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Beat the Streak Report: Thursday, April 21
The Shin-Soo Choo-choo train chugged to a perfectly adequate 1-for-5 last night, propelling 9.1 percent of all Streakers one day closer to an epic 57-game victory party.
You could do the cliche thing and just have the party at a McDonald's with the ball pit, but you really never know what's in there. Possibly sharks. We prefer backyard style, with balloons and streamers and a moonbounce and a ginormous Funfetti cake with 57 candles on top.
Oh, and also a clown making balloon animals. But not a creepy clown. And he should be able to make other stuff besides animals, like various instruments, so we could have a balloon-instrument air guitar competition during the party.
"Here I go again on my own … goin' down the only road I've ever known!"
Busting out the Whitesnake in an air-guitar competition shows that you understand the spirit of the event, but you're also there to win.
We're just spitballing here. Maybe you go a little more classic rock with some Jethro Tull. Not a lot of people will be expecting the balloon jazz flute. On second thought, we may actually need two balloon clowns.
Or you could just have the party at Chuck E. Cheese's. Your call.
Thursday's picks
(Make a BTS pick)
Oh, hello there …
• Johnny Damon: .579 AVG (11-for-19) since '06 vs. White Sox starter Gavin Floyd
• Howard Kendrick: .400 AVG (10-for-25) since '06 vs. Red Sox starter Josh Beckett
• Maicer Izturis: .400 AVG (10-for-25) since '06 vs. Red Sox starter Josh Beckett
• David DeJesus: .409 AVG (9-for-22) since '06 vs. Mariners starter Felix Hernandez
• Gordon Beckham: .625 AVG (5-for-8) since '06 vs. Rays starter Jeff Niemann
Feeling kinda spicy?
• A.J. Pierzynski: .462 AVG (6-for-13) since '06 vs. Rays starter Jeff Niemann
You'll thank me later …
• Bobby Abreu: .191 AVG (9-for-47) since '06 vs. Red Sox starter Josh Beckett
• Delmon Young: .143 AVG (2-for-14) since '06 vs. Orioles starter Jeremy Guthrie
• Nick Markakis: .176 AVG (3-for-17) since '06 vs. Twins starter Scott Baker
• Drew Stubbs: .111 AVG (1-for-9) since '06 vs. Diamondbacks starter Daniel Hudson
Leaderboard time!
With 21 correct picks in 21 days, Gottaweartheshades keeps on rollin'. What's the story behind those Wayfarers? We'll all find out soon enough.
Top MLB streakers
Andre Ethier: 17 games
Alex Gordon: 14 games
Wilson Betemit: 11 games
Robinson Cano: 11 games
Michael Young: 11 games
(Make a BTS pick)
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When will Ethier go 0-fer again? Don't know, but when he does, he'll probably take a bunch of streakers with him.
Wright is pick of the day while 0 for last 18. I have a gut feeling he'll break out of his slump today but… not willing to bet on it, may just be indigestion. Wonder how many streakers are willing to bet?
correction: 0 for last 19
For anyone that wants to pick in the STL/WSH game, any wet weather should be arriving after the game is final, barring extended innings. As it looks now, forecasts indicate you should not consider tomorrow's game in STL.
I'm thinking only CLE/KC will have serious weather issues today.
@gpearson, I agree with you on that as there is a scheduled thunderstorm for the start of that game for the whole night so I don't think that game will be played.
@Lav, I don't think Wright will get a hit either. He is so cold right now and I think it's getting to him. I hate the Mets so I don't watch them. Also Ethier is too hot and has to have an 0 fer coming up along with Kemp. All 3 will cost a lot of people if it happens today. Votto is going to cost people today as well. All 4 will be in top 15 for most popular picks.
Kemp had an 0 for recently, so if he is still hot, an 0 for may be far away.
Wow, a 19 game streak and they have a no selection. That is crazy! How do you not know about the early lock time when you have a streak that long?
I always pick at least five days in advance and then (often regretably) look at it again later.
That completely astounds me.
Wow 19 and no selection? Last year someone at 29 had a no selection Why?
Well last years 29 was because, she had Pujols on Sunday night and it went extras and Puj got the hit late as she just assumed he went 0-fer. Coupled with an early lock the Monday morning = no selection with 29.
You would think if she had such a substantial streak at 29 games, you would wait to see the game go final or your player get pulled before getting hysterical.
By the way, I do not mean that it is wrong to get hysterical over losing a double digit streak.
Stupid lack of an editing button.
I know what you mean, there is NO WAY WHATSOEVER, that I would be going to bed b/c game is late if I had a 29.
What is with the Logan Morrison pick by so many today? I know he's facing McDonald but that is mind boggling how many people including the leader picked him.
Isn't he injured?
Also, Damon might only be available to pinch hit due to a bruised finger.
Per rotoworld: "Johnny Damon is back in the starting lineup (as DH) for Thursday's series finale against the White Sox."
Last perfect streaker is done if Morrison doesn't play. He is injured and is awaiting an MRI on his foot so there are no more perfect streakers if that is the case.
Per rotoworld: "The Marlins have yet to make an official announcement, but Morrison was seen outside the clubhouse with a fresh cast on his left leg, walking with the help of crutches." I'd say he isn't playing for awhile
he was getting an mri last night or today so morrison is definitely not playing today. so they are all just taking today off
LaV's List
Thursday's Top Picks of the current Top2500,
139 Batters picked overall
Batter, Times Picked, Percentage
Matt Holliday 243 9.72 (3RD)
Albert Pujols 228 9.12
Ichiro Suzuki 157 6.28 (3RD)
David Wright 99 3.96 (2ND)
Andre Ethier 83 3.32
No Selection 82 3.28 (3RD)
Joey Votto 82 3.28
Dustin Pedroia 81 3.24
Johnny Damon 75 3
Logan Morrison 69 2.76 (1RST)
Stephen Drew 62 2.48 (MY PICK) GOOD
Gordon Beckham 60 2.4
Placido Polanco 56 2.24
Matt Kemp 55 2.2
Jose Reyes 51 2.04
Highest "No Selection" 😛 pg# 1 with streak of 19 back to zero. WTF!!!!!
Yesterday's Top2500 Reset rate was 23.92% with NO SELECTION reseting the most.
Bloggers Group Top2500
UserName, Streak, Page#, Rank, Pick
LEEROY77, 17, pg 1, 15, ICHIRO (PICKED X) Still havent heard from him yet.
'www.jew, 12, pg 14, 210, STEPHEN DREW (PICKED 62X) GOOD
slick1014, 9, pg 59, 972, JUSTIN UPTON (PICKED 25X)
damonschwan, 8, pg 71, 1550, BILLY BUTLER (PICKED 13X)
Dodgerlu, 7, pg 96, 2323, PUJOLS (PICKED 228X)
Jagx, 7, pg 96, 2323, PUJOLS (PICKED 228X)
nardberg, 7, pg 100+, 2323, MATT KEMP (PICKED 55X)
GL to all
I'm back on board with a 1st inning single by Stephen Drew!
HR Holliday puts me at 2! 🙂
Votto is hot today, too.
Top2500 #1 selected hit already. #2 Pujols is making it interesting. Led off 6th with out & STL may only play 8 innings. Prince Albert needs 3 or more extra hitters to come to the plate for another AB.
I need to go back to school so I can learn to count: Only needs 1 xtra batter not 3. Likely to see 1 more AB.
HR on last AB. Some lucky streakers out there
Another heavily picked player G.Beckham not starting; may pinch hit if needed.
An 18-streak was just reset with Theriot's 0-4.
Not looking good for Kemp pickers. Just walked in 8th and is 0-3. LA up 2-1
WOW. both braves and dodgers rally. Were going to extras with Kemp due to lead off bottom of 10.
Kemp strikes out in bottom of ten. Prado(9 pickers) also had an extra chance but walked.
"Intentional Talk" picks: Millar=Hanley Ramirez; Rose=Omar Vizquel
Both have a streak of one.
Another walk-off for Kemp!
Kemp helps 2.1% of pickers, but Prado just ended somebody's 17-streak.
Well earlier today, I said I though Wright would break out of his slump today and he did with a long ball. I guess that feeling wasn't indigestion afterall.
LOL! Too bad I picked Reyes and not Wright.
Still early my man, but Mets may only play 8 innings today.
Why's that?
Reyes 0-2, but has 2 ABs left minimum. Still plenty of time for your streak to continue
3rd inning single by Joyce moves me to 2!
Oh, if you are asking about 8 innings…. At home & winning, won't play the bottom of the 9th
Ugh, forgot to hit 'reply'. These were meant for Nymets1979
Duh, wasn't thinking about that. He'll now get one more AB minimum.
Yep, that walk didn't help matters
Nope, but I have confidence. If he doesn't I'll just start again.
K, I'll send you the stats and the template after all games finish tonight, for tomorrow.
Huh? I'll be at work & won't be able to pull the Top2500.
You don't get the stat holiday? Nevermind then. I'll try and get it but no promises. I go onto nights tomorrow evening so I'll b sleeping during day but I'll try.
Just get up, pull the data, post it, and go back to sleep!
That's the plan. As long as I wake up.
Mark, for my job I get the 8 U.S. gov't holidays; next one is Memorial Day.
Fair enough. Excuse the canadian ignorance. Not sure how your holidays work down there.
stat holiday?
Like a statistics holiday?
Haha. No its short for Statutory holiday.
I didn't want to get to 7 anyway. Back to zero and I start again.
If anyone happened to have Youkilis, he was removed early and went 0 for 1.
Not sure if there was an injury.
Ichiro's 0-fer unless Oakland ties it up in the bottom of the 9th
Ichiro pickers get reset in one of the ways I hate the most. Due up 4th in the final inning… Someone gets on… Then that someone is erased either stealing or double play… leaving your guy on deck. A double play left Ichiro on deck.


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Produce savings can be tricky
People often ask me how to save money on items that you do not usually find coupons for like fruits and vegetables. Here's what I tell them:. Being a Savvy Shopper is much more than clipping those coupons.
Coupons can save you tons of money, but without considering all other options available to you, you will miss significant savings. Saving on produce can be very tricky, and you should have savings strategies to avoid paying more for produce than you should. Don't toss your money in the trash when that produce goes bad.
Compare prices at area stores. Are you getting the best price on everything you purchase? Each week the grocery stores put produce on sale. Compare the prices of the produce you plan to purchase at each store. This may sound like too much work, but I promise it's easy and it's worth it. You can use one of two methods to do this.
The easiest method is to use the Shopping Wizard at savannahnow.com/Savvyshopper. It compares prices at area grocery stores. You can sort the Wizard listings by "produce" or simply type in the item you are looking for in the search engine. Last week, I typed "potatoes' into the search engine and was able to see that Piggly Wiggly had 5 pounds of red potatoes on sale for $2.99 (a pretty good price), but Jones Red&White had a 10-pound bag of potatoes for $2.98. By using the Wizard, I bought twice as many potatoes for a penny less.
Browse the store circulars you receive in the Savannah Morning News. You can list the type of produce, the store, and the price on a piece of paper for easy comparison. You will find the store ads on the following days:
Wednesdays: Harveys, Piggly Wiggly, Jones Red&White and Food Lion.
Thursdays: Publix
Sundays: Kroger.
Use store coupons to your advantage. Some stores like Piggly Wiggly and Publix offer coupons that give you a discount when you purchase a specified dollar amount. Example: $5 off a $30 purchase. Take these coupons into consideration when you are shopping, it's like getting $5 worth of produce for free. By carefully selecting the other items you are purchasing and combing this type of coupon, you will be able to score significant savings.
Register store loyalty cards and sign up for any store publications or clubs available. Stores will actually send coupons for produce from time to time.
Use overage to pay for your produce. Publix and Walmart both allow you "overage." If you have a coupon worth more than the value of the item, they allow the difference to go towards your other groceries. Example: If I have a $1 coupon for something that costs 75 cents, they will apply the extra 25 cents to the rest of my groceries. Every little bit helps and. if you find a really good deal and have several coupons. this could even mean free produce.
Watch for manufacturer coupons. Occasionally manufacturers will offer you a discount on produce when you purchase a specific products. Kellogg's currently has coupons in specially marked packages for $1 off produce when you purchase three boxes of cereal.
Take advantage of gift card offers. Kroger has been offering a $25 credit to your Kroger card with each transferred prescription. Transfer your prescription and use the credit to purchase produce. Publix also offers discounts from time to time on their American Express gift cards. The discount is usually more than the fee so it is well worth the investment. Take advantage of this offer when available and use the extra funds to purchase your groceries.
Pick your own. Check out this site for a list of "pick your own" farms in our area. http://www.pickyourown.org/GAfarmersmarkets.htm You will be sure the fruit and vegetables are fresh when you pick them yourself, and these places often have great prices.
Shop at farmers markets. We have a great family-owned business in Pooler that provides us with fresh produce. Polk's Plus is located at 807 W. Highway 80 and is open 9 a.m.-6 p.m. Monday through Saturday. Be sure to check the Forsyth Farmers Market located at the south end of Forsyth Park. It is open every Saturday through December 17th. You can find more info about the market here http://www.forsythfarmersmarket.org/
Buy produce in season. Purchase produce when it is in season. Fruits and vegetables are usually cheaper when they are in season. This site lists the typical crop and harvest dates in Georgia: http://www.pickyourown.org/gadates.htm
Can or freeze fruits and vegetables. Purchase produce in season and then properly store them for use later. You can always freeze or can your favorite fruits and vegetables to keep from paying premium prices later. You can find directions to freeze just about every fruit and vegetable here: http://www.pickyourown.org/allaboutcanning.htm#freezing
Grow your own. Plant a small garden. Unfortunately some farmers use pesticides in their gardens, so we can't always be sure what we are getting in the grocery store. (Always be sure to wash your fruits and vegetables before eating.). By growing your own, you will know what does and does not go into your foods. If you don't have a green thumb, there are plenty of sources on the internet to help you. I found this great site that breaks the steps down for you; it even has a video that shows you how to create an organic garden: http://www.wikihow.com/Grow-Your-Own-Food
Purchase the right amount for your family. Be careful when purchasing large bags of fruit and vegetables. You really aren't saving money if you are tossing most of it in the trash. Plan meals ahead of time to use up those carrots, potatoes, etc. Plan to pick up fresh produce at least weekly and only purchase what will be eaten within that week.
To maintain freshness and taste, store your fruits and vegetables properly. Knowing the shelf life and the proper way to store fruits and vegetables can help you reduce waste. Did you know that apples produce ethylene gas and should not be stored near other fruits and vegetables? They can change the flavor of other produce and also cause them to ripen too quickly. If you have fruit that you want to ripen quickly place an apple with them for a day or two. If you have cut up the fruit or cooked the vegetables they should always be stored in the refrigerator for freshness. Below are some common fruits and vegetables and the recommended storage for each. I used this website as a resource: http://producefreshness.com/skin1/images/FVstorage.pdf
Counter Storage: Place fruit and vegetables away from direct sunlight. Typically the shelf life will be three to four days. You can reduce moisture loss by placing the fruit in a vented plastic bag. (Do not seal the bag - this will slow ripening down and increase decay.) The following fruits should be stored on the counter: apples (fewer than seven days old), bananas, grapefruit, lemons, limes, oranges, pineapple, pomegranates, watermelons, cucumbers, dry onions, peppers, tomatoes
Refrigerator storage: Keep produce in perforated plastic bags in the produce drawers of the refrigerator. Keep fruit in one drawer and vegetables in the other. It's important to keep them separate because the ethylene gas produced by some fruits can ruin the vegetables. These fruits and vegetables should be stored in the refrigerator: apples (more than 7 days old), Asian pears, blackberries, blueberries, cherries, grapes, raspberries, strawberries, asparagus, broccoli, cabbage, carrots, cauliflower, celery, green onions, lettuce, spinach, sweet corn
Ripen on counter, then refrigerate. These fruits should be ripened on the counter prior to refrigerating: kiwifruit, nectarines, peaches, plums, pears.
If you have found other ways to cut down the cost of fruits and vegetables I would love to hear from you. Have a favorite farmers market or produce stand? Post it to the Savannah Savvy Shopper Facebook page here www.facebook.com/savannahsavvyshopper
Send your tips or questions to Savvy Shopper Michelle Rubrecht at email@example.com.

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This is a brief description of how to shim your diffs. I'll do my best to give you a step by step description of each picture.
Here is a picture of the diff. and the shims I use.
Remove the 4 screws shown in this picture
Separate the cases
Remove this gear
Place shims on the shaft as shown. I usually start with 1 or 2 shims.
Slide the shims all the way down until they are against the gear.
Insert the gear back into the housing
Put the cases back together and insert the 4 screws
Check for slop by trying to move the shaft on the left in and out. If it feels snug, check for binding by rotating it. If it all feels good, your done. If it feels sloppy, add another shim. You want it to move as little as possible in and out, while still rotating freely.
Hopefull this post helps those of you with questions on how to shim the diff. I'm not a pro by any means, this is just the method I use.
Last edited by ksb51rl; 03-27-2010 at 12:39 PM.
great pics and explaining! ive never shimmed a diff, but is that the only place that needs shims? i thought i remember reading there was two places to shim.
I noticed that when I fill my diffs with grease they seem a little tighter. Does anyone else fill theres with grease??
Easy on the throttle, then punch it!
You also need to shim the diff side to side, not just pinion depth. Also, you should never shim a dirty diff...always thoroughly wash all grease off before shimming.
Grease (inside the diff cup) will make the diff seem tighter when you spin it by hand, but it is actually less vicious than diff oil, so it will not perform as well as diff oil.
Grease on the ring and pinion is fine, since metal gears need lube, but you only need a little, just enough to coat the gears.
Project: BL Revo Race Quad & BL G-Maxx G3R CF Revo
Yes you can also shim the output shafts of the diff, but that very rarely needs to be shimmed. The input is usually the part that wears first and starts slipping.
The ring is harder than the pinion, and the diff moving side to side is what wears the pinion. Pinion depth should only be shimmed AFTER you have the diff itself shimmed side to side. If you can move the diff side to side without the pinion in, it needs to be shimmed.
Project: BL Revo Race Quad & BL G-Maxx G3R CF Revo
Hmm. Every time I have had a clicking diff, the process shown above has eliminated the problem. From my experiences the mesh between the ring and pinion loosens up, which is why I shim it. I have never had a problem with the mesh on the internal diff. gears.
This may be a stupid question but why shim?
And where do you get these shims from?
after a while the gears begin to wear and will start slipping. You can shim them to stop the slipping and get more life out of them.Originally Posted by michindi
I get shims from my lhs. They are just 6mm bearing shims.Originally Posted by 2IS
I got the same shims as in the picture from my LHS. 6mm shims.
One thing that I have found with the diffs that makes a big difference is to not tighten the out case to much. It really starts to bind the action quite a bit. There is a fine line between just tight enough and too tight. WIth the outer case, you aren't really needing to keep any liquids in like the inner case. The grease is sticky enough to stay on the ring gear pretty well.
Eat my road grit, liver lips! -Clark W. Griswold
I am not talking about shimming the internal spider gears, I am talking about shimming the output shafts, to stop the whole diff from moving side to side in the diff case.Originally Posted by yzf128r
Project: BL Revo Race Quad & BL G-Maxx G3R CF Revo
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thanks, great how to!
I was anti-obama before it was cool!
Project: BL Revo Race Quad & BL G-Maxx G3R CF Revo
When your diff starts clicking what is the best way to find out if it's front or rear diff? Please be as detailed as possible.
Hold your truck planted to the ground watch to see if its the rear or front tires that skip a beat
ERBE,Losi 8ight,Slash 4X4
For me clicking on hard acceleration is rear... And clicking on hard braking is the front.
Its All relative to your perspective.
Tks for input guys I'm going to give those recommendations a try and see if I can figure out where mine is coming from.. sounds like it's on the acceleration, will know more tomorrow..
i'm sure saving this post !!! great stuff guys
I have had my E-Revo since 3 April and have had to change out both diffs already. I know most will advise me to adjust the slipper and/or use 4S versus the 6S I currently run. How about this, Traxxas should build an RC that can handle the motor and ESC. I may be fairly new to this hobby but I know a crappy product when I buy one. Chevy doesn't tell my not to stomp the gas on my Vett because it will break stuff. If this were a full sized car, it would have been recalled. The E-Revo needs to be fixed! I can't believe Traxxas is allowing their customers to suffer like this. I am VERY disappointed in them. How is it that LOSI's diff can hold up and Traxxas' cannot? Traxxas reminds me of the Gateway computer company of the late 90s. They were an up and coming company, neck and neck with Dell but lost their loyal customer base due to distribution of inferior products and poor response to customer feedback. Traxxas take note; a bad reputation is hard to recover from. PLEASE FIX THIS PROBLEM ASAP!
Very simple, actually.. The losi diff is made for a car that weighs 13 pounds without batteries and gas. The revo weighs in at 9 pounds without batteries and 10.9 with. Thats a huge difference for the diffs to handle.
That and 6S, 6S is just a lot of power, on any RC. If it is not the diffs that break, something else will break.
It's almost impossible for traxxas to get better diffs in the e-revo without redesigning a lot. A possible solution for you might be shimming your diffs, something that is not possible in the factory because it different for every diff, but it will improve durability. Another solution is to get a castle link (which should be in the box...) and adjust your Punch control to 30-40% or so.
But yeah, they could have gone for 1/8 diffs when they designed this car, but i guess the didn't think about that when they made the Revo (not the E-Revo). Almost everything on this car is 1/10, except for the diffs.
WesleyK, that's all good info, however the bottom line for me is; The Castle Mamba can handle 6S and if they are going to put that setup in the car, it should be able to handle it's full power. My Rustler's motor can handle a 3S and I run it with a 3S often. The Rustler can handle it. I understand normal wear and tear but the e-revo is a flawed product. For a $1K car it should work much better than it does. I still believe they need to fix the problem. They have my money and I have a flawed truck. If this is common place in this hobby and acceptable, I guess I'll have to find a new hobby. I love the RCs but RTR should be RTR. The Slash is a great truck with a ton of hop ups. They need to fix the E-Revo with hop ups. But I guess I'm the exception. Seems everyone just accepts what they get and are willing to try and fix the problem or use a portion 30-40% of what they paid for. If I were abusing the thing, by towing my kid in his wagon or doing tug of wars, I'd blame noone, but all I do is drive on tracks, track like conditions, parks and dirt. I'd don't think it's fair that in just a month I've had to replace two diffs . I love the truck when it's running, but mostly it seems to sit on my work bench in peices .
Last edited by bip; 05-20-2013 at 12:22 PM.
I have my revo for almost 6 months now, both 4s and 6s runs and i have just rebuild the front diff today. Starts to show some wear but its still fine. Looks like some of us have luck with the diffs and others have not.
I will agree that if a product is ready to run, and comes with 6S lipos and advertising it should be able to handle 6s. The stock revo isnt, you totally right on that. But punch control is a great way to save the diffs, i barely notice the setting but my diffs are still in good shape as i wrote before. It only helps with putting the power down, like a slipper clutch but electronic. You should try it.
I apprciate your advise. In lue of a better alternative (like a Traxxas fix) I will try the punch control option. Thanks for your time and recommendations.
Pushing the limits of any rc will cause parts to wear and break faster that is the truth of this hobby no matter the manufacturer. A rustler/pede/slash/bandit diff will break just as easily pushing the limits on 3s as a revo does. I have worn out my share of diffs in rustlers and revos. Point is if it moves it will eventually wear out, if you do your best to take it easy on those parts that are known to have problems they will last considerably longer.
Dont handicap children by making life easy
Everyone is entitled to an opinion and I respect yours, however, I cannot not subscribe to it. I would wager that I can find 20 posts/articles related to E-Revo diff problems for every one that you can find related to a Rustler and Bandit diff combined. My rustler diff has never failed running 3S nor has my buddy's bandit; so believe what you will but you'll have to present a much more compelling argument if you want to sway my opinion.
People complain about the stock tires too. I am guessing Traxxas knows they slip - and that saves parts wear.
These trucks take a huge beating even under mild use compared to their 1:1 counterparts. I agree the claims on packaging are inflated IMO and that's a little lame. But how many car commercials show the driver standing on it curve to curve and a disclaimer is on the bottom of the screen the whole time lol. The E Revo's competitors make plenty of speed claims too I see js.
The competition has diff troubles/need to shim as well from what I see.
Summit, ERBE X2, 4pdes, 2pdes, etc lol
I'm having a hard time finding all the needed shims to complete this guide. It's from a couple years ago. Anyone have current links to the parts I can get in one place?
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Search for 3R racing shims or Calandra shims on ebay. Both have them in 6mm 8mm and 10mm
Im in the middle of doing my own shimming guide, I will post a link here when done.
I also use the 3racing shims, as their shim packs come with different thicknesses of each size.
To SUMMIT up, its my coolest RC.
I'm not the author of the diagram it was made from another forum member. Place shims (6mm, 8mm shims) between the differential and the bearing, the purpose is to bring closer the diff ring, and the pinion, also place shims on the pinion itself. Reassembly the diff and the case and check for binding.
You guys are awesome! Been getting confused trying to get the right ones and was worried about spending money on the wrong ones. Will order today!
^^ Various thickness shims are definitely nice to have. I also have Kyosho 10mm shims (KYO96647) that come in 2 thicknesses.
To SUMMIT up, its my coolest RC.


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Fast Food on Strike, Milk Prices Soar, and More in Food Policy This Week
A roundup of news clippings we're reading that affect the way we eat.
Fast Food Workers Strike in Over 100 Cities
On December 5th, fast-food workers across the country held strikes and rallies in protest of low wages. Their campaign, Fight for 15, is organized by Low Pay is Not OK. If that name sounds familiar, it's because they've already held two collective actions this year. Thursday's walk-out was the largest of its kind, with extensive media coverage and thousands of workers participating. The campaign demands that wages be increased to $15 an hour—current wages average between $7 and $9 an hour—and that workers be allowed to unionize. The consequences of low worker wages are felt beyond the register—it's estimated that public benefits distributed to low-paid fast food workers cost taxpayers $3.8 billion each year.
Without a Farm Bill, Milk Prices Could Skyrocket
As Congress restarted negotiation of the Farm Bill last Wednesday, there was talk of $7 gallons of milk. Why? Well, if the Senate and House can't agree on a Bill by January 1, 2014, farm policy would revert to "permanent law." Permanent law is used as a means of incentivizing new policy creation—under it, the Farm Bill would revert to its 1949 version. If the dairy industry were forced to implement permanent law, the government would likely buy up much of the milk, butter, and cheese supply as a way of providing price supports to farmers. This would mean shortages at the market for consumers and, thus, $7 milk. The likelihood of this happening is extremely slim, but given the tension in Washington these days, only time will tell.
PETA's 'Plan V' Campaign Uses Birth Control Scare to Advertise Veganism
If you think that headline is confusing, you're not the only one—news of PETA's 'Plan V' campaign boggled many women's health advocates this week, too. After Mother Jones broke the story that a European drug very similar to Plan B is ineffective for women who weigh more than 176 pounds, PETA launched its campaign to advertise veganism as a way for women to lose weight. While weight loss may be a side effect of switching to veganism for some people, the campaign was criticized for its fat-shaming message and for hijacking an important story for its own political agenda.
Barry Estabrook Shares Five Foods He Won't Eat
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Curious about ancient roots of World's oldest profession? Procon Prostitution published a great timeline of historic documentation from Ancient Times through Middle Ages until today showing the course development. Did you know that in Old Greece 'Athenian lawmaker and poet Solon founded state brothels and taxed prostitutes on their earnings in the 5th century BC? The cost of sex was ... equivalent of an ordinary worker's day salary.' Most records deal with state's and government's involvement in brothel keeping and taxing. The facts suggest people in old ages were more open minded than some of today's democratic societies. Later on prostitution developed to a form of entertainment that was marked as a luxury privilege for wealthy and powerful.
These days it's pretty easy to find information about prostitution online. Youtube offers videos from private people as well as TV features from around the globe. The World's largest photo sharing portal Flickr.com shows plenty stills of whores online. Check out Ladies of the Night album for a collection of historic photos of the last 100 years. It includes images of Eric Burdon in German brothel separe in the 1960s.
People come to Las Vegas for a lot of lusty reasons. One of them is to have sex in a legal whore house, because they heard about Nevada being the only US state to allow and regulate prostitution. However, there is no brothel in Las Vegas at all, although a lot of guys look for them. Certainly, there are escorts and exotic dancers who openly solicit for prostitution, but they are not part of legal prostitution, but operating a very risque game that may lead themselves and their customers into a jail cell sooner or later as lots of undercover cops are trying to curb this trade.
To find legal Navada brothels one has to take a limousine and drive North on I95 heading for Reno. In Nevada brothels are called 'Ranch' because they are detached houses surrounded by lots of land. You have to travel far to get to them ...
This term is used in adult entertainment venues - mainly in Asia - and defines a fee paid by a customer to allow a prostitute leaving their work before her shift ends or a fee paid to waive her contractual obligation to perform her duty during working hours - usually dancing or performing other tasks such as serving drinks. The term barfine is mostly used in agogo bars, music lounges (KTV) and massage parlors in Thailand, Philippines and Vietnam. It compensates a bar for lost revenue occured during a workers shift in her absense. In the Philippines - where barfines are considered legally questionable - the term might be replaced by expressions such as early work release or special lady drink. The normal barfine fee is usually calculated on basis of 10 times the amount of one regular lady drink.
Finding information about hookers in China proves more difficult than in most other countries. Mostly it's a language issue, but in many cases people familiar with the Chinese system want to keep this information a secret. We all know the negative effects of over-exposure to tourism. Too many places were once a heaven to find GFE experiences and later they turned sour to hardcore pros and pimps like Rio and Phuket. Changping in China is one of the hottest sex haevens in China, today. John Tron of Asian Sex Diary - who usually punts around Philippines, Hong Kong and Thailand - wanted to find a new spot in Asia. After failing in Shanghai (too expensive) he asked his Chinese friends about the best place to find girls for fun. Their echo was spoken with one voice: Changping, that's where all Chinese mongers go.
Over the past year, John has collected video tapes of KTV clubs, massage parlors and discos. He did great research and even managed to shoot porn movies with some very sexy Chinese girls in exclusive love hotels and brothels for his Asian Sex Diary.
Nana Plaza near Sukhumvit Road is one of the favorite hangouts for single male tourists in Bangkok (see here). A must visit for every Thailand sex vacation. Normally, those bars are great business opportunities for foreigners who have local connections. A clip notice inside a toilet provides sufficient interest to find buyers. Many tourists dream about moving to Thailand permanently while making a living owning or running a bar full of cladly dressed women. After the military coup and steadily changing regulations it has become tougher for owners to sell their agogo bars. Some have started to advertise them online and even buying adspace on Facebook.
During the soccer world cup in Brazil 2014 media was made aware of the sex trade that is a dominant economic force inside the country. Although the country tried to clean up brothels, demanded escort websites to be taken down and made other efforts to discriminate against this legal business, foreign media picked up on street prostitution in the country. But this is nothing new. Even 8 years ago in Germany during the world cup in 2006 prostitution was a media highlight. Unlike Brazil authorities had no mandate to sweep it aside. Law and order was helpful to promote this legal business as this old pictorial from an editorial image agency shows: Photos from Berlin brothel Bel Ami
Guys who have seen Asian, European and Latina hookers often starve for more exotic places. But where to go? Some place off the beaten path! How about Gambia in Africa? It's one of the richest poor African countries. Probably not as well off as Ivory Coast and South Africa, but much safer than Kenya and Ethiopia. Our old friend Major Grubert who already conducted sex vacations Mombasa in Kenya some years ago came back to Africa to explore Gambia. His exploits are breath taking and eye opening readings. Gambia does not seem to be one of those Third World countries with street hookers hustling and begging for pennies, but it's more of an emerging economy that sees woman taking up sex work as a path of entrepreneurship and opportunity for a better life compared to farming or working as factory employees. Places like Wow and Totties are hip and women seem to work all on themselves as freelancers populating watering holes, tourist hangouts and discotheques. Amazing, how this concept works out well in so many places around the world from Papua over Hong Kong to Brazil: and Gambia.
Soap land town, Yoshiwara, used to be the biggest town of whore houses in Japan. Today, the bordellos are called soap land. They are an erotic paradise for men who seek to relax while receiving massages on an air mattress. Judging from the colors and setup, Japanese brothels are as easily recognizable as their counter parts in Europe or America.
Dressed in hotpants and tops, Filipina bargirls from Subic Bay
Subic Bay is mostly an industrial harbor in the North-West of Philippines' main island Luzon. It's 2 hours by car from Angeles City and Manila. Over the past years it has become more and more popular with expats and long term tourists who like to frequent agogo bars with sexy bikini women and cheap booze at night time and hang out on the beach during daytime. To say it bluntly: Subic Bay's nightlife is very provincial. Yes, they have lot of bars with many Filipina whores, but it's all the same. Small agogo bars, many owned by same people and managed like boring hangouts for people who want to get drunk and laid within 2 or 3 hours and then go sleep alone. There are no shows, no stunning entertainers and nothing that sticks out in my mind. So is accommodation. With the exception of one hotel on nearby Baloy Beach, all hotels are small, in desperate need of repair or renovation and noisy. No luxury at all.
Boards and forums have always been great resources for patrons of bars, nightclubs and cathouses. Today, I wanted to check back into a forum and was confronted with new set of rules. The board mainly deals about Pattaya in Thailand and is a market leader in this geo-punting area. To my astonishment the new rules, prohibit any discussions about why to use or not use a condom. It also prohibits to talk about AIDS/HIV and politics. Two paragraphs are providing detailed lists of infractions and penalties against forum members if they violate those rules limiting freedom of speech, factually. The list of bonuses for members who contribute content and information is rather minimal and abusive. It's not an isolated case. Many boards including International Sex Guide do censor valuable contributions. Lacking tolerance of other opinions seems to be advancing as many boards struggle to keep their sites alive and profitable. More than ever it seems to be of importance to check and validate facts from different sources.
Stunned and positively surprised, that's Major Gruberts resume of his recent Dominican Republic sex vacation to Cabarete, Sosua and Boca Chica. At this time there is a German version of his recent visit online. Prior to his vacation author upgraded his lens and there are some amazing shots of beaches and Haitian prostitutes to see. It's much better and erotic than digicam snaps published in world sexguide type forums. His main hunting grounds were Sosua freelancer pickup joints, two agogo bars with bikini dancers and brothels. Rates between 1000 and 1500 were paid in exchange for sex. Prostitution is a legal buisness in this Caribbean destination and all-inclusive brothel vacations are advertised online. Infamous La Passions quicky bordello was on Grubert's schedule. According to his exploits top model Penelope provides more than just satisfactory GFE dreams.
Petite and black: Hot Haitian prostitute working in Cabarete DomRep brothel
News for you: Master Grubert finished his English language reports from his latest escapades with Haiitian hookers in Dominican Republic:
Forget Brazil, Thailand and Russia when it comes to budget sex. Visiting emerging market brothels can be an expensive undertaking. But where to find cheap sex? How about Germany? Europe's currency Euro is in trouble and sinking to new lows against the Greenback, British Pound and Japanese Yen. Brothel owners cheer because they are experiencing high growth rates from generous sex tourists from USA and Japan in particular. A visit in a German FKK Club with 3 rounds of half-and-half sex in a clean and safe legal German brothel with privacy and gorgeous, sexually educated women costs around 200 Euros (about 260 US$). Each round of fun contains up to 30 minutes of oral sex with vaginal sex finish with all desired position changes for 50 Euro each and a onetime 50 Euro entrance fee that includes free drinks. Imagine that in the US? 3 escorts would cost you around 900$ plus you would need to rent a hotel for 200 $. But even in Rio de Janeiro's infamous sauna Thermes one would easily spend 500$ with 3 different Brazilian hookers. Even Thailand can't offer anything cheaper unless you are fine with rice-farmers' daughters who don't know too much about sex and service.
Naked providers in a German FKK Club
Normally, Germany is known for being a land of engineers and savers and not too much for being devoted service providers. It's no surprise that most women working in FKK clubs and other German sex clubs are not German, but legal workers from new EU member countries like Hungary, Czech Republic and Poland. Plenty of international girls from exotic locations like Brazil, Jamaica, Indonesia and Sri Lanka can be spotted as well. The amazing thing is the number of women who work in a good FKK club at one night. Larger clubs have up to 200 women lined up in front of their doors for work. Their work as prostitutes is conducted as freelancers. Like male guests they do pay an entrance fee to receive admission. There might be small fees for room usage and additional services depending on establishment. Club owners do not participate in the money that is exchanged between customers and erotic service providers at all. Law enforcement and revenue service make frequent checks to ensure women are working with free will and are not forced into labor. Health departments monitor cleanliness of brothels and threaten with closure in case of disputes. Some of the women generate amazing income with up to 15 customers a night. Do the math for a week, a month and so on. It's a dream job for many of them and that's the reason why they are more than eager to provide decent service. German escort forums and punter communities establish ratings for each provider. If a girl is recommended she is more likely going to be getting better business over a shady lady operating scams. America's best known sex vacation trip advisor FKK Tours organizes trips to Germany's FKK Clubs twice a week. Their services have even grown popular with Japanese tourists who enjoy even more currency conversion discount than Americans.
When cab drivers, pimps and sexy girls mingle, customers may need deep pockets.
Possibly, the most used and convenient way of finding whore houses and erotic massage parlors: enter first taxi and ask cabby to shoe the best whores in town. A golden opportunity for taxi drivers to get more money out of your wallet than just regular fare! Some brothels will provide taxi companies with promo materials like flyers and glossy business cards, sometimes they will even bribe them to badmouth competing night spots. Cab drivers will most likely receive commissions from establishments and may even become eligible for a complimentary session with a prostitute should they deliver 3 or 4 customers together.
Sex parties with real escorts? Do they exist? Terrible Fiesta is an sex fair with real Buenos Aires prostitutes from escort portals like TacosAltom.Com and live sex shows. Visitors are encouraged to take part in the event. It's a wild Argentinian sex fair, not the type of exhibitions where they try to teach you how to use a condom or learn Kamasutra positions by taking up Yoga classes. They know all those details already and are not innocent at all - neither shy. Terrible Fiesta is all about Johns and escorts getting to know each other and having a wild party. It includes disco, exhibitions, business to business contacts, live sex shows and wild parties.
If you are in Buenos Aires, try this address: Maipù 523 - Microcentro. have fun and post your comments with your experiences from this escort exhibition with Latina girls. If you missed it, try the next event. It will be announced on their website, soon.
Left image shows an oral live sex show sponsored by a Argentina escort forum. An extensive photo gallery of previous sex shows is posted on their site.
Mainstream media paints a very dark picture of whore houses in Israel. It's hard to believe such things happen in a rich and developed country. Mostly, Russian hookers who work in small houses for a couple of months before they return back home. Then there are Tel Aviv escort websites showing glamor models that look similar to upscale European escort agencies. Fact is, most of those escort agencies are the same brothels that are portrait as dark shit holes by TV and press. The truth is somewhere in between and it's hard to get reliable info unless you really want to go to Israel for a sex vacation.
When customers enter into a brothel or red-light district they do so because they have the choice and opportunity to enjoy services of prostitutes. Reciprocally, prostitutes should have equal rights to offer their profession. It's a terrible circumstance some countries limit people's rights of providing erotic services, but it's even worse when providers are abused and forced into prostitution against their will, either without consent or because they are too young. Neither mongers nor sex tourists should need to utilize services of prostitutes not liking their jobs or being forced into sex trade as minors. Usually, customers are scared of visiting cathouses in some countries because they are afraid to be connected to child prostitution. Local law enforcement does not always take care of such matters, unfortunately. This is where charities and NGOs paly an important role. Greymen's Charity is trying to clean up brothels in Asia from underage girls and trafficked people. The Australia based organization airs TV shows about their missions where they rescue victims from illegally operating sex dens. recent reports have shown their success in Vietnam, Thailand and India. If you ever visit brothels and feel providers are too young or forced to work there, we would like to encourage you to report to Greyman's Charity. It's in all of our interest to protect innocent people and make sure providers are able to chose their work by choice.
As you have noticed, I haven't written too many brothel reviews or RLD recommendations for some time. For some reason I was a bit tired of dealing with hookers and whores for the past years. While it's always a nice adventure while traveling and dealing with new venues it gets a bit tiring when you always deal with the same money hungry massage therapists who provide poor hand relief and bad sex. However, I have been getting back into pussy hunting and the next MP reviews of my whore house exploits are in the queue. Sorry again for being so lame, but new articles are on the way!
Many European guys loved to take a short trip to Kiev or Odessa during summer to hook up with hot Ukraine escorts for a day or weekend sex vacation. Girls from East Europe have a fine reputation of being beautiful and devoted mistresses. Several Kiev escort agencies offered sex trips of their models visiting cities in Western Europe. Many of those girls were stunning beauties with fashion model looks. The party is over, at least it slowed down a lot. The government recently outlawed pornography in the country and banned escort websites with .ua extensions from offering sex related services such as escort agencies. Many websites were forced out of business and show nothing but blank pages. Others changed to .com and .net domains to keep on doing their business. The spiffy Kiev escort girls are still available, but it's more difficult to find them. Please, read our old article on escort scams to get the scoop about some indecent agencies and their fraudulent businesses. Will all the sexy models be working in bordellos, now?
Unlike sexy models from website advertisements, local Kiev brothels offer average looking women in cozy, small apartment whorehouses. Russian whores and Ukrainian women offer sexual services for less than 50 Dollars. Escorts from online websites often ask for more than 1000 Dollars for the same service.
European countries with a high percentage of tourism are infamous for rip-offs. I remember my first visits to Athens and Kavala many years ago. I lost so much money and had no fun at all! Visits to whore houses and bars in this country have always been characterized by over-priced services and expensive watered down drinks. I.e. a place called Hawaii Bar in Kavala would charge a 100 bucks for a bottle of Champagne to table a girls for company. Now, the bottle of Champagne was already opened and filled with water by 50%. That made me mad and I protested. The next thing I remember: two bodybuilders asked me to pay the 100 bucks and around another 100 bucks for something else and leave the bar. I was the only customer and it was 3 am, so it was a strange situation. It' highly recommended to do good research on prostitution in Greece to avoid similar experiences in Greek brothels. Of course it's best to find a local punter to hang out with you. Bourdela TV is a monger community where locals share their experiences with Greek whores around the country. I would advice to check this site out before venturing to Athens red-light districts. Potentially, it will save you a lot of money and problems.
Studio 3, an Athens brothel in a residential area that is recommended by local Greeks in various postings and rated 7.
Sex vacations in Third World countries are not as cheap as they were used to be. Look at Angeles City in the Philippines for example. The infamous red-light district of Field's Avenue in Balibago is no longer a place to find Filipina bar girls for a cheap rate. Over the past 10 years prices for drinks, lady drinks and barfines have more than doubled. Due to the recent developments of gambling venues prices are to increase even more. Girls are getting demanding as the better looking ones will sometimes ask for a tip in advance. Angeles is going the same route as Pattaya in many ways.
However, there are some places for frugal punters and they are just a short walk away: Santos Street and Raymon Street. Those are two side streets of the main Angeles City RLD. They host little shacks and houses. A couple of girls will lounge at the entrance and solicit drinks from customers. Drinks are less than half the price of the big bars and when you like a girl, take her to a small room inside the same building for short time sex. The damage is 700 Pisos or around 16 US$. That's less than a quarter of the cost as a spotlight dancer from the big bars like Atlantis or Dollhouse. Many seasoned sex tourists claim, the girls of Santos Street provide much better service compared to the dancers from a-gogo bars and they have gained the reputation of being preferably good at oral sex and thus their strip is called Blow Road. The only downside, the rooms are neither nice nor clean and the providers don't supply condoms. You need to bring your own rubbers (don't forget!). Of course the Blow Road Filipinas are also available for barfines of twice the short time rate should you desire to take them home to your hotel room. One more thing: be aware of streetwalker in dark corners. They are not real girls LOL or read GotoPhil for reviews of more bars and whore houses in the Philippines.
Black Pearl and Shadows mini bar are two brothels on Santos Street.
Normally, ladies of the night try to avoid any attention that will tag their real identity to what they are doing. In many cases they don't want their families to know about their job inside the sex industry. That's why most escorts will never work in porn with their escort nick or real name and the porn industry tries to avoid including terms like 'money for sex' or 'prostitution in their films, because they do not want to admit porn is equal to prostitution. Smut producers believe actors are performers and stars - not prostitutes. Of course that is just a flake as they listen to their lawyers. Anyhow, sometimes prostitutes are depicted in a very respectful and artsy way as this pictorial of Morenna on Watch4Beauty shows. She is a dark skinned prostitute from the Dominican Republic who got casted by a freelance nude art photographer visiting Puerto Plata. Very nice images that show the beauty of a Caribbean escort in a very sensual way.
Puerto Plata escort Morenna poses nude for Watch4Beauty. She was 20 years at the time of the photo shoot in the Dominican Republic. Click on the image for her portfolio.
While commercial sex takes place in upscale brothels and designated red-light areas in many countries, some places of this world are limited to private apartments and the street. Italy is one of those countries where most prostitutes are streetwalkers who parade the streets in short skirts and high heels to attract the attention of horny punters on wheels. Youtube features a three part TV documentation about 'La Strada del Sesso' documenting the flesh trade on Italy's seedy streets where young women offer quick relief for a couple of Euros. Some of them are fairly attractive. Many Italian men from North Italy conduct frequent weekend sex vacations by crossing the borders to Austria and Switzerland where they are able to enjoy cheap legal sex in well equipped brothels instead of dealing with Italian street prostitutes.
This is part one of three of a Italian documentation on street prostitution.
He was known as Bee, a British expat living in the Philippines: John G. died late April 2010 in Angeles City, Philippines (home to one of Asia's biggest red-light districts with countless agogo bars) from Diabetes before he could seek further medical treatment in his home country, UK. Bee has earned a reputation of building up adult travel to Angeles City, Manila and Subic during the heydays of the internet boom as a writer for gentlemen's boards like TSM Single Travel, a forum where punters and mongers exchange sex travel related information from all over the world. With travel building up to the red-light district, Bee started his own Filipino adult travel related website and Filipino bar forum Go2Phil that is still active today and Beeline travel agency catering to single male foreign tourists. Everybody who seeks to collect historic adult travel information from the Philippines since around 1995 can find valuable information in Bee's reports on Go2Phil. The website will continue to live on. May John aka Bee RIP.
Picture: Bee at work documenting a wet t-shirt contest for his go2phil website in 2004
Let's be honest: some people visit brothels to get a quick fix while others seek romance and an erotic liaison with a sexy young women - and some of them get married to their trophy mistresses. This certainly explains why so many Ex-Girlfriend sites like Thai Girls Wild emerge on the web in recent months. Guys spend a vacation in Thailand, take images of videos of their sex adventures and then they leave back to Europe, Canada or England. They keep sending money to their honeys, but sooner or later they find out: the good girl is working in a bar or brothel again and having sex for money with other guys. That's when they go for sweet revenge by posting nude images and sex tapes of their Thai girlfriend on the internet. I am pretty sure that's how Thai Girls Wild got started in the first place. While it's a rather professional site claiming all girls gave their consent in being exposed, there are others that don't care about the girl's well being. At least the Thai girls are well compensated. That's what's most important. As long as you pay them they make great, sexy girlfriends and they are willing to do much more for you than providing that fast lane short-tim shot for seconds of joy.
One of the first countries to regulate brothel keeping and prostitution has been Australia. It is amazing to see the large amount of legal brothels in Sydney, Melbourne and other big cities down under. Most of them are equipped with very luxurious interior and they clearly aim at a high end customers. Australian brothels are not confined to seedy red-light districts like in Europe or Asia, but are spread around wide areas including residential neighbourhoods. As usual, Wikipedia provides some basic information about Prostitution in Australia and Travel Sex Guide shows an extensive list on Australian brothels with online websites. As a result of this liberal approach towards bordellos by the Australian state governments illegal street prostitution and escorting are retreating and related crimes and drug addiction are going down.
This YouTube video shows a TV report about the controversy of Australian brothels being build in residential areas in the vicinity of chruches and schools.
Curacao, romantic island in the South Caribbean sea: As it is a Dutch colony and used to be an important sea harbor, of course there is prostitution and there is one (in-)famous brothel: Campo Allegre. The whorehouse is a compound of many small houses that host prostitutes from Central and Latin America. I would estimate most working girls are from Colombia and the Dominican Republic. The camp is also known to be an ultimate watering hole providing alcoholic beverages in an open air strip club until late into the night. The Curacao brothel has a long standing history. It's been in business for over 60 years and has been revived lately as it was under legal scrutiny overshadowed by criminal investigations of it's owners. According to various media reports one of the previous owners has been shot dead following a year long jail sentence. However, guests at the brothel camp feel nothing about those disputes any more. It's business as usual. One could say Curacao is the Amsterdam of the Caribbean, but much more laid back and less crowded. The nightlife is full of booze and Latina pussy. Actually, they call it an adult resort, it might be worth a adult travel vacation for a couple of days
Latina prostitutes parading in front of a pub inside Campo Allegre, a legal brothel compound on Curacao. This Youtube video clip was shot with a hidden cam as recording is not allowed inside the camp
Newbies always ask: what is the best place for a sex vacation? While there are many sex tourism related boards to seek advice like the World Sex Guide Archives, little is known about true statistics. I found just one place to see real numbers. The sex tour and escort directory Travel Sex Guide publishes it's annual statistics about it's most popular pages sorted by country. It's divided into two sections: popularity by search terms as clicks sent from search engines like Google and Yahoo and by overall traffic that includes referring links. For 2008 the winner in both categories is Thailand, followed by Philippines and Russia. East European countries like Hungary and Czech Republic have fallen back, so have other traditional sex tourism destinations like Amsterdam, Nevada, Mexico, Brazil and Germany. It appears sex tourists prefer Asian locations with cheap quality accommodations and beaches over the security of European and American locations. Another stunning fact to pay attention to: shemale escorts appear to becoming far more dominant in the play. According to the statistics, a growing number of people seek an international sex vacation with transsexual partners over female company. Full list of Sex vacation statistics for the past 6 years can be found on the middle of this page inside a yellow table.
Prostitutes from Thailand like seen on this image from Pattaya's Soi 6 bars are still in very high demand from international sex tourists.
Poor Singaporeans get their daily fix at a Geylang Brothel, but affluent sex tourists and expats like bank managers and other consultants enjoy to pick up freelancing chicks at the Orchard Towers. During the day it's one of many shopping centers on bustling Orchard Road, but at night it turns into the infamous Four Floors of Whores. It's not exactly a red-light district or a Singapore brothel. It's around a dozen of pubs where greedy Asian girls and horny guys meet over a beer to negotiate short term compatibility for a price. The ratio between men and women is around 1:15 and the girls approach the guys rather than the other way around. A pretty good sign that the chicks are out for P4P. Oh, wait a second: not all girls are genetic females. A couple of the bars and pubs specialize on ladyboys. Of course they are neither Singapore ladyboys nor girls who need to make a buck after their office closes. Most of the girls are guest workers who stay in Singapore for a couple of weeks/months to return home to the Philippines, Vietnam, Cambodia, Korea and Thailand. Most girls are probably Filipina maids who become whores for a night during their day off.
That's one of the pubs in Orchard Towers. It's closed during the day, but rocking with Singapore whores all night
A few weeks back they were holding the first adult convention over in Macao, a small Chinese province located close by Hong Kong that was administered by the Portuguese for many years. It's well known for it's casinos and gambling, but it is also known as a melting pot for Chinese prostitution. The first and best information I could find about Chinese hookers in Macau was on the video sharing site YouTube. Funny, a couple of years ago online information was restricted to newsgroups like alt.sex.prostitution or secretive membership sites like Single Male Travel and World Sex Archives. You still get good updated info on the membership boards, but the best first visual impression can usually be found on Youtube. Like this Dutch TV reporter who puts it to the point: 'prostitution is legal, but brothels are not. That's why the Chinese call them Sauna'. The report goes on to show the plush interiors of the Sauna 18 brothel in Macau that caters to gamblers and businessmen who seek a love affair with a cute petite Chinese prostitute. But the Saunas are not the only place where to find hookers in Macao. The area around the Hotel Lisboa is known for it's freelancers as are the latenight discos. It's not just limited to Chinese girls. Plenty of Filipina and Thai girls hang around and even some Colombian whores visit the gambling paradise to make excellent cash from rich Chinese high rollers who are willing to shell out a lot of money for their first experience with a Latina prostitute. Of course they have Russian hookers as well as a huge amount of gorgeous ladyboys among the freelancers.
A Dutch TV show reveals Macao brothels inside and out


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Funeral services for Betty Arlene Mulvihill - Whitmer, age 81 of Scroggins, were Saturday, June 28, 2014 at Lee Cemetery in Winnsboro with Rev. Kevin Hollowell officiating.
Mrs. Whitmer was born in Carroll County, Iowa on May 5, 1933 to the Eldon A. and Isabelle Velma Gute Annear. She retired as the finance director for the City of Johnston, Iowa after 20 years. She served as secretary of the Iowa Municipal Finance Association, and secretary of Mid-Iowa Association of Local Governments for 10 years. She was a protestant and member of the Central Christian Church in Winnsboro.
Mrs. Whitmer died Tuesday, June 24 at her home. She was preceded in death by her parents, her first husband, Thomas Mulvihill, in 2003; and brother, Alvin Annear.
She is survived by her second husband, Tommy Whitmer of Scroggins; a son, Joseph Thomas Mulvihill and wife Sherri of Blue Ridge; daughters, Jane Anne Brommel and husband Alan of Norwalk, IA., Catherine Ann Henderson and husband John of Minburn, IA; a sister, Evelyn DeWald of Churchdan, IA; five grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.
In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to Central Christian Church, 110 W. Sage St., Winnsboro, Tex.75494.


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These are so good on a cold Fall day. Great to feed a hungry crowd on Turkey Day morning too. The kiddos love these with hot tea. This is What's Cookin on Beaty's Creek.
2 quarts oil for frying
2 cups sugar
2 tablespoons butter -melted
2 Large eggs
3/4 cup apple butter
1 t cinnamon
4 cups sifted all-purpose flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 cup buttermilk
1 cup powder sugar -- for dusting
Heat oil over medium heat. I fry mine in a cast iron pot but any heavy bottom pan will do. In a large bowl, beat together white sugar, butter, eggs and apple butter. In a separate bowl, sift together flour, baking powder, salt, baking soda, and cinnamon. Stir flour mixture into the egg mixture alternately with the buttermilk. Mix until a stiff dough is formed. Turn dough out onto a lightly floured surface. Roll into a 1/2 to 3/4 inch thick piece of dough. Make sure to roll the dough to an even thickness. Cut out doughnuts with a doughnut cutter. I used a upside down jar and a small leaf cookie cutter for the middle. Carefully slide doughnuts into hot oil. Turn doughnuts as soon as they rise to the surface. Fry until golden brown on both sides. Drain above oil with a spatula and then drop into powdered sugar. Serve hot.


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Also, telling me "if you don't waive my co-pay I'll fire you", is not going to be taken as a threat.
Thursday, July 14, 2011
Attention patients:
Also, telling me "if you don't waive my co-pay I'll fire you", is not going to be taken as a threat.
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I wish my boss would take this as seriously as you do. All I get is "well you must have pissed him/her off!"
My Dr.'s Mary
- July 14, 2011 at 3:49 PM
After the cretin with a scapel! Preferably one just used on a known case of Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease!
- July 14, 2011 at 4:01 PM
- A Doc 2 Be said...
Apparently both of those idiots failed the Carnegie class ...
- July 14, 2011 at 4:19 PM
- Michael Kohne said...
'Door is to your left' (http://www.actsofgord.com/Chronicles/chapter13.php)
- July 14, 2011 at 4:54 PM
Don't want to pay your copay? Okay, let's see what happens when your insurance company learns of this. Oh dear, THEY fired you for breaking your contract? So sorry to hear that. A$$hat.
- July 14, 2011 at 5:47 PM
- Judy in Indiana said...
One of my docs requires the co pay before he sees patients. The staff said they got tired of people who "forgot" to bring a way to pay with them.
- July 14, 2011 at 6:42 PM
Don't let the door hit you in the ass on the way out!
Wow! The nerve of some people.
How many days until your vacation? Sounds like you need it yesterday!
- July 14, 2011 at 6:50 PM
- GunDiva said...
How long did it take Mary to write the letter discharging the patient from the practice? People don't realize that doctors can fire their patients as well. Especially the ones who chose to abuse the staff.
- July 14, 2011 at 7:55 PM
- thatsit said...
I love people who have a backbone is a low tolerance for BS. You and Mary rock.
- July 14, 2011 at 10:09 PM
- watercolordaisy said...
whoa. What a jackass. Good riddance.
- July 14, 2011 at 10:21 PM
- jenniferarb said...
So glad you stand up for your staff! Too bad hospital nurses don't get that same level of humanity. I can't even begin to tell you all the things I have been called. People are just amazing.
- July 14, 2011 at 10:27 PM
- Solitary Diner (Also Known as The Frugalish Physician) said...
Are you available for hire? I have a few patients who I could use help firing...
- July 14, 2011 at 11:03 PM
Can I come work for you Dr G?? I'm tired of my office manager giving in to these type of patients, my lips hurt from all the ass I have to kiss every day.
- July 14, 2011 at 11:51 PM
"How to pick up girls, step one: a mild and playful insult, or 'neg,' to show her that she doesn't intimidate you. Man, by the time I finish this book, I'm gonna be a total babe magnet!"
- July 15, 2011 at 12:10 AM
- Just an Intern said...
sounds like your patients have a tendency to make great tourettes like insults. maybe next time they will say shitballs asswipe or something to poor Mary. Way to kick them out for being so lame.
- July 15, 2011 at 1:02 AM
- terri c said...
Yikes. Waive the co-pay???? It would never OCCUR to me to demand that. Eedjits. Glad you and Mary turfed 'em. At the practice where I receive primary care, you pay the co-pay before you are seen FOR SURE.
- July 15, 2011 at 1:59 AM
- bobbie said...
Poor Mary!! And YAY for you for showing the door!
- July 15, 2011 at 12:01 PM
- PGYx said...
Isn't waiver of copay considered fraud on the part of the doc?
- July 15, 2011 at 11:05 PM


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Spotting the future is an art. We asked eight of our favorite visionaries for their techniques. ———————————————————————————————–
Paul Saffo
A longtime technology forecaster, Saffo is a managing director at the Silicon Valley investment research firm Discern. Formerly the director of the Institute for the Future, he is also a consulting professor in Stanford University's engineering department.
There are four indicators I look for: contradictions, inversions, oddities, and coincidences. In 2007 stock prices and gold prices were both soaring. Usually you don't see those prices high at the same time. When you see a contradiction like that, it means more fundamental change is ahead.
The second indicator is an inversion, where you see something that's out of place. When the Mexican police captured the head of a drug cartel, in the photos the perpetrators were looking proudly at the camera while the cops were wearing ski masks. Usually it's the reverse. To me that was an indicator that Mexico was very far from winning its war against the cartels.
Then there are oddities. When the Roomba robot vacuum was introduced in 2002, all the engineers I know were very excited, and I don't recall them owning vacuums. I said, this is damn strange. This is not about cleaning floors, this is about scratching some kind of itch. It's about something happening with robots.
Finally, there are coincidences. At the fourth Darpa Grand Challenge in 2007, a bunch of robots successfully drove in a simulated suburb. The same day, there was a 118-car pileup on a California highway. We had robots that understand the California vehicle code better than humans, and a bunch of humans crashing into each other. That said to me, really, people shouldn't drive.
Illustration: Andrew Zbihlyj; Brant Ward/Corbis
Esther Dyson
Founder of the influential Release 1.0 newsletter and PC Forum conference director, Dyson is an angel investor in technology, health care, and space travel companies. She sits on the boards of 23andMe, the Long Now Foundation, the Santa Fe Institute, and Evernote, among others.
The first thing I do is go where other people aren't. I leave Silicon Valley and spend a lot of time not just in New York but in Russia and in other far-off places. Any time you approach something as an outsider, you're able to see what people who are familiar with it can't. I love traveling because I love seeing how many different ways there are to do things.
The other thing is to be curious. My parents are both scientists, so I learned to ask "Why, why, why?" Mostly I look at what I'm interested in, and that doesn't necessarily mean it's what the world will find interesting. I can be self-indulgent.
Illustration: Andrew Zbihlyj; Nadine Rupp/Getty
Juan Enriquez
Enriquez is managing director at Excel Medical Ventures and chair and CEO of Biotechonomy, a Boston investment firm. He's the author of The Untied States of America and As the Future Catches You.
A clear view of the future is often obstructed by taking too much for granted. Like: "We are the human species." Really? It turns out that when you consider Cro-Magnon, Australopithecus, etc., we've had 29 upgrades. So unless you believe that the purpose of all of this evolution was to create Rush Limbaugh and Howard Stern and then flatline, you have to ask: Is it possible to have another upgrade?
Or what about "In 50 years, the US flag will still have 50 stars"? So why would you assume continuity for the next 50 years? It's when we question our most cherished assumptions that it gets really interesting to play with this stuff.
Illustration: Andrew Zbihlyj; Simon Russell/Getty
Tim O'Reilly
Founder of the eponymous tech book publisher, O'Reilly launched several influential gatherings of the technorati, including Web 2.0, Foo Camp, and Maker Faire.
I don't really think I spot the future; I spot the things in the present that tell us something about the future. I look for interesting people. I find the cool kids and then say, what are they doing?
The myth of innovation is that it starts with entrepreneurs, but it really starts with people having fun. The Wright brothers weren't trying to build an airline, they were saying, "Holy shit, do you think we could fly?" The first kids who made snowboards, they just glued skis together and said, "Let's try this!" With the web, none of us thought there was money in it. People said, "This document came from halfway around the world. How awesome is that!"
Illustration: Andrew Zbihlyj; David Brabyn/Corbis
Vint Cerf
As a Stanford professor in the 1970s, Cerf co-invented TCP/IP with Bob Kahn. He helped pioneer packet-switching and went on to lead development of email and data infrastructure at MCI. In 2005, he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Cerf is now chief Internet evangelist at Google.
I like Alan Kay's comment "The best way to predict the future is to invent it." Sometimes spotting the future is really a question of realizing what's now possible and actually trying it out. In my case, working with Bob Kahn, what became the Internet was not possible until certain economic conditions were satisfied—equipment had to be affordable, certain kinds of technology had to be readily available. So some things get invented because it is suddenly possible to invent them.
Illustration: Andrew Zbihlyj; Aleshkovsky Mitya/Corbis
Chris Sacca
A former Googler, tech executive, and venture capital attorney, Sacca invests in early-stage startups through his firm, Lowercase Capital. His portfolio companies include Facebook, Instagram, Posterous, Twitter, and Uber.
How do I spot the future? Two words: flux capacitor. No, really—I think we venture capitalists get too much credit for predicting the future. We can look very prescient when we talk about why we invested in a company, but we're wrong more than we're right. It just turns out that when we're right, we're really, really right.
It used to be that when you invested in a company, you looked at a business plan. But now we don't have to invest in ideas anymore; now I invest in live URLs and apps that I can download. Plus, the users do the due diligence for us. I search Twitter to see what actual users are saying about something I want to invest in: Is it buggy? Is it a pain in the ass? Are they evangelizing it? After seeing hundreds of positive mentions of Heroku on Twitter, I was in. Salesforce ended up buying it for $225 million.
Another thing I do: I walk around Best Buy every three to four weeks and watch people. When you do this, you see how normal people make product decisions, what their price breaking points might be. In a world of people who've got stock options, there isn't a difference between a $80 thing and a $110 thing, but for real people working hourly wages, there is a huge difference.
Illustration: Andrew Zbihlyj; Noah Berger/Getty
Joi Ito
Ito is director of the MIT Media Lab and the former CEO of Creative Commons. He was an early-stage investor in Flickr, Twitter, and Kickstarter.
I believe in serendipity, and in the strength of weak ties. I connect with people from different fields and different places and always use pattern recognition and peripheral vision to spot opportunities in unlikely places.
Agility is essential. Your ability to respond to a suddenly emerging trend is most important. During the financial crisis, the companies that were successful were prepared for anything. Most of the people had prepared for the wrong things. By being agile and having your antennas out, you can react when you see the trend starting, rather than relying on these multiyear, multimillion-dollar analyses on the future of X. Instead of being a futurist, you want to be a nowist.
Illustration: Andrew Zbihlyj; Rob Monk/Getty
Peter Schwartz
A cofounder of Global Business Network and a senior vice president at Salesforce.com, Schwartz is an expert in scenario planning and the author of several books, including The Art of the Long View and The Long Boom.
You look for technologies that are likely to create major inflection points—breaks in a trend, things that are going to accelerate. Those tend to be very powerful. This is especially true with scientific technology and tools. For example, we are seeing the speed and cost of DNA testing falling dramatically—there's now a $1,000 DNA tester. That's clearly going to create an inflection point in the health care curve.
Another way to anticipate change is to watch where scientific talent is heading. Science advances in part by attracting talented people. So if an area is attracting great talent and money from governments and companies, you can expect to see important change.
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Palpable excitement was rewarded by still more palpable excitement, as The Rolling Stones took to the stage in London on November 25 2012, even among the back rows of the vertiginous Level 4 of the O2 Arena.
As the Sheffield couple, on my right, declared with infectious optimism: "These are great seats! You can see everything!" I had dreaded these seats, as I love standing in the first few rows of a concert, but the standing area, and indeed the entire floor and Level 1 were beyond my price bracket, yet I wanted to see The Rolling Stones badly. Some songs I rocked out to, other songs I recorded, but every song was a treat!
The Rolling Stones really are one of the most exciting bands in the world, even from Level 4, and age has not withered them! I hope standing is more affordable when the Stones tour next year, and maybe I can get closer, lol! Here is "Paint It Black," taken from The Rolling Stones' 1966 album, "Aftermath." :) Find The Rolling Stones here: http://rollingstones.com/ (Artist reserves all rights, no copyright infringement intended).
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No farmer in their right mind wants to poison pollinators. When I spoke with one Iowa corn farmer in January and told him about the upcoming release of a Purdue study confirming corn as a major neonicotinoid exposure route for bees, his face dropped with worn exasperation. He looked down for a moment, sighed and said, "You know, I held out for years on buying them GE seeds, but now I can't get conventional seeds anymore. They just don't carry 'em."
This leaves us with two questions: 1) What do GE seeds have to do with neonicotinoids and bees? and 2) How can an Iowa corn farmer find himself feeling unable to farm without poisoning pollinators? In other words, where did U.S. corn cultivation go wrong?
The short answer to both questions starts with a slow motion train wreck that began in the mid-1990s: corn integrated pest management (IPM) fell apart at the seams. Rather, it was intentionally unraveled by Bayer and Monsanto.
Honey bees caught in the cross-fire
Corn is far from the only crop treated by neonicotinoids, but it is the largest use of arable land in North America, and honey bees rely on corn as a major protein source. At least 94% of the 92 million acres of corn planted across the U.S. this year will have been treated with either clothianidin or thiamethoxam (another neonicotinoid).
As we head into peak corn planting season throughout the U.S. Midwest, bees will once again "get it from all sides" as they:
- fly through clothianidin-contaminated planter dust;
- gather clothianidin-laced corn pollen, which will then be fed to emerging larva;
- gather water from acutely toxic, pesticide-laced guttation droplets; and/or
- gather pollen and nectar from nearby fields where forage sources such as dandelions have taken up these persistent chemicals from soil that's been contaminated year on year since clothianidin's widespread introduction into corn cultivation in 2003.
GE corn & neonicotinoid seed treatments go hand-in-hand.
Over the last 15 years, U.S. corn cultivation has gone from a crop requiring little-to-no insecticides and negligible amounts of fungicides, to a crop where the average acre is grown from seeds treated or genetically engineered to express three different insecticides (as well as a fungicide or two) before being sprayed prophylactically with RoundUp (an herbicide) and a new class of fungicides that farmers didn't know they "needed" before the mid-2000s.
A series of marketing ploys by the pesticide industry undergird this story. It's about time to start telling it, if for no other reason than to give lie to the oft-repeated notion that there is no alternative to farming corn in a way that poisons pollinators. We were once — not so long ago — on a very different path.
How corn farming went off the rails
In the early 1990s, we were really good at growing corn using bio-intensive integrated pest management (bio-IPM). In practice, that meant crop rotations, supporting natural predators, using biocontrol agents like ladybugs and as a last resort, using chemical controls only after pests had been scouted for and found. During this time of peak bio-IPM adoption, today's common practice of blanketing corn acreage with "insurance" applications of various pesticides without having established the need to do so would have been unthinkable. It's expensive to use inputs you don't need, and was once the mark of bad farming.
Then, in the mid-to-late 1990s, GE corn and neonicotinoid (imidacloprid) seed treatments both entered the market — the two go hand-in-hand, partly by design and partly by accident. Conditions for the marketing of both products were ripe due to a combination of factors:
- regulatory pressures and insect resistance had pushed previous insecticide classes off the market, creating an opening for neonicotinoids to rapidly take over global marketshare;
- patented seeds became legally defensible, and the pesticide industry gobbled up the global seed market; and
- a variant of the corn rootworm outsmarted soy-corn rotations, driving an uptick in insecticide use around 1995-96.
Then, as if on cue, Monsanto introduced three different strains of patented, GE corn between 1997 and 2003 (RoundUp Ready, and two Bt–expressing variants aimed at controlling the European Corn Borer and corn root worm). Clothianidin entered the U.S. market under conditional registration in 2003, and in 2004 corn seed companies began marketing seeds treated with a 5X level of neonicotinoids (1.25 mg/seed vs. .25).
... and in the space of a decade, U.S. corn acreage undergoes a ten-fold increase in average insecticide use. By 2007, the average acre of corn has more than three systemic insecticides — both Bttraits and a neonicotinoid. Compare this to the early 1990s, when only an estimated 30-35% of all corn acreage were treated with insecticides at all.
Adding fuel to the fire, in 2008 USDA's Federal Crop Insurance Board of Directors approved reductions in crop insurance premiums for producers who plant certain Bt corn hybrids. By 2009, 40% of corn farmers interviewed said they did not have access to elite (high-yielding) non-Btcorn seed. It is by now common knowledge that conventional corn farmers have a very hard time finding seed that is not genetically engineered and treated with neonicotinoids.
Enter fungicides
In 2007, what's left of corn IPM was further unraveled with the mass marketing of a new class of fungicides (strobilurins) for use on corn as yield "boosters." Before this, fungicide use on corn was so uncommon that it didn't appear in Crop Life's 2002 National Pesticide Use Database. But in the last five years, the pesticide industry has aggressively and successfully marketed prophylactic applications of fungicides on corn as yield and growth enhancers, and use has grown dramatically as a result. This despite the fact that these fungicides work as marketed less than half the time. According to this meta-analysis of efficacy studies, only "48% of treatments resulted in a yield response greater than the economic break-even value of 6 bu/acre."
At least 94% of the 92 million U.S. acres planted in corn is treated with pesticides known to harm bees.
Back to the bees. Neonicotinoids are known to synergize with certain fungicides to increase the toxicity of the former to honey bees up to 1,000-fold, and fungicides may be key culprits in undermining beneficial bee microbiota that do things like make beebread nutritious and support immune response against gut pathogens like Nosema.Fungicide use in corn is likewise destroying beneficial fungi in many cropping systems, and driving the emergence of resistant strains.
As with insecticides and herbicides, so too with fungicide use on corn: corn farmers are stuck on a pesticide treadmill on high gear, with a pre-emptively pressed turbo charge button (as "insurance"). Among the many casualties are our honey bees who rely on corn's abundant pollen supply.
Keeping us all tethered to the pesticide treadmill is expected behavior from the likes of Monsanto. But what boggles the mind is that all of this is being aided and abetted by a USDA that ties cheap crop insurance to planting patented Bt corn, and a Congress that refuses to tie subsidized crop insurance in the Farm Bill to common-sense conservation practices like bio-intensive IPM. Try explaining that with a waggle dance.
Thank you very much, Heather Pilatic, for this eye-opening and excellent article.
Just a quick question/comment...your article suggests that if pesticides/fungicides were not used (including seeds not being coated with nicotinoids), but instead kept IPM (integrated pest management) as a biocontrols, then the GM seeds would not have affected the honeybee population..is this right? (Full disclosure..I teach ethics and biotechnology courses...questions such as these are central to our interests)...We are very interested in examining whether or not some GMO's are ethically responsible (for example, peanuts engineered to OMIT genes responsible for protein allergies v.s. ADDING new genes...or, genes for salt/drought tolerance...)...comments appreciated...
Thank you very much for the information, I am a hobby bee keeper and interested in this subject. Your article mentions corn: "grown from seeds treated or genetically engineered to express three different insecticides", but the Purdue study you mention together with the GE crop reference in your article seems only to have studied neonicotinoid treated maize - corn whose seeds were treated topically - as far as I can tell. So I'm trying to understand whether anyone has studied the GE crops - I think those are the ones you call "Bt–expressing variants aimed at controlling the European Corn Borer and corn root worm" - ?, as being part of what is harming bees ?
Very interesting article. People should pay more attantion to health of insects and animals especially those who are a part of food industry.


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