When you say optics, you say...

When you say optics, you say Optics Planet, and Optics Planet you can find it on the internet. You name it, find it brand, by category or even by store section. Need binoculars? search for digital binoculars, spotting scopes, telescopes. Need to see small things? Look for microscopes. Want to play a trick to your friends? Check out this devices, night vision, thermal imaging, laser rangefinders. Are you a hunter? What do you say about this rifle scopes, laser sights, red dot scopes. Are you a fashion guy? Try the sport equipment, sunglasses, eyeglasses, goggles. If you need there are prescript sunglasses, loupes magnifiers. Like to take great pictures when you go on vacations? See these great cameras. Travel allots? Don’t worries take a handheld GPS, This and much more, just need to take a look on the web site and chose.

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Being sick, what to do…

There’s nothing worse than be sick, and must stay at home without being able to go out, thank goodness there’s the Internet. Thinking better, it’s not so bad, we have the entire day to stay on, without having the worry of having to go to work and to leave behind that site that we took some interest of it. It is only disappointment that when that happens, ours friend are working and we cannot be all connected enjoying the web the whole day.

Ultimate digital picture frame

The first time I saw one of this pictures frames, I said, what a great gadget, I must get one. Regardless the price, this digital picture frames is the ultimate way to show off our pictures.

This super shiny 7" Wifi Frame can display your photos in surprising quality and colour resolution of 480 x 270. Set-up your frame's own email address then email photos direct to the frame. Displays photos from Facebook via an RSS feed. A memory card slot that supports MMC/SD/MS/CF cards. Plus a built-in memory of 128MB, can carry memory cards of up to 1GB. Connection by wireless 802.11 b/g. Only with a size of 24x16x4cm.

DelightfulDeliveries.com

Thinking on what to offer to your friends? Now that the Christmas time is near, why not taking a look this great site, http://www.delightfuldeliveries.com/, here you can find everything you need. From gift baskets to baked goods, candy and chocolate, fruits and nuts, gourmet meals. And you find things for all the occasions, Take a look on the Hanukkanh gifts, straight from picturesque Ghirardelli Square in San Francisco prepared with amazing selection of world famous chocolates. Feast on 3 chocolate bars, chocolate squares, chocolate mints, hot cocoa mixes, a gift box of 9 chocolate truffles and two delicious 3 ounce bars of melt-in-your-mouth chocolate. Holiday gifts, with a towering gifts of sweets, perfect for everyone to share. This sweet includes french chocolate truffles, old fashioned peppermint twist candies, white chocolate covered pretzels with red sprinkles, milk chocolate covered marshmallows with peppermint sprinkles and extra chocolate chip cookies. Happy birthday gifts, new baby gifts to welcome the newest addition to the family with a lovely baby basket that includes 2 receiving blankets, baby picture frame, bib, cap, booties, mittens, Johnson & Johnson baby wash, 2 bodysuits, and a box of baby's first cookies. Get well soon gifts, sympathy gifts as a extraordinary fruit basket, a dreamy variety of fresh pears, oranges, apples and grapefruit. Or even thank you gifts. Now free shipping is available on thousands of delicious gifts.
If you like this way of shopping, you can do it by two ways, first one by requesting a free gift catalogue, just fill in the required information and then click on the Submit button at the bottom of the page. Then Download the order form. Then your are ready to start buying all these good gifts that Delightful Deliveries has to ofer. To ensure the security of your information is always granted, DelightfulDeliveries.com only uses a secure server with Secure Socket Layer technology. That means that all orders sent are encrypted at 128 bits and credit card transactions are processed with First National Bank Payfuse® Payment Processing Solution, which also employs 128 bit encryption and safeguards your payment information

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DelightfulDeliveries.com Recognized as Hot 100 Retail Website Internet

Retailer Ranks Website Among Best in Nation for 2008

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--DelightfulDeliveries.com, the premiere Internet Gift Retailer and America’s #1 Gift Basket Website, today announced it has been named one of The Hot 100 Retail Websites for 2008 by leading industry magazine, Internet Retailer. The Hot 100 list represents the best of what retailers are doing online, highlighting innovation and setting the standards in online for what the rest of the industry should be doing.

DelightfulDeliveries.com, a privately-held company, with one of the largest and most unique selections of gourmet gifts, ranked alongside larger sites such as Dell, Nike and Amazon.com, by building its award-winning site on selection, functionality, speed and the complete customer experience. A recent re-design has improved the customer’s shopping experience to make holiday gift-giving easy and enjoyable, including rating and reviews, behavioral recommendations and free shipping offers.

“We are extremely honored to be recognized as a pacesetter in online retailing,” said Eric Lituchy, Founder and CEO of DelightfulDeliveries.com. “We pride ourselves on using the latest technology to make gift-giving fun and easy. Being named among the best in the nation validates we are succeeding in our efforts to deliver the best possible customer experience.”

In addition to making Internet Retailer’s The Hot 100 list for 2008, DelightfulDeliveries.com was recently recognized by Inc. Magazine as part of its Inc. 5000, which highlights the fastest growing private companies.

DelightfulDeliveries.com offers over 2000 unique and delicious gifts from America’s best brands to the finest boutique shops. Consumers can easily shop the site by gift or food category, occasion, type and best-seller. Corporate gift-givers can choose from hundreds of customized gourmet treats.

For additional information, and to see a complete selection of gifts available, visit http://www.delightfuldeliveries.com/.

About Delightful Deliveries

DelightfulDeliveries.com is an award-winning website that began in 1998 and quickly established itself as one of the premier Internet gift retailers. Its mission is to bring great products to gift-givers, while providing world-class service. The company selects its offerings from a broad variety of fine food gift products for consumers and for corporate gifts, and gathers them in one place to make the selection process quick and simple.

Pelamis - wave energy converter

Have you ever imagined that you could take electrical energy from the sea? That’s right my friends, the Pelamis Wave Energy Converter is a hi-tech device that uses the motion of ocean surface waves to create electricity. The first prototype was officially installed at the European Marine Energy Centre in Orkney, Scotland, on 28 of September 2007. The first industrial wave farm using this technology has being installed during the rest of 2007 on the Portuguese coast, precisely near the city of Póvoa de Varzim. This wave farm uses three Pelamis P-750 machines with a capacity of 2.25 megawatts. It is expected to be prolonged sooner or later to provide enough power for 1,500 households.

The Pelamis device consists on a series of semi-submerged cylindrical sections correlated by hinged joints. The wave induced relative motion of these sections is resisted by hydraulic rams which pump high pressure oil through hydraulic motors via smoothing hydraulic accumulators. The hydraulic motors drive electrical generators to generate electricity. Power from all the joints is fed down to a single cable to a junction on the sea bed. This devices can be connected together and linked to shore through a single seabed cable.

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New Opera Mini 4 for mobile phones

Full Web in your mobile phone. When you go to a web page, Opera Mini will show you a page overview. Opera Mini zooms quickly in on the web page and focuses on the content you want to read. This new browser version allows you to synchronize favourites with other browsers on your PC or laptop. It’s twice faster than regular browsers. Try it, its freeware, check on the web.

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Disney USB flash disk drive - from A-Data

Check out this funny USB flash drive, use it at work and enjoy the pleasure of Disney shapes. Made by A-Data Technology this new T703 USB flash drive can go up to 4 Gb. The USB flash drive is concealed in the 'ear' of Mickey. The T703 USB flash drive kind is also a mini-photo frame. This gadget can used by your kids as well.

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digitimes.com

The 2009 Rali Dakar will start in Lisbon!

It was confirmed on the 2008 race presentation, that rally Dakar will once again start from Lisbon. Since 2006 this mythic race started from the Portuguese capital making the 4th consecutive race in 2009. This year, cars, motorbikes and trucks will drive about 9.273 Km, crossing Portugal, Spain, Morocco, Mauritania and Senegal. For this year race already signup about 600 vehicles, and will take place between 5 e 20 of January.

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abola.pt

Led Zeppelin live Tour In 2008 - With The Cult.

Last time seen in show, in Philadelphia 13 of July de 1985, Robert Plant and the guitarist Jimmy Page.

Ian Astbury, singer of The Cult, made known during a club show in Cincinnati, that they'll be back next year opening the concert for a famous band. He started by saying “you may have heard of ... the name starts with an 'L' and has a 'Z' in it."

When asked about Astbury's apparently corroborate the world tour. But both The Cult and Zeppelin representatives declined to comment.

Maybe it’s truth, maybe not, but I think that we will see the amazing three living members of Zeppelin, the singer Robert Plant, the guitarist Jimmy Page and bassist John Paul performing together once again for the first time in many years.

NUBed mattresses

Are you thinking on buying a new mattress for the first time or just replace your old one? No, is it for your spare or child’s room? Check out on MattressFirst, it offer you the large range of hypo-allergenic NUBed pocket sprung mattresses, matching bases and mattress toppers that have been developed by one of the UK's leading high quality bed manufacturers.

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Ian Smith... a leader of the Rhodesian revolution.

Ian Smith was distinguished by having led the revolution of Rhodesia against the British Crown, Ian recently suffered a stroke and died last Tuesday with 88 years old, in a clinic in Cape Town. He was the first minister of Rhodesia, presently called Zimbabwe. Commanded by him and a white minority they managed to make this African country independent from the English Crown, in the 60’s.
He declared unilaterally the independence of the Rhodesia from the colonial British Empire in 1965, commanded 300 thousand persons, and led the country during 14 years, in spite of strong sanctions and international criticism. But in 1979, by the pressure of the guerrilla led by the current President of the now called Zimbabwe, Robert Mugabe, Smith handed over the power to the black majority. Nevertheless, the first ex-Minister continued actively in politic nearly to 1987, when the white places of the Parliament of the Zimbabwe were abolished. Still watching the expulsion of the white farmers from the land. This country was one of the main food exporters of Africa. Zimbabwe is now politically and economically isolated from the world, due to the authoritarianism of Mugabe, accused of reiterated violation of the human rights. His population is of the most poor in the world.

Hotel Reservations and more...

Today I woke up with a will of doing something new for my Christmas holidays, thought a while and after reading my newspaper, precisely in the leisure area, I saw that they were doing publicity to a site of hotel reserves called hotelreservations.com. And according to the grapevine it seems that it’s reliable. We are going to have a look. A great advantage is the possibility of choose the Web Site in our language and currency. So let's look for a hotel in the city where I am going stay, select the city, the date of check-in and check-out, the nº of persons who go with me and this step is done. If you compare prices with other sites you will conclude that they are very competitive. For raisin the night it was very easy, now how do I arrive there? I need to catch an aeroplane, it’s easy, First of all what air company will I select? Second step choose my city and the city of destiny, date of departure and date of return. I can do the same with flights, do a simulation on several air companies and choose the best for my pocket. Now that I already have a flight, how do I manage to travel during my holidays? I am going to rent a car! Once again, thanks to this stunning site I can rent also a vehicle, indicate which city I intend to lift the vehicle, the day of the lifting and the day of delivery, the type of car and finally I just need to choose the rent a car company. I can always choose vacation rentals, or can decide for vacation packages; here I can find great benefit in choosing vacation packages. Pick a location: Cancun, London, Los Angeles, Paris or Rome, you name it. Indicate from when to when I will be there and search. Ways of payment, nothing easier than using Visa, mastercard or American express. After all that, can I ask more? Clearly not, I known that I can count on with the security of this web site.

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Hotel Reservations

The highest Christmas tree of Europe.

This Christmas tree weigh about 280 tons and it has a height of 76 meters, exactly the same as the Torre dos Clérigos on the same beautiful city of Oporto. It’s considered the highest of Europe, as a matter of fact this is the third city where this tree is mounted, after having the pleasure of being raised in Warsaw and Lisbon. Who knows, maybe next year it could be in your city?

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Suzuki 300 DF300 4.0 liter

These 300 HP wild ponies sends you flying across the waves. With more 4-stroke horsepower than ever before, this new Suzuki gives you more speed, extra acceleration, and supplementary performance than any outboard you’ve ever seen. It has more horsepower than any 4-stroke outboard anybody’s ever seen. It can be considered the world’s strongest 4-stroke outboard with 4.0 liter displacement, a 24-valve V6 power head with dual overhead cams, variable valve timing, and a new streamlined lower unit that slices through water like a hot knife through butter. You’ve never seen so much power at your fingertips. Strong yes, but safety first, the advanced electronic throttle and shift control system, you can take over the beast.
With the introduction of this 300 HP V6 4-Stroke outboard motor, Suzuki certainly has demonstrated itself as the leader in 4-stroke engine technology for the marine market. This new DF300 builds upon the performance features of Suzuki’s pioneering V6 power head, with new innovations to offer better performance and trustworthiness.
Has said previously you can control all the 300 Horses. This computerized, fly-by-wire system eliminates the friction and resistance of mechanical control cables so you get smooth, friction-free throttle operation and decisive shifting. Place your hand on Suzuki Precision Control’s single or dual lever control and you can check out what I’m talking about.

300 HP

4-Stroke DOHC 24 Valve Multi Point Sequential Electronic Fuel Injection

Cylinders: V-6

Displacement: 245.6 cu. in. (4.0 liter)

Shaft Length: XLong 25" XXLong 30"

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What can you tell about a country this flag...

This flag belongs to Portugal, officially called Portuguese Republic, it’s a country in southwestern Europe, rest on the Iberian Peninsula. Portugal is surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean to the west and south and by Spain to the north and east. The Atlantic archipelagos of the Azores and Madeira are also part of Portugal territory.
This is one of the oldest countries in Europe, the land inside its borders of today's Portuguese Republic has been constantly settled since prehistoric times. Some of the earliest civilizations include Celtic societies, followed by Roman Republic dominions in the 2nd century, and then into Germanic Kingdoms, such as the Suebi and the Visigoths, from the 5th to the 8th century. Then follows the Moors that occupied most of the Iberian Peninsula from the early 8th century and conquered the Christian Kingdoms of Germanic background. After the starting of the Reconquest, in the early 1100s Portugal reborn as an independent kingdom of its Christian neighbors, Castile and Leon from Spain Kingdom. In less than a century Portugal had almost established its actual borders by conquering territory from the Muslim Moors.
During the 15th and 16th centuries, with its global empire which included colonies in Africa, Asia and South America, Portugal was one of the world's main economic, political, and cultural powers. In the 19th century, armed conflict with French and Spanish invading forces at mainland, and the loss of its largest territorial possession overseas, Brazil, which declared independence unilaterally, disrupted political stability and potential economic growth. After the civil revolution in 1974, its regimen was deposed and the country lost its last overseas provinces in Africa.
Nowadays it’s a member of the European Union (since 1986) and the United Nations (since 1955); is also founding member of OECD, NATO, CPLP(Community of Portuguese Language Countries), and the European Union's Eurozone.

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Imaginarium for kids - the MO1

This subject is well known by public opinion, but each of us should decide of what’s the best for our kids. Some people say that they shouldn’t have these devices while they are so young. Others say that with the nowadays world, never the less, we must protect them who we can.
According to manufactory the MO1 was conceived thinking exclusively for the six years old children’s desires, it’s equipped with security and management functions selected by the parents. This device will be sold on Imaginarium shops in Portugal from March of 2008.
The mobile phone will have only four keys, and they can receive and make calls only using contacts previously introduced by the parents, through a limited access internet site. Likewise, messages received in the MO1 are also controlled by this system, preventing any unwanted contact. It’s still equipped with a free hands system, which will be able to be activated automatically. Finally it has a location service associated to a special key for emergency.

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imaginarium.es

Gothic Dating

Tired of always seeing the same search or meetings sites, always the same subjects, the same motives? Do not look any more, here in the darkyria.com. You can check that exists other alternatives. First you must follow the registration process, then after you receive your activation code, you are ready to discover new adventures. You can search for new profiles, browse for user, send winks, check mails, send roses, chat online, use mapseeker, use viewer, post themes, browse themes and post your personal ads.
Are you different from other people? Nobody understands your ideas, thoughts and wills? In this site you can find several types of persons, make friends, share ideas. Who knows? You can find someone that could think in the same way as you. Be ready to expand your knowledge and to let know your ideas and wills. Be prepared to expect the unexpected
Hurry up, maybe your can still became an imperial member, all you have to do is signup the Imperial subscription form, and for that you must have a PayPal account to make the payment services. By becoming a imperial member, you will get special privileges, such as advanced search, initiate email, chat online. This and much more, but always having in mind the rules that you agreed when you made your on-site registration .

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Feel absolutely barefoot...

Have you ever tried to walk with our bare foot all day, felt comfortable? Now you can keep doing all that continue to ware shoes, This five fingers footwear links you to earth in a way that basically you’ll never get it in conventional shoes. It puts you in contact with the earth under your feet and allows you to move in a more natural, healthy way.

There are professional athletes already using it, you can also do the same. Ware it for running, scaling, riding a bike, or simply doing your weekend walk. Fell like a professional, feel free...

Mobiola Webcam 2

Surprise your friends by showing them this great software; this application can turn your mobile phone into a wireless using Bluetooth or USB web camera. It can convert your mobile phone into a extraordinary high-quality webcam.


Works with Skype, Yahoo, YouTube, MSN, AOL IM, ICQ and many others.
Compatible with Nokia S60, UIQ, Windows Mobile 5 and 6, J2ME (Java 2 Platform , Micro Edition)devices. Very simple to install and configure .
take your webcam with you wherever you go and connect it to your laptop at anytime. Try now!

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warelex.com

What can you tell about a country flag...

What can you tell about a country flag, you can guess from what country it is. But what’s the meaning of the flag symbol? Taking the ancient Rhodesia flag. The Coat of Arms of Rhodesia was first used for the self-governing British colony of Southern Rhodesia in 1923, simply known as Rhodesia after 1964. The shield has textured a red lion rampant and two thistles, taken from the family arms of Cecil Rhodes, from where the colony was called, and the Latin inscriptions “Sit Nomine Digna” (May It Be Worthy of the Name) is a allusion to Rhodes. The pick, in gold on a green field, represents mining, the economic mainstay of the colony. Also featured above the shield is the soapstone statuette of a bird found in the ruins of Great Zimbabwe. The shield of the arms was used on a British Blue Ensign, like most other British colonies, originally on a white disc, but later without one. This design served as the Flag of Rhodesia until 1964, when the field of the flag was changed to light blue. In 1968, the full coat of arms was created on a new national flag, placed in the centre, and when Rhodesia was declared a republic in 1970, was featured on the President's flag. The arms remained unchanged by the renaming of the country as Zimbabwe Rhodesia in 1979, and were used by the government of Zimbabwe from 1980 to1981, when the present Coat of Arms of Zimbabwe were introduced.

The Coat of Arms of Zimbabwe was adopted on September , 1981, one year and five months after the national flag was adopted.

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wikipedia.org

A great place to find special things to offer...

Christmas day is arriving, and since it’s time of joy and family, we should not forget to buy at least a small present family or even to our pets. To help us in the selection of those presents nothing better than look into to our friendly site couponchief.com. At the same time we can make use of coupon codes, promotional deals and discounts in the online shopping e-commerce on this great site. Want to offer your nephew the latest auto radio, check out on the AutoAnything site, it’s known as the leading online retailer of automotive accessories and automotive lifestyle products. Is still your mother-in-law living with you, don’t worry because the Internet Florist can deliver flowers in the same day, offering the experience, selection, and quality you deserve, and your mother-in-law will appreciate.
This and much more, just try it…

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Saving the world "One New Driver" at a time.

Don't have driver’s licence? Don’t have time to go out to a school, do you live in the US, worry no more because Drivers Ed Direct offers online driving school courses and behind the wheel instruction. The DMV Online Occupational License Information System can give more information about your needs.

One of the cars used for lessons are the new hybrid cars, look for information and learn more about the meaning of choosing a driving school that not only focuses on safe driving skills, but environmental responsibility.

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BitCAR - Concept for a stackable city car

The quick development of the automotive industry has forced cities to adapt quickly, and huge structures, cemented streets, highways, parking lots have been built to meet the request of auto transportation, that keeps to grow. One of the targets was to turn around this thoughts and as an alternative of designing cities that adjust to cars, we have cars that can adapt to the citys.
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These tiny electric vehicles for two passengers can be parked all over the city in stacks, which eliminates the residual space between cars. People simply take the first car out of the stack and drive away, and then return it to the back of another stack when they reach their destination.Car stacks can be included to the city's existing infrastructure, allowing for vehicles to be recharged while parked. Stacks could be located virtually anywhere within the electric grid, with critical mass in points such as airports, subway stops and train terminals, malls, etc. This design is a simple rotating system mechanism that folds over the configuration in a vertical position. Additionally, the back wheels are closer together, which allows the next car to be fitted.

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web.mit.edu

BBQ DONUT

Do you like barbecue? Do you like to spend your free time near a river? What if you could do it both at the same time? If you think it’s impossible, check this out, this amazing idea. Be surprised by the BBQ DONUT, It’s my seems impossible to do a barbecue in the centre of a river or lake, but not with BBQ DONUT.

This mini innovator boat of recreation has the capacity for 8 to 10 persons to enjoy the pleasant moments of leisure in the company of friends or relatives when making a lovely barbecue and having a refreshing drink by the sound of his favorite music.

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bbqdonut.de

Earthrace and the green project!

Quickly was known as best powerboat in the world, as well as one of the greenest. It is a environment friendly technologies vehicle with low-emissions engines, non-toxic anti-foul, nice and efficient hull design. It is also one of the coolest looking boats we ever imagined.
The exceptional attribute of the Earthrace boat is that she has the capability of to go through big waves, and can even reach up to 7m underwater as she does so. This enables the boat to maintain a higher average speed all the way through big seas as compared to a conventional vessels. Pete Bethune is the New Zealand skipper and founder of the project, He said that he truly believes that Earthrace has a great chance to cultivate and grow the European biodiesel industry, as well as to advance biodiesel as a really possible substitute to petroleum diesel.


It's planed to start in March 2008, from Valencia, in Spain, Earthrace will attempt to set a new speed record for a powerboat to circumnavigate the globe running 100% biodiesel, and with a net zero carbon-footprint, in order to increase awareness of the environment and the sustainable use of resources.
You can keep track them, just click this link.

At the moment this technologic vehicle is on a European Tour, and is located at the Portuguese coast. From 9 to 11 of November in the Douro river, on the beautiful city of Oporto, it was available to be visit, meet the crew and walk aboard the boat for a small donation. And will continue in Lisbon on 12 to 14, and 15 to 18 in Vilamoura (Algarve). Then it will follow for Spain.

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Wild Cat Species of Europe and Middle East

Although formally considered a continent in its own right, Europe forms part of the Eurasian land mass. For its size, being the second smallest of the continents, it has the greatest density of population. The majority of the once expansive deciduous and coniferous woodlands have been cleared and now exist to any degree of density only to the north and east of the continent. The climatic range is generally moderate - having cool winters and mild summers - and warms considerably in the south-east where it borders the Middle Eastern countries. The Middle East itself forms a climactic and cultural bridge between Europe, the continent of Africa to the south and Asia to the east.

The Eurasian or Northern lynx is generally much larger than its Canadian counterpart and in coloration and marking, more noticeably spotted - although this varies extensively with its location. The Eurasian lynx was once found in the forested areas throughout most of Europe, the Middle East and Asia. However today the range of the cat has been drastically reduced in Europe and they are only to be found in some of the northern countries, parts of Greece and Czechoslovakia. Recently the cat has been reintroduced to parts of Germany, Switzerland and Austria, where it is beginning to re-establish. In these areas though, local farmers and game hunters are suggesting that the cat is competing for farm animals and deer population. Monitoring of the lynx by conservation authorities in these areas continues to gain more information on the cats hunting behaviour and the debate, which is common in areas were the interests of wild cat populations is at odds with local inhabitants, seems set to continue.

The European or Forest Wildcat as it is often called, was once found throughout Europe and is considered by some to be the oldest form of the species - limited fossil records indicate an ancestral link to Martelli's Wildcat dating back to the Early Pleistocene period . During the past 300 years the range of the European wildcat, through pressures bought about by hunting and the spread of human population, has been significantly reduced. Today the cat is only to be found in scattered populations in parts of France, Germany, Belgium, Spain, Portugal, Italy, the United Kingdom, Greece, parts of Eastern Europe and countries around the Black Sea to west of the Caspian Sea - several island populations, such as those found on Sardinia, Crete and other Mediterranean islands are also recognised as part of the European group by some, whilst others maintain a closer link to the lybica group (African wildcat).

The jungle cat is found across a wide geographic area, ranging form Egypt, the Middle East, Parts of Southern Asia through to western China. In the west of its range, contrary to its name, the jungle cat is found mostly in open grasslands, and marshy ground close to rivers – here the cat is alternatively known as the Swamp Cat or Reed Cat. Further east, through into India and South East Asia, the species inhabits a greater range of habitats which, as well as marsh and swampland on forest margins, also includes tropical deciduous and evergreen forest. However, the jungle cat is not found in the denser tropical rain forests as its name might suggest. The jungle cat is not a particularly shy creature and can be often found close to human habitation, hunting in crop fields and plantations for small rodents. In India, it has been reported to inhabit disused buildings on the edge of human settlements.

The leopard is most easily recognised by its rosette patterned coat and extremely long, darker tail. This large cat is sometimes confused in appearance with the South American Jaguar - the leopard though is less stocky and unlike the jaguar, its rosette markings are generally smaller and have no internal spots. The overall size of the leopard depends very much on the subspecies and location, with the largest animals growing to a length of nearly 5 feet with an additional tail length of some 3 feet - generally the male is between 20-40% larger than the female. The base coloration of the coat also varies greatly depending upon location, ranging from golden/yellow in open grasslands, through yellow/cream in desert areas to deep gold in mountain and forest regions. All black or melanistic leopards, sometimes commonly called 'Black Panthers' (see below), are born in the same litter as normally marked cats and also carry the rosette markings, although these are masked by the darkness of the fur. It has been observed that the melantistic leopard is most generally found in the dense, wet forested areas of India and south east Asia, where the coloration advantages the cat in its hunting.

As its name implies the sand cat is commonly found in sandy desert areas in the arid countries of Northern Africa, Arabia and parts of Central Asia and Pakistan - sand cats indigenous to each of these areas are catorgorised as sub species, respectively, Felis margarita margarita (North Africa), Felis margarita harrisoni (Arabian Peninsula), Felis margarita thinobia (west of the Caspian Sea) and Felis margarita scheffeli (Pakistan). Due to its fragmented distribution across the Saharan part of its range some experts sub-catogarise the North African species of the sand cat into further distinct sub-species - Felis margarita airensis (Niger) and Felis margarita meinertzhageni (Sahara) - however due to the difficulty in obtaining accurate population figures and accurate scientific data of cats in open desert areas, exact classification is uncertain.

To some the Spanish lynx is not a valid species but a sub species of the Eurasian lynx, however they are generally smaller than their northern counterparts and their yellow/brown coat is lighter in colour and the spotted markings more noticeable. The main prey of the spanish lynx is, as with its canadian counterpart, various species of hare and rabbit, although deer and wildfowl are also taken.
Less successful than their close neighbours, the Pardel lynx, as it is sometimes known, is now threatened with extinction in its wild habitat. Hunted heavily for its coat and as a predator of livestock, the Spanish lynx is extremely rare and on the Iberian peninsular can only be found in and around the Cota Donana reserve in the south of Spain and in very isolated parts of Portugal. Although the animal is protect in the reserve it is still legal to hunt it elsewhere.

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The GMR 406 Open Array - See Everything in Sharper Detail

The GMR 406 open array radar will let you scan more than a regular radar while you are on the sea. Whether ships, shores, birds or weather. This radar is a 6-foot open array scanner with 1.1° beam width and a range of 72 nautical miles. This powerful beam width and 4 kilowatts of power offers exceptional simplicity, accuracy and target definition. It can be better if you add MARPA target tracking function (Mini Automatic Radar Plotting Aid) to avoid traffic on the water.
This model can easily connect to the Garmin Marine Network, it can transmits data at 100 Mb with plug-and-play proprietary network that gives the capability to enlarge your boat’s system as desired.

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garmin.com