll see you at a later date. :)) Take care !!
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Kasabian star Tom Meighan landed the honour of showing off England's away soccer strip at a concert in Paris, France on Monday night (08Feb10).
The frontman bounded onto the stage at the Olympia Theatre, wearing the new top, which is a throwback to the one the nation's 1966 team wore when they won the World Cup.
The shirt will debut at the 2010 Football World Cup in South Africa.
Meighan tells the NME, "I'm the first person to wear it (shirt) which is crazy. They said they wanted to take it away from the footballers for once and do something up to date. They wanted to combine with rock 'n' roll... I'm honoured to wear it."
Umbro spokesperson Trevor Cairns explained that the label had chosen Kasabian for the honour because the band, "like England, represented the nation abroad."


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Black Hills State University sociology students were inducted into the BHSU Gamma Chapter of Alpha Kappa Delta (AKD), an international sociology honors society.
Erin Rogers, senior psychology major from Custer; Lisa Herman-Spilde, junior sociology major from St. Onge; Deborah Red Day Wilson, junior American Indian studies major from Spearfish; Jenny Stevens, junior sociology major from Tongue River, Wyo.; and Kayla Sauber, senior human services major from Stanley, N.D., were inducted during a recent ceremony.
To join AKD, students must have completed four sociology courses, be of junior status, and have a 3.0 GPA in their sociology courses and in all other coursework. The purpose of the honor society is to promote scholarship, but the focus has always been fellowship for students and faculty. The society sponsors essay contests and funds for student travel.
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The Winchester Model 88.
Lever action fans are a conservative lot. Departing from classic lever-action lines and punching up the power level of lever-action rifles seems to be a dead-end business in the firearms industry. Winchester has experienced a stream of false starts. The ultra modern Model 88 and the more recent Big Bore Model 94s in .307, .356 and .375 are cases in point and remember the 7×30 Waters!
Sako joined the doomed club in 1962 with the introduction of their lever action Finnwolf in .308 and .243 Winchester. Savage retired the Model 99 from its line, and I have a hunch Marlin's Model 308/338 MXLR in .308 Marlin and .338 Marlin isn't exactly setting any sales records. Left standing may be Browning's long and short action BLR. We'll see.
The first Model 88 I ever saw passed me on a motorcycle. I was trudging up a steep foot trail in Arizona's Santa Catalina Mountains just before daybreak searching for Coues whitetails when I suddenly was aware of a motor behind me. Stepping off the trail with haste, I was amazed to see a young hunter zipping along on a trail bike, successfully negotiating a steep, rocky trail I thought impassible on a machine of any type. Without a word he rocketed on by, and as he did, I got a good look at his hardware. Slung across his back was a Model 88 Winchester. It was the beginning of the Model 88 itch.
Introduced in 1955, the Model 88 was a radical departure from Winchester's historically strong lever-action line. The advertising copy of the day made the claim that it was a "Bolt Action Rifle with a Lever." Mechanically speaking, there was a lot of truth to that jingle and psychologically speaking, that ad copy was designed to appeal to both the traditional lever action user and the confirmed bolt-action person.
Gone were an external hammer, side loading tubular magazine, rear locking bolt and 2-piece stock. In their place were an enclosed action with an internal hammer, a detachable box-magazine, a massive side-ejecting, 3-lugged rotating bolt that locked up right behind the chamber, a 1-piece stock and a trigger that stayed with the lever as the lever was cycled. Overall the new Model 88 was sleek as a jet fighter and scope ready.
Even more radical were cartridges the Model 88 chambered. In place of the .30-30, .32 Special and the .348 Winchester were the .243, .284, .308, and .358 Winchester. When introduced in 1955, the Model 88 was chambered only in .308 Win. The only other rifle chambered for the relatively new Winchester round at that time was the Model 70. In 1956, Winchester added the .243 and .358 Win to the available chamberings in the Model 88 and one year earlier in the Model 70.
In 1963, Winchester developed the short, sharp-shouldered .284 Winchester specifically for the Model 88 and their Model 100 autoloader. They wanted a short-action cartridge that could go head-to-head with the .270 Winchester and the .280 Remington, and they got it with the radical, rebated rim .284.
Savage must have been a bit shell shocked by the cartridges available in the new Winchester lever action and soon responded by chambering the whole Winchester quartet of compact cartridges in their Savage Model 99.
The Model 88 was available in two models—a rifle with a 22-inch barrel and a carbine with a 19-inch barrel and barrel band. Total production of the Model 88 over its 19-year lifespan from 1955 through 1973 was 283,913. It is estimated that of that total, 255,549 were rifles and 28,330 were carbines.
In terms of chambering, the .308 Win was by far the most popular chambering with 110,289 units manufactured. The .243 Win takes second place with 74,294 being made. The .284 Win and .358 Win are almost tied with 35,330 and 35,636 units produced respectfully.
The Model 88 gets the same pre- and post-1964 treatment in collectors' circles as the Model 70. The only significant change in the Model 88 is in the checkering of the stocks. In pre-1964 rifle models, the checkering is cut. In post-1964 rifle models, the checking is an impressed basketweave design. The carbine stocks of either period are not checkered or impressed.
In the .308 chambering, there were more than twice as many cut checkered units as impressed. In the .243 chambering, it's about equal. Out-of-production by 1964, there are no .358s with impressed checkering.
The rarest of all is the .284 Win with only 2,925 units produced with cut checkering. Because of its collector value, it is also the most commonly faked model with impressed stocks being swapped for checkered stocks. The only safeguard against such fraud is an examination of the serial number range. If the serial number range of a cut checkered .284 falls between 142,917 to 151,693, it's legit. If not, it's counterfeit goods.
I've owned and worked with two Model 88s—a .284 rifle and a .308 Carbine. Some of the design features that impress me the most are its lightening fast action. The lever throw is only 60-degrees and the linkage is slick. The stocking, which typically features a quality piece of walnut, is very modern and comfortable when using a scope sight with a drop-at-the-comb of 1-1/2 inches and at-the-heel 2-5/8 inches. The neutral balance point of the Model 88 in both the carbine and rifle models falls approximately at the magazine well making the Model 88 handy to carry. The detachable 4-round magazine system permits the use of spitzer bullets, and with an extra, loaded magazine in your pocket; it makes for a fast reload.
The Model 88s are accurate, as accurate as a typical bolt action, but some of the early production guns do have creepy triggers that take some getting used to. The .308 Winchester carbine pictured in the article is mounted with a vintage Lyman All-American 4X scope. In testing .308s, my protocol is to determine what the inherent accuracy of the rifle is using a 168-grain match load. There is some great factory .308 match ammunition available over-the-counter, or you can put together a handload with a 168-grain match bullet and 40 to 42 grains of IMR 4064.
The Model 88 carbine firing Black Hills .308 match ammunition will keep three shots into 1 to 1-1/4 inches at 100 yards. The Model 88s shoot, even the carbines with their odd-looking barrel bands!
Maybe most of all, I just love their zesty lines. Esthetically, the Model 88s are the most pleasing of all lever actions. Gone but not forgotten. The Model 88 is a classic in the world of lever actions.
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Hilton Waikola advertises its main attraction as being "dolphin swim programs", in which people pay to go in the water with the mammals and/or watch a trainer at work.
Such "swim programs" are not anything like watching wild dolphins. These dolphins are captives, leading bleak lives in concrete pools and unable to escape from their forced interactions with guests. They might not be jumping through hoops, but they are essentially still circus animals.
This sort of crass exploitation is a relic from the 19th century and it's time we moved on. Dolphins deserve better.
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Captivity is a terrible experience for beings as intelligent and social as cetaceans.According to the international conservation group, Whale and Dolphin Conservation, it shortens life expectancy, causes psychological stress, leaves the animals vulnerable to disease and prevents natural behavior. The general public is beginning to realize this.
A far more humane alternative would be for the resort to offer whale and dolphin watching tours, a move which would mark Hilton Hotels as a forward, rather than a backward, thinking entity and show a real concern for marine mammals, their conservation and their welfare. The continued exploitation of captive dolphins, on the other hand, makes it look like the chain only cares about profits, regardless of the suffering caused.
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The below information is a general guide to Indiana State Paternity Laws. Please conduct further research on your state laws for current or updated information or contact a family attorney for professional legal advice. For information on state collection locations, click here.
Link: Indiana Establishing Paternity
Link: Indiana Judiciary Self Services
Link: Indiana Child Support
Link: Indiana Putative Father Registry
Link: Indiana Establishing Paternity – Brochure
Link: Indiana Establishing Paternity Frequently Asked Questions
Required Probability of Paternity for Indiana Courts: 99%
Required Paternity Index: None at this time
Chapter 7. Presumption of Paternity
IC 31-14-7-1 Presumptions; child's biological father
Sec. 1. A man is presumed to be a child's biological father if:
(1) the: (A) man and the child's biological mother are or have been married to each other; and
(B) child is born during the marriage or not later than three hundred (300) days after the marriage is terminated by death, annulment, or dissolution;
(2) the: (A) man and the child's biological mother attempted to marry each other by a marriage solemnized in apparent compliance with the law, even though the marriage: (i) is void under IC 31-11-8-2, IC 31-11-8-3, IC 31-11-8-4, or IC 31-11-8-6; or (ii) is voidable under IC 31-11-9; and
(B) child is born during the attempted marriage or not later than three hundred (300) days after the attempted marriage is terminated by death, annulment, or dissolution; or
(3) the man undergoes a genetic test that indicates with at least a ninety-nine percent (99%) probability that the man is the child's biological father.
As added by P.L.1-1997, SEC.6. Amended by P.L.138-2001, SEC.6.
IC 31-14-7-2 Rebuttable presumption; child's biological father
Sec. 2. (a) If there is not a presumed biological father under section 1 or 1.5 of this chapter, there is a rebuttable presumption that a man is the child's biological father if, with the consent of the child's mother, the man:
(1) receives the child into the man's home; and
(2) openly holds the child out as the man's biological child.
(b) The circumstances under this section do not establish the man's paternity. A man's paternity may only be established as described in IC 31-14-2-1.
As added by P.L.1-1997, SEC.6. Amended by P.L.138-2001, SEC.7.
IC 31-14-7-3 Paternity affidavits
Sec. 3. A man is a child's legal father if the man executed a paternity affidavit in accordance with IC 16-37-2-2.1 and the paternity affidavit has not been rescinded or set aside under IC 16-37-2-2.1.
As added by P.L.138-2001, SEC.8.
Link: Indiana Codes and Laws
This information is a general guide. Research your state laws for current information or contact a family attorney.
I have a child! In Indianapolis, Right now I paying medical sopport, but, the mother tells me their is, a probability that, the 5 years old child its not my, if its not my, do i still have to pay???
Would you please explain in laymans term what this means, I really appreciate if you would. Thank you.
Rebuttable presumption; child's biological father
Sec. 2. (a) If there is not a presumed biological father under section 1 of this chapter, there is a rebuttable presumption that a man is the child's biological father if, with the consent of the child's mother, the man:
(1) receives the child into the man's home; and
(2) openly holds the child out as the man's biological child.
(b) The circumstances under this section do not establish the man's paternity. A man's paternity may only be established as described in IC 31-14-2-1.
Thank you for read this question. I`m from and live in El Salvador and I have a son who born in Indianapolis in 2005. His father was my boyfriend, but we was separated when my son born extremely preeme. My son does not have a father in his birth certificate. My son and me we are living in El Salvador and his father is living in the United States, but he is from El Salvador too. He wants to give his lastname to my son. He sends me money every month.Is it possible that my son's father can legally to accept his biological paternity and what can we do to fix that situation?
I signed a paternity affadavit in indiana after my son was already 2 or 3 yrs old. I have a copy of the affadavit saying it was filed at the end of his birthday month the same year he was born. Is my son covered under my life insurance pension benefits,and my other assests if something was to happen to me? Am I legally established as the father with this affadavit? What proves my rights to my son as far as the law is concerned if the mother refuses to let me see him? Do I have to go to court in a situation where I get him on certain days and times?
i have a daughter tht was conceved in indianpolis but born in llinois. her ather lives in indy. since then we hve moved to indy. how can i get paternity established or her. he's now disabled . he reuses to admit to paternity legally for our daughter. what can i do?
11yr go had girlfriend sleep with my brother when I was on the road for six mo. She got knock up and say that thing about who the father of child. I've done dumd thing put my name on the brith certificate. I've talk to lawyer about dna done on my son in laporte but them won't talk to me about any DNA testing done.
Is any way get DNA done on my son and see if he is my brother kid,and if he is than how do I get the brith certificate change.
I have an 8 year old daughter. I was with a man when I found out I was pregnant-We knew it couldnt be his child because we had just gotten together. He has helped take care of her since the day she was born. He is her dad…
Now the man that is actually the father (and he is in jail for larceny) wants me to get a DNA test done-He wants to have rights to her…8 years later..Is there any laws that protect children with conditions like this?
Hi I have a quick question for you. The mother of my child left when he was six months old now he is seven and he just surfaced up but she is in jail again. The mother and grandmother cannot see him my names on the birth certificate and I now need a DNA test but I live in Ohio my sons in Indiana and he was born in Ill. can I do a DNA test here in Ohio to prove I am his Father so He is not a word of the State and has the chance every kid deserves. Thanks So Much Neil Brodin


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Here is how an airbrush company explains it.
Todd B
How To Choose The Right Airbrush
Not all airbrushes are the same. Some are intended for certain applications, while others are designed for specific paints. Choosing which airbrush best suits your needs is essential. There are two important questions to ask yourself when choosing an airbrush:
What will I be airbrushing? (T-shirts, autos, fine art, photos, etc.)
Which medium will I be working with? (acrylic, gouache, watercolor, oils, etc.)
Airbrushes are also designed differently. There are single action airbrushes and double action airbrushes. There are gravity feed, side feed, and bottom feed models. Each design has its own unique advantage, and serves its own specific function.
Single Action vs. Double Action
When you depress the trigger of a single action airbrush, both air and paint are delivered simultaneously. The amount of paint can be varied by adjusting the needle/nozzle assembly, but this means you must first stop spraying.
With double action airbrushes, you have greater control over both the air flow and paint supply. Press the trigger down for air, and pull the lever back for paint. This allows you to control air and paint flow independently, thus enhancing the effect without having to pause.
Most experts agree that you're better off starting with a double action airbrush, rather than a single action.
Gravity Feed, Side Feed & Bottom Feed
In gravity feed models, the paint feeds into the airbrush from a reservoir or cup mounted above the airbrush. This enables the artist to spray extremely fine lines at a low air pressure, thus allowing for more control. The airbrush is easily cleaned for quick color changes.
Bottom feed models use a siphon-feed system to draw the paint up from a jar or color cup mounted below the airbrush. The jars allow for larger volumes of paint to be sprayed for an extended period of time.
Side-feed models use the same technology as bottom-feed models. However, the paint jar or color cup is mounted on the side of the airbrush. This allows for slower spraying and better vision of the work surface.
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...it came right out of the package of a double action airbrush! The link below seems to be a bit more un-biased comparison of the two. And, there is other interesting info as well...
And I'm not used to agreeing with you so often. LOL That statement about how "most experts agree" never asked me. Further, I totally disagree with the garbage about having to stop spraying to adjust the spray pattern on a single action brush. I've done it for years. What they DON'T tell you is that those tiny pin spots on bass and trout cannot be done easily with a double action brush without years of experience. With a single action, you can set a size spot and do the entire fish taking comfort in the fact that each spot will always be the same size. Did you also notice that they mentioned gouache (which is basically a water color anyway, though it's mixed with gum) yet failed to address either lacquer or inks?
MY advice to beginners is to begin with the simplest brush you can find. Testor makes a really REALLY CHEAP model that will get you started in the techniques if you cannot spring for the $30 single action Paasche. I've worn more single action Paache's out than I care to count and they doe EVERYTHING I need in an airbrush. IF they are not equal to your talents, you can easily sell them and go for the gusto in the professional double action models later down the road.
Well you know, when Venus and Mars and all the stars come together we will AGREE with each other approximately every 387 years, 6 months and three days, or so. It just so happens that because it's an election year AND I've switched to some quality HANES underwear, that this has happened more recently lately - LOL!
I SWORE I wasn't going to comment on air brush questions ANYMORE. But, I've been doing my taxes the last three days and even the "air brush" questions are a nice break. Next, you'll see me answering "paint schedule" questions too!
As far as Double Actions vs. Singles go, I couldn't get the hang of a Double. And, I see a lot of beginner's getting FRUSTRATED and GIVING UP with a double. But, I also see that it could be difficult to make the transition IF one wants to make the change from a Single to a Double. I still say (& I think the above link stresses this point) that PRACTICE is the key. Practice with the brush, with the (thinning and retarders) paint, and practice adjusting the PSI. All that takes time. So whichever airbrush one chooses, be prepared to get intimate with it...
If you guys noticed I said newbies. I posted it as an informational tool. We do not really care if you like the single action prehistoric airbrush or not. I am just passing on information trying to help some of the newer people who have asked about airbrushes.
And by your latest follow-up post, you confirm that it indeed was biased.
Anytime errant info is given out (or in this case biased and weak info in general), expect a regular to come on regardless of the category and offer their opinion. You actually forced me to find some better info. And the link I provided contains some of the better, unbiased info on airbrushes that I could find...
Didn't mean to piss on your lollipop, but since it WAS for beginners, I felt they should see something from a contrasting viewpoint. It wasn't intended as personal, especially since you didn't write it. I was just pointing out that even it's mediums were not directed specifically toward taxidermist who CERTAINLY AREN'T rocket scientists. LOL
I did not mean to be an ass. It was just said to be the choice of the majority of professional airbrush artists. They did not mention taxidermists. Anyhow I just copied and pasted the info from an airbrush companies webpage. I prefer the double action because that is what I learned with. You guys probably learned with a single. As long as the end results are the same it does not matter what you use. I apologize if I seemed defensive. I was just giving the newbies some info I found.
Todd B
Reading what you guys have to say is great free advice.After reading all the info on here I decided when I get to the point of buying Im buying one simple air brush and one dual action Iwata.I have painted alot of cars and always had two or three guns.I can relate that to the airbrush debate also.Binks and sharpe were top choices but you can rebuild the binks with a kit from the jap knock off.Thanks for posting your thoughts and Im sure anyone who is thinking about getting one gains alot from your insight.
That's funny George - never heard that one before.
No worries Todd, we all have opinions that sometimes bring forth heated "debates". Been there, done that (and will probably "be there" again and again!)
To further elaborate on what George touched upon. As commercial taxidermists, we simply don't have the time to put in the level of detail that (eg:) an illustrator or graphic's artist does at his/her job. Where a high end air-brush may be necessary (but I suspect that there are a few single action illustrators out there that often have this debate on their "graphicsartists.net website too - lol).
I think for what we do, EITHER type of airbrush is perfectly capable of performing WITH PRACTICE. Practice is the key newbies...
Hi guys, I'm a newbie-as green as they get and I'm looking to get into airbrush. By trade I do graphic design/illustration but I want to move into custom automotive paint someday. For now though I just want a brush that will allow me to do a wide varitey of applications-i'll probably be working with acrylics. What brush can you recomend to start off with?