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07-25-2013, 07:51 PM #1Member Swordtails
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29 gallon asian biotope tank
Hey, some of you might have seen that i closed down my 29 gallon tank since i made my 50 gallon malawi into what the 29 gallon was. i did hit a miss with that setup though i was planing to have some keyhole cichlids in there and keep the 29 gallon as a breeder tank but i was unable to get enough floor space for a pair of keyholes so i have to skipp cichlids all together. Now im going to turn the 29 gallon into a asian biotope tank but now i have to admit "I KNOW NOTHING ABOUT ASIAN FISH" so i need lots of advice.
The tank is going to have all asian plants apart from Lemna minor that do exist in some parts of asia but not the whole continent.
The Key fish i have looked at Betta and dwarf gurami so first question can you keep both together or can you only keep 1 of them unless a much larger tank?
Next i would love some small schooling fish that school real nice.
I don't want advice like 1 beta 10 ..... and 10 ....
Then i would rather have 1 beta 20 ......
If possible i would like an eel aswell, looking up fish that fits a tank as long as mine and i found a few so give tips on eels as well
I have done no research on asian fish so i know nothing thats why i ask here for advice. Also please don't reply about fishless cycle or such i have had tanks before and i still have 1 more tank runing right now, i know how to cycle a tank.
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I know a betta and gourami can't go together
Look into some of the less common betta types rather than just the petsmart type betta...
Options for fish
Harlequin Rasboras, Espei Rasbora, Hengel Rasbora, boraras briggitae, boraras maculatus, boraras merah, a few types of loaches for lower level fish
07-25-2013, 08:37 PM #3Member Swordtails
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Don't have petsmart in my country but i have an all beta store with betas more expensive then discus so i can get some pretty nice betas.
Ill look into those fish and see if i find some i like and if they are sold localy :D
Anabantids(bettas, gouramis, etc) generally cannot coexist and therefore, only one per tank. I think that between the betta and the dwarf gourami, the betta probably is less inclined to attack little schooling fish.
Out of the schoolers you listed, i'd go with espei or hengel's rasboras. I believe the harlequin to be too large to keep in 20+ numbers in a tank that size, and the other rasboras too small to be able to coexist with the betta.
Have you considered. Danios? They are asian fish too, and there are plenty of small, pretty species to choose from.
Even the most peaceful high backed loach species can have bouts of nippiness, which isnt good with a betta. I would recommend kuhli loaches because they are small and peaceful and espe.cially since you wanted something resembling an eel.
07-26-2013, 03:22 AM #5Member Swordtails
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The number 20 was just of the top of my head. it was an example i want maybe 3-4 species but only 1 tetra like species. i see alot of tanks that have like 10 neons 10 of another tetra and that don't look as good as 20 of one tetra to me. but ill look into those rasboras and danios and see if i find an apealing specie.
The kuhli loaches are called Kuhli ål in my language and that translates to kuhli eel. i have seen alot of eels that i would love to have for other tanks but they all get to big for my tanks so never gotten around to it now i found this kuhli loach and it fits the tank and are an eel like fish.
Gold and cherry barbs are also Asian fish that I have enjoyed keeping in the past.
07-26-2013, 09:44 PM #7Member Swordtails
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Barbs gets to large for the tank. And my friend told me they are very nasty likes to bite the fins of other fish. so rasboras will fit the tank alot better.
Not all barbs are big and nippy. If you like barbs, try the cherry barb, which is small and nonagressive.
+ 1 to madagascariensis for pointing out that not all barbs get big and nippy, some get big but the majority are not nippy. Five banded, Black ruby, Checker, and Cumings are all small and peaceful aling with the aformentioned Cherry, just to name a few.
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Houston won the first playoff game in school history last week. Saltillo made the playoffs for the first time in eight years.
Houston now has a home game against Yazoo County in the second round of the Class 4A playoffs while Saltillo goes to Starkville for an opening round Class 5A game.
Classes 1A, 5A and 6A all begin their playoffs tonight.
"They got their first goal out of the way and want to work week-by-week and see how far they can make it," Houston first-year coach William Cook said. "Yazoo County is big and fast. On defense, they're very aggressive."
Both teams enter at 10-2. Houston has probably the most-talked about defender in the state in defensive end Chris Jones, a Mississippi State commit who had 14 tackles last week at Amory.
Houston had eight fumbles in last week's win, a problem Cook says won't exist this week. A turnover won it, too, as Denver McQuary's pick led to quarterback Sharone Wright's touchdown run.
Saltillo won at Lake Cormorant behind a pair of A.J. Rye touchdowns to grab the final Division 1-5A playoff spot. The Tigers (7-4) go to Starkville (8-3), last season's state runner-up.
"The scary part is when they walked off the field in the state title game, they lost six starters that didn't graduate," Saltillo coach Pat Byrd said. "Speed, speed, speed, and the first thing that catches your eye is the defense. They'll knock your head off and the quarterback is a race horse."
Saltillo will wait and see if quarterback Andrew Soper can play after a hit to the head late in last week's game. Starkville has lost its best wide receiver and a tackle to injury during the season.
In 5A, Canton is at West Point and Provine is at Oxford. In 4A, Itawamba AHS is at Lewisburg, Lafayette is at Noxubee County and Louisville is at New Albany.
In Class 3A, Aberdeen hosts McClain, Byhalia is at Booneville and Ripley goes to Charleston. In 2A, Bruce is at East Webster and Calhoun City goes to JFK. In 1A, Smithville and Vardaman are home to face St. Joe and Coffeeville and Falkner goes to Shaw.


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Teaching Ceramics to Adults
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I have done private lessons but only with those that have taken classes before or have more experience. They actually have been more like mini-directed studies, like can you come over and help me figure out how to make this(and there is a specific form they want to explore).
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Individual private lessons are tough when you have a student who just doesn't get how much practice is required, so you have to remind them...sometimes constantly...until they understand. Try relating it to your own path in the medium, and see the paragraph below re: beginning wheel. Remember, a student spending 2 hours a WEEK on the wheel will progress more slowly than one spending 2 hours a DAY. Also, different people learn in different ways. Many people respond well when I put my hands on top of theirs to demonstrate proper position or pressure or pace of movement.
I've taught adults (and kids) in arts/rec centers for almost 20 years. Most of the classes are mixed skill, and we have many returning students. Intermediate students are the most likely to slip through the cracks in this setting. So, after basics, I try to gear more demonstrations to them while working with advanced students on a case by case basis. These classes are very different than the university courses I've taught, both in their content and in the nature of the students and their motivation for taking the class.
At the beginning of each session, students introduce themselves including info on their clay experience and goals for the class. Each class "syllabus" revolves around this information, so no two classes are exactly the same. I know this sounds like idiocy, but it keeps things interesting!
For both throwing and handbuilding, we discuss the properties of clay and how to exploit those properties through handling, construction, finishing, and attention to detail while considering how that all comes together to inform and support the artist's personal aesthetic.
For beginning wheel students: I ask them how long it has been since they've learned something that requires development of muscle memory, then to consider how long it took them to become proficient at such an activity (typing, playing a musical instrument, riding a bike, playing golf/tennis, etc.). I like to use the analogy of playing a piano: you're dealing with a new medium (musical notes/clay) and a new tool (piano/wheel) while you're training your muscles to create the desired end product (beautiful music/beautiful pot). Even though we can hear the music/see the pot we want, it takes practice to achieve the desired result, and we do not all advance at the same pace. Then, we discuss realistic goals.
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Signs of spring include longer and warmer days, budding trees, new flowers peaking through the soil and no snow. In the North woods of Maine, spring comes in May and June… but there is so much more. This is a thinly populated region of Maine and is still considered quiet season, so if you are looking for solace or want to get away, spring in northern Maine is just what the doctor ordered.
Annuals can be planted around the Lodge after the last sign of frost which is typically Memorial Day weekend. This is when the flower boxes and hanging baskets are set out to catch the bright sun of the warmer day, that also warms your face as you relax in your Adirondack patio chair.
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Our most popular adventures in the spring include fly fishing, hiking and our Moose Safari and Wildlife tours. Starting around mid-May you can also catch a Seaplane ride. Whitewater rafting will start Memorial Day weekend – no extra charge for the wet suite and yes the water is cold. Even though we had lots of snow and the rivers are full, expect the ride to be normal this spring. The flow here is regulated. The Lodge includes complete hiking information in every room and the best guided trips in the Moosehead Lake region.
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IMF's Lagarde Sees Global Growth Failing to Pick Up MuchSandrine Rastello
The global economy won't gain much traction this year as Europe and Japan fail to recover and lag behind other developed economies, International Monetary Fund Managing Director Christine Lagarde said.
"We do not expect global growth to be much higher this year than last," Lagarde said, according to the prepared text of a speech in New York six days before the IMF releases its new forecasts for the world economy. "We are now seeing the emergence of a 'three-speed' global economy -- those countries that are doing well, those that are on the mend, and those that still have some distance to travel."
After some progress, the 17-country euro region still has a lot to do, including cleaning up a banking system that isn't lending enough to the real economy, Lagarde said. Japan needs to rely more on monetary policy to boost its growth, she said, while welcoming last week's move by the Bank of Japan to embark on record easing.
The Washington-based IMF is about to co-fund its fourth bailout in the euro region by contributing about $1.3 billion to Cyprus's rescue package. While the U.S. is in better shape, Lagarde warned about risks posed by automatic spending cuts that started taking place last month, known as sequestration.
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"This risks throwing away needed growth, especially at a time when too many people are still out of work," Lagarde said. "It is also an extremely blunt instrument, imposing deep cuts in many vital programs -- including those that help the most vulnerable -- while leaving untouched the key drivers of long-term spending."
President Barack Obama today sent a $3.8 trillion budget to Congress calling for more tax revenue and slower growth for Social Security benefits in a political gamble intended to revive deficit-reduction talks. The proposal would replace across-the-board spending cuts with what White House budget officials say is $1.8 trillion in additional deficit reduction over 10 years that includes collecting more taxes from the wealthy and trimming some federal programs.
The IMF in January forecast global growth of 3.5 percent this year, after 3.2 percent in 2012. It has since said it would cut its prediction for the U.S. because of the budget cuts.
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Still, the U.S. was faster than Europe in repairing its financial system and its efforts have paid off as credit conditions have improved and unemployment is showing signs of falling, she said.
"There should not be massive, brutal, upfront additional fiscal consolidation, because it is going to hamper growth," Lagarde said of the U.S. in an interview on CNBC television later today. "There should be some, but moderately."
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Answering questions after her speech, Lagarde repeated that the bailout of Cyprus, which imposed losses on uninsured depositors at two of the country's banks, is "no template, it doesn't set a standard because it was no standard itself."
While emerging markets are bouncing back and continue to power global growth, Lagarde pointed out some risks in these countries too, citing companies "taking on more debt and foreign exchange exposure." At the same time, she downplayed risks that expansionary monetary policies in rich economies could have too large an impact on capital flows and exchange rates.
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President Barack Obama said in early February, "I don't care if you're driving a hybrid or SUV. If you're driving toward a cliff, you have to change direction."
He was talking about the economy, but in a sense, he also was talking about the beleaguered auto industry.
And the auto industry includes the foreign automakers, not just the Detroit Three. The companies are intertwined, with GM, Ford and Chrysler sharing many of the same suppliers as Toyota, Honda and Nissan. Japanese automakers have said they are concerned about their American counterparts, and they should be.
There is no doubt that the Detroit Three have brought about much of their own pain. During the heyday of SUVs and large trucks, they were making plenty of money. But they were caught flat-footed when gas prices jumped and the demand for smaller cars rose. They also continue to be saddled by huge labor costs and obligations.
And Detroit has had to battle the perception that its cars are not as well-built and dependable as Japanese cars.
Alan Mulally, Ford's CEO, told Time magazine "in the past we have not always had the consistency in quality because we focused on larger vehicles."
He was talking about Ford, but his comments could apply to his Detroit comrades.
The quality of most U.S. made cars has improved, equaling, if not surpassing, foreign vehicles. The Detroit Three are probably making the best cars they've ever made – but it comes in a middle of a deep recession.
But even with the quality improvements, the Detroit Three are bleeding cash. While Ford hasn't taken bailout money, GM and Chrysler have, and will need more.
The Obama administration, however, has put the automakers on a short leash, hinting that a "controlled" bankruptcy may be the best course for GM, and that Chrysler must complete a deal with Italian automaker Fiat.
Chrysler, having worked so well with Europeans before in Daimler, is hoping that the Italian job will work this time. But experts say that even if a deal is reached, it could take a couple of years before Fiat's smaller cars can be integrated into the market here. And time is not a luxury Chrysler has.
For GM, splitting the company is the proposed plan, but there are doubts aplenty whether this is a viable plan.
The Obama administration is right about heading toward a cliff, but if it's not steering the wheel, it at least has its foot on the pedal.
Dangling the carrot over the edge is no way to instill confidence. Nor is putting together an auto task force that has little industry knowledge and expertise. It needs car people who know what they're talking about.
Bankruptcy isn't a simple solution, so the administration needs to find a way to save GM and Chrysler, not push them over the edge and drag the rest of the industry along with it.
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Not a very productive day.
Spent some time thinking about the recent Mac announcements from MacWorld (I'm going tomorrow... I LOVE SAN FRANCISCO!!!) and how they apply to Free Software.
The numbers break out to about 7.5% UNIX 7.5% Mac... the rest Windoze. When OSX ships (of BSD with some proprietary crap on top) this should bring a UNIX market of 15% (if you don't consider the other... boring... non Free Unixes). This should be a Good Thing. (don't have to explain why... I am sure you will see :)..
It just bothers me that Apple is SOOO close to getting a clue but they still don't see the light. I can't decide if they decided to base on BSD because they are smart... or too stupid to build their own OS. I think it is a safe bet to assume they are stupid and choose BSD because they couldn't figure out how to write a decent OS themselves.
This leads to why the CHROME (or Crystal... or whatever) stuff is still proprietary. BSD/Darwin allows this. If they based on Linux most of this stuff would also have to be GPL. This 15% I mentioned before might not help us if application developers don't code to Free APIs. Might be a good idea to write an abstraction layer for all of this.
- Why do they charge users $30 for the MacOSX beta... can't you just download it? dumb.
- Why do they only ship MacOSX for their own hardware? Didn't they learn this mistake 10 years ago? stupid.
So again... are they just another stupid/evil company (like Microsoft, SUN or Oracle) or are they actually *smart* but haven't reached the point where they realize that *everything* should be OSS :)
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Fyodor Mikailovich Dostoevsky's life was as dark and dramatic as the great novels he wrote. He was born in Moscow in 1821. A short first novel, Poor Folk (1846) brought him instant success, but his writing career was cut short by his arrest for alleged subversion against Tsar Nicholas I in 1849. In prison he was given the "silent treatment" for eight months (guards even wore velvet soled boots) before he was led in front a firing squad. Dressed in a death shroud, he faced an open grave and awaited execution, when suddenly, an order arrived commuting his sentence. He then spent four years at hard labor in a Siberian prison, where he began to suffer from epilepsy, and he returned to St. Petersburg only a full ten years after he had left in chains.
His prison experiences coupled with his conversion to a profoundly religious philosophy formed the basis for his great novels. But it was his fortuitous marriage to Anna Snitkina, following a period of utter destitution brought about by his compulsive gambling, that gave Dostoevsky the emotional stability to complete Crime and Punishment (1866), The Idiot (1868-69), The Possessed (1871-72), and The Brothers Karamazov (1879-80). When Dostoevsky died in 1881, he left a legacy of masterworks that influenced the great thinkers and writers of the Western world and immortalized him as a giant among writers of world literature.


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Former Fonterra chairman Sir Henry van der Heyden has called for an end to in-fighting among Waikato Tainui members while proposing a radical shake-up of its tribal governance structures.
Sir Henry spoke to a gathering at Turangawaewae Marae in Ngaruawahia yesterday at a hui-a-iwi (iwi meeting) called by the Maori King, Tuheitia, where he likened ongoing fighting between tribal members to bickering among farmers and top-heavy dairy co-operatives when he began as Fonterra's chairman in the early 2000s.
"With Fonterra there was lots of inwards-looking, political infighting, power plays and those sorts of things ... and it sort of feels a little bit like Waikato Tainui is today."
He believes Waikato Tainui, which has an asset base valued at more than $800 million and predicted to top $1 billion in the next five years, should bank its future on economic prosperity.
But he thought the iwi were hamstrung by a highly complex tribal governance structure and in-fighting between high-profile personalities that has seen resignations, sackings and expensive disputes between former colleagues ending up in court.
Now the chairman of Tainui Group Holdings (TGH), the iwi's commercial arm, Sir Henry proposed an overhaul that would see the tribal parliament, Te Kauhanganui, with more than 180 members, and Te Arataura, its tribal executive, both ditched.
TGH would remain with changes.
King Tuheitia's spokesman Tukoroirangi Morgan said the people were "a little shocked" at Sir Henry's candour but he believed change was imminent.
Rugby league great and successful businessman Tawera Nikau, who also spoke at the hui, later told the Herald the tribe's governance structures were probably dated and no longer relevant.


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Marina Erakovic has moved safely through to the second round of the WTA event in Stanford after a comfortable 6-2 6-2 win over Slovakian qualifier Jana Juricova this morning (NZT).
The New Zealand No 1 was untroubled on serve, even though she got a lowly 47 per cent of her first serves in, facing only one break point. In contrast, she broke Juricova five times in a match lasting 71 minutes.
She will play the winner of the match between Eleni Daniilidou (Greece) and Urszula Radwanska (Poland) and is seeded to meet former world No 1 Jelena Jankovic in the third round.
Erakovic, ranked 50 in the world, is the eighth seed for the US$740,000 tournament headlined by Wimbledon champion Serena Williams.
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Cartoonist Jim Toomey Explains How Trash Gets Into Our Ocean
Posted On September 13, 2012 by Catherine Fox
When I interviewed cartoonist Jim Toomey recently about his comic strip Sherman's lagoon, which features Sherman the lovable great white shark, I discovered that his passion for conservation extends to every aspect of the ocean.
This week, as we look forward to Ocean Conservancy's 27th International Coastal Cleanup this Saturday, September 15, we want to share his latest project, a two-minute video he's produced with our long-time Cleanup partner, the United Nations Environment Programme, to tell people about ocean trash.
UNEP's Regional Office for North America is producing a whole series of short videos to raise ocean awareness. Jim delivers these bite-size ocean lessons with humor, making them fun with the help of his colorful cartoon friends. Continue reading »


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A lecture titled "How Do Work Environments Shape Entrepreneurial Transitions?" is set for 7 p.m. Monday, April 23, in the Friend Center Convocation Room. Stanford University professor Jesper Sorensen will discuss how, despite tales of commercial empires that began as cottage industries, most entrepreneurs are first seasoned by working in firms and organizations related to their field, and how that experience helps the transition to self-employment. A light reception and networking will follow.


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I agree with you. Just think getting it done at the shop has some good points as well.
In my area shops are happy to offer the sucker price. My wife took her deville in for brakes and the shop called said it needed rotors which it did need the one. I had already looked at it. They said it needed all four and they were special rotors cause its a caddy and the cost 189 each. While i was talking to the guy i hit rockauto.com and looked up the rotors bendix 29 bucks and 12 bucks for rear. Price seems right since they fit most big gm vehicles. These breaks are on freakin everything. I was upset and they offered to lower the rotors cost to 40 bucks each after saying the price on the net was wrong. I picked up the car and had to call in a favor to get them swap by a freind since i had to get on the road. If you were in md i would take my car to you for the big jobs i dont want to take on.
If the OP has some mechanical knowledge and some patience he can do it and try and save some money.
1200 being a bit high even in your area labor has to be 80-100 an hour. How many hours you figure to r&r a vette rear. Its does take time. You know the tech is not going to make his flat rate unless he does them everyday.
I do agree they are easy enough to do. Just lots of hard work that needs to be right if its going 100k miles. Just want to give the best advice based on car and work needing to be done. If it was a ragged 89 mustang i would have different advice. As the job is easier and car does not have large collector value. A vette with a toasted indepentent rear is parts. New rear done by a good shop is 3k more at time of sale. So that is where my advice is coming from.
Any shop that charges more just because he see's a Vette badge is a BS shop. The Vette diff is not any more difficult that any other diff but the gear sets are a little costly. Once you have the diff on the bench the labor should be reasonable.
If that 1200 includes: Posi.. gears.. complete O/H kit and bench labor..Its a little high. If a posi was not included than it's too high.
If you wanna try it yourself get ya some parts and we can walk you thru it.
For anyone intersted, here is a link to the hot rod article I built my motor around. I did pretty much everything they did except my heads are different.
Small-Block Chevy Build - We Increase The Cheap 350's Grunt To 420 HP - Hot Rod Magazine
Also...here is a link to an article that did a comparison of several different cheapo heads. Mine are in there and are the floo-tek's. Might be useful to other folks.
Eight Budget Small Block Chevy Heads Tested - Car Craft Magazine
Tech i am not disagreeing with you simply saying 1200 is fair these days. Ive seen ppl pay 1200 for brake pads. if you local mech is legit help his kids have a good christmas. Figure on bushings and other items that need to be repaced. Its best to get it worked out once and never worrie about it again. Im sure we can find some vette guys to tell you how bad they got shafted getting this work done. I know its just a gear change but we al know something may look great but when it comes apart you will find everything else that is wrong. I am happy when i take a gear cover off and see all the teeth on the ring.
Some jobs are better to take to the shop and drop it off. I do all my own work but dont recommend that to others let someone else break there arse on that rear if you have the option.
That is a big cam, plus you have an auto with 2.76 gears . Not good for driving fun. If you had a nice restoration take advantage of the long strokes torque boost with a reasonable cam. A cam with duration and lift like that is going to sound like a demented popcorn maker. Weird but that sometimes people like that. They make for poor overall performance, from a drivers perspective, to me at least. If you had .450-.470 lift it would make a sexy bubble. You made what made. Now spend a day swapping the ring and pinion to 4.10 and pay the piper.
If you built it for that cam, you should have gone high stall, big gears. Hot rod did this build?
Nothing to be scared of using a 262. Dynamically it is a better choice.
Finish the combination you made and enjoy it. It will be highwayable with 4.10s , just busy.
couple typos, trailing "arms" and 1962 technology not 1062,sorry. the 1963 corvette has the same suspension we have now.
Also if you have the low profile hood I have to assume your car is down on power as there is not enough room under the hood for a good intake.
You can put 3 inch exhaust through the transmission x member if you do not have side piped
In my youth i put gears in a bunch of cars by just feeling if the pinion was sticking. If it was, move a shim from one side the other or the other side if to loose. Usally the shims dont change much with just a gear swap. But..
Total rebuild is the way to go do it once and be done. Vette rears always cost money if you can get it done for 1200 parts labor drop the car off tonight. With 370 gear you will break the tire loose at 10 mph for 20 feet. Even 308 or 355 whatever sizes they have for your car would be a big change.
Trans do a th700r4 it is lighter than the 400 can be rebuild cheaper in higher hp trim. But dont runa stock one they can be had built in 1300 range shift kit and carb manual/auto lockup kit. It will pay for it self in gas if you keep the car long enough.
I use 3.50 gears in the same car as yours.I went from a 4 speed to a 5 speed.My O/D works out to almost the same as what I had with none o/d and 2.73 gears. The diff is a little bit of a pain to work on. Before you change gear sets,make sure you have the Dana 44 not the Dana 36. These are reasonable weight cars and they hook quite well.If you really need to go 3.73 gears make sure you have the 30% O/D.No reason for you car to be slow off the line.Not a big fan of big hydraulic flat tappet cams but it should work well from 3,000 to 6,000 rpm.
NOTE: when you are under the back of that car,dont be surprised if it needs trailing are work and all the bushings. If you have soft or single fibre glass transverse spring,then that too needs to be upgraded to stop the car from squatting on launch. The car can be very difficult to launch and keep straight. When I did my car I also upgraded the 1/2 shafts and u-joints to big block or better.
Now that you see closer to 2k,you might consider up grading to a true independent rear suspension.The car has 1062 technology in the suspension
Great!! Here are some diff guys if you need parts or help....
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PRO GEAR DIFFERENTIALS - San Diego's Original Gear and Axle shop. Differential parts and repair.
IMO, a thumper cam with its narrow LSA coupled with the 2.73 gears would make for a real dog off the line and give up alot of midrange acceleration even with a slightly higher than stock stall convertor.
A 270HR cam with just a 3:42 gear would make enough of a night and day difference to justify the cost. But then again, I'm not the one paying for it and I don't know if your more concerned with HP numbers or a broad torque range from idle to redline. How often do you turn 6500rpm?
I don't care for the bigger cams on the street as they use alot of gas, don't have the same instant off idle throttle response, and wear out an engine sooner because of the higher optimun rpm range. I much prefer the good driveability of milder cams, but then again it may be because I'm getting too old.
I've attached a link to a site that you can download a Static/Dynamic CR calculator that I think is one of the better ones around. I would try to give you some numbers for the cam I suggested, but I don't know the required parameters of your engine.
I will say that using Comp Cams camquest software and what I'm approximating your engine specs are, that I get about 450 ftlbs of torque as low as 2500rpm with a peak of over 470ftlbs at 4000rpm, and 415HP at 5000rpm useing Comp's pn 12-420-8 270HR. I'm not saying thats the best for your application or driving style, but I know it would put a smile on my face, but thats just me.
Good luck,ssmonty
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I don't often quote Jon Stewart, but "Poor Al Gore" cancels Copenhagen
You know an issue has traction when the the lib comics start jabbing their own on the left. This week, Comedian Jon Stewart threw this zinger at Global Warming Guru Al Gore. (I don't watch Jon, but Vicki McKenna mentioned it on her radio program. It is funny--raunch removed):
"Poor Al Gore, global warming completely debunked by the very Internet you invented. OH, OH the irony, the irony."
He also chided the CRU for throwing out raw data.
"But here's what's great about science, in disagreements we go back and look at the raw data (clip showing data destroyed) ... ...Why would you throw out raw data from the 80's?...", after all, he still has his girlie magazines from the 1970s!
This morning, I learned** that the Guru himself, Al Gore, CANCELED his special Copenhagen $1,209/ticket book promo, photo op, and snack with Al event!
The Danish ticket coordinator stated, "'great annoyance' was a factor in the cancellation, along with unforseen changes in Mr. Gore's program for the climate summit." Gore's cancellation affects 3,000 believers, um, make that ticket holders.
"Great annoyance"? "Unforseen changes in Mr. Gore's program"? Could it be Mr. Gore doesn't know how to incorporate eating crow into his slide presentation?
Al Gore's credibility was already on thin ice. Remember Gore has photo-shopped some of his pictures for greater affect in his movie and on his book cover. He won't debate any naysayers--he says he will, but then he cancels. And he will not answer pointed questions. Most recent example, when Gore was in Madison, WI, he would not respond to a simple question about polar bears being considered threatened when their population is growing*.
Whatever you might believe about man-made global warming, this latest cancellation is HUGE. Certainly in a crowd of 3,000 believers, willing to pay $1,200 just for the privilege of being in his presence, Gore was on friendly turf.
The man made global warming believers will still believe because it is a religion, not science, but canceling was a major faux pas, in my opinion. As any religious leader knows, you don't disappoint the faithful.
More reading: ClimateGate Overview
Houston braces for about 2 inches of snow, earliest ever!
Take back Al Gore's Oscar, two Academy members demand in light of Climategate
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Today i've done some research looking for dbus access solutions in Java. I found this Java binding: http://freedesktop.org/~kidcrash/libdbus-java/libdbus-java.tar.gz , this library wraps libdbus in Linux/Unix systems.
I'm still thinking in developing a pure Java implementation of the dbus protocol. As dbus uses Unix domain sockets and Java currently doesn't support them I must have some JNI native implementation of Unix sockets within the project. I also found jlirc project wich has implemented Unix domain sockets: http://jlirc.sourceforge.net/.
I will be testing this weekend that implementation and have a look at dbus protocol to have a broader look at the possiblities of the project.


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Casino operators with Macau exposure have produced double-digit gains this year. Still, investors are underestimating their potential growth, according to Sterne Agee.
In a report today, Sterne Agee analyst David Bain writes:
Based on Island data checks and other factors, our 2Q13 EBITDA forecasts for [Melco Crown Entertainment (MPEL), Las Vegas Sands (LVS) and MGM Resorts (MGM)] are now 20%/3%/2% above consensus, while [Wynn Resorts (WYNN)is mostly in-line. High-margin mass gaming (~65%+ of Macau market EBITDA, +31% ytd growth) drives most upward revisions. Visa policy loosening, the Guangzhou/Zhuhai rail and an up to 40% augmentation to immigration capacity at the Gongbei checkpoint, should continue to fuel more and higher-quality mass
Melco Crown is Bain's favorite, though he also likes Las Vegas Sands and MGM Resorts.
Gambling revenue, meanwhile, continues to grow at a supercharged pace. RBC's John Kempf sums up the data:
For the MTD period ending July 7, 2013, Macau generated gross gaming revenues (including slots) of MOP 7B, or an average daily rate (ADR) of MOP 1B. Assuming the remainder of the month has a similar ADR as June (MOP 942), this would imply that the full month of July would come in at MOP 29.6B, or a 20.4% increase. We believe these strong results reflect an abnormally high win rate, although we understand that mass market traffic remains strong.
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Join us at the Landmark Resort at 10a.m. on Tuesday, January 14th for our 2014 Snowbird season Meet and Greet. All of our VMB family snowbirds are invited to attend. Come and enjoy coffee and danish on us, and mingle with new people from all of our properties. There will be a drawing for a gift certificate for dinner for 2 valued at $50 (excludes alcohol and gratuity), to be used at Latitudes Lounge, located on the lobby level of the Landmark Resort.
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With internships, diploma or doctoral theses, as well as student and postdoctoral projects, students and young scientists are given the opportunity to take up research. The Institute is always prepared to discuss topics for projects and theses. We offer you access to excellent experimental facilities (e.g. for the application of synchrotron radiation), a good infrastructure as well as competent and intensive support by internationally renowned scientists.
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Starbucks Campaign
In 2000, a campaign by thousands of activists across the country pressured Starbucks to carry Fair Trade coffee in all their cafes. As a result, on October 4 Starbucks introduced whole bean Fair Trade Certified coffee at over 2,300 stores, which brought the number of Fair Trade outlets to almost 5,000 nationwide (it's currently over 7,500). This is an amazing testament to the power of grassroots Fair Trade activism and the real concrete changes that citizens can make in global trade system when we demand products made under fair labor conditions. This was achieved because of the pressure of our grassroots campaign, including 84 organizations that signed an Open Letter to Starbucks as well as 29 national demonstrations that were planned across the country. Still, people should know that there is no guarantee that coffee without the Fair Trade seal is not sweatshop coffee.
Coffee in a Fair Trade Market
Sept/Oct 2000
By Deborah James
Sip a steaming brew at Starbucks, and you might associate coffee with prosperity. The image of carefree consumers enjoying $3 lattes seems totally unrelated to that of coffee-bean farmers and workers, who live with grinding poverty, illiteracy and a long legacy of economic colonialism. But the two groups are part of an intricately related system that has existed for centuries, leaving coffee harvesters immiserated, and coffee drinkers mostly unaware to the suffering that goes into making their beverage.
But a movement is growing among coffee consumers to demand justice for coffee workers and farmers. In several industrialized countries--including the United States--activists have been putting grassroots pressure on big coffee retailers such as Starbucks to buy directly from cooperative farmers and pay them a price that represents a living wage. Because of the new movement, Starbucks has just begun offering millions of consumers a choice: between coffee produced under sweatshop conditions, and a product based on principles of fair trade.
Indeed, Fair Trade is the name of the movement, and its time has come.
Coffee is the world's second most valuable market commodity after petroleum, and U.S. consumers drink one fourth of the beans traded in the global market. Coffee is a significant source of foreign exchange for many Latin American countries and has played a major role in the political histories of nations such as Mexico, Colombia, Guatemala, and Brazil. It was traditionally developed as a colonial cash crop, planted and harvested by serfs or wage laborers on large plantations, then exported to imperial countries.
In its natural, shaded habitat, coffee is a sustainable crop. In the mid-20th century, however, with the advent of the Green Revolution--an agribusiness-oriented scheme that pressed high technology on traditional farmers--varieties of high-yielding coffee were pursued. In the 1970s the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) gave over $80 million to coffee plantations in Latin America to "modernize"--to strip coffee of shade trees and purchase chemical pesticides and fertilizers. This has led to severe environmental problems, such as contamination of air and water through pesticide poisoning. Deforestation has also become a major threat to migratory songbirds because of habitat destruction, which has led to consumer demand for organic and shade grown coffees.
Farmers, many of them indigenous peoples, grow most of the world's coffee beans on plots of less than 10 acres. The prices they often receive are less than the costs of production, which pushes them into an endless cycle of poverty and debt. All over Latin America, farmers are forced to sell the future rights to their harvest to exploitative middlemen in exchange for the credit they need to pay for basic necessities. The world price is set on the New York "C market"--the section of Wall Street that deals in sugar, cocoa and coffee. While severely volatile, the C market price for coffee has hovered around $1 per pound since the collapse of the International Coffee Agreement in 1989. Farmers in over 50 nations are hostage to this speculative market. They generally receive less than half the C market price, or between 30 and 50 cents a pound for coffee that retails for as much as $10. That rate earns a family an average of only $600 a year.
Coffee is also grown on large plantations worked by landless day laborers with low rates of unionization and extremely poor working conditions. In 1995, as a result of pressure from the US/Guatemala Labor Education Project, Starbucks drafted the first Code of Conduct for coffee suppliers, but they have yet to implement it. Starbucks refuses to disclose the location of the plantations from which it buys, making independent monitoring impossible. A recent study by the Guatemalan Commission for the Verification of Corporate Codes of Conduct found half the workers on fincas in that country earning less than $3 per day for picking 100 pounds of coffee. Workers also were subject to forced overtime without compensation, and usually did not receive their legally-mandated benefits. Coffee workers are denied basic labor rights not just in Guatemala, but worldwide, and efforts to develop an industry-wide Code of Conduct are underway.
Fair Trade offers a mechanism for small farmers to receive higher prices as an alternative to the "tyranny of the C market". To have their coffee certified as Fair Trade, importers must satisfy strict international criteria and submit to independent monitoring by TransFairUSA, the new certification agency based in Oakland, California. The most important requirement is a minimum price of $1.26 per pound, paid directly to organized farmer cooperatives--not to middlemen. Fair Trade importers also must provide farmers with credit at fair terms and commit to long term trade relationships.
The recipients of fair trade benefits are some 500,000 farmers organized into 300 cooperatives in 20 countries in Central and South America, Africa and Asia. One such group, PRODECOOP, is based in Esteli, Nicaragua. It was founded in 1993 and boasts over 2,420 families. PRODECOOP has undertaken projects such as building schools and healthcare centers as well as training in production techniques and legal matters. From sales to the fair trade market, farmers earned $600,000 over the regular market price for their coffee last year. The income is used to pay bank debt and thus avoid loss of land, to purchase the cooperative's own mill, and to increase the quality of the coffee.
Another Fair Trade cooperative, in Oaxaca, Mexico, is the Union of Indigenous Communities of the Isthmus Region (UCIRI). Established in 1982, it has more than 5,000 families who farm roughly 15 acres each. UCIRI has helped create the region's only public bus line; a farm supply center; healthcare services; cooperative corn mills; an agricultural extension and training program; and the region's only secondary school. In contrast to the assumption that upping prices paid for cash crops might induce farmers to increase export dependence, experience has shown that farmers are more likely to use the additional incomes they gain from the Fair Trade market to invest in projects that increase food security.
Fair Trade clearly makes sense for farmers: As Merling Preza Ramos, PRODECOOP's director, recently put it, coffee producers are asking only "to be paid a fair priceÉThis isn't charityÉBehind a cup of coffee there are faces and people. People who are working to produce good coffee."
The idea of marketing fairly priced products from cooperatives is not entirely new, particularly for people who were sympathetic to Central America's revolutionary movements of the 1980s. At that time, solidarity activists and organizations, such as the Boston-based group Equal Exchange, were importing and selling small amounts of Nicaraguan coffee to support that country's Sandinista movement, and paying farmers fair prices. Their support made the difference in many cooperatives keeping rather than losing their land when the Sandinistas lost power in 1990. The Fair Trade Federation, the national association of fair trade retailers and wholesalers, boasts over a hundred business members that import or market crafts with the primary motive of supporting cooperative producers with fair prices.
The situation was similar in Europe, whose long, explicit history of colonialism has left more of the population aware of how their countries' economic policies have aggravated poverty in the Global South. European fair trade efforts originally focused on operating alternative retail stores that sold folk crafts. Currently, Europe has about 3500 such stores.
In 1988 fair trade advocates realized that producers of basic agricultural commodities faced tremendous disadvantages in the global market as their 'terms of trade' (the value of their products related to other goods) continued to decline - and that developing a Fair Trade market could be a solution. The effort to bring the Fair Trade concept to mainstream commodities and markets originated in Europe through a Dutch organization called Max Havelaar, the original fair trade monitoring organization. The name comes from the title of a book about Dutch colonial exploitation of Indonesian coffee workers at the turn of the century, whose popularity garnered Dutch support for labor reforms. Fair Trade advocates pressured existing coffee companies to abide by Fair Trade criteria and carry the Max Havelaar label, which now enjoys wide recognition all over Holland. Max Havelaar later added sugar, cocoa, tea, honey and bananas--historically colonial cash crops--from cooperatives in former colonies. More countries took on the concept and changed the name to TransFair, and in 1997 incorporated into Fair Trade Labeling Organizations International (FLO), which now has branches in Canada, Japan, and 15 importing countries in Europe.
The concept of "mainstreaming" fair trade took off in the United States in 1998, with the formation of TransfairUSA, this country's branch of FLO. Paul Rice, TransFair's Director, spent over ten years working with coffee cooperatives in Latin America and realized that building a Fair Trade market was more sustainable than other development projects. TransFair reasoned that it could appeal to "specialty" coffee consumers: buyers who pay top dollar for top-quality Arabica beans. Arabica coffee retails for about $10 a pound and comprises 15 to 25 percent of the total coffee market. TransFair's research showed that people who pay $10 a pound for coffee would not mind adding a dollar more to guarantee a fair trade price to small coffee farmers.
TransfairUSA began its efforts in late 1998 by producing a video about coffee farmers, Santiago's Story, then launching a Bay Area campaign to convince coffee roasters of the benefits of Fair Trade for their businesses. They have branched out nationally and to date there are over 50 roasters and coffee importers that have voluntarily agreed to abide by Fair Trade criteria and submit to monitoring by TransFairUSA.
Global Exchange got involved with Transfair USA as an outgrowth of the 10 years we have spent promoting Fair Trade through our Fair Trade stores. We believe that as we criticize free trade and corporate globalization for its lack of democracy and exploitation of poor people around the world, we also need to promote our own vision of a global trade system based on economic justice. As this country's first product country with an independent monitoring system to ensure against sweatshop-style labor abuses, coffee represents an important alternative model to the free trade practices advocated by the iron triangle of the global sweatshop economy: the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund (IMF), and the World Trade Organization.
Global Exchange initiated a public education-for-action campaign in summer 1999, and we built a network of activists, church groups, students, labor unions, and environmentalists to increase consumer demand for Fair Trade coffee in our own communities. In the Bay Area, we have successfully lobbied city councils in San Francisco, Berkeley and Oakland to limit those cities' coffee purchases to brands that are Fair Trade Certified and usually organic. The Santa Cruz city council later followed suit. We helped host a farmer from Esteli, Nicaragua--San Francisco's Sister City--for an event with San Francisco Supervisor and living wage advocate Tom Ammiano. After many hours of volunteer public education efforts and solid media coverage, the number of retail outlets for Fair Trade Certified coffee in the Bay Area grew from four to over 100 within just one year.
Branching out nationally, in fall 1999 we laid the groundwork to help community activists and college students coordinate Fair Trade coffee campaigns. We developed a network of over 50 groups, mostly on campuses such as University of Chicago and Columbia, where students work to pass purchasing restrictions at those institutions for fair trade coffee. Examples of campuses where efforts have already been successful include UC Davis, College of the Atlantic, and SUNY Binghamton. Meanwhile, the Student Alliance to Reform Corporations, United Students Against Sweatshops, and the Student Environmental Action Coalition have participated in Fair Trade Certified coffee activities across the country.
Perhaps our most dramatic campaign has been focused on Starbucks. We chose Starbucks because it is the largest specialty coffee retailer, with a fifth of all cafes in the country. In the fall of 1999, Global Exchange approached then CEO Howard Schultz and requested that Starbucks offer Fair Trade Certified coffee in all its stores. The company was initially very hesitant, alleging the beans were of low quality. Shortly thereafter, we organized several peaceful demonstrations in front of Starbucks stores in Seattle.
In February 2000, an investigative report by San Francisco's ABC TV affiliate exposed child labor and scandalously low wages on Guatemalan coffee plantations, some of which sell coffee to Starbucks. Immediately after the program aired, we organized a local protest. We then petitioned Starbucks stockholders at their annual meeting in Seattle to offer Fair Trade Certified coffee. That same week, the company announced a one-time shipment of 75,000 pounds of Fair Trade coffee. We responded that for a firm as big as Starbucks, this represented a "Drop in the Cup"--an average of only about 30 pounds per store--and the coffee was not certified! We then circulated an Open Letter, signed by 84 student, environmental, church, and social justice organizations, again asking Starbucks to pay farmers a living wage and offer their customers Fair Trade Certified coffee. We helped plan 30 demonstrations that were scheduled for April 13 across the country at Starbucks shops. Meanwhile, hundreds of people faxed letters to Starbucks from our website or sent postcards asking the giant retailer to pay farmers fair prices.
Three days before our scheduled demonstrations, Starbucks announced an agreement with TransFairUSA to offer Fair Trade Certified coffee at all its stores nationwide, beginning this October. They will also be developing educational materials and training for coffee bar workers, so that millions of consumers can learn about Fair Trade. This is a huge victory for farmers, whose incomes will triple when they can sell their coffee at Fair Trade prices. It is also an important win for the corporate accountability movement. Starbucks' quick capitulation in the face of nationwide protest illustrates that grassroots organizing and education can indeed bring major results.
But so far, Starbucks has agreed to offer Fair Trade Certified coffee in whole bean form only: it is available in take-home bags, but not widely brewed in the cafes. As soon as the beans are on Starbucks' shelves, however, we will be pressuring the company to offer Fair Trade Certified coffee in brewed, in-store drinks. We will also continue encouraging Starbucks to sell Fair Trade coffee on campuses and to increase their purchases generally.
Americans seem ready for this new way of doing business. In a recent BusinessWeek/Harris poll, 51 percent of Americans interviewed said they support fair trade rather than protectionism or "free trade." Even the Specialty Coffee Association of America (SCAA) recently officially endorsed Fair Trade Certification, and has formed a task force to determine ways to promote it. The anti-sweatshop movement has struggled for years to answer to the consumer question, "I'd be happy to stop buying from Nike or GAP, but what should I buy instead?" As coffee demonstrates, the key to success is to educate consumers that another product exists, and to mobilize citizens to demand it. When it comes to our daily brew, an independently monitored alternative finally exists--one that sets a standard for fair trade in the global economy.


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TRU in covina has the STAP battle pack and the Hoth patrol Battle pack today !!
I would have got it but I'm more into the single figures! No other new figures today.
Clone wars just dont seem to be that exciting. My fig days may be coming to a close. Oh no!
I got 2 boxes of Indy figures from HTS today and wouldn't you know it, they all have great paint apps. How's that for irony!
I wish I would've known that the K-Troopers would be repacked for Legacy Collection otherwise I wouldn't have bought 12 of them. I could use the extra weapons and so I'll buy a few of the repacks, at least.
I'll reserve judgement for when I see EVE in person, but the pictures don't do it for me. I love Apple Computers, a lifelong Mac/iPod fan, and knowing that the designer of them helped design "Eve", it still doesn't appeal to me. I'm sure that when I see the movie, I'll love the EVE character, but the toy is a "meh" for me.
Scored the new wave of Mighty Muggs today at Target (Bespin Luke, Emperor, Yoda and Grievous).
Also, thanks to CrunchyNug for the GI Joe stash.
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Burbank Target had lots of new Joes this morning at 8:30am.
I found a stash of Hot Wheels, so I scattered them back to the HW aisle.
Some large dude approached me in the SW section and told be that there were two "black coins" yesterday and some "gold coins". At first I didn't realize what the F he was talking about, then I laughed at him. I wonder if he ever new about them "silvers". He asked me if the Joe's were worth a lot.
I hate how so many people (cashiers included) think that buying toys is all about making a quick buck on ebay.
Found wave 8 of Joes today at Burbank Target. Major Bludd is the best of the wave in my opinion. Been seeing different new collectors everyday, most going for the SW stuff of Joes.
That guy was there yesterday. He collects HotWheels, but he also was asking me about SW and coins. He told Plumber Bob that he just got transfered to the Lowe's next door, so expect to see him everyday. Yesterday he grabbed a black coin stormie and asked me if it was worth something. He ended up leaving it on the pegs.
I got my Indy toys from HTS yesterday, and wouldn't you know it, they mostly had hideous paint apps! 3 Irinas: one nice, one slightly sloppy, one positively cartoony (giant eyes, just wacky all around). KotCS Hat Indy had decent apps, but just doesn't look like Indy. Jacket Mutt looked like he had some sorta tribal war-paint on, brown streaks all over his face.
I opened the best Irina, kinda disappointing. The ugly face sculpt aside, she's rather flimsy and the swivel boots/no-ankles is a nuisance. The extras will be cobbled with a Juno and hopefully a Deena to make a female Death Star Trooper and a female officer with jodhpurs.
More Joes at Burbank Target this morning: a bit more of the Spirit wave, plus a helmet CC and a Zartan. Picked up Zartan for customs, and got the cargo truck from Indy.


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In March 2012 Mali was the scene of a coup d'état followed by a rebel attack in the North of the country. Within a few days, people with diabetes in the north faced a shortage of medicines and doctors to help them manage their condition. Hundreds fled to the south where they found themselves without the means to continue their treatments.
In April the NGO Santé Diabète developed a humanitarian action plan in partnership with the Ministry of Health and the National Diabetes Federation of Mali. Children with diabetes from Northern Mali were transported to Bamako where they could receive regular treatment and donations of insulin, oral medications and syringes were sent to the North. In Bamako over 100 people with diabetes were treated free of charge.
14-year old Azahara, who is supported by the IDF Life for a Child Programme, and Ms Haidara were among those who fled to Bamako in the aftermath of the crisis. In a short video produced by Santé Diabète they tell their story, describing the difficulties they faced and the help they received.


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Bayerische Zugspitzbahn / Garmisch Partenkirchen
On top of Germany!
Adventure on Zugspitze – at the same place where alpine skiing dominates in the winter, active guests find just what they are looking for in the summertime as well: Unmatched glacier hikes, mountain hikes and even a summer sled run on snow provide fun outdoor recreation.
On top of the almost 3,000 meter (10,000 feet) high cliff, everyone can find their perfect playing field. Go on the unmatched glacier hike and feel the eternal ice under your toes, experience downhill fun on Germany's only summer sled run with real snow, follow in the tracks of Zugspitze's first summiteers. On the roof of Germany, there is something to suit every taste:
A safe trip for mountaineers and alpine hikers: Relaxing ascents and descents in a train or cable car permit more time and leisure on the mountain.
On the summit of Zugspitze, let yourself be overwhelmed by the matchless 360° panorama across a total of 400 peaks in 4 different countries.
Ready, steady, go! Sledding on real snow, even in the warmest time of the year. Germany's highest mountain provides sledding from June through September, if there is a sufficient snow cover.
Truly "haute" cuisine - traditional hearty Bavarian dishes or German cuisine with an international flair: The SonnAlpin Glacier Restaurant, the Glaciergarden restaurant and Panorama-Lounge 2962 bid you inside.
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text: I went to toys r us in frederick last night and they had all the new basic figures (they should give me a discount or something for this free advertising.) The only thing they seemed to be running low on were clone trooper pilots (sorry guys, I needed 2, they had 2, I bought 2.) Hopefully they have more in the back.


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Nuclear terrorism dwarfs almost every national security threat imaginable. Thus the prospect of locking down all nuclear materials is comforting: no nuclear materials means no nuclear bombs, and no nuclear bombs means no nuclear terrorism. That's why President Obama has made securing all highly enriched uranium and separated plutonium in the next four years a priority, and why he's convening an unprecedented Nuclear Security Summit this week to further that goal.
There's only one problem: it's impossible.
Nuclear materials are employed every day in civilian and military applications (though some of those can and should be eliminated). Bomb-usable ingredients are moved around as part of routine military operations and in the operation of civilian power programs. Even our efforts to eliminate atomic bombs can result in dangerous flows of weapons-grade materials, as warheads are broken down into their constituent parts. Security around these activities can be strengthened, but it cannot be made absolute.
Critics have an intuitively compelling response to this: Fort Knox. We do not lose gold from Fort Knox; why should we tolerate a situation where we might lose nuclear materials? Alas, Fort Knox is a special case. Rules allow only tiny quantities of gold to be taken from its premises (for assaying); as a result, any attempt to remove meaningful amounts is easily identified as illegal.
No such bright line exists in many nuclear facilities. Indeed it is not unimaginable (though it is highly unlikely) that someone nefarious might present himself at a Russian nuclear facility, ask for the plutonium shipment, and get exactly what he wants.
None of this is to suggest, of course, that there isn't plenty that we can and should (indeed must) do to strengthen global security for nuclear materials--which is why the president's summit is so laudable.
There are still far too many facilities in Russia and elsewhere that fall short of the strict security standards that they should be adopting. There are nuclear programs around that world that would benefit from better screening of sensitive personnel. There are dozens of places where bomb-grade uranium is used to fuel civilian research and medical reactors despite the availability of safe and cost-effective alternatives. We have moved too slowly on these and other fronts, and Obama appears ready to change that.
Indeed when the president says that he wants to "lock down" all nuclear materials, he's almost certainly referring to these sorts of efforts. Like his drive to eliminate nuclear weapons (something the president says probably won't happen in his lifetime) he probably sees the push to lock down all nuclear materials as a way to motivate a host of necessary actions.
He should be careful, though, that the promise of a silver bullet doesn't sap enthusiasm for more modest but still critical complementary steps, like improving port and border security, monitoring procurement networks, and training law enforcement personnel to recognize telltale signs of nuclear plots. The allure of an impermeable defense can lead planners to reject these plainly less-than-perfect tools. It is essential, if we take nuclear terrorism seriously, to avoid that result.
This article appears in full on CFR.org by permission of its original publisher. It was originally available here.


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