tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-89343871689097279562024-03-06T00:14:22.706-08:00. . . . Caution ! - This site is constantly under construction ! . . Here, you’ll never tire of spending untold hours fantasying about what you long for; browsing through image after image in “Today’s Catalog”. No matter the season, with "Today’s Catalog" it's free to enjoy your fantasies, or, you can fulfill them!Tony G Fugatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10815107122361894526noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8934387168909727956.post-59451827205830633872019-01-16T13:55:00.000-08:002019-08-16T07:16:54.423-07:00<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16.0000pt; line-height: 150%;">This cool “car” can leap nearly 2.5 feet (31.5 inches) into the air with a running speed a bit less than 5mph </span><span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16.0000pt; line-height: 150%;">(7km/h) </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16.0000pt; line-height: 150%;">. . . Any faster and it could be deadly</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16.0000pt; line-height: 150%;">! It’s transmitter or Controller works exceptionally well at a distance of more than 75 feet </span><span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16.0000pt; line-height: 150%;">(30-45m)</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16.0000pt; line-height: 150%;">. The “cars” built-in 3.7V rechargeable battery </span><span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16.0000pt; line-height: 150%;">(USB charging cable included)</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16.0000pt; line-height: 150%;"> can be fully charged within 50mins and then get 20mins of run time; plus it’s equipped with a 2.4GHz Controller for transmission free interference </span><span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16.0000pt; line-height: 150%;">(sooo, run as many as you like, up to 14)</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16.0000pt; line-height: 150%;"> within the same area.</span><span style="font-family: "simsun"; font-size: 12.0000pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Normal functions include </span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #333333; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;">e</span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #333333; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;">xtendable tires</span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #333333; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;">; </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">right & left turns; advances, forward & backward; 360</span><span style="font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">°</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"> quick spins; and finishes with more than a 2 foot vertical leap, if you like, while in motion. The “Car” moves about with impressive on-board sound effects and LED lights. Truly, this “car’s” image should be displayed in </span><i><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Webster's Dictionary </span></i><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">along side the term FUN! . .</span></div>
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<b><i><span style="color: #c00000; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Helpful Hints:</span></i></b><b><i><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span></i></b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">The Controller / Remote requires 2 AAA batteries </span><span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">(not included)</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"> . . . The neat sound effects can be switched off when silent running is desired.</span><span style="color: #823b0b; font-family: "arial black"; font-size: 16pt; text-indent: 0pt;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt;">A common question asked about RC vehicles is how many can run at the same time on the same track / course? In a nutshell; it depends upon the frequency the R-C’s Controller is equipped with; three are currently <span style="color: #3d85c6;">(2018)</span> in use:</span><b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #555555; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">27 MHz</span></b><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #555555; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> </span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #0070c0; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">(megahertz)</span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #555555; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">. . . 6 channels / frequencies </span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #555555; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #555555; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">75 MHz</span></b><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #555555; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> . . . 30 Channels . . . requires different crystals for each channel</span><b><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #c00000; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">*</span></b><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #555555; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #555555; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">2.4 GHz</span></b><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #555555; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> </span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #0070c0; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">(gigahertz)</span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #555555; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">. . . 14 possible channels; the R-C </span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #555555; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">automatically</span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #555555; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> “searches out an available” frequency</span><b><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #c00000; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">**</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt;">Note: Currently <span style="color: #3d85c6;">(01-19-2019)</span> the Ford GT’s available colors are limited to Liquid Red and Liquid Gray</span></b><b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #111111; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 114%;">Package includes:</span></b><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #111111; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 114%;"> 1 x four Wheel Drive Off-Road Rock Crawler, 1 x Transmitter </span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #0070c0; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 114%;">(requires two 1.5V AA Batteries </span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #0070c0; font-family: "arial black"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 114%;">─</span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #0070c0; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 114%;"> NOT included)</span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #111111; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 114%;">, 1 x 9.6V 1000mah Ni-MH battery </span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #0070c0; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 114%;">(included)</span><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 114%;">, </span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #111111; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 114%;">1 USB charger, and 1 Operators Manual.</span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #111111; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 114%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt;">Traxxas</span></i><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt;">, the U. S. R-C manufacturing company based in McKinney, Texas, will always be famous for the </span><i><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt;">T-MAXX</span></i><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt;"> and the </span><i><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt;">REVO 3.3</span></i><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt;">; but each are equipped with noisy Nitro engines / motors . . . But what do you know about the </span><b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt;">XO-1</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><b><span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt;">(<i>Corvette</i>)</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt;"> 1:7 scale Supercar </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; text-indent: 0pt;">that can exceed 100+ mph</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; text-indent: 0pt;">? Well, she’s 27</span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14pt; text-indent: 0pt;">”</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; text-indent: 0pt;"> long, 11.6</span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14pt; text-indent: 0pt;">”</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; text-indent: 0pt;"> wide, 5</span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14pt; text-indent: 0pt;">”</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; text-indent: 0pt;"> tall and weighs only 10.3 lbs </span><span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; text-indent: 0pt;">(4.67 kg)</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; text-indent: 0pt;"> with twin 11.1V 3-Cell batteries on-board . . . Yep, this girl is all electric and comes equipped with the new and improved 2.4 GHz </span><span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; text-indent: 0pt;">(1 </span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #0070c0; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; text-indent: 0pt;">gigahertz</span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #0070c0; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; text-indent: 0pt;"> = </span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #0070c0; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; text-indent: 0pt;">1 billion cycles per second</span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #0070c0; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; text-indent: 0pt;">)</span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; text-indent: 0pt;"> Controller which </span><i style="text-indent: 0pt;"><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">automatically</span></i><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; text-indent: 0pt;"> finds an open frequency / channel to run on </span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #3d85c6; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; text-indent: 0pt;">(14 available)</span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; text-indent: 0pt;"> </span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #222222; font-family: "arial black"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; text-indent: 0pt;">─</span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; text-indent: 0pt;"> sooo, never again experience operating inference accidently! . . </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; text-indent: 0pt;"> </span><br />
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<b><span style="color: #c00000; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt;">Helpful Hints: </span></b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt;">The two 11.1V, 3-C batteries and duel charging system this beauty needs are (</span><u><span class="16" style="color: #954f72; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Traxxas-2990-Battery-Charger-Completer/dp/B01A6YCQII/ref=pd_sim_21_1?tgfugate06-20" target="_blank">Click Here</a></span></u><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt;">) available as a package set . . . If you think you might be content with a maximum speed somewhere between 45 and 50 mph, then two </span><span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt;">(that’s 2 batteries needed)</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt;"> 7.4V, 2-Cell batteries (</span><u><span class="15" style="color: #0563c1; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Traxxas-5000mAh-2-Cell-Battery-Short/dp/B07D19TBND/ref=sr_1_11?s=toys-and-games&ie=UTF8&qid=1541948108&sr=1-11&keywords=traxxas+rc+batteriestgfugate06-20" target="_blank">Click Here</a></span></u><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt;">) will do the job, and at a much lower cost </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt;">. . . This Charger (</span><u><span class="15" style="color: #0563c1; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Traxxas-2970-EZ-Peak-Charger-Identification/dp/B00OAFYLJC/ref=pd_bxgy_imtgfugate06-20" target="_blank">Click Here</a></span></u><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt;">) will only charge one battery at a time but then it’s priced much lower than a two battery charger</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt;">! </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #c00000; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt;">Most Importantly: </span></b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt;">R-C</span><span style="color: #c00000; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt;">Race tracks capable of accommodating the <i>X0-1's </i>speed are scarce at best; and drivers who have the R-C control skills required for exceeding even 50 mph are few and far between too . . . Therefore, we seriously recommend you check out a few <i>YouTube</i> Videos of the <i>XO-1</i> in action before finalize this purchase! </span><span style="font-size: 16pt; text-indent: 0pt;"> </span><span style="color: #823b0b; font-family: "arial black"; font-size: 16pt; text-indent: 0pt;"> </span></div>
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<span class="15" style="color: #843c0b; font-family: "arial black"; font-size: 16pt;">Having said all that, the problems with the Multi-million Dollar Hobby Grade R-C Industry are few, but to be perfectly honest, in our view, it does have a genuine need to “standardize” the type / size batteries that’s used in dozens of R-C vehicles . . . This is especially so, since several Hobby Grade manufacturers no longer include the primary re-chargeable battery with their R-C Cars, Trucks, SUV’s, and etc offered into today’s marketplace. This will likely become an industry wide standard as the much improved lithium battery’s production costs continue to spiral out of control.</span><span class="15" style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span><b style="text-indent: 0pt;"><span class="15" style="color: #843c0b; font-size: 16pt;"> </span></b><b style="text-indent: 0pt;"><span class="15" style="color: #843c0b; font-size: 16pt;"> </span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #843c0b; font-family: "arial black"; font-size: 16pt; text-indent: 0pt;">In any event, during the interim, the most frugal approach may be to select as many of your Hobby Grade R-C purchases as possible with manufacturers whose </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: "arial black"; font-size: 16pt; text-indent: 0pt;">batteries</span><span style="color: #843c0b; font-family: "arial black"; font-size: 16pt; text-indent: 0pt;"> </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: "arial black"; font-size: 16pt; text-indent: 0pt;">and chargers</span><span style="color: #843c0b; font-family: "arial black"; font-size: 16pt; text-indent: 0pt;"> are “common” or “standard” for multiple models. In this way, an avid hobbyist, at the very least, will only need purchase a single charging station for re-charging perhaps a half dozen or so batteries; maybe even fewer batteries! . .</span><span class="15" style="color: #823b0b; font-family: "arial black"; font-size: 16.0000pt;"></span><br />
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<b><i><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #111111; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Sooo, here’s a half dozen </span></i></b><b style="text-indent: 0pt;"><i><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #111111; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">top-quality</span></i></b><b style="text-indent: 0pt;"><i><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #111111; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Traxxas</span></i></b><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #111111; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; text-indent: 0pt;"> large</span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #111111; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; text-indent: 0pt;"> scale vehicles that <b>do not include the</b></span><span style="text-indent: 0pt;"><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #111111; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><b> required 7.4 Volt 2-Cell 25C 5000mAh </b></span></span><b style="text-indent: 0pt;"><i><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #111111; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Traxxas </span></i></b><b style="text-indent: 0pt;"><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #111111; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">LiPo battery </span></b><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #111111; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; text-indent: 0pt;">or a</span><b style="text-indent: 0pt;"><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #111111; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> Battery Charging System </span></b><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #111111; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; text-indent: 0pt;">with the </span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #111111; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; text-indent: 0pt;">initial</span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #111111; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; text-indent: 0pt;"> sale; yet, they each work with the same type batteries and Chargers . . . You can find the </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; text-indent: 0pt;">7.4V, 2-Cell batteries on this site (</span><u><span class="15" style="color: #0563c1; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Traxxas-5000mAh-2-Cell-Battery-Short/dp/B07D19TBND/ref=sr_1_11?s=toys-and-games&ie=UTF8&qid=1541948108&sr=1-11&keywords=traxxas+rc+batteriestgfugate06-20" target="_blank">Click Here</a></span></u><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; text-indent: 0pt;">) </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; text-indent: 0pt;">. . . This Charger, (</span><u><span class="15" style="color: #0563c1; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Traxxas-2970-EZ-Peak-Charger-Identification/dp/B00OAFYLJC/ref=pd_bxgy_imtgfugate06-20" target="_blank">Click Here</a></span></u><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; text-indent: 0pt;">) will only charge one battery at a time but, then, it’s priced at a much lower cost.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; text-indent: 0pt;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial black"; font-size: 16.0000pt;">1979 </span><span class="16" style="font-family: "arial black"; font-size: 16pt;">Bronco Trail Crawler</span><span class="15" style="font-family: "arial black"; font-size: 16.0000pt;"> </span><span class="15" style="color: #0070c0; font-family: "arial black"; font-size: 16.0000pt;">(Black over Red)</span><span class="15" style="font-family: "arial black"; font-size: 16.0000pt;"> . . . </span><b><span class="15" style="color: #c00000; font-family: "arial black"; font-size: 16pt;">*</span></b><span class="15" style="font-family: "arial black"; font-size: 16.0000pt;">Can use 3-Cell LiPo battery . . . </span><span class="15" style="font-family: "arial black"; font-size: 16.0000pt;"> </span></div>
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<span class="15" style="font-family: "arial black"; font-size: 16pt;">Traxxas XO-1</span><span class="15" style="color: #954f72; font-family: "arial black"; font-size: 16pt;"> </span><span class="15" style="color: #0070c0; font-family: "arial black"; font-size: 16pt;">(Corvette)</span><span class="15" style="color: #954f72; font-family: "arial black"; font-size: 16pt;"> </span><b><span class="15" style="font-family: "arial black"; font-size: 16pt;">1:7</span></b><span class="15" style="font-family: "arial black"; font-size: 16pt;"> Scale Supercar</span><span style="font-family: "arial black"; font-size: 16pt;"> </span><span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: "arial black"; font-size: 16pt;">(Red, Black, White & Blue )</span><span style="color: #c00000; font-family: "arial black"; font-size: 16pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial black"; font-size: 16pt;">. . . Can exceed 100+ mph with a </span><b><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: "arial black"; font-size: 16pt;">3-Cell</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial black"; font-size: 16pt;"> LiPo battery set of two; 0-60 mph in 2.3 seconds! 0-100 mph in 4.92 seconds . . . </span><b><span style="color: #c00000; font-family: "arial black"; font-size: 20pt;">*</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial black"; font-size: 16pt;">Will reach nearly 50 mph </span><span style="font-family: "arial black"; font-size: 16pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial black"; font-size: 16pt;">with a set of two,</span><b><span style="font-family: "arial black"; font-size: 16pt;"> <span style="color: red;">2-Cell</span></span></b><span style="font-family: "arial black"; font-size: 16pt;"> LiPo Batteries . . . </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 114%;">Challenge a child's imagination with this <span style="color: #3d85c6;">(display above)</span> fun </span><b><i><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 114%;">4M Tin Can Robot</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 114%;"> kit . . . Just perfect for most any young scientist; this fun robotics kit teaches the value of recycling by re-purposing a used soda pop can into a moving, functioning robot! All the building materials are included </span><span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 114%;">(except a empty soda can and a AA Battery)</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 114%;"> with easy-to-follow instructions.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 114%;">This purchase will allow adults and kids alike to build a motorized monster, goofy robot, or a combination of the two. Not only does it promote creativity, it's an excellent opportunity to show kids how toys are assembled and function.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 114%;">Item's in shipment box:</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 114%;"> 2 Retevis RT-602 Walkie Talkies; 2 Belt clips; 2 AAA rechargeable battery packs; 1 Adapter; 1 Charger base; & 1 User´s manual</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Unlike cheaper Chess Boards, the remarkable Set displayed below is elegant & presentable; ideal for social games with friends, family, & colleagues . . . Nope, this is not some cut-rate hollow plastic set; the 13” board is crafted of 64 solid premium pine wood blocks and the pieces are made of polished high grade hardwood. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04;"><span style="font-family: "arial black"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: #783f04;">This Unique, Multi Level Chess Set </span><span style="color: #3d85c6;">(above)</span><span style="color: #783f04;"> is for Adults & Smart Kids . . . This Board features a 3D stair-step design! </span></span><span style="color: #783f04; text-indent: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "arial black"; font-size: 16pt;">. . If you’re not </span></span><span style="color: #783f04; font-family: "arial black"; font-size: 16pt; text-indent: 0pt;">“right-bright”</span></span><span style="text-indent: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "arial black"; font-size: 16pt;"><span style="color: #783f04;">, you might ought to skip over this set :) :) :) . . .</span> </span></span><span style="text-indent: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: "arial black";">(Just kidding, </span><i style="color: #0070c0;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>really</b></span></i><span style="font-family: "arial black";"><span style="color: #0070c0;"> . . .) </span><span style="color: #783f04;"> . . . </span></span></span></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">In edition, the Blu Devil wooden chess pieces are not too big & not too small, </span></i><i style="text-indent: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt;">not too heavy & not too light; </span></i><i style="text-indent: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">they’re sized for easy handling. Even Miss Goldilocks would approve of these Chess Pieces. The King is 2.4" tall, the Queen is 2.2" tall, the Bishops stands at an even 2", the Knights are 1.6" tall, the Rooks: 1.4" high & the Pawns are 1.2" tall.</span></i><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; text-indent: 0pt;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">a. </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; text-indent: 0pt;">3D chess board that is 13 inches square; it’s made with 64 blocks of silky-smooth solid pine. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; text-indent: 0pt;">b. </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; text-indent: 0pt;">32 hardwood chess pieces with traditional felt bottoms – each carved & polished for easy handling. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16.0000pt; line-height: 150%;">Actually, J</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16.0000pt; line-height: 150%;">igsaw puzzle </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16.0000pt; line-height: 150%;">have been around since way-back in</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16.0000pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span><b><i><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">1767</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16.0000pt; line-height: 150%;"> but the 3-D version didn’t make its “debut” until more than 200 years latter in 1991. The 3-D Jigsaw was dreamed up by Canadian entrepreneur,</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16.0000pt; line-height: 150%;">Paul Gallant,</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16.0000pt; line-height: 150%;">who “cooked up” a sweet deal with American giant, </span><b><i><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Hasbro </span></i></b><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">in 2005</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16.0000pt; line-height: 150%;">; the largest toy maker in the world in terms of stock market value, and the third largest in terms of revenues!</span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #974706; font-family: "arial black"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">Into building</span></b><b><span style="color: #00b050; font-family: "vijaya"; font-size: 22pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span></b><b><span style="color: #974706; font-family: "arial black"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">your own your own automobile? . . Yes! . . Well, you’ll simply love this 1956 T-Bird project:</span></b><b><span style="color: #974706; font-family: "arial black"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Circumference </span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td><td style="border-bottom: 1.0000pt outset windowtext; border-left: none; border-right: 1.0000pt outset windowtext; border-top: 1.0000pt outset windowtext; mso-border-bottom-alt: 0.7500pt outset windowtext; mso-border-left-alt: none; mso-border-right-alt: 0.7500pt outset windowtext; mso-border-top-alt: 0.7500pt outset windowtext; padding: 3.0000pt 3.0000pt 3.0000pt 3.0000pt; width: 64.7500pt;" valign="top" width="86"><div align="justify" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.0000pt; mso-char-indent-count: 0.0000; mso-para-margin-left: 0.0000gd; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.0000pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Weight </span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td><td style="border-bottom: 1.0000pt outset windowtext; border-left: none; border-right: 1.0000pt outset windowtext; border-top: 1.0000pt outset windowtext; mso-border-bottom-alt: 0.7500pt outset windowtext; mso-border-left-alt: none; mso-border-right-alt: 0.7500pt outset windowtext; mso-border-top-alt: 0.7500pt outset windowtext; padding: 3.0000pt 3.0000pt 3.0000pt 3.0000pt; width: 481.5500pt;" valign="top" width="642"><div align="justify" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.0000pt; mso-char-indent-count: 0.0000; mso-para-margin-left: 0.0000gd; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.0000pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Recommended For</span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td style="border-bottom: 1.0000pt outset windowtext; border-left: 1.0000pt outset windowtext; border-right: 1.0000pt outset windowtext; border-top: none; mso-border-bottom-alt: 0.7500pt outset windowtext; mso-border-left-alt: 0.7500pt outset windowtext; mso-border-right-alt: 0.7500pt outset windowtext; mso-border-top-alt: 0.7500pt outset windowtext; padding: 3.0000pt 3.0000pt 3.0000pt 3.0000pt; width: 60.7000pt;" valign="top" width="80"><div align="justify" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.0000pt; mso-char-indent-count: 0.0000; mso-para-margin-left: 0.0000gd; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.0000pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Size 7</span><o:p></o:p></div>
</td><td style="border-bottom: 1.0000pt outset windowtext; border-left: none; border-right: 1.0000pt outset windowtext; border-top: none; mso-border-bottom-alt: 0.7500pt outset windowtext; mso-border-left-alt: none; mso-border-right-alt: 0.7500pt outset windowtext; mso-border-top-alt: 0.7500pt outset windowtext; padding: 3.0000pt 3.0000pt 3.0000pt 3.0000pt; width: 119.0000pt;" valign="top" width="158"><div align="justify" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.0000pt; mso-char-indent-count: 0.0000; mso-para-margin-left: 0.0000gd; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.0000pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">29.5”</span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td><td style="border-bottom: 1.0000pt outset windowtext; border-left: none; border-right: 1.0000pt outset windowtext; border-top: none; mso-border-bottom-alt: 0.7500pt outset windowtext; mso-border-left-alt: none; mso-border-right-alt: 0.7500pt outset windowtext; mso-border-top-alt: 0.7500pt outset windowtext; padding: 3.0000pt 3.0000pt 3.0000pt 3.0000pt; width: 64.7500pt;" valign="top" width="86"><div align="justify" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.0000pt; mso-char-indent-count: 0.0000; mso-para-margin-left: 0.0000gd; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.0000pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">22 oz</span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td><td style="border-bottom: 1.0000pt outset windowtext; border-left: none; border-right: 1.0000pt outset windowtext; border-top: none; mso-border-bottom-alt: 0.7500pt outset windowtext; mso-border-left-alt: none; mso-border-right-alt: 0.7500pt outset windowtext; mso-border-top-alt: 0.7500pt outset windowtext; padding: 3.0000pt 3.0000pt 3.0000pt 3.0000pt; width: 481.5500pt;" valign="top" width="642"><div align="justify" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.0000pt; mso-char-indent-count: 0.0000; mso-para-margin-left: 0.0000gd; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.0000pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Men and boys ages 15 and up. This is official size for high school, college, and the pros.</span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td style="border-bottom: 1.0000pt outset windowtext; border-left: 1.0000pt outset windowtext; border-right: 1.0000pt outset windowtext; border-top: none; mso-border-bottom-alt: 0.7500pt outset windowtext; mso-border-left-alt: 0.7500pt outset windowtext; mso-border-right-alt: 0.7500pt outset windowtext; mso-border-top-alt: 0.7500pt outset windowtext; padding: 3.0000pt 3.0000pt 3.0000pt 3.0000pt; width: 60.7000pt;" valign="top" width="80"><div align="justify" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.0000pt; mso-char-indent-count: 0.0000; mso-para-margin-left: 0.0000gd; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.0000pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Size 6</span><o:p></o:p></div>
</td><td style="border-bottom: 1.0000pt outset windowtext; border-left: none; border-right: 1.0000pt outset windowtext; border-top: none; mso-border-bottom-alt: 0.7500pt outset windowtext; mso-border-left-alt: none; mso-border-right-alt: 0.7500pt outset windowtext; mso-border-top-alt: 0.7500pt outset windowtext; padding: 3.0000pt 3.0000pt 3.0000pt 3.0000pt; width: 119.0000pt;" valign="top" width="158"><div align="justify" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.0000pt; mso-char-indent-count: 0.0000; mso-para-margin-left: 0.0000gd; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.0000pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">28.5”</span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td><td style="border-bottom: 1.0000pt outset windowtext; border-left: none; border-right: 1.0000pt outset windowtext; border-top: none; mso-border-bottom-alt: 0.7500pt outset windowtext; mso-border-left-alt: none; mso-border-right-alt: 0.7500pt outset windowtext; mso-border-top-alt: 0.7500pt outset windowtext; padding: 3.0000pt 3.0000pt 3.0000pt 3.0000pt; width: 64.7500pt;" valign="top" width="86"><div align="justify" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.0000pt; mso-char-indent-count: 0.0000; mso-para-margin-left: 0.0000gd; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.0000pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">20 oz</span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td><td style="border-bottom: 1.0000pt outset windowtext; border-left: none; border-right: 1.0000pt outset windowtext; border-top: none; mso-border-bottom-alt: 0.7500pt outset windowtext; mso-border-left-alt: none; mso-border-right-alt: 0.7500pt outset windowtext; mso-border-top-alt: 0.7500pt outset windowtext; padding: 3.0000pt 3.0000pt 3.0000pt 3.0000pt; width: 481.5500pt;" valign="top" width="642"><div align="justify" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.0000pt; mso-char-indent-count: 0.0000; mso-para-margin-left: 0.0000gd; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.0000pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Boys ages 12-14. Girls and women ages 12 and up. This is the official size for women’s high school, college, and pro basketball.</span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td style="border-bottom: 1.0000pt outset windowtext; border-left: 1.0000pt outset windowtext; border-right: 1.0000pt outset windowtext; border-top: none; mso-border-bottom-alt: 0.7500pt outset windowtext; mso-border-left-alt: 0.7500pt outset windowtext; mso-border-right-alt: 0.7500pt outset windowtext; mso-border-top-alt: 0.7500pt outset windowtext; padding: 3.0000pt 3.0000pt 3.0000pt 3.0000pt; width: 60.7000pt;" valign="top" width="80"><div align="justify" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.0000pt; mso-char-indent-count: 0.0000; mso-para-margin-left: 0.0000gd; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.0000pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Size 5</span><o:p></o:p></div>
</td><td style="border-bottom: 1.0000pt outset windowtext; border-left: none; border-right: 1.0000pt outset windowtext; border-top: none; mso-border-bottom-alt: 0.7500pt outset windowtext; mso-border-left-alt: none; mso-border-right-alt: 0.7500pt outset windowtext; mso-border-top-alt: 0.7500pt outset windowtext; padding: 3.0000pt 3.0000pt 3.0000pt 3.0000pt; width: 119.0000pt;" valign="top" width="158"><div align="justify" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.0000pt; mso-char-indent-count: 0.0000; mso-para-margin-left: 0.0000gd; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.0000pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">27.5”</span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td><td style="border-bottom: 1.0000pt outset windowtext; border-left: none; border-right: 1.0000pt outset windowtext; border-top: none; mso-border-bottom-alt: 0.7500pt outset windowtext; mso-border-left-alt: none; mso-border-right-alt: 0.7500pt outset windowtext; mso-border-top-alt: 0.7500pt outset windowtext; padding: 3.0000pt 3.0000pt 3.0000pt 3.0000pt; width: 64.7500pt;" valign="top" width="86"><div align="justify" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.0000pt; mso-char-indent-count: 0.0000; mso-para-margin-left: 0.0000gd; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.0000pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">17 oz</span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td><td style="border-bottom: 1.0000pt outset windowtext; border-left: none; border-right: 1.0000pt outset windowtext; border-top: none; mso-border-bottom-alt: 0.7500pt outset windowtext; mso-border-left-alt: none; mso-border-right-alt: 0.7500pt outset windowtext; mso-border-top-alt: 0.7500pt outset windowtext; padding: 3.0000pt 3.0000pt 3.0000pt 3.0000pt; width: 481.5500pt;" valign="top" width="642"><div align="justify" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.0000pt; mso-char-indent-count: 0.0000; mso-para-margin-left: 0.0000gd; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.0000pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Boys and girls ages 9-11 years old. This is the standard youth basketball you find in most stores.</span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td style="border-bottom: 1.0000pt outset windowtext; border-left: 1.0000pt outset windowtext; border-right: 1.0000pt outset windowtext; border-top: none; mso-border-bottom-alt: 0.7500pt outset windowtext; mso-border-left-alt: 0.7500pt outset windowtext; mso-border-right-alt: 0.7500pt outset windowtext; mso-border-top-alt: 0.7500pt outset windowtext; padding: 3.0000pt 3.0000pt 3.0000pt 3.0000pt; width: 60.7000pt;" valign="top" width="80"><div align="justify" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.0000pt; mso-char-indent-count: 0.0000; mso-para-margin-left: 0.0000gd; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.0000pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Size 4</span><o:p></o:p></div>
</td><td style="border-bottom: 1.0000pt outset windowtext; border-left: none; border-right: 1.0000pt outset windowtext; border-top: none; mso-border-bottom-alt: 0.7500pt outset windowtext; mso-border-left-alt: none; mso-border-right-alt: 0.7500pt outset windowtext; mso-border-top-alt: 0.7500pt outset windowtext; padding: 3.0000pt 3.0000pt 3.0000pt 3.0000pt; width: 119.0000pt;" valign="top" width="158"><div align="justify" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.0000pt; mso-char-indent-count: 0.0000; mso-para-margin-left: 0.0000gd; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.0000pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">25.5”</span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td><td style="border-bottom: 1.0000pt outset windowtext; border-left: none; border-right: 1.0000pt outset windowtext; border-top: none; mso-border-bottom-alt: 0.7500pt outset windowtext; mso-border-left-alt: none; mso-border-right-alt: 0.7500pt outset windowtext; mso-border-top-alt: 0.7500pt outset windowtext; padding: 3.0000pt 3.0000pt 3.0000pt 3.0000pt; width: 64.7500pt;" valign="top" width="86"><div align="justify" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.0000pt; mso-char-indent-count: 0.0000; mso-para-margin-left: 0.0000gd; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.0000pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">14 oz</span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td><td style="border-bottom: 1.0000pt outset windowtext; border-left: none; border-right: 1.0000pt outset windowtext; border-top: none; mso-border-bottom-alt: 0.7500pt outset windowtext; mso-border-left-alt: none; mso-border-right-alt: 0.7500pt outset windowtext; mso-border-top-alt: 0.7500pt outset windowtext; padding: 3.0000pt 3.0000pt 3.0000pt 3.0000pt; width: 481.5500pt;" valign="top" width="642"><div align="justify" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.0000pt; mso-char-indent-count: 0.0000; mso-para-margin-left: 0.0000gd; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.0000pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Boys and girls ages 5-8 years old.</span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td style="border-bottom: 1.0000pt outset windowtext; border-left: 1.0000pt outset windowtext; border-right: 1.0000pt outset windowtext; border-top: none; mso-border-bottom-alt: 0.7500pt outset windowtext; mso-border-left-alt: 0.7500pt outset windowtext; mso-border-right-alt: 0.7500pt outset windowtext; mso-border-top-alt: 0.7500pt outset windowtext; padding: 3.0000pt 3.0000pt 3.0000pt 3.0000pt; width: 60.7000pt;" valign="top" width="80"><div align="justify" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.0000pt; mso-char-indent-count: 0.0000; mso-para-margin-left: 0.0000gd; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.0000pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Size 3</span><o:p></o:p></div>
</td><td style="border-bottom: 1.0000pt outset windowtext; border-left: none; border-right: 1.0000pt outset windowtext; border-top: none; mso-border-bottom-alt: 0.7500pt outset windowtext; mso-border-left-alt: none; mso-border-right-alt: 0.7500pt outset windowtext; mso-border-top-alt: 0.7500pt outset windowtext; padding: 3.0000pt 3.0000pt 3.0000pt 3.0000pt; width: 119.0000pt;" valign="top" width="158"><div align="justify" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.0000pt; mso-char-indent-count: 0.0000; mso-para-margin-left: 0.0000gd; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.0000pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">22”</span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td><td style="border-bottom: 1.0000pt outset windowtext; border-left: none; border-right: 1.0000pt outset windowtext; border-top: none; mso-border-bottom-alt: 0.7500pt outset windowtext; mso-border-left-alt: none; mso-border-right-alt: 0.7500pt outset windowtext; mso-border-top-alt: 0.7500pt outset windowtext; padding: 3.0000pt 3.0000pt 3.0000pt 3.0000pt; width: 64.7500pt;" valign="top" width="86"><div align="justify" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.0000pt; mso-char-indent-count: 0.0000; mso-para-margin-left: 0.0000gd; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.0000pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">10 oz</span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td><td style="border-bottom: 1.0000pt outset windowtext; border-left: none; border-right: 1.0000pt outset windowtext; border-top: none; mso-border-bottom-alt: 0.7500pt outset windowtext; mso-border-left-alt: none; mso-border-right-alt: 0.7500pt outset windowtext; mso-border-top-alt: 0.7500pt outset windowtext; padding: 3.0000pt 3.0000pt 3.0000pt 3.0000pt; width: 481.5500pt;" valign="top" width="642"><div align="justify" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.0000pt; mso-char-indent-count: 0.0000; mso-para-margin-left: 0.0000gd; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.0000pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Boys and girls ages 4-8 years old. Also known as "mini" basketball.</span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td style="border-bottom: 1.0000pt outset windowtext; border-left: 1.0000pt outset windowtext; border-right: 1.0000pt outset windowtext; border-top: none; mso-border-bottom-alt: 0.7500pt outset windowtext; mso-border-left-alt: 0.7500pt outset windowtext; mso-border-right-alt: 0.7500pt outset windowtext; mso-border-top-alt: 0.7500pt outset windowtext; padding: 3.0000pt 3.0000pt 3.0000pt 3.0000pt; width: 60.7000pt;" valign="top" width="80"><div align="justify" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.0000pt; mso-char-indent-count: 0.0000; mso-para-margin-left: 0.0000gd; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.0000pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Size 1</span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td><td style="border-bottom: 1.0000pt outset windowtext; border-left: none; border-right: 1.0000pt outset windowtext; border-top: none; mso-border-bottom-alt: 0.7500pt outset windowtext; mso-border-left-alt: none; mso-border-right-alt: 0.7500pt outset windowtext; mso-border-top-alt: 0.7500pt outset windowtext; padding: 3.0000pt 3.0000pt 3.0000pt 3.0000pt; width: 119.0000pt;" valign="top" width="158"><div align="justify" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.0000pt; mso-char-indent-count: 0.0000; mso-para-margin-left: 0.0000gd; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.0000pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">16”</span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">8 oz</span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Boys and girls ages 2-4 year olds. Also known as "micro-mini" basketball.</span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">9-20”</span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Great for toddlers 0-4 years old. And fun for young hearted adults too!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #984806; font-family: "arial black"; font-size: 14.0000pt;">Yet another physical game that continues to grow in popularity, is </span><i><span style="color: #984806; font-family: "arial black"; font-size: 14pt;">Paintball</span></i><span style="color: #984806; font-family: "arial black"; font-size: 14.0000pt;"> or </span><i><span style="color: #984806; font-family: "arial black"; font-size: 14pt;">Paintballing;</span></i><span style="color: #984806; font-family: "arial black"; font-size: 14.0000pt;"> it’s a competitive team shooting sport in which players eliminate opponents from play by hitting them with small circular dye-filled gelatin “paintballs” that splatter upon impact. Paintballs are usually shot at opponents by using a low-energy air powered weapon called a paintball “marker” or “gun” that was originally designed for remotely marking trees and cattle.</span><span style="color: #984806; font-family: "arial black"; font-size: 14.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #984806; font-family: "arial black"; font-size: 14.0000pt;">The game is a relative new comer into the marketplace, in that it was developed in May 1981. Games are played indoor or on outdoor fields of varying sizes. The “game field” is scattered with natural and or artificial terrain, which players use for tactical cover. </span><span style="color: #984806; font-family: "arial black"; font-size: 14.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #984806; font-family: "arial black"; font-size: 14.0000pt;">The terminology and equipment used might seem a bit complicated to an unseasoned player, sooo, if you fit into that category, we suggest you review our short Publication on <i>Paintballing</i> by </span><u><span class="15" style="font-family: "arial black"; font-size: 14pt;"><a href="https://todayscatalog.blogspot.com/2018/12/paintballing.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #cc0000;">Clicking Right Here</span></a></span></u><span style="color: #984806; font-family: "arial black"; font-size: 14.0000pt;">! </span><span style="color: #984806; font-family: "arial black"; font-size: 14.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16.0000pt; line-height: 114%;">The</span><span style="font-family: "simsun"; font-size: 12.0000pt; line-height: 114%;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16.0000pt; line-height: 114%;">.68 caliber</span><span style="font-family: "simsun"; font-size: 12.0000pt; line-height: 114%;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16.0000pt; line-height: 114%;">Paintball Marker Gun & Player Package Set </span><span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16.0000pt; line-height: 114%;">(displayed above)</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16.0000pt; line-height: 114%;"> Includes: </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 114%;">1 </span><i><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 114%;">Tippmann Cronus</span></i><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 114%;"> Marker, 1 </span><i><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 114%;">GXG</span></i><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 114%;"> Mask with Visor and Anti Fog Lens, 1 Black </span><i><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 114%;">“3Skull”</span></i><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 114%;"> 6 Plus Deluxe Paintball Harness, six 140 Round Heavy Duty Ultimate Paintball Clear Tubes, 1 ounce bottle of </span><i><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 114%;">Gold Cup Oil</span></i><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 114%;"> </span><span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.0000pt; line-height: 114%;">(for </span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #0070c0; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 114%;">reduc</span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #0070c0; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 114%;">ing</span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #0070c0; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 114%;"> friction and wear of all moving internal marker parts</span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #0070c0; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 114%;">)</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 114%;">, </span><i><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 114%;">“3Skull”</span></i><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 114%;"> 21 Inch Squeegee </span><span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.0000pt; line-height: 114%;">(for interior gun barrel cleaning)</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 114%;">, 1 </span><i><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 114%;">“3Skull”</span></i><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 114%;"> 20 Ounce Tank </span><span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.0000pt; line-height: 114%;">(empty)</span><span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16.0000pt; line-height: 114%;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16.0000pt; line-height: 114%;">which can use </span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 114%;">CO</span><sub><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 114%; vertical-align: sub;">2</span></sub><sub><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 114%; vertical-align: sub;"> </span></sub><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16.0000pt; line-height: 114%;">or highly compressed air,</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 114%;"> and 1 </span><i><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 114%;">“3Skull”</span></i><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 114%;"> 200 round Black Hopper</span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #c00000; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Helpful Hints:</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16.0000pt; line-height: 150%;"> When filling Compressed Paintball Air Tanks . . .</span><span style="color: #984806; font-family: "arial black"; font-size: 14.0000pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #282828; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;">Most </span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #282828; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;">Paintball S</span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #282828; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;">hops and</span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #282828; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;"> or Playing F</span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #282828; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;">ields have the equipment to safely fill compressed air tanks, and some will fill them for free. However, you're more likely to pay one to three dollars for every 1,000 psi</span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #282828; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;"> . . . </span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #282828; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16.0000pt; line-height: 150%;">A 3,000 psi scuba tank will fill a compressed air tank about 15 to 20 times. However, the tank will cost a few hundred dollars, and you will need to pay to get it filled . . . </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16.0000pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16.0000pt; line-height: 150%;">Don't even try to use your tire pump or a standard air compressor—they simply won't work. Most of these compressors max out at 180 psi, and your paintball tanks require a minimum of 3,000 psi to fill . . .</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 5.0000pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">By law, filled gas tanks for paintball guns cannot be shipped; therefore when buying your equipment on-line, do not expect a tank to come ready for the paintball field!</span><span style="color: #984806; font-family: "arial black"; font-size: 14.0000pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16.0000pt; line-height: 150%;">. . </span><span style="color: #984806; font-family: "arial black"; font-size: 14.0000pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Most paintball guns operate with highly compressed air </span><span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16.0000pt; line-height: 150%;">(HPA)</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"> or </span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;">Carbon dioxide</span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #0070c0; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;">(</span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #0070c0; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;">CO</span><sub><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #0070c0; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%; vertical-align: sub;">2</span></sub><span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16.0000pt; line-height: 150%;">)</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"> — such tanks are filled to 3,000 to 4,500 pounds per square inch </span><span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16.0000pt; line-height: 150%;">(psi)</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">. Filling and refilling these tanks requires heavy-duty compressors and equipment . . . </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16.0000pt; line-height: 150%;">In the world of <b>Paintball Gear</b>, pre-owned, just makes good sense! . . Check-out </span><b><i><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Dr. Paintball’s</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16.0000pt; line-height: 150%;"> large selection of used merchandise</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.0000pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span><span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.0000pt; line-height: 150%;">(see image below) </span><b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">. . .</span></b><b><span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span></b><span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.0000pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt;">The </span><b><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Panama Canal</span></b><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> is a 77.1km </span><span style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 16pt;">(48-mi)</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> ship</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">ping</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> canal located in the Central American country of Panama that joins the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean. The canal stretches through a narrow passage in Panama and is a key channel for international maritime trade. </span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Initially, t</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">wo water locks were constructed, one at each end, they were designed to lift ships up to Gatun Lake, which is 85 feet </span><span style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 16pt;">(26 m)</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> above sea-level; this feat reduces the amount of work required for a sea-level connection. </span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">T</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">he </span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">completed </span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">locks </span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">we</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">re 110 feet </span><span style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 16pt;">(33.5 m)</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> wide.</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt;">Construction on the canal actually began </span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">way back </span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">in 1881 by the French government but was abandoned in 1889</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">due to engineering problems and a</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">n</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">excessive</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> worker mortality rate; a second effort was initiated in 1904, and was completed 10 years later in 1914 by the United States government. This construction effort made it possible for ships to avoid the lengthy Cape Horn route around the southern tip of South America known as the Drake Passage and to avoid sailing the dangerous waters of the Straits of Magellan positioned along the southern edge of South American. </span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt;">The Panama Canal is one of the largest and most difficult engineering projects ever undertaken, the resulting “shortcut” made it possible for ships to travel to and fro the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans in half the time formerly required. The new shipping lane saved a distance of around </span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">3</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">,000 miles </span><span style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 16pt;">(</span><span style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 16pt;">4</span><span style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 16pt;">,</span><span style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 16pt;">828 </span><span style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 16pt;">km)</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">. </span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt;">Ownership of the territory that is now the Panama Canal was held by the South American country of Colombia beginning in 1819; followed by the French government, then the US government; and finally coming under the control of the Panamanian government in 1999; 96 years after becoming an independent nation. The Canal witnessed its annual traffic rise from about 1,000 ships when it opened in 1914, to 14,702 vessels in 2008 . . . By 2008, more than 815,000 vessels had ventured through the canal, many of which was larger than the imaginative planners could have possibly envisioned. The 1,000,000</span><sup><span style="font-size: 16pt; vertical-align: super;">th</span></sup><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">ship </span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">passed</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> through the Panama Canal </span><span style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 16pt;">(</span><span style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 16pt;">the Chinese freighter the Fortune Plum</span><span style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 16pt;">)</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> on September 4</span><sup><span style="font-size: 16pt; vertical-align: super;">th</span></sup><span style="font-size: 16pt;">, 2010.</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt;">It may surprise you to learn that </span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">the</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> Panama Canal </span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">wa</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">s too narrow to fit 92% of the world’s shipping fleet through its passage</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> way</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">until</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> a third, wider lock </span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">was</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> construct</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">ed</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span><span style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 16pt;">(the renovation began in September of 2007)</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">;</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">t</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">he expanded canal began commercial operation</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">s</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> on June</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> 26,</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> 2016 at an estimated cost of 5.2 Billion US Dollars. The original cost</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> of the entire canal</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> in 1914 US Dollars was around 639 Million; that would be equivalent to 14.3 Billion </span><span style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 16pt;">(with a B)</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">in </span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">2007 US Dollars, when </span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">inflation is factored in</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">.</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> Regardless, you should not be surprised to learn that not a single Radio Controlled </span><span style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 16pt;">(R-C)</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> piece of “construction equipment” was used during ether phase of the Canal! </span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt;">Yet another huge project of a more recent date; likewise was constructed absent the assistance of modern R-C Construction Equipment. </span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">You’ve </span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">likely </span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">heard a lot said </span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">&</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> told about Pikeville, K</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">entucky</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">; most likely as the city best known for the legendary </span><i><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Hatfield – McCoy</span></i><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> feud. </span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">If memory serves,</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> it was the McCoy’s who lived in Pike County </span><span style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 16pt;">(Pikeville’s the county seat)</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">, or was it the Hatfield’s? In any event, it makes little difference to anyone today.</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt;">These days, t</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">here is another worthy topic of discussion that comes to mind whenever the city of Pikeville</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> & Pike County Kentucky</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> is mentioned. The positive effect it has on anyone who elects to visit the small eastern Kentucky city or is perhaps just driving past will surely have an effect that lasts a long, long time. </span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt;">It’s called the “Pikeville Cut-Through” and is a rock cut created by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, through which passes a four-lane divided highway </span><span style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 16pt;">(‘Corridor B’/ routes US 23, US 119, US 460, and KY 80)</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">; a railroad line </span><span style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 16pt;">(CSX)</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">, and the Levisa Fork of the Big Sandy River. There is a reason the corridor is such an impressive sight to see, in light of the little known fact that it’s one of the largest civil engineering projects in the entire western hemisphere; nearly 18,000,000 cubic yards </span><span style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 16pt;">(14,000,000</span><span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16.0000pt;">³</span><span style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 16pt;"> m)</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> of soil and rock were moved, although that’s a distant 2</span><sup><span style="font-size: 16pt; vertical-align: super;">nd</span></sup><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> to the Panama Canal which moved an estimated 240 million cubic yards of material</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> . . . R</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">egardless it will remain an impressive accomplishment and site for many years to come. . . . Cut-through image depicted below:</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt;">The project was originally envisioned by Dr. William Hambley back in 1960; you see; he had been raised in the city of Pikeville, so you could say he had a special interest. He’d longed to relocate the rail bed with hopes of eliminating the dust that came from coal hauling trains that passed through the city on a daily basis. By 1965, the good doctor’s plan had broadened to accommodate “Corridor B” of the Appalachian Development Highway System; along the way it was also decided there was a need to relocate the Levisa Fork of the Big Sandy River, which then twisted through the downtown area</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> of Pikeville</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">. Such a task would completely eliminate flooding events that occurred practically every year. To </span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">off-set</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> costs, the river bed </span><span style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 16pt;">(after being re-routed)</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> was reclaimed or “filled-in” with a good bit of the material generated during the cut-through process; increasing the available space for development and further growth of the city.</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt;">Construction on the Pikeville Cut-through began on November 26, 1973; the project was officially dedicated / opened on October 2, 1987, nearly 14 years later.</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt;">Even though Radio Controlled </span><span style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 16pt;">(R</span><span style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 16pt;">-</span><span style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 16pt;">C)</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> Construction Equipment similar to the “fleet” available today in many modern </span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">on-line </span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">hobby-stores like </span><b><u><span class="15" style="font-size: 16pt;"><a href="http://shrsl.com/1ebp0" target="_blank"><span style="color: #cc0000;">Hobby Tron</span></a></span></u></b><span style="font-size: 16pt;">, had not likely been thought of in 1881 when the first construction efforts were made on the </span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Panama C</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">anal nor was such equipment readily available in late 1973 Pikeville, KY; regardless, it’s safe to theorize that if such equipment had been utilized, both efforts would still be ongoing. </span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt;">Regardless, such R-C Equipment is readily available today for anyone’s Sandbox Project . . . We strongly suggest you shop for your Construction Fleet by </span><b><u><span class="15" style="font-size: 16pt;"><a href="http://shrsl.com/1ebp0" target="_blank"><span style="color: #cc0000;">Clicking Here</span></a></span></u></b><span style="font-size: 16pt;">! </span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 16.0000pt;">Incorporated in early July </span><span style="font-size: 16.0000pt;">of </span><span style="font-size: 16.0000pt;">1994 as “</span><b><i><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Cadabra” </span></i></b><span style="font-size: 16.0000pt;">Jeff Bezos, its founder changed the name to Amazon a year later after a lawyer misheard its original name as </span><b><i><span style="font-size: 16pt;">“cadaver”</span></i></b><b><span style="font-size: 16pt;">.</span></b><span style="font-size: 16.0000pt;"> In September of 1994, Bezos purchased the </span><span style="font-size: 16.0000pt;">Domain</span><span style="font-size: 16.0000pt;"> Name </span><i><span style="font-size: 16pt;">“Relentless.com”</span></i><span style="font-size: 16.0000pt;"> and briefly considered naming his new online store </span><i><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Relentless</span></i><span style="font-size: 16.0000pt;">, but several friends told him the name sounded a bit too sinister. The domain name Relentless.com, is still owned by Bezos and still redirects to the Amazon.com retail site — try it: </span><u><span class="15" style="color: blue; font-size: 16pt;"><a href="http://www.relentless.com/" target="_blank">www.relentless.com</a></span></u><span style="font-size: 16.0000pt;"> to be sure. Regardless the company went online as </span><i><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Amazon.com</span></i><span style="font-size: 16.0000pt;"> in 1995 as an online Book Store and today </span><span style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 16.0000pt;">(201</span><span style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 16.0000pt;">9</span><span style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 16.0000pt;">) </span><span style="font-size: 16.0000pt;">is the largest Internet-based retailer in the world!</span><span style="font-size: 16.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Amazon</span></i><span style="font-size: 16.0000pt;"> has separate retail websites for the United States, the United Kingdom and Ireland, plus Australia, Brazil, China, Canada, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Mexico, the Netherlands, and Spain. Most recently, in 2016, Dutch and Polish language versions of the German Amazon </span><span style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 16.0000pt;">(amazon.de) </span><span style="font-size: 16.0000pt;">website were launched.</span><span style="font-size: 16.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Amazon</span></i><span style="font-size: 16.0000pt;"> lets practically anyone sell almost anything using its platform. Not surprisingly </span><i><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Amazon</span></i><span style="font-size: 16.0000pt;"> has an affiliate program that lets nearly anybody </span><span style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 16.0000pt;">(even this blog site) </span><span style="font-size: 16.0000pt;">display </span><i><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Amazon</span></i><span style="font-size: 16.0000pt;"> links on their site and earn a tiny commission on “click-through” sales. In addition, there is now a program which allows those same affiliates to build entire websites based on the </span><i><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Amazon</span></i><span style="font-size: 16.0000pt;"> platform. Sooo, if you’re gonna buy from </span><i><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Amazon </span></i><span style="font-size: 16.0000pt;">anyway, we’d be especially pleased if you’d make it a habit to use one of our links to get there!</span><span style="font-size: 16.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 16.0000pt;">Then there’s </span><i><span style="font-size: 16pt;">“Amazon Prime”</span></i><span style="font-size: 16.0000pt;"> . . . nearly half of U.S. households have it! To be more specific, nearly 46% of U.S. households have at least one member. So what is </span><i><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Amazon Prime</span></i><span style="font-size: 16.0000pt;">? It’s known for two big things: free two-day shipping and Netflix-style video streaming; decidedly worthwhile perks, especially when considering the $99.00 annual subscription charge, but a Prime membership offers </span><span style="font-size: 16.0000pt;">a good bit </span><span style="font-size: 16.0000pt;">more than just free shipping and </span><span style="font-size: 16.0000pt;">TV </span><span style="font-size: 16.0000pt;">streaming. </span><span style="font-size: 16.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 16.0000pt;">First you need to know that <i>Prime’s</i> free shipping applies to most of <i>Amazon’s </i>physical goods <b>and</b> they will be shipped to your door within two days, provided you live in the contiguous US. What</span><span style="font-size: 16.0000pt;">’</span><span style="font-size: 16.0000pt;">s especially noteworthy about this is that there</span><span style="font-size: 16.0000pt;">’</span><span style="font-size: 16.0000pt;">s no minimum order requirement, so even if you buy a $5 HDMI cable, it</span><span style="font-size: 16.0000pt;">’</span><span style="font-size: 16.0000pt;">ll arrive within 48 hours; some residents with ZIP codes that are close to distribution centers can enjoy same-day delivery at no extra charge, so as long as the order totals at least $35.</span><span style="font-size: 16.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 16.0000pt;">Second, </span><i><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Prime Video, </span></i><span style="font-size: 16.0000pt;">as noted above, is akin to <i>Netflix</i>, offering movies, TV shows and original content. It</span><span style="font-size: 16.0000pt;">’</span><span style="font-size: 16.0000pt;">s accessible on practically all mobile devices and most streaming sticks and boxes </span><span style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 16.0000pt;">(the exception being </span><i><span style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 16pt;">Apple TV</span></i><span style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 16.0000pt;">)</span><span style="font-size: 16.0000pt;">. However, <i>Prime</i> has one huge advantage beyond similar programs: many TV shows, and some movies, can be downloaded to your PC, phone, or tablet for “offline” viewing.</span><span style="font-size: 16.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 16.0000pt;">Other noteworthy </span><i><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Amazon Prime</span></i><span style="font-size: 16.0000pt;"> benefits include but are not limited to: Ad-free access to a music library stocked with over 2,000,000 tracks, unlimited cloud storage for photos, access to </span><i><span style="font-size: 16pt;">“Amazon Elements”</span></i><span style="font-size: 16.0000pt;"> which offers an assortment of baby products, the “Kindle First” program — wherein each month, Amazon editors select six new, yet-to-be-released <i>Kindle</i> book editions and give </span><i><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Prime</span></i><span style="font-size: 16.0000pt;"> subscribers the opportunity to pick one of them at no cost . . . and that’s for keeps, too; you're not just borrowing the book . . . and the list of </span><i><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Amazon Prime</span></i><span style="font-size: 16.0000pt;"> benefits continue on and on.</span><span style="font-size: 16.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 16.0000pt;">On December 1 of 2013, CEO Jeff Bezos revealed plans for </span><i><span style="font-size: 16pt;">“Amazon PrimeAir</span></i><span style="font-size: 16.0000pt;">” in an interview on the popular TV news show, </span><i><span style="font-size: 16pt;">60 Minutes</span></i><span style="font-size: 16.0000pt;">. </span><i><span style="font-size: 16pt;">PrimeAir</span></i><span style="font-size: 16.0000pt;"> has plans to fly individual packages via Miniature Unmanned Air Vehicles </span><span style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 16.0000pt;">(UAV’s) </span><span style="font-size: 16.0000pt;">to a customer’s doorstep within 30 minutes of ordering. Most experts today </span><span style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 16.0000pt;">(201</span><span style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 16.0000pt;">9</span><span style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 16.0000pt;">) </span><span style="font-size: 16.0000pt;">agree the biggest hurdle facing th</span><span style="font-size: 16.0000pt;">is</span><span style="font-size: 16.0000pt;"> proposed delivery technique is that commercial use of UAV’s, </span><span style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 16.0000pt;">(otherwise known as drones) </span><span style="font-size: 16.0000pt;">is not yet legal </span><span style="font-size: 16.0000pt;">throughout</span><span style="font-size: 16.0000pt;"> the United States. </span><span style="font-size: 16.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 16.0000pt;">Never the less, if you</span><span style="font-size: 16.0000pt;">’re in the marker for a noncommercial drone of practically any style / type, check out the many available choices by </span><b><u><span class="15" style="color: blue; font-size: 16pt;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/s?k=drones&crid=LSVCZB6R4XLVtgfugate-20&sprefix=drones%2Caps%2C163&ref=nb_sb_ss_i_3_6tgfugate06-20" target="_blank">Clicking Here</a></span></u></b><span style="font-size: 16.0000pt;">.</span><span style="font-size: 16.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 16pt;">The term H</span></b><b><span style="font-size: 16pt;">obby</span></b><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> was once considered short for “hobby horse</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">,</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">” it is currently considered an action that is undertaken for relaxation or gratification that is typically done during an individual’s spare time. Hobbies are practiced for interest and satisfaction, rather than </span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">for </span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">monetary </span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">gain</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">. Examples may include: </span><i><span style="font-size: 16pt;">C</span></i><i><span style="font-size: 16pt;">ollecting</span></i><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span><span style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 16pt;">(as in stamps or coins)</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">, </span><i><span style="font-size: 16pt;">D</span></i><i><span style="font-size: 16pt;">esigning, </span></i><i><span style="font-size: 16pt;">T</span></i><i><span style="font-size: 16pt;">inkering</span></i><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span><span style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 16pt;">(as in auto repair or restoration)</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">, or </span><i><span style="font-size: 16pt;">P</span></i><i><span style="font-size: 16pt;">articipating</span></i><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span><span style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 16pt;">(as </span><span style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 16pt;">competing </span><span style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 16pt;">in </span><span style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 16pt;">the game of </span><span style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 16pt;">chess or </span><span style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 16pt;">in </span><span style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 16pt;">sports</span><span style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 16pt;"> such as basketball or baseball</span><span style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 16pt;">)</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">. Each of the</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> previously </span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">listed activities, referrer to a potential hobby concern, of which only a few have been mentioned. </span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">In-any-event, no matter the season,</span><b><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></b><span style="font-size: 16pt;">there is a</span><b><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></b><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Hobby</span><b><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></b><span style="font-size: 16pt;">suited</span><b><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></b><span style="font-size: 16pt;">for you, regardless of age </span><span style="font-family: "simsun"; font-size: 16pt;">-</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> 8 or 88 . . . A fact that is prominently displayed in </span><b><i><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Today</span></i></b><b><i><span style="font-size: 16pt;">’</span></i></b><b><i><span style="font-size: 16pt;">s Catalog</span></i></b><span style="font-size: 16pt;">, which is a mere click away from </span><b><i><u><span class="16" style="color: blue; font-size: 16pt;"><a href="https://todayscatalog.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">RIGHT HERE</a>!</span></u></i></b><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt;">Engaging in a hobby can lead to acquiring ample skill(s), familiarity, or knowledge for that particular activity. However, personal fulfillment is the intended goal for the individuals performing </span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">an</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> activity considered</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> to be</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> a “hobby”. Your required “hobby fix” can easily and legally be found at many on-line hobby stores such as </span><span class="16" style="font-size: 16pt;"><i>Trend Times</i></span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> for typical “man toys” and such, but if you’re looking for thinking games, then consider checking out the game of chess at a specialty shop like </span><span class="15" style="font-size: 16pt;"><i>Chess House</i></span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">. Another alternative would be to select a good book at </span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/best-sellers-books-Amazon/zgbs/books/ref=zg_bs_nav_0tgfugate-20" target="_blank"><i><span style="color: blue;">Amazon.com</span></i></a>; the book category was </span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">39 deep </span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">on the </span><i><span style="font-size: 16pt;">“</span></i><i><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Best Sellers</span></i><i><span style="font-size: 16pt;">”</span></i><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> list yesterday</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">;</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> you’ll find the category </span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">l</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">ist </span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">starting near the top</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> left</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> of the web-page</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">. </span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt;">On a broad general basis, children and teens “play”, adults develop “hobbies”. There are however always exceptions … for example “stamp collecting” may be considered a hobby at any age.</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt;">Typically, for many of us, hobbies are considered “luxuries”; for as we enter the work force … who has the time? … You see, the majority of our time is utilized trying to “make a living” or finding the time to “rest” </span><span style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 16pt;">(usually due to exhaustion) </span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">following a hard day at work! Most of us have a “job” for which we are paid, thus</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">,</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> we “make a living”</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> for ourselves and families</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">; additionally, we must have periods of “rest” to enable our physical selves to continue with the job … so the cycle is often completed with no time for hobbies.</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt;">So why bother with a hobby anyhow? Simply put, hobbies have been proven to: enhance your </span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">well-being by</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> reduce stress</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">.</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">T</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">hey </span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">are </span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">actually therapeutic in nature</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">, </span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">plus</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">,</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> hobbies will keep you</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">r mind and body</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> active in your retirement years. While this </span><span style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 16pt;">(perhaps overlapping)</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> list mentions a few of the known benefits of a hobby, if you want to reach retirement and enjoy it when you get there, it’s just a good idea to find the spare time for a hobby</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> and it</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">’s a better idea to start at a young age</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">!</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt;">In times past, </span><span style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 16pt;">(The Dark Ages for example)</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> it was a lot more difficult to find hobby time; surely, maintaining the essentials </span><span style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 16pt;">(food, clothing and shelter)</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> required considerably more time and effort during that era, compared to the time that’s required today. Those</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> poor</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> folks were not apt to have hobbies. </span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt;">But then life expectancy was considerably less in those days too</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> . . . Perhaps there</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">’s</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> a correlation!</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt;">When it comes to </span></b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt;">Trains, Planes, and Automobiles; or Tanks, Construction Equipment, Helicopters, Drones, Ships and etc, k</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">eep in mind,</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> t</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">he </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">larger</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> the ratio, the smaller the model</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">’s size!</span><b><span class="18" style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;">T</span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;">ake note, depicted i</span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;">n the image </span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;">below</span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;">, both cars are 1:18 scale. </span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;">Yet b</span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;">ecause</span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;"> the V</span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;">W</span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;"> Beetle is shorter</span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;"> in real life</span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;"> than </span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;">is </span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;">the Ford T</span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;">-</span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;">bird, the 1:18 scale Beetle </span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;">is</span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;"> shorter</span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;">.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;">Model</span></b><b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;">s: </span></b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;">typically;</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;"> cars</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;">, trucks, trains, planes, helicopters, boats, dollhouses, action </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;">figures</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;">, and etc</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;"> are manufactured in various scale</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;">d</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;"> sizes, which </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;">constitute</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;">s </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;">the reduced measurement of the model</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;">s.</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;">Such scaled </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;">measurements</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;"> are based upon</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;"> the actual </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;">item in question</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;">. That means models are </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;">“</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;">scaled down</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;">”</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;"> in size, in proportions as near exact as </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;">is </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;">achievab</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;">le, from </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;">the </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;">real </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;">thing</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;">. This in-turn </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;">permits</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;">a</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;"> realistic visual appearance of </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;">the</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;"> models</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;"> . . . </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;">In other words, knowing the “size” of the scaled model allows the user to determine the scale best suited or needed for a specific use. </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%; text-indent: 0pt;">While there are several sizes in </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%; text-indent: 0pt;">today's marketplace the scaled chart, displayed below will hopefully clear things up a bit when compared to the adjoining On-line Actual Sized Ruler image:</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%; text-indent: 0pt;"> </span></div>
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<b><span class="16" style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">The </span></b><b><span class="15" style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">1:12 scale</span></b><b><span class="16" style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> </span></b><span class="16" style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">model</span><span class="16" style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> </span><span class="16" style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">is</span><span class="16" style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> Very large</span><span class="16" style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> and</span><span class="16" style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> highly detailed</span><span class="16" style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> and can range</span><span class="16" style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> </span><span class="16" style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">from 9</span><span class="16" style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> </span><span class="16" style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">to</span><span class="16" style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> 15 in</span><span class="16" style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">ches in</span><span class="16" style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> </span><span class="16" style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">length. This scale is</span><span class="16" style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> </span><span class="16" style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">chiefl</span><span class="16" style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">y targeted </span><span class="16" style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">toward</span><span class="16" style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> adult collectors. These models are generally much more expensive than</span><span class="16" style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> saaay,</span><span class="16" style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> the </span><span class="16" style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">much smaller </span><span class="16" style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">1:</span><span class="16" style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">24</span><span class="16" style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> models</span><span class="16" style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> . . .</span><span class="16" style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> </span><span class="16" style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">And, oh yes, m</span><span class="16" style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">otorcycles are </span><span class="16" style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">most often</span><span class="16" style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> produced in this scale.</span><br />
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<b><span class="18" style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;">The </span></b><b><span class="16" style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;">1:18 scale</span></b><span class="18" style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span><span class="18" style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;">is a</span><span class="18" style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;"> Large, detailed model, usually about 8 to 11 in</span><span class="18" style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;">ches in </span><span class="18" style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;">l</span><span class="18" style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;">ength and is</span><span class="18" style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span><span class="18" style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;">by and la</span><span class="18" style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;">rge </span><span class="18" style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;">targeted at adults. America is the main market</span><span class="18" style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;">place</span><span class="18" style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;"> for th</span><span class="18" style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;">i</span><span class="18" style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;">s</span><span class="18" style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;"> scale, but a few</span><span class="18" style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;"> European and Australian companies also produce </span><span class="18" style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;">model </span><span class="18" style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;">cars and even trucks in this scale.</span></div>
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<b><span class="17" style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">The </span></b><b><span class="16" style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">1:24 scale</span></b><span class="17" style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #111111; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> has long been a </span><span class="17" style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #111111; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">favorite</span><span class="17" style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #111111; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> scale in the U</span><span class="17" style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #111111; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">.</span><span class="17" style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #111111; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">S</span><span class="17" style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #111111; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">.</span><span class="17" style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #111111; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">, due to many construction kits and dealer promotional models </span><span class="17" style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #111111; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">offered in</span><span class="17" style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #111111; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> this size</span><span class="17" style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #111111; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> </span><span class="17" style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #0070c0; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">(about 7½ inches in length)</span><span class="17" style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #111111; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">. </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mebetoys" title="Mebetoys"><i><span class="16" style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Mebetoys</span></i></a><i><span class="17" style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> </span></i><span class="17" style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">of Italy had a large range of cheap 1:24 toy cars.</span><i><span class="17" style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> </span></i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin_Mint" title="Franklin Mint"><i><span class="15" style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Franklin Mint</span></i></a><span class="17" style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> </span><span class="17" style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">of New York City, NY </span><span class="17" style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">and </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trax" title="Trax"><i><span class="15" style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Trax</span></i></a><span class="17" style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> </span><span class="17" style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #111111; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">of Silverwater, New South Wales, Australia </span><span class="17" style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #111111; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">also </span><span class="17" style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #111111; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">market</span><span class="17" style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #111111; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> this scale.</span></div>
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<b style="text-indent: 0pt;"><span class="18" style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;">The </span></b><b><span class="16" style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;">1:43 scale</span></b><span class="18" style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #111111; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%; text-indent: 0pt;"> </span><span class="18" style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #0070c0; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%; text-indent: 0pt;">(about 4 inches long)</span><span class="18" style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #111111; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%; text-indent: 0pt;"> is</span><span class="18" style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #111111; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%; text-indent: 0pt;"> the most popular scale for model cars </span><span class="18" style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #111111; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%; text-indent: 0pt;">on earth</span><span class="18" style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #111111; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%; text-indent: 0pt;">. This scale was made popular</span><span class="18" style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #111111; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%; text-indent: 0pt;"> back in the 1930s</span><span class="18" style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #111111; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%; text-indent: 0pt;"> by</span><i style="text-indent: 0pt;"><span class="18" style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span></i><span class="18" style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%; text-indent: 0pt;">Liverpool, England</span><span class="18" style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%; text-indent: 0pt;">’s</span><i style="text-indent: 0pt;"><span class="18" style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span></i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinky_Toys" style="text-indent: 0pt;" title="Dinky Toys"><i><span class="17" style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;">Dinky</span></i></a><span class="18" style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #111111; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%; text-indent: 0pt;"> </span><i style="text-indent: 0pt;"><span class="18" style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #111111; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;">Toys</span></i><span class="18" style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #111111; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%; text-indent: 0pt;"> </span><span class="18" style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #111111; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%; text-indent: 0pt;">as it was compatible with </span><b style="text-indent: 0pt;"><span class="18" style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #111111; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;">“</span></b><b style="text-indent: 0pt;"><span class="18" style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #111111; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;">O</span></b><b style="text-indent: 0pt;"><span class="18" style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #111111; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;">”</span></b><b style="text-indent: 0pt;"><span class="18" style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #111111; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;"> gauge model </span></b><b style="text-indent: 0pt;"><span class="18" style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #111111; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;">train sets</span></b><span class="18" style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #111111; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%; text-indent: 0pt;">. This scale is most commonly used </span><span class="18" style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #111111; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%; text-indent: 0pt;">throughout</span><span class="18" style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #111111; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%; text-indent: 0pt;"> Europe,</span><span class="18" style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #111111; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%; text-indent: 0pt;"> </span><span class="18" style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #111111; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%; text-indent: 0pt;">Japan and Australia, but less so in the USA. 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<b><span class="18" style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;">The </span></b><b><span class="16" style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;">1:55 scale</span></b><span class="18" style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #0070c0; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span><span class="18" style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #0070c0; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;">(about 3 inches in length)</span><span class="18" style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #111111; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span><span class="18" style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #111111; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;">models</span><span class="18" style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #111111; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;"> that are in use, world wide, are</span><span class="18" style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #111111; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span><span class="18" style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #111111; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;">more o</span><span class="18" style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #111111; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;">ften than not</span><span class="18" style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #111111; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;"> made</span><span class="18" style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #111111; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;"> by </span><i><span class="18" style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #111111; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;">Sieper Lüdenscheid GmbH & Co. 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<b><span class="18" style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;">The </span></b><b><span class="16" style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;">1:76 scale</span></b><span class="18" style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span><span class="18" style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #0070c0; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;">(about 2¼ inches long) </span><span class="18" style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;">is</span><span class="18" style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;"> popular </span><span class="18" style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;">primarily</span><span class="18" style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;"> in Britain, Australia</span><span class="18" style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;">,</span><span class="18" style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;"> and Hong</span><span class="18" style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;">-</span><span class="18" style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;">Kong for highly detailed buses and lorries </span><span class="18" style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #0070c0; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;">(trucks)</span><span class="18" style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span><span class="18" style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;">such as those by </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exclusive_First_Editions" title="Exclusive First Editions"><i><span class="16" style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;">EFE</span></i></a><i><span class="18" style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;">,</span></i><i><span class="18" style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span></i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corgi_Classics_Limited" title="Corgi Classics Limited"><i><span class="16" style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;">Corgi OOC</span></i></a><span class="18" style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;">, </span><span class="18" style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;">or </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trax_Models" title="Trax Models"><i><span class="16" style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;">Trax</span></i><span class="16" style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;"> Models</span></a><span class="18" style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;"> in Australia. These models were originally intended </span><span class="18" style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;">to be used </span><span class="18" style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;">as </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OO_gauge" title="OO gauge"><span class="16" style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;">OO scale</span></a><span class="18" style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;"> model railway accessories, but became collectibles in their own right.</span><span class="18" style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt;">Now then</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16.0000pt;">, having covered all that, lets make the scale issue even more complicated as the various “Scale Sizes” for Model Rail Road Trains may even be considered a bit tortuous. You see, when discussing model trains, you are more apt to see letters of the alphabet used when describing scale sizes in the stead of numbers.</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #c00000; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;">G scale</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span><span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;">(1:22)</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;"> is </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;">commonly used for garden</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;"> or out-door</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;"> layouts. If you like working outdoors, doing real landscaping and gardening</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;">;</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;"> this is the most likely model train scale you'll want to use. </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; text-indent: 0pt;">The</span><b style="text-align: start; text-indent: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "simsun"; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; text-indent: 0pt;">G Scale Loco</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; text-indent: 0pt;">motive</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; text-indent: 0pt;"> Display</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; text-indent: 0pt;"> <span style="color: #6fa8dc;">(below)</span> should give you a “visual” of the G Scale size.</span><br />
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This scale is great for coffee tables</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;">;</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;"> a nice addition to your executive desk </span><span style="font-family: "arial black"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;">─</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;"> it’s</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;"> good for any </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;">“</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;">large</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;">”</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;"> layout in a very </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;">“</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;">small</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;">”</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;"> space. </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;">Z Scale is even e</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;">asy to transport if you like. </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;">Stories are often told of an individual who</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;"> created an entire Z scale model railroad empire inside a </span><i><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;">suitcase</span></i><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;"> and displayed it at various train shows! This model train scale can also be used effectively in the </span><i><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;">background</span></i><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;"> of an </span><b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;">N</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;"> scale or </span><b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;">HO</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;"> scale layout for</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;"> a</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;">”</span><i><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;">forced </span></i><i><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;">visual aspe</span></i><i><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;">ct</span></i><i><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;">”</span></i><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;"> so that it looks like you have trains or structures </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;">far</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;"> off in</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;">to</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;"> the distance when viewed from eye level. 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<span style="color: #984806; font-family: "arial black"; font-size: 16.0000pt;">As a pretty good Shade Tree Mechanic and an avid Hobbyist, it no doubt took years of dedicated effort to complete the </span><i><span style="color: #984806; font-family: "arial black"; font-size: 16pt;">B-61 Mack</span></i><span style="color: #984806; font-family: "arial black"; font-size: 16.0000pt;"> and or the 1958 Impala showcased in the images just above . . . The most challenging part of the endeavor, of little doubt, involved locating the necessary parts needed to insure first rate restorations. While it may be uncommon to locate parts on-line for a vintage </span><i><span style="color: #984806; font-family: "arial black"; font-size: 16pt;">Mack Truck,</span></i><span style="color: #984806; font-family: "arial black"; font-size: 16.0000pt;"> it is now most certainly commonplace to find practically everything you need for restoring and or repairing classic cars & pick-up trucks on multiple web-sites for such restoration projects.</span><span style="color: #984806; font-family: "arial black"; font-size: 16.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #984806; font-family: "arial black"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;">Okay, so we’ll make that task a bit easier . . . Just </span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #c0504d; font-family: "arial black"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;"><a href="https://carparts.evyy.net/c/1328787/291264/4532" target="_blank">Click Here</a>;</span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #984806; font-family: "arial black"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;"> then type in or change the auto’s year, make, and model you need parts for within the </span><b><i><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #984806; font-family: "arial black"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">“select your vehicle box</span></i></b><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #984806; font-family: "arial black"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;">” located on the upper left of the “Landing Page.” You'll find most everything you need ─ and at a </span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #984806; font-family: "arial black"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;">competitive</span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #984806; font-family: "arial black"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;"> price too . . . Again </span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #c0504d; font-family: "arial black"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;"><a href="https://carparts.evyy.net/c/1328787/291264/4532" target="_blank">Click Here</a></span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #984806; font-family: "arial black"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;">!</span></div>
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<span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #312e2b; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;">Chess is </span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #312e2b; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;">the most popular game</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #312e2b; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">, that can be called a hobby,</span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #312e2b; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;"> in the world! </span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #312e2b; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;">Sadly, for some of us who have never participated in the game, it has the reputation of being rather difficult to learn how to play because the rules are often thought of as being too complex. But l</span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #312e2b; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;">earning the rules of </span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #312e2b; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;">C</span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #312e2b; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;">hess </span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #312e2b; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;">can be</span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #312e2b; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;"> easy</span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #312e2b; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;">; just </span><u><span class="16" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;"><a href="https://www.chess.com/learn-how-to-play-chess" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Click Here</span></a></span></u><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #312e2b; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;"> for the “Basics”. It’s a cool site simply called</span><i><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #312e2b; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span></i><b><i><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #312e2b; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;">“Chess.com”</span></i></b><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #312e2b; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;">; a short visit here and you’ll be on your way to becoming a </span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #312e2b; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;">formidable player in short order and keep in mind that you’re never to old or to young to learn how to play Chess!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">A</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">side from the gratification you</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">’ll</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"> get from competing</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">,</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"> one on one . . . Why play chess anyhow? O</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">kay,</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">your reasoning</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"> may very well go something like this: You want to play Chess but have no clue as to how, yet you still secretly want others to award you some respect. Having arrived at this conclusion, </span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">you </span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">just </span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">may </span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">think, </span><i><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">“</span></i><b><i><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">if</span></i></b><i><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span></i><i><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">I’m</span></i><i><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"> a decent chess Player, people may</span></i><i><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">,</span></i><i><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"> at least</span></i><i><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">,</span></i><i><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"> think </span></i><i><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">I’m</span></i><i><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"> smart</span></i><i><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">”</span></i><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">, and that has benefits a’ plenty</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">. . . </span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Just remember though, </span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">many </span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">chess players </span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">mysteriously become</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">weirdo’s of a particular sort</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">. Not a normal weirdo</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">;</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">more often than not, they’re </span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">like those people who talk to you in the lunch line, even though you clearly </span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">have no wish</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"> to </span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">engage with anyone!</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Such</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"> weirdo’s make </span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">everyone within 10 feet</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"> feel uncomfortable </span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">because they</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">just</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"> keep talking until you at least nod, positive or negative, it matters not. </span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">And too</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">, </span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">some</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">avid</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"> chess players are </span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">damn</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"> proud to be among the weirdest souls on the planet</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">; onaccounta they think they’re sooo smart! . . Just remember to “guard” against such behavior when you become a Chess player. . . </span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">In any event, w</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">orry not</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"> about the difficulty you might face during the learning process;</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"> a bona fide dunce can learn to play chess </span><i><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">but only</span></i><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"> when it’s possible to grasp how the Pieces Move about the board </span><span style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">(a “</span><span style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">C</span><span style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">heat </span><span style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">S</span><span style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">heet” may be </span><span style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">necessary to complete</span><span style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"> this enterprise)</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">. Also important, when it comes to </span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">C</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">hess</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">:</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"> heaps of time practicing the game is most always essential </span><span style="font-family: "arial black"; font-size: 16.0000pt; line-height: 150%;">─</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"> and</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">,</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"> it’s a really good idea to practice with someone that you</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">’re pretty sure</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"> is smarter than you are</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">!</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">In the alternative, since such a task may be rather difficult </span><span style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">(finding someone smarter than you)</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">, it may be a good idea to invest in one of those </span><i><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Electronic Chess Partners</span></i><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"> . . . You can </span><a href="https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_i_4_16?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=electronic+chess+set&sprefix=electronic+chess%2Caps%2C165&crid=14KT4296QGDOtgfugate-20" target="_blank"><b><u><span class="16" style="color: purple; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">find several options / styles by </span></u></b><b><u><span class="16" style="color: #984806; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">CLICKING RIGHT HERE</span></u></b><b><u><span class="15" style="color: #984806; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">, NOW</span></u></b><b><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">!</span></b><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">The game of Chess, which originated in northern India, goes back more than a thousand years </span><span style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">(6</span><sup><span style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; vertical-align: super;">th</span></sup><span style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"> century AD)</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">; it is presumed a game called </span><i><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">“</span></i><i><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Chaturanga</span></i><i><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">”</span></i><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"> or </span><i><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">“Chatur”</span></i><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"> was the forerunner to Chess. In those days a die </span><span style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">(as in dice)</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"> was an important part of the game. The term </span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">“</span><i><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Chaturanga</span></i><i><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">” </span></i><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">can be loosely </span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">translate</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">d</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"> as </span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">“</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">the four divisions</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">”</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">, </span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">in reference to the</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"> infantry, </span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">the </span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">cavalry, </span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">the </span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">elephantry, and chariotry</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">. Each “division” was </span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">depicted by the pieces that evolve</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">d</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"> into the modern </span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">P</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">awn, </span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Rook</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">, </span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Knight</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">, and </span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Bishop. </span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Checkmate</span></i></b><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span><span style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">(the term)</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"> comes from the Arab words </span><i><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">‘Shah mat’</span></i><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">. In Arabic, ‘Shah’ means </span><i><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">king</span></i><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"> and ‘mat' means </span><i><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">loss</span></i><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">. Sooo, ‘Shah mat’ means the king loses, and is an accurate description for the term </span><b><i><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Checkmate</span></i></b><i><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">, </span></i><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">the final word in a typical game’s end! </span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Now, that you’ve accidently learned a little basic history about the game of Chess, its time to construct your own “Cheat Sheet” with a little help from the aforementioned website (</span><b><u><span class="15" style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><a href="https://www.chess.com/learn-how-to-play-chess" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Click Here</span></a></span></u></b><span style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">, it’s the exact same place</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">). </span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">You’ll eventually come to realize that all t</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">hings are just barely wonderful</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"> with the world while play Chess!</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">S</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">o</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">oo,</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"> in the </span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">unlikely </span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">event that you determine the “game of chess” is “just too much” or “out of reach”, let’s face it, may-be you’re IQ is </span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">not yet on </span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">equal</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"> footing</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">with</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"> a box of rocks. </span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Yeah, that bad, </span><i><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">really</span></i><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">! </span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">If this is the case, you may want to consider </span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">“an easy out”</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">for a hobby </span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">that requires less mental engagement, which can be found in almost any hobby store</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">; be it a</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">“</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">brick & mortar store</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">”</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"> or </span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">dozens of</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">“.com stores” all of which</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"> are made </span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">especially </span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">for dummies like us</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">!</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt;">Okay, not quite ready to give-up on Chess? Yeah, well that alone </span><i><span style="font-size: 16pt;">i</span></i><b><i><span style="font-size: 16pt;">s</span></i></b><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> a sure sign of basic intelligence; </span><b><span style="font-size: 16pt;">so here’s what to do:</span></b><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> Check out a few short </span><i><span style="font-size: 16pt;">“YouTube”, “HowCast”</span></i><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> videos for visual directives . . . Such helpful sites will assist you in understanding that a balance is needed between </span><i><span style="font-size: 16pt;">attacking</span></i><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> and </span><i><span style="font-size: 16pt;">defending</span></i><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> and how it can be achieved successfully during the game, for example . . . Plus much, much more! </span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt;">Access to thirty-six (36) video’s of this type are displayed on this site alone: </span><a href="https://www.howcast.com/guides/1164-how-to-play-chess" target="_blank"><i><u><span class="15" style="color: blue; font-size: 14pt;">https://www.howcast.com/guides/1164-how-to-play-chess</span></u></i><i><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span></i></a><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></i><b><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Enjoy playing Chess as a Hobby!</span></b><b><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 16pt;">And always remember it is a game!</span></b><b><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt;">Sources:</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.pinterest.es/pin/168040629826185310/"><u><span class="15" style="color: blue; font-size: 12pt;">https://www.pinterest.es/pin/168040629826185310/</span></u></a><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="http://www.chess.com/learn-how-to-play-chess.html#howtomove"><u><span class="16" style="color: purple; font-size: 12pt;">http://www.chess.com/learn-how-to-play-chess.html#howtomove</span></u></a><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Slot </span></b><b><span style="font-size: 16pt;">C</span></b><b><span style="font-size: 16pt;">ar </span></b><b><span style="font-size: 16pt;">R</span></b><b><span style="font-size: 16pt;">acing </span></b><b><span style="font-size: 16pt;">or S</span></b><b><span style="font-size: 16pt;">lot </span></b><b><span style="font-size: 16pt;">R</span></b><b><span style="font-size: 16pt;">acing </span></b><span style="font-size: 16pt;">is the competitive hobby of racing powered scaled / miniature cars</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">, trucks, etc</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> which are guided by grooves or slots within the track on which they run. Slot cars are used in this endeavor and are typically models of automobiles, although some have racing bodies that are special design</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">s</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> for this type of miniature racing. </span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt;">Slot </span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">R</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">acing ranges from casual get-togethers, typical</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">ly at</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">racing tracks within the</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> home with participants using whatever cars the host may have available</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">,</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> to serious competitions consisting of contestant</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">s</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> who painstakingly build or modify their own cars for maximum performance to compete in a series of races </span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">that may</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> lead up to a national championship</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> competition</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">.</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt;">Slot </span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">R</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">acing was </span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">most</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> popular during the 1960s, with sales </span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">surpass</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">ing $500 </span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">M</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">illion </span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">per</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> year. During that era there were 3,000 public courses in the United States alone which attracted thousands of amateur participants. The fad / trend sputtered out by the start of the 1970s as many “amateur” participants felt squeezed out by “professional players” at major slot racing events</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> or competitions.</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">In </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Slot Car competition</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">,</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> sizes vary; scaled sizes are as follows: 1:24 is the largest </span><span style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 14pt;">(7 to 8 inches long)</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">; 1:32 scaled </span><span style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 14pt;">(5 to 6 inches long)</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> cars are generally used for home style tracks but it is not uncommon for these cars to be utilized for commercial tract events; the 3</span><sup><span style="font-size: 14pt; vertical-align: super;">rd</span></sup><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">scaled size is simply called “HO” and may vary in size from 1:87 </span><span style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 14pt;">(older cars)</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> to 1:64 </span><span style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 14pt;">(newer cars)</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> and are usually 2.5 – 3.5 inches long. Although the HO cars may vary a bit in size, they all most always use the same width of track </span><span style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 14pt;">(the larger cars obviously require a larger track)</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> … Here we display an image reflecting scale size variations … largest </span><span style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 14pt;">(1:24; 1</span><span style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 14pt;">:</span><span style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 14pt;">32 & 1:64)</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> to smallest</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">:</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Model Trains </span></b><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">are</span><b><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span></b><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">often synonymous with the terms, </span><b><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">model railroading; </span></b><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">which</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"> is a hobby regarding rail tran<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_Hlt293266126"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_Hlt293266127">s</a>port systems that are modeled to a reduced s<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_Hlt297062835"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_Hlt297062836">c</a>ale.</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">At present</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">,</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span><b><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">“HO”</span></b><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span><span style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">(1:87)</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"> scale is the without doubt the most popular </span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">of all </span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">model railroad scale</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">s</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">; as a result of such popularity, manufacturers have responded and are constantly creating a huge amount of accessories and </span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">rolling<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_Hlt297062726"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_Hlt297062727"> </a>stock</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">for the HO scale models. This popularity has developed because HO scale is considered by most RR enthusiasts to be just the right size to allow most people to appreciate the detail, plus the incredibly good running performance and the comparative price to other scale models has helped HO gain popularity as well. </span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Youngsters</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">though, may</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"> find it easier to operate and control the bigger scales, beginning with </span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">the </span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">HO scale and above. </span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">You should also be aware that it is very difficult to create an authentic looking layout in a large scale. For this reason and more, HO scale has become very popular because it is considered a “middle-of-the-road” scale and is easier to construct realistic displays.</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Never the less,</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"> keep in mind that </span><b><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">HO</span></b><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"> scale with a continuous loop model railroad system </span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">requires</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"> at least a 3.5 foot x 4 foot </span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">“</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">table</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">” area</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">. So a layout space of 6 feet x 4 feet</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">, so as to insure access to the construction site,</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"> w</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">ill</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"> be enough to design an interesting HO scale layout with a continuous loop. If you don’t have that much room, then you might consider an </span><b><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">“N”</span></b><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span><span style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">(1: 160)</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"> scale layout which can be built in less than 1/3 of the area required by a similar HO scale model train layout but obviously much smaller. There </span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">is</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"> even a smaller scale: </span><b><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">“Z”</span></b><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span><span style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">(1: 220)</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">. </span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">If </span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">working space is not an issue, </span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">then you </span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">might</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">seriously consider building</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"> an </span><b><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">“O”</span></b><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"> scale which is </span><span style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">(1:48 in the US or 1:43 in the UK)</span><span style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">which is</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"> close to twice the size of HO.</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">O</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">ther terms that you’re sure to come upon when constructing a model Rail Road </span><span style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">(RR)</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">, no matter the size, is “Rolling Stock” and “Rail Gauge”. </span><i><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Rolling Stock</span></i><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"> is everything that rolls upon the RR tracks, from a locomotive to a simple hand car. </span><i><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Rail Gauge</span></i><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"> is simply the width between the RR tracks or rails. </span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Model Trains </span></b><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">or</span><b><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span></b><b><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">M</span></b><b><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">odel </span></b><b><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">R</span></b><b><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">ailroading</span></b><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"> are not only terms that are synonymous to each other but for some time now they have been first and foremost when the topic of “Man Toys” are mentioned. A man toy in the form of a model train can be purchased by </span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">everyone</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span><span style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">(not just men)</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"> in most hobby stores</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial black"; font-size: 16.0000pt; line-height: 150%;">─</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"> from HO scale models train sets to scaled model scenery.</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16.0000pt;">It</span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16.0000pt;">’s</span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16.0000pt;"> been said,in regard to the Helicopter, that"A helicopter is an assembly of forty thousand loose pieces, flying more or less in formation" and that the helicopter is “the most versatile vehicle known to mankind”. </span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16.0000pt;">While fixed-wing aircraft receive most of the attention by historians, helicopter flight was the first flight envisioned by man. In fact, the ancient Chinese had a design for a hand-spun toy that rose upward as early as the 4</span><sup><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16.0000pt; vertical-align: super;">th</span></sup><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16.0000pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16.0000pt;">century AD. The great Italian Leonardo da Vinci made drawings of a machine that we now know to be the helicopter as early as 1490. While the concept of rotary-wing aviation had been conceived, the necessary technology for the creation of a helicopter was not produced until the advent of the internal combustion engine. </span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16.0000pt;">By or during the late period of World War I </span><span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16.0000pt;">(1914-1918)</span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16.0000pt;"> major helicopter advances were made. The quality and extent of production materials increased, and great advances were made in the field of engine technology. With better technology </span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16.0000pt;">in hand, and a good bit</span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16.0000pt;"> more need</span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16.0000pt;">ed</span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16.0000pt;">, the U S military recognized the potential benefits </span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16.0000pt;">of such a machine, sooo,</span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16.0000pt;"> advancements developed swiftly.</span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16.0000pt;">Currently</span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16.0000pt;"> </span><span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16.0000pt;">(2018)</span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16.0000pt;">, the number one “man toy”, when considering R</span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16.0000pt;">-</span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16.0000pt;">C hobby flying machines, is the helicopter. At any rate, it wasn’t until 1968 that R</span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16.0000pt;">-</span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16.0000pt;">C helicopters for hobbies came of age, primarily resulting from the research and development of Dr. Dieter Schluter of West Germany. </span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16.0000pt;">Why did the development of this technology take so long? Perhaps the best answer is because there have been no short cuts in the R</span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16.0000pt;">-</span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16.0000pt;">C helicopter’s functionality; its development for the engine, drive gears, rotor blades, control methods, etc. all had to follow the design of full-size helicopters and had to be built to the same exacting standards. </span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16.0000pt;">In our View, the single biggest draw-back or flaw in RC Helicopter flight is the somewhat limited amount of “flying time” </span><span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16.0000pt;">(typically 8 to 10 minutes)</span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16.0000pt;"> that’s available to the enthusiastic Hobbyist, especially for the battery powered electric models. The good news is not only that the battery is rechargeable, but when one battery’s power is “spent”; there is little difficulty involved in replacing it with a spare. </span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16pt;">The other good news is that</span><b><i><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></i></b><b><i><u><span class="15" style="color: purple; font-size: 16pt;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Dtoys-and-games&field-keywords=rc+helicopter+battery+pack&sprefix=rc+battery%2Ctoys-and-games%2C253&rh=n%3A165793011%2Ck%3Arc+helicopter+battery+packtgfugate-20" target="_blank">Amazon.com</a></span></u></i></b><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16pt;"> has a special BATTERY section within their categories that’s sure to solve that problem.</span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16pt;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16.0000pt;">So, just how difficult is the R</span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16.0000pt;">-</span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16.0000pt;">C helicopter to control in fight? It’s been described as being “similar to balancing a steel ball on a knife edge while riding a bicycle”! This is of course is an exaggeration! The fact is techniques involved can actually be mastered with a bit of practice. However, apprentice R</span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16.0000pt;">-</span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16.0000pt;">C helicopter users should be conscious of the notion that R</span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16.0000pt;">-</span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16.0000pt;">C helicopters are measured by many zealots of the trade to be the most difficult to master.</span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Tony G Fugatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10815107122361894526noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8934387168909727956.post-86615714416955333222018-11-16T16:13:00.001-08:002021-08-11T11:49:59.583-07:00Paintballing<br />
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<span style="font-size: 16pt;">Sometimes considered the ultimate “man game”; paintballing is typically a team sport wherein players shoot paintball’s at each other and when opposing players are hit they are out of the game. The basic goal of paintball is to remove opposing players from the game and capture the opponent</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">’s </span><span style="font-size: 21.3333px;">“</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">team flag” and return it to the home base of the prevailing team. When such events occur a “Win” is established.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt;">Some of the most </span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">frequently </span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">asked questions about the sport / game are as follows:</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 16pt;">What’s it cost? A day of paintball generally costs about $50.00 in the event that you use a rental type facility which is popular in many areas. This will depend on what</span><b><i><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></i></b><span style="font-size: 16pt;">rental gear is needed and how many paint balls a player shoots during the day; another major factor is whether or not you are able to use your own equipment during the event.</span><b><i><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></i></b><b><i><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt;">A Game can last as little as one minute for intense spectator-style “</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">speed-ball</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">” games, or up to 24 hours of non-stop action for a weekend-long event. The average recreational game in the woods lasts between 15 minutes to an hour. A game played on a tournament-style field lasts about three to ten minutes.</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt;">Are Stains a Problem? Simple answer, no. Hits easily wipe off your clothing and skin, and any residue left on your clothes comes out in the wash. Marks left by </span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">paintball's</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> also wash off trees and grass after a rain shower and by the way, most </span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">paintball's</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> manufactured today are eco-friendly</span><b><i><span style="font-size: 16pt;">.</span></i></b><b><i><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></b><br />
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<span style="font-size: 16pt;">Often the first question asked by new players is “dose it hurt”? When you get hit by a paintball, it</span><b><i><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></i></b><span style="font-size: 16pt;">generally “stings” or “smarts” just a little; especially if you’re within 20 feet and the hit is directly on the skin. This may result in a small welt or bruise. The best comparison for what it feels like is perhaps like flipping yourself with a rubber band. Because of this, Paintball is recommended for individuals of at least twelve years</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> of age</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">or</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> older. If hits worry you, then we suggest wearing extra protective padding, such as knee pads, elbow pads, gloves, chest protectors, neck protectors, and, of course, approved paintball masks to protect your eyes and face as “head gear” is considered mandatory safety equipment. </span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt;">Have you decided yet to make the leap into the extreme sport of paintball? Are you in need of a paintball gun or </span><b><span style="font-size: 16pt;">“marker”</span></b><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> as the industry now calls them, but you’re not exactly sure what to look for?</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> If the answers are yes, then read-on!</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt;">It’s easy to imagine that a paintball marker works much like any air gun, but that’s not quite the truth. There are a wide variety of</span><b><i><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></i></b><span style="font-size: 16pt;">types,</span><b><i><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></i></b><span style="font-size: 16pt;">brands, and most important, technologies involved in paintball today that continues to propel the sport into an ever growing, exhilarating experience.</span><b><i><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></i></b><b><i><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt;">Knowledge is power, and by providing yourself with a little paintball expertise, your first acquisition will be one that may provide contentment for a really long time.</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt;">Paintball </span><b><i><span style="font-size: 16pt;">“markers”</span></i></b><b><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> or </span></b><b><i><span style="font-size: 16pt;">guns</span></i></b><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> have three “classes,” one of which contains two sub-classes.</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt;">The first and most common class of marker is the </span><b><span style="font-size: 16pt;">semi-automatic</span></b><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> or the </span><b><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Pneumatic</span></b><span style="font-size: 16pt;">. As the name indicates, this marker will discharge a paintball every time the trigger</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> is pulled</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">.</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 16pt;">There are two distinct sub-types of semi-automatics: </span></b><b><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
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<span style="font-size: 16pt;">Sub-type 1 markers are also called “</span><b><i><span style="font-size: 16pt;">mechanical</span></i></b><span style="font-size: 16pt;">”</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> markers, they work very much like a real firearm. However, unlike the typical firearm, their power source </span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">may be</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> a </span><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #222222; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">CO</span><sub><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #222222; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; vertical-align: sub;">2</span></sub><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span><span style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 16pt;">(carbon dioxide)</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> compressed air tank that usually screws into the back portion of the marker. You load the marker one time, and from that point forward it will fire each time you pull the trigger until you ‘spend’ all of the ammunition. This type marker can shoot rather fast: 4 to 9 balls per second </span><span style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 16pt;">(BPS)</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">.</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8934387168909727956" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></a><span style="font-size: 16pt;">In the alternative, Paintball Markers may use high-pressure air </span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">for propellant. When HPA </span><span style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 16pt;">(high-pressure air) </span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">is compressed, it remains a gas. When it expands, it also cools the tank at a far lower rate than liquid CO</span><sub><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; vertical-align: sub;">2</span></sub><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> because it does not have to change from liquid to gas. The lack of this transition reduces the variation in pressure associated with rapid successions of firing cycles; resulting in accuracy improvement.</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt;">One more issue regarding the Air Tank: A remote line or a hose </span><span style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 16pt;">(a gas line) </span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">is often connected to a marker and to the tank, since the tank can be stored on a pod belt or in a pouch. Their purpose lies in decreasing the weight and length of the Marker, which allows the user more freedom of movement while handling the Marker or gun:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt;">Semi-automatic markers of the 2</span><sup><span style="font-size: 16pt; vertical-align: super;">nd</span></sup><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">sub-type are sometimes called </span><b><i><span style="font-size: 16pt;">“</span></i></b><b><i><span style="font-size: 16pt;">elector-pneumatic</span></i></b><b><i><span style="font-size: 16pt;">”</span></i></b><i><span style="font-size: 16pt;">;</span></i><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> they derive from technology borrowed from the military and are equipped with an </span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">on-board</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> computer to insure operation. This type marker was once considered the gold standard and very expensive, but electronic markers are just as affordable now as </span><span style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 16pt;">(and sometimes even cheaper)</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> than mechanical models. The rate of fire</span><b><i><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></i></b><span style="font-size: 16pt;">is much faster with these markers and can reach as many as 36 BPS! </span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt;"> Although Semi-automatic / </span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">elector-pneumatic</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> markers are just as reliable as mechanical ones, they do require a battery; and in some models the batteries are even rechargeable. </span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt;">In any event, k</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">eep in mind that the battery must be fully charged or at least very </span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">near a</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">full charge </span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">because this type marker will malfunction when </span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">the </span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">batteries are weak. </span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt;">The one big difference between mechanical and </span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">elector-pneumatic</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> markers </span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">lies with</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">the </span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">flexibility of use. Mechanical markers can get wet and even be submerged in water whereas </span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">elector-pneumatic</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> markers will short out when submitted to the same conditions. Light rain, however is not a handicap for </span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">elector-pneumatic</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> markers. </span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt;">The </span><b><span style="font-size: 16pt;">second class</span></b><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> of paintball markers is called </span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">“</span><b><span style="font-size: 16pt;">pump action</span></b><span style="font-size: 16pt;">”</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">. These markers work very much like a pump action shotgun and must be cocked each time before you can shoot a paintball. This is great for those of us on a budget or wishing to conserve since with this type marker you can expect a lot fewer paintballs to be used. </span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Yet another plus</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">, they are very accurate. </span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt;">You might think that a pump would be less expensive than a semi-automatic, but this is not always the case. Paintball enthusiasts who use pump action marker</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">s</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> are considered purists / conservatives by the industry and, as a result, the industry typically markets higher-end equipment to such folk, which often results in higher prices.</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt;">The </span><b><span style="font-size: 16pt;">third class</span></b><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> of marker is called </span><b><span style="font-size: 16pt;">“</span></b><b><span style="font-size: 16pt;">stock</span></b><b><span style="font-size: 16pt;">”</span></b><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> class which is a derivative of the original paintball gun. </span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt;">We’ll make note here that the sport of</span><b><i><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></i></b><span style="font-size: 16pt;">paintball</span><b><i><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></i></b><span style="font-size: 16pt;">was </span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">actually </span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">born from the</span><b><i><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></i></b><span style="font-size: 16pt;">forestry industry which used “marking guns” </span><span style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 16pt;">(thus the term “marker”)</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> which fired oil-based paintballs to mark trees instead of using spray paint or flagging tape. </span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt;">Most of us are always looking for a way to stretch the dollar and searching for paintball markers are not exceptions; in fact, for those who really want to save, it’s strongly recommend to have a “look-see” at the refurbished markers that are offered by several manufactures</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> . . . Here’s a great place to start looking: </span><u><span class="16" style="color: purple; font-size: 16pt;"><a href="https://www.ansgear.com/Refurbished_Paintball_Guns_s/6520.htm" target="_blank">Click Here</a></span></u><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><a href="https://www.ansgear.com/Refurbished_Paintball_Guns_s/6520.htm" target="_blank"> </a>for first rate pre-owned Paintball guns.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt;">One last thing, when you choose your Paintball Marker, be sure to select the appropriate sized ammunition. Paintballs come in </span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">several</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> sizes, though .68 caliber is the most common and is considered</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> by most Paintball Enthusiasts to be</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> the standard size </span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">for</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> paintballs. The </span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">“</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">caliber</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">”</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> of a paintball refers to its diameter. For </span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">example</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">, a .68 caliber paintball is </span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">0</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">.68</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt;">”</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> in diameter.</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt;">Over the years, paintballs </span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">have come</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> in other, specialized calibers </span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">such as</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> .40, .43, .50, and .62. </span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Of these four, .50 caliber paint</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">balls</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">are</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> a popular option </span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">particularly </span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">for </span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">“</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">low-impact</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">”</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> games. </span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt;">Bottom line, t</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">he size of paintballs you use is going to depend on your paintball gun </span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">or</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">M</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">arker.</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt;">When making your selection, keep in mind that as a general rule</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">, </span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">higher</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> price</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">d</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">paintballs </span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">are subjected to </span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">a </span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">more rigorous manufacturing processes, quality checks, and standards </span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">which </span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">mak</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">es</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> their size and shape more consistent. This is very important </span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">in relation</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">to </span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">accuracy. </span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Plus, b</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">etter paintballs tend to have thinner shells to improve the frequency of breaking on impact rather than bouncing</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> off the intended target</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">.</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt;">At this point you’re either over-whelmed or </span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">over </span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">educated. Here’s to hoping it’s more of the latter. Paintball is a fun game / sport that can be enjoyed by persons of all skill levels, even those </span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">of us </span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">with no skills at all. </span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Basketball is one of the world</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">’</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">s most popular and widely viewed sports. It’s a team sport with the objective being to shoot or toss a spherical ball through a ‘basket’ that’s horizontally positioned on the narrow end of the basketball court. This allows individual team players to score points while following a set of rules. Two teams of five players usually play on a marked rectangular court with a basket / goal at each </span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">narrow</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"> end.</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">In early December of 1891, Dr. James Naismith, a physical education professor and instructor at the International Young Men’s Christian Association Training School </span><span style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">(</span><span style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">today</span><span style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">’</span><span style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">s</span><span style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"> YMCA)</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"> in Springfield, Massachusetts, USA, was trying to come up with a game to keep his gym class active on a cold rainy day.</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">He wanted an energetic indoor game to keep his students occupied and provide proper levels of fitness during the typically long New England winters. After rejecting several ideas as either too rough or poorly suited to walled-in gymnasiums, following a major brain storm, he wrote the basic rules for the new game that would become </span><i><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">B</span></i><i><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">asketball</span></i><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">. His second step was to nail a peach basket onto a 10-foot </span><span style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">(3.05 m)</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"> elevated track, and </span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">then, </span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">the entertainment began. </span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">In contrast to modern basketball goals & nets, this peach basket retained its bottom, so balls had to be retrieved manually after each “basket” or point was made; this soon proved ineffective, so </span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">a</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"> portion of the basket</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">’s bottom</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"> was soon removed, allowing the balls to be poked out with a long dowel or rod each time a player </span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">“</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">scored</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">”</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"> a basket.</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Basketball was originally played with an ‘association football’ which is a fancy name for a standard soccer ball. The first balls that were made specifically for basketball were brown in color, and remained so until the late 1950s that Tony Hinkle, searching for a ball that would be more visible to players and spectators alike, introduced the orange ball that is now most commonly used.</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Initially, “dribbling” was not part of the game unless the bounce passes to a teammate is considered dribbling. Passing the ball was the primary method utilized for ball movement. Dribbling was eventually introduced but the procedure was </span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">some what</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"> limited by the often lop-sided shape of the early game balls. Dribbling </span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">didn</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">’t </span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">bec</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">o</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">me a major part of the game </span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">until</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"> the 1950s, when manufacturers improved the ball’s shape to that of a more </span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">perfect</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"> spherical shape.</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">The peach baskets were used until 1906 when they were finally replaced by metal hoops with backboards</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"> . . . Today</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">’s (2018)</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"> regulation basketball hoop consists of a rim that’s 18 inches in diameter; 10 feet high, and mounted to a backboard. A team can score a </span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">“</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">field goal</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">”</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"> by shooting the ball through the basket during regular play. A field goal scores two points for the shooting team if a player is touching or closer to the basket than the ‘three-point line’ displayed upon the basketball court</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">’s floor</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"> and three points if the player is behind the three-point line. The team with the most points at the end of the game, surprise surprise, wins! But additional time </span><span style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">(overtime)</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"> may be issued when or if the game ends with a tie score. </span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">The basketball rules currently allow the ball to be advanced on the court by bouncing or throwing it: This action is permitted while walking, running and or dribbling wh</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">en</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"> throwing / passing the ball to a teammate. It is a violation to move ‘about’ (if you have the ball) without dribbling the ball. This action constitutes </span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">“</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">traveling</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">”</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"> / </span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">“</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">walking</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">”</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">. Another common infraction is called</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">“</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">double dribbl</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">ing</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">”</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span><span style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">(to hold the ball with both hands then resume dribbling a second time during a single possession)</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">, </span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">when the ball is in an individual players control</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">. </span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Various </span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">other </span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">violations </span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">include</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"> “fouls”</span><span style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">(each player is limited to 5 per game)</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">. When disruptive physical contact </span><span style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">(a personal foul) </span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">is made and penalized, a free throw or free shot is usually awarded to an offensive player if he is fouled while shooting the ball as well as on certain occasions if the fowled player is not shooting. A technical foul may also be issued when certain infractions occur, most commonly for unsportsmanlike conduct on the part of a player or the team coach. A technical foul gives the opposing team a free throw and possession of the ball.</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Basketball has evolved </span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">over the years with </span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">the use of many styles of play, including but not limited to: shooting, passing, dribbling, and rebounding, as well as the development of specialized player positions </span><span style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">(Guards Forwards, & Center)</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">and offensive and defensive structures such as </span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">“</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Man, to Man</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">”</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"> or </span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">“</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Zone</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">”</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"> style defensive techniques.</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">While competitive basketball is carefully regulated, numerous variations of basketball have developed for casual play. Competitive basketball is chiefly</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">an indoor sport played on a judiciously marked and maintained basketball court, but a less regulated variation is often played outdoors in both inner cities as well as remote areas using </span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">“</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">goals</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">”</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> similar to the one depicted </span></span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">on the right:</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Basketball</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">’</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">s early support</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"> was initially limited</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"> to YMCA</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">’</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">s throughout the United States</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">.</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">While</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"> the YMCA was responsible for developing and spreading the game, </span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">surprisingly, </span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">within 10 years it elected to discourage the new sport, as rough play was said to attract rowdy crowds which began to detract from the YMCA’s primary mission vision.</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">During the early decades of the 20</span><sup><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; vertical-align: super;">th</span></sup><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">century, basketball quickly became the ideal interscholastic sport due to its modest equipment and personnel requirement needs in comparison to other games. Prior to widespread TV coverage of professional and college sports, the popularity of high school basketball was unrivaled in many parts of America. Perhaps the most legendary of high school teams was Franklin, Indiana’s </span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">team</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">, which took the nation by storm during the 1920s, dominating Indiana basketball and earning national recognition.</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">With basketball king in Indiana, the team from Franklin, IN was dubbed the </span><i><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">“Wonder Five”</span></i><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">. This small town </span><span style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">(sporting only 4,909 residents in 1920)</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"> located about 20 miles south of Indianapolis produced a team that captured the Indiana State Basketball Championship three years in in a row, 1920, 1921, and 1922. The boys had started playing together as children and developed superior interaction focusing on team cooperation which is proof positive that basketball is truly a team sport</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">!</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Today practically every high school in the United States fields a basketball team that participates in varsity competition. The US states of Illinois, Indiana and Kentucky are particularly well known for their citizens’ devotion to high school </span><i><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">and</span></i><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"> college </span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">basketball.</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Dr. Naismith, who dreamed up the game in the first place, was instrumental in establishing college basketball programs. Naismith himself later coached at the University of Kansas for six years; one of Naismith</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">’</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">s disciples, Amos Alonzo Stagg, is credited with bringing basketball to the University of Chicago, while </span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">the legendary </span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Adolph Rupp, a </span><i><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">“</span></i><i><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">student</span></i><i><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">”</span></i><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"> of Naismith</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">’</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">s at Kansas</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"> U</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">, enjoyed </span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">considerable</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"> success as </span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Head C</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">oach at the University of Kentucky. </span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">In 1905, recurrent injuries on the football field prompted then President Theodore Roosevelt to suggest that colleges form a governing body, which resulted in the creation of the Intercollegiate Athletic Association of the United States </span><span style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">(IAAUS)</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">. In 1910, that body change</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">d</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"> its name to the National Collegiate Athletic Association, most commonly known as the </span><b><i><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">NCAA</span></i></b><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">.</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">By the 1950s, basketball had become a major college sport, thus paving the way for the growth in interest for professional basketball</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"> via the National Basketball Association which was </span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">founded in New York City on June 6, 1946, as the Basketball Association of America </span><span style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">(BAA)</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">. Originally called an ‘Upstart’, the American Basketball Association</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span><span style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">(ABA)</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">, emerged in 1967 and briefly threatened the NBA’s dominance until the ABA-NBA merger in 1976. As a result of this action, today’s NBA is the top professional basketball league in the world in terms of popularity, salaries, talent, and </span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">the </span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">level of competition and the </span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">“</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">dream</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">”</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"> of getting there is undoubtedly the prevailing thought of amateur players of basketball everywhere, perhaps</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">,</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"> with one exception</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">, former US</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"> President </span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Barack </span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Obama</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">. But,</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"> according to a select few</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">, Obama</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"> is </span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">predicted</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"> to be a 3</span><sup><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; vertical-align: super;">rd</span></sup><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"> round draft choice next year</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">:) :) :)</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Saddled with all the aforementioned trivia associated with the game of Basketball, the question may remain for some: </span><i><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Is Basketball a real Hobby?</span></i><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"> The answer is a resounding YES; as long as your not being paid to play! </span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt;">Be sure to check-out the video short on the above </span><i><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Ravensburger 3-D Puzzle</span></i><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> site; bet you’ll love it! </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">According to puzzle experts at </span><i><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">GlobalPuzzle.net</span></i><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">, a person solving a puzzle reasons in a logical way, arranges the problem in </span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">his or her</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"> mind, recognizes patterns and deduces resolution</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">s</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">so as </span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">to reach </span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">the most</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">favorable</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"> solution. Therefore</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">, completing</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span><b><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">jigsaw</span></b><b><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"> puzzles</span></b><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">, </span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">are</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"> game</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">s</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"> that not only serve the purpose of deriving fun</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"> and entertainment</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">, but also </span><i><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">teach</span></i><i><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">es</span></i><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">children and </span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">adults </span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">alike</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">.</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">The origins of jigsaw puzzles go</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"> all the way</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"> back to the 1760s when European mapmakers pasted maps onto wood and cut them into small pieces. John Spilsbury, </span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">was </span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">an engraver and mapmaker</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">; he </span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">is credited with inventing the first jigsaw puzzle in 1767. </span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Such</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">“</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">dissected</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">”</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"> map</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">s</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"> ha</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">ve</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"> been a successful educational toy ever since. </span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Still </span><span style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">(2018)</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">, </span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">American children learn geography by playing with puzzle maps of the US </span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">and</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"> the world. The </span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">18</span><sup><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; vertical-align: super;">th</span></sup><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">century inventor of jigsaw puzzles would </span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">likely </span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">be astounded to see the transformations </span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">during</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"> the last 250</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">+</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"> years</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">. Puzzles for </span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Children have </span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">switched</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"> from </span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">just </span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">lessons to entertainment, </span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">with</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"> diverse subjects </span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">ranging from</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">, nursery rhymes, and modern tales </span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">to</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"> super heroes. But the biggest surprise for the early puzzle makers would</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"> probably </span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">be how </span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">young </span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">adults have </span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">come to </span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">embrace puzzling </span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">of late; placing puzzling near the head of the line for fashionable and affordable Hobbies</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">.</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"> In an era of electronic gadgetry, such a trend is just short of a minor miracle!</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Wooden Jig Saw Puzzles made specifically for young adults didn’t emerged until around 1900, and by 1908, a full-blown craze was in progress in the U S. </span><i><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">And</span></i><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">, unlike puzzles made for children, the adult Jig Saw Puzzles often had no “guide picture” on the box’s exterior; sooo, if the title was vague or a bit deceptive, the true subject could remain a mystery until the last pieces were fitted into place!</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Since wooden puzzles had to be cut one piece at a time in those days, they were rather expensive. A typical 500-piece puzzle might cost $5 in 1908, far beyond the means of the average worker who only earned about $50 a month; naturally, sales slumped considerably. However, “High society folk”, continued to embraced the relatively new amusement which assured that manufacturing, if only to a lesser degree, stayed in place. Peak sales came each Saturday morning when such customers selected puzzles for their weekend house parties scheduled in their country retreats or other such up-scale places.</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Surprisingly, with the onset of the Great Depression in 1929, puzzles for young adults and children enjoyed a resurgence in popularity, peaking in early 1933 when sales reached an astonishing 43 Million Dollars a month! You could say, Puzzling touched a chord, offering an escape from the troubled times, as well as an opportunity to succeed in some small way.</span><span style="color: blue; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span><span style="color: blue; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Unfortunately, following World War II, the wooden jigsaw puzzle industry went into decline. Rising wages pushed costs up substantially and since wood puzzles took so much time to cut; prices rose and sales dropped. At about the same time improvements in lithography and die-cutting made the much cheaper cardboard puzzles more attractive. </span><span style="color: blue; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">One by one, wooden puzzles fell from the marketplace and true addicts of this style puzzle developed serious withdrawal symptoms which indirectly resulted in the research & development of an unknown number of gadgetry products </span><span style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">(ranging from Smart Phones to Electronic Chess sets)</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"> by the rising generation of entrepreneurs in an attempt to replace the many benefits of Puzzling by young adults and children alike. A few of such benefits of Puzzling beyond </span><i><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">educating</span></i><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"> that are commonly known include, but are not limited to, improving most anyone’s IQ, concentration, motor skills, problem solving skills, social skills, and productivity.</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">For the average “50 something” Puzzler today, the word “puzzle” conjures up a single image </span><span style="font-family: "simsun"; font-size: 16.0000pt; line-height: 150%;">-</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"> the jigsaw puzzles we often wrestled with as children during rainy days; but in hindsight, to put it bluntly, they were simply too </span><b><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">flat</span></b><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">. On the other hand if you fall within the more tender age group of less than 50 something, its unlikely you harbor such comforting memories. Regardless, today’s </span><span style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">(2018)</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"> true puzzler should be aware that there is now a whole universe of three-dimensional </span><span style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">(3-D)</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"> puzzles available in the marketplace and at an affordable price. Some are made of wood or wire, others, of metal or plastic and a few are made of glass; all of which can boggle the mind and delight the senses.</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt;">In case you’re wondering, 3D puzzles, were invented by Paul Gallant, a late Canadian entrepreneur; they were first made available in 1991 under a Quebec, Canada based company called </span><b><i><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Wrebbit; </span></i></b><span style="font-size: 16pt;">the 3-D puzzles were</span><b><i><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></i></b><span style="font-size: 16pt;">manufactured under the brand name</span><b><i><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> Puzz 3D</span></i></b><span style="font-size: 16pt;">.</span><span style="color: blue; font-size: 16pt;"> </span><span style="color: blue; font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt;">In 2005, </span><i><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Hasbro, Inc.</span></i><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span><span style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 16pt;">(the largest toy maker in the world in terms of stock market value, and third largest in terms of revenues)</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">, an American multinational toy and board game company bought the manufacturing and distribution rights for US sales of the </span><i><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Wrebbit</span></i><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span><i><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Puzz 3D</span></i><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> Division and promptly began the manufacture of Wrebbit’s puzzles at </span><i><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Hasbro’s</span></i><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> East Longmeadow, Massachusetts facility; the following year</span><span style="color: blue; font-size: 16pt;"> </span><span style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 16pt;">(2006)</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> all of the </span><b><i><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Puzz 3D</span></i></b><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> puzzles were discontinued, but in 2011, the </span><b><i><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Puzz 3D</span></i></b><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> line was revitalized by </span><b><i><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Winning Solutions, Inc</span></i></b><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> based in Ames, Iowa; a premium games company that had collaborated with </span><b><i><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Hasbro</span></i></b><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> in the past.</span><span style="color: blue; font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt;">Typically, the structures or puzzle designs released are famous landmarks, such as the </span><b><i><span style="font-size: 16pt;">White House</span></i></b><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> located in Washington DC; </span><b><i><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Big Ben</span></i></b><span style="font-size: 16pt;">, the nickname for the Great Bell of the clock at the north end of the Palace of Westminster in London, England; and the 1,815 foot tall </span><span style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 16pt;">(147 floors)</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span><b><i><span style="font-size: 16pt;">CN Tower</span></i></b><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> located in Toronto, Canada. </span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Puzz 3D</span></i></b><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> has also released science-fiction themed puzzles, such as the </span><b><i><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Millennium Falcon</span></i></b><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> spacecraft from the </span><b><i><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Star Wars </span></i></b><span style="font-size: 16pt;">film</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">, and notable structures from legendary stories such as King Arthur’s Castle at Camelot, generally thought to have been situated in Caerleon, South Wales, Britain. </span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Puzz 3D</span></i><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> has also released buildings of notable time periods, including a Victorian Mansion; they have produced classic cars, such as the </span><i><span style="font-size: 16pt;">1956 Ford Thunderbird</span></i><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span><i><span style="color: #1f497d; font-size: 16pt;">(</span></i><i><u><span class="15" style="color: #1f497d; font-size: 16pt;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Thunderbird-Jigsaw-Puzzle-Wrebbit-Puzz-3D/dp/B000BXKUPQ/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1546466991&sr=8-1-fkmr0&keywords=3d+puzzle+of+56+thunderbirdtgfugate06-20" target="_blank">Click Here to check it out</a></span></u></i><i><span style="color: #1f497d; font-size: 16pt;">)</span></i><span style="color: #1f497d; font-size: 16pt;">. </span><i><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Puzz 3D</span></i><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> has actually released a puzzle based on </span><i><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Hasbro’s Monopoly</span></i><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> board game, which allows for putting the puzzle together and then playing the game. </span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt;">Yet another 3-D puzzle release by </span><b><i><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Hasbro</span></i></b><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> includes a New York City puzzle, which includes the area around the World Trade Center and the Empire State Building. Because the puzzle is set before the 9-11-2001 attacks, the Twin Towers are a part of the design. This puzzle is </span><i><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Hasbro’s</span></i><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> largest, totaling 3,141 pieces</span><span style="color: #1f497d; font-size: 16pt;"> </span><i><u><span class="15" style="color: #1f497d; font-size: 16pt;">(<a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B000066G5Y/ref=dp_olp_all_mbc?ie=UTF8&condition=alltgfugate06-20" target="_blank">Click Here for purchase options; Used and or New</a>)</span></u></i><i><span style="color: #1f497d; font-size: 16pt;">.</span></i><i><span style="color: #1f497d; font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt;">With worldwide 3-D puzzle sales exceeding 100 Million Dollars in 2017, it’s of little surprise that </span><b><i><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Puzz 3D</span></i></b><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> games have also been “fashioned” or made for </span><i><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Microsoft Windows</span></i><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> and </span><i><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Macintosh</span></i><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> PC’s & Laptops.</span><span style="color: blue; font-size: 16pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">However, in this adaptation, when computer users build the puzzle, it’s a digital version, completed by clicking and dragging the digital pieces into place . . . </span><i><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Humm</span></i><span style="font-size: 16pt;">, digital or physical puzzle pieces </span><span style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 16pt;">(3-D design or otherwise)</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">; questionable at best . . . The choice can only be yours!</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="http://www.entertainmentbuddha.com/8-benefits-of-playing-puzzle-games/"><u><span class="16" style="color: #1f497d; font-size: 12pt;">http://www.entertainmentbuddha.com/8-benefits-of-playing-puzzle-games/</span></u></a><span style="color: #1f497d; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.puzzlewarehouse.com/history-of-puzzles/"><u><span class="15" style="color: #1f497d; font-size: 12pt;">https://www.puzzlewarehouse.com/history-of-puzzles/</span></u></a><span style="color: #1f497d; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="color: #1f497d; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://entertainment.howstuffworks.com/puzzles/3d-puzzles.htm"><u><span class="15" style="color: #1f497d; font-size: 12pt;">https://entertainment.howstuffworks.com/puzzles/3d-puzzles.htm</span></u></a><span style="color: #1f497d; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="color: #1f497d; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1997/12/20/business/newfangled-idea-for-old-fashioned-toy-these-next-generation-jigsaw-puzzles-take.html"><u><span class="15" style="color: #1f497d; font-size: 12pt;">https://www.nytimes.com/1997/12/20/business/newfangled-idea-for-old-fashioned-toy-these-next-generation-jigsaw-puzzles-take.html</span></u></a><span style="color: #1f497d; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="color: #1f497d; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puzz_3D"><u><span class="16" style="color: #1f497d; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puzz_3D</span></u></a><span style="color: #1f497d; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span><span style="color: #1f497d; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.seibertron.com/transformers/news/premium-transformersthemed-monopoly-from-winning-solutions-games-hasbrotoyfair-tfny/37426/"><u><span class="15" style="color: #1f497d; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">https://www.seibertron.com/transformers/news/premium-transformersthemed-monopoly-from-winning-solutions-games-hasbrotoyfair-tfny/37426/</span></u></a><span style="color: #1f497d; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span><span style="color: #1f497d; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<u><span class="15" style="color: #1f497d; font-size: 12pt;"><a href="https://www.historic-uk.com/CultureUK/Camelot-Court-of-King-Arthur/">https://www.historic-uk.com/CultureUK/Camelot-Court-of-King-Arthur/</a></span></u><br />
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